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How Software Compresses Pictures
for Storage 112
How Pictures Are Stored on a Chip 114
How a Digital Camera Squeezes Video
Down to Size 116Chapter 8
How New Tech Changes Photography 118
How Digital Tech Changes the Way
Lenses Work 120
How Four Thirds Digital Cameras Create
a New Standard 122
How Digital Cameras Cure the Shakes 124
Electronic Image Stabilization 126
Vari-Angle Prism System 127
Piezoelectric Supersonic Linear Actuator
Stabilization 128
Shift Image Stabilizer 129
How Lenses Tilt with Images 130
How Two Lenses Work As One 132
How a Light Field Camera Can Focus
Anything 134
How Digital Cameras Tidy Up 136Part 3: How the Digital
Darkroom Works 138
Chapter 9
How Software Changes Pixels
by the Numbers 142
How Software Manipulates Images on
the Pixel Level 144
How the Digital Darkroom Focuses
Pictures After They’re Taken 146
How Blurred Becomes Better 148
How Software Changes Exposure After
the Shot 150
How Software Corrects Bad Lighting 152
How Bigger Pictures Preserve Little Details 154
How a Digital Darkroom Improves Even
Correctly Exposed Photos 156How Photoshop Multiplies a Photo’s
Dynamic Range 158
How Layers Serve and Protect Photos 160Chapter 10
How Digital Retouching Rescues
Family Heirlooms 162
How Software Removes Dust and Tears 164
How the Digital Darkroom Revives Your
Ancestors 166
How Darkroom Software Brings Pictures
Back to Life 168Chapter 11
How the Digital Darkroom Makes
Good Photos into Great Fantasies 170
How to Change a Red Rose to Blue 172
How Digital Photos Make Fun of You 174
How Software Makes One Photo Out
of Many 176
How Panorama Programs Stitch Several
Photos into One Superwide 178Part 4: How Digital
Print-Making Works 180
Chapter 12
How Computers and Printers
Create Photographs 184
How a Camera’s LCD Displays Photos 186
How Colors Are Created 188
How Color Calibration Works 190Chapter 13
How Photo-Quality Printers Work 192
How a Printer Rains Ink to Create a Picture 194
How Photo Inkjet Printers Work 196
How Dye-Sublimation Printers Work 198Glossary 200
Index 214