Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

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Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Digital Photography 800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 Joseph Ciaglia, Barbara Londo ...

Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Digital Photography Copyright 2004 by Que Publishing All rights reserved. No part of this book sha ...

Contents at a Glance ...

Table of Contents I Digital Quickstart.......... 1 Quickstart to Digital: Pix to Print in Seconds.................. 3 What Do Yo ...

Automatic Focus............ 54 Types of Autofocus......... 55 Center-Weighted Autofocus Lock. 56 Focus and Depth of Field...... ...

Modifying an Image in Elements............... 121 Perspective Correction in Elements................ 121 Rotating an Image in El ...

CONTENTS vii Degrees of Unsharp Masking. 193 An Exercise with Unsharp Mask.................. 194 Taking Advantage of Blur.... 19 ...

Advanced Selection Techniques: The Pen Tool............ 247 Drawing a Straight Line..... 248 Other Uses for Paths....... 249 The ...

CONTENTS ix Printing in RGB and CMYK... 302 Multiple Printers: About Paper 305 21 Lighting.................. 307 Degree of Diffu ...

x ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY About the Authors Joseph Ciagliais an educator, landscape photographer, and a ...

CONTENTS xi We Want to Hear from You! As the reader of this book, youare our most important critic and commentator. We value you ...

Preface This book is about digital photography, which includes every operation from taking the picture to delivering the print. ...

Digital Quickstart PART I Quickstart to Digital: Pix to Print in Seconds.... Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Cameras.... ...

Part I Digital Quickstart. 1 Quickstart to Digital: Pix to Print in Seconds. 2 Advantages & Disadvantages of Digital Camera ...

1 In this chapter What Do You Mean by “Digital Photography”? Turning Ideas into Prints Quickly Is Digital Photography Really Le ...

This chapter will introduce the relatively new hobby known as digital photography. Read the next few pages to learn how you can ...

professional photographers have already converted to new chip-based cameras. It took more than 30 years for these optimistic res ...

Fill up the flash memory by taking some pictures. Be sure to have plenty of batteries on hand (rechargeable batteries last long ...

Is Digital Photography Expensive? Cost is a huge consideration in this hobby/profession. Digital photography is just like drivin ...