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| Getting Started | |
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| What You Need | |
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| Choosing a Digital Camera | |
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| How Many Pixels? | |
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| How Much Memory? | |
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| What Kind of Connection? | |
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| How Much Zoom? | |
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| What Other Features? | |
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| Preparing Your Computer for Liftoff | |
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| Checking Connections | |
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| Managing Memory | |
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| Handling Your Hard Drive | |
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| Scoping Out Software | |
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| Introducing Your Digital Camera | |
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| How a Digital Camera Takes Pictures | |
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| How the Image Goes In | |
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| How the Photo Comes Out | |
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| What Does This Button Do? | |
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| Checking Out the Controls | |
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| Getting into the Menus | |
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| Taking Care of Your Digital Camera | |
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| Different Shots, Different Settings | |
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| Considering Quality | |
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| About Compression, Memory, and Time | |
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| Shooting in the Raw | |
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| More Photos Now Equals Less Flexibility Later? | |
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| Capturing the Shot No Matter What | |
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| Keeping It Steady | |
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| Achieving Focus | |
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| Getting Enough Exposure | |
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| Correcting the Color | |
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| Expressing Yourself | |
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| Designing the Shot | |
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| Using Composition Techniques | |
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| Let There Be Lighting | |
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| Taking All Kinds of Pictures | |
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| Shooting People (with the Camera, Silly) | |
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| Framing the World around You | |
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| Capturing Still-Lifes | |
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| Living Like a Photographer | |
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| Practicing Like Crazy | |
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| Getting Involved Everywhere | |
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| Making Your Own Opportunities | |
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| Getting Your Pictures into the Computer | |
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| Setting Up Folders | |
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| Making That Connection | |
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| Backing Up Your Work | |
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| Keeping the Original Files Safe | |
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| Organizing Your Photo Library | |
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| Working with a Photo Manager | |
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| Devising a Process | |
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| Getting Photos into the Photo Manager | |
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| Making Stacks | |
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| Tagging Your Pics | |
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| Doing Searches for Specific Tags | |
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| Adjusting Light and Color | |
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| Working with an Image Editor | |
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| Getting the Hang of the Interface | |
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| Using Color Management | |
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| Editing a Photo | |
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| Correcting the Exposure | |
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| Adjusting Shadows and Highlights | |
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| Adjusting Brightness and Contrast | |
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| Correcting Color | |
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| Setting White Balance | |
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| Adjusting Saturation | |
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| Removing Red-Eye | |
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| Going Grayscale | |
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| Changing One Color into Another | |
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| Pushing at the Edges (of a Digital Photo) | |
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| Adjusting Resolution and Print Size | |
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| A Tale of Canvases and Images | |
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| Changing the Canvas | |
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| Cropping the Photo | |
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| Adding a Built-In Border | |
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| Rotating the Canvas | |
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| Flipping the Canvas | |
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| Changing the Image | |
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| Scaling the Photo | |
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| Applying Your Own Digital Zoom | |
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| Stretching or Squeezing the Photo | |
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| Rearranging Pixels | |
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| Making a Selection | |
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| Working with Layers | |
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| Moving Pixels from One Layer to Another | |
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| Bringing in Pixels from Other Photos | |
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| Managing Multiple Layers | |
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| Scaling and Rotating the Contents of a Layer | |
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| Adjusting Opacity | |
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| Saving a Layered Photo | |
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| Touching Up the Photo | |
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| Painting | |
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| Erasing | |
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| Cloning (or How to Remove Old Boyfriends) | |
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| Adding Finishing Touches and Special Effects | |
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| Adjusting Sharpness | |
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| Using the Adjust Sharpness Command | |
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| Using the Sharpen Tool | |
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| Designing Captions and Word Balloons | |
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| Adding the Text | |
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| Adding a Word Balloon | |
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| Applying Layer Styles | |
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| Applying Filters | |
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| Showing Your Photos Onscreen | |
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| Getting Your Photos Ready | |
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| Downsampling to Screen Resolution | |
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| Resizing the Width | |
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| Crushing the Image File | |
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| Displaying Your Work | |
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| E-Mailing Your Photos | |
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| Posting Your Photos Online | |
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| Making Movies from Your Photos | |
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| Making Prints | |
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| Determining the Optimum Resolution | |
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| Printing at Home | |
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| Printing Elsewhere | |
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| Resampling the Photo to the Optimum Resolution | |
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| Printing | |
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| Printing from Your Computer | |
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| Printing from Your Camera or Memory Card | |
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| Ordering Prints Online | |
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| Creating a Photo Book in Photoshop Elements | |
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| Building the Book | |
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| Working with Frame Layers | |
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| Changing the Theme of a Page | |
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| Adding New Pages to the Book | |
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| Saving and Printing the Book | |
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| Making Other Photo Creations | |
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| Index | |