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| Digital Capture: The Future Is Now | |
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| Look, Ma, No Film: Why Digital Photography? | |
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| Painting with Light: A Brief History of Photography | |
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| Schulze's Silver Substance | |
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| Heliography | |
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| Daguerreotypes | |
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| Talbotypes | |
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| Father of the Yellow Box | |
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| Fast Forward: Digital Cameras | |
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| First, the Good News: The Advantages of Digital Photography | |
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| Now the Bad News | |
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| Go for It! | |
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| Pixel, Pixel, Little Star, How I Wonder What You Are! | |
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| It's a Three-Color World (RGB) | |
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| Eye to Eye: How the Camera Mimics Your Eye | |
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| In the Beginning There Was Film | |
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| Pixel Schtick: How Digital Cameras Work | |
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| Cameras, Computer Hardware, and Software for Digital Capture | |
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| So Many Choices: Camera Models That Show Off Their Style | |
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| Research, Research, Research | |
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| Narrowing It Down: Camera Types | |
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| Types of Digital Cameras | |
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| One Mega-Pixel Cameras | |
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| 2 and 3Mp Cameras | |
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| Midrange/Semipro Cameras | |
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| Professional Cameras | |
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| Attention to Details: Features You Need to Know to Get the Camera You Want | |
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| Camera Design | |
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| Battery Life | |
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| Lenses | |
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| Flash | |
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| Viewfinders | |
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| Onboard Storage | |
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| Downloading Options: Kodak DOCK | |
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| Burst Exposures | |
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| Metering | |
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| Resolution | |
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| Speed and Sensitivity | |
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| Extras | |
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| Bundled Software | |
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| A Final Word | |
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| Mac Versus Windows: System Requirements for Digital Capture | |
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| Windows or Mac? | |
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| General Requirements | |
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| Random Access Memory (RAM) | |
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| Central Processing Unit (CPU) | |
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| Bus | |
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| Clock Speed | |
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| Hard Drive | |
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| Ports | |
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| Modems | |
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| Graphic Cards | |
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| Monitors | |
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| Peripherals | |
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| Optical and Magnetic Storage | |
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| Printers | |
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| Thermal Autochrome Printers | |
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| Scanners | |
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| Software: What You Want to See Is What You Get | |
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| Improving Composition and Image Quality | |
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| Proprietary and Third-Party Software | |
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| Proprietary Software | |
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| Third-Party Software | |
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| Adobe PhotoDeluxe | |
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| Albums: Storing Your Images | |
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| Let's Take Pictures | |
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| Exposure Made Simple | |
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| The Lens | |
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| The Shutter | |
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| F/Stops | |
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| Shutter Speed | |
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| Putting It All Together: The Relationship Between F/Stops and Shutter Speed | |
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| ISO/ASA | |
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| Creative Control | |
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| Shutter Speed | |
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| Depth of Field | |
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| Manual or Automatic Exposure | |
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| I Can See Clearly Now: Lenses | |
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| Types of Lenses | |
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| Auto-Focus Lenses | |
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| Focal Length | |
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| Taking Angle and Area of Coverage | |
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| The Telephoto Lens: A Long Story | |
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| Wide-Angle Lenses: A Short Story | |
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| Zoom | |
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| Composition: No Snapshots Here! | |
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| Not in the Center, If You Please! | |
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| Balance | |
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| Horizon | |
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| Cropping: Be Frugal! | |
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| Color | |
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| Contrast | |
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| Negative and Positive Space: The Final Frontier | |
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| Movement | |
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| Viewpoint: Low, Different, or Political | |
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| Perspective | |
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| Foreground/Background | |
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| Line and Imaginary Line | |
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| Watch Your Background | |
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| Texture | |
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| Scale | |
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| Lighting: It Makes or Breaks a Shot! | |
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| Using Available Light | |
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| Backlighting | |
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| Nighty Night! | |
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| Flash | |
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| Fill Flash | |
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| Bounce Flash | |
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| Using an Extra Flash | |
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| Get a Bracket! | |
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| Adding Lights | |
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| Color of Light | |
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| Lighting Setups: You're a Pro Now! | |
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| Stand Still: Working with a Tripod | |
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| Resolution: Is Bigger Better? | |
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| Image Resolution/Monitor Resolution | |
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| Demo: Calibrating Your Image Resolution and Monitor Resolution | |
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| Printer Resolution | |
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| How Big a File Do You Need? | |
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| Learning Compression Helps Avoid Image Depression! | |
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| Getting Quality Images | |
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| Lossy Versus Lossless Compression | |
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| Lossless Compression | |
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| Lossy Compression | |
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| Archiving Programs | |
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| PKZip/WinZip | |
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| StuffIt | |
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| File Formats: Acrimonious Acronyms | |
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| JPEG | |
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| Save It Once! | |
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| TIFF | |
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| GIF | |
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| EPS | |
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| PDF | |
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| FlashPIX | |
