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Mastering Digital Photography is an easy to follow guide to the fundamentals of creating great digital photos. We take you step-by-step from choosing the right camera and accessories, through to understanding the key camera settings and controls to ensure perfectly exposed photographs.
You'll learn how to adjust, correct and enhance your photos with basic and advanced editing tips. And we cover the best new and interesting ways to attractively display your photos both electronically and in print. This handy book provides all the resources you need to capture and share high quality digital photos.
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CHAPTER OUTLINE:
1. Equipment Choices - How to select the right camera and accessories for your requirements.
2. Focusing and Depth-of-Field - How to determine which parts of the subject will be sharp in your pictures.
3. Brightness and Contrast - Understanding and using exposure controls.
4. Colour Reproduction - How to ensure natural-looking colours - and apply colour effects appropriately.
5. Equipment for Photo Editing - Discover what hardware and software you need to edit your photos.
6. Basic Editing - Cropping, resizing, brightness, contrast and colour adjustments.
7. Advanced Editing - Levels, shadow, highlights, colour, layers and selective brightness.
8. Output Equipment - An overview of the different printing options you can use at home.
9. Media Choices - Choosing the best papers and inks for long-lasting, great-looking prints.
10. Image Display Options - A survey of the latest and greatest ways to share your digital photos.
Glossary - A guide to frequently used terms.
Useful URLs- The following websites provide additional information on the topics covered in this Pocket Guide.
Equipment Choices
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/buying/where-to-buy-a-digital-camera.aspx for advice on buying a digital camera.
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/buying/busting-the-megapixel-myth.aspx for information on the relevance of a camera's megapixel count.
http://www.normankoren.com/digital_cameras.html has useful explanations of digital camera technologies.
Focusing and Depth-of-Field
http://www.photoreview.com.au/guides/digitalslr/focusing-focusing-and-depth-of-field.aspx for information on focusing and depth of field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_of_field for a comprehensive guide to depth of field and related topics.
Brightness and Contrast
http://www.photoreview.com.au/guides/digitalslr/exposure-adjustments.aspx for information on exposure metering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metering_mode for some good links to articles on exposure metering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_noise for some examples of image noise.
Colour Reproduction
http://www.photoreview.com.au/ contains several articles on file formats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_balance provides a good overview of white balance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_file_format provides an overview of file formats plus information on image file compression.
Equipment for Photo Editing
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/editing/ for some useful tips on image editing.
http://picasa.google.com/ for the latest version of Picasa.
http://www.irfanview.com/ to download Irfanview.
www.gimp.org for the latest versions of The GIMP.
Basic Editing
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/editing/ for some useful tips on image editing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_editing for an excellent overview of the processes involved in image editing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retouching for specific information on photo retouching.
Advanced Editing
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/editing/ for some useful tips on image editing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_editing contains an excellent overview of the processes used in image editing plus some handy links to additional articles on the topic.
http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/ has information on the 'universal' Digital Negative raw file format and its advantages to photographers.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/bit-depth.shtml has an easy-to-understand tutorial on bit depth.
Output Equipment
http://www.photoreview.com.au/reviews/ for reviews of printers and printing equipment.
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/outputting/ for information on printing and storing digital photos.
http://www.computer-darkroom.com for tutorials on many aspects of inkjet printing.
Media Choices
http://www.photoreview.com.au/tips/outputting/ for tips on many aspects of digital printing.
http://www.epson.com.au/consumables/paperandmedia/ for details of Epson's inks and papers.
http://www.jeremydaalder.com/ for articles on fine art inkjet printing.
Image Display Options
www.photoreview.com.au/tips/outputting/ contains a selection of tips on printing and inkjet media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_permanence contains an overview of print permanence
www.wilhelm-research.com is the most highly-respected tester of photographic media and publishes data on print permanence for a wide range of printers and media.
www.epson.co.jp/e/technology/print_permanence.htm for a white paper explaining issues associated with print permanence.
Mastering Digital Photography Pocket Guide (2nd Edition)
On sale: from July 2009
Author: Margaret Brown
Cover price $14.95 (inc GST)
Size: A5, 72pp, perfect bound
ISBN 978-0-9775714-6-8
Printed on Monza Satin Recycled Paper
ISO 14001 Environmental Accreditation
Margaret Brown is technical editor of Photo Review magazine and website and has been writing about photography for more than 20 years. Margaret has authored all fifteen of the popular Photo Review Pocket Guide series and the Choice Guide to Digital Photography.
Mastering Digital Photography Pocket Guide 2nd Edition is sponsored by Epson.
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