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| BMP | |
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| PICT | |
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| So Many Choices! | |
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| Let's See It: Imaging Techniques | |
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| Go Get It: Downloading Your Images | |
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| Hooking Up the Camera | |
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| Downloading Via the Camera Manufacturer's Software | |
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| Downloading Via Image-Editing Software | |
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| The Fastest Way: Downloading Directly from Disk | |
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| Downloading from a Photo CD | |
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| Improving Your Images | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Shaping Your Image | |
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| Free Resize | |
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| Resize | |
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| Photo Size | |
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| Canvas Size | |
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| Orientation | |
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| Trim | |
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| Perspective | |
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| Distort | |
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| From Darkness to Light | |
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| Extensis Intellifix (Commonly Known as the Instant Fix) | |
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| Brightness/Contrast | |
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| The Wonderful World of Color | |
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| Viva Color! | |
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| Color Balance | |
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| Hue/Saturation and Lightness | |
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| Variations | |
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| Negative | |
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| Other Color Worlds | |
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| RGB | |
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| CMYK | |
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| LAB | |
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| HSB | |
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| Grayscale | |
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| What Is Bit Depth? | |
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| Index Color | |
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| A Sharper Image | |
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| Sharpen | |
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| Sharpen More | |
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| Sharpen Edges | |
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| Unsharp Mask | |
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| It's All a Blur | |
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| Blur | |
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| Blur More | |
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| Soften | |
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| Despeckle | |
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| Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo: Selections | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Why Use Selections? | |
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| Selection Tools | |
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| Select All, None, and Invert | |
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| Fixed Selection Tools | |
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| Freehand Selection Tools | |
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| Selecting by Color | |
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| New, Add, Reduce, and Move | |
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| A Selection Saved Is a Selection Earned: Saving Selections | |
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| Color Me Beautiful: Adding Fills and Color | |
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| Fills | |
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| Selection Fills | |
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| Gradient Fill | |
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| Paint Tools | |
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| The Brush Tool | |
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| The Eraser Tool | |
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| The Line Tool | |
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| The Clone Tool: The Ultimate Retouching Tool | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Demo: Removing Phone Lines Using the Clone Tool | |
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| Cloning Between Two Photos | |
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| Yadda Yadda Yadda: The Text Tool | |
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| Adding Text | |
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| Demo: Applying a Drop Shadow | |
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| Changing the Opacity of Your Type | |
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| Demo: Making Your Type Glow | |
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| Layer Cake: Adding Elements | |
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| What's a Layer? | |
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| Lemme See One | |
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| Using Layers: The Basics | |
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| Adding Layers | |
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| Activating a Layer | |
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| Showing and Hiding Layers | |
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| Deleting Layers | |
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| Understanding Layer Hierarchy | |
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| Working with Layers | |
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| Rotating, Distorting, and Resizing Layers | |
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| Moving Layers | |
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| Demo: Beautifying Your Garden by Copying and Pasting Layers | |
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| Erasing Layers | |
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| Transitioning from One Layer to Another | |
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| Demo: Using Feathering to Make Cameos | |
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| Flattening Your Image | |
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| Filters: Funky and Fun | |
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| Daddy, What's a Filter? | |
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| Whoa, There! | |
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| Obtaining Filters | |
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| Let's Go | |
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| Artistic Filters | |
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| Blurs | |
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| PhotoDeluxe Filters | |
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| Texture Filter | |
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| Demo: Applying Multiple Filters | |
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| What You See Is What You Get: Calibration | |
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| How the Pros Do It | |
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| CIE | |
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| ICC Profiles | |
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| Calibrating Monitors and Printers | |
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| Calibrating a Monitor with Macintosh/Windows NT | |
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| Calibrating a Printer with Macintosh/Windows NT | |
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| Calibrating a Monitor with Windows 95/98 | |
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| Manual Labor: Printer Calibration Made Hard | |
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| Output | |
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| Print It Out | |
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| Get Connected | |
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| Resolution: One More Time | |
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| Printer Resolution Versus Image Resolution | |
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| Let's Print! | |
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| Printing Multiple Copies on One Page | |
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| Printing a Contact Print Directly from Your Camera | |
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| Photo-Quality Papers: Suitable for Framing | |
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| Third-Party Inks | |
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| Showing Your Pictures to Mom | |
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| Preparing Your Images | |
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| Sending Digital Photos via E-Mail: Attaching and Embedding | |
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| Demo: Sending Attachments Using Microsoft Outlook Express | |
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| Demo: Embedding Attachments Using Netscape Communicator | |
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| What's Your URL? | |
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| Demo: Got Ten Minutes? Let's Build a Page! | |
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| A Few More Points of View | |
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| Hi, Mom! I'm on TV! | |
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| Sprucing Up Your Screen with Wallpaper | |
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| Demo: Creating Wallpaper for Your Windows Machine | |
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| Demo: Creating Wallpaper for Your Macintosh | |
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| Oh, Say, Can You See: QTVR | |
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| Speak Like a Geek: Digital Photography Words | |
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| Index | |