Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

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354 APPLICATIONS

locating images, 114-115
Print dialog box, 127-130
Photoshop Elements, 116
resampling, 118-121
rescanning, 119
images, 114-118,
121-125
printing resolution, 116
APS (Advanced Photo
System) film, 34
archival paper, 288
area-specific encoding,
JPEG2000 file format, 91
art, line art, 274
artifacts, adjusting, 21-22
artificial lighting, 313-314,
320
ASA (American Standards
Association) film rating sys-
tem, 36
aspherical lenses, 14
authoring software, 292
Auto Levels feature, 220
Auto option (white balance
settings), 64
auto-sharpening, turning off,
197
Automate, Web Photo
Gallery command (File
menu), 339
automatic focus (AF), 54-56
available light, 310-313, 320
axis lighting (front lighting),
316

B
back lighting, 319
background images, compo-
nent image selections, 247
backgrounds, blurring, 59

balance
color, 32-34, 63-66
white, setting, 64
bar graphs, histograms, 221
adjusting pixels, 207-209
exposure problems, 210-217
levels, 222-223
baseline optimized compres-
sion method, JPEG (Joint
Photographics Experts
Group), 88
baseline sequential compres-
sion method, JPEG (Joint
Photographics Experts
Group), 88
battery life, continuous auto-
focus, 56
Bayer mask, limitations,
18-20
Bezier curves, 249-251
bicubic resampling, 245
Bilinear option (interpola-
tion), 187
bit depth
input resolution, 183-186
TIFF (Tagged Image File
Format), 91, 95
Bit Depth option (scanners),
182
black points, setting, 212-214
black reflectors, adding fill
light, 321
black-and-white
converting to color, 32
fill light, 319
film, 34
images, converting color
images to, 328-330
black slider triangle, 225
Blend If option (Layer Style
dialog box), 239
blending image layers,
238-239

blooming, adjusting, 23
blur filters, Bayer masks, 20
Blur, Gaussian Blur command
(Filter menu), 198, 331
blurring backgrounds, 59
blurs, 197-198
BMP (Windows Bitmap) file
format, 83
boot records, FAT (File
Allocation Table), 104
Borderless Printing option
(Print dialog box), 130
borders, images (Apple
iPhoto), 128
bracketing, portraits, 327
brightness
image editing, 145-147
information (Curves dialog
box), 230-231
plain paper, 287
brightness/contrast, his-
tograms, 205-206
adjusting pixels, 207-209
exposure problems, 210-217
Brightness/Contrast dialog
box, 206
Brightness/Contrast, Levels
command (Enhance menu),
219
browsers, locating images,
114-115
brushes, Selection Brush,
170-171
buttons, navigation or Web
site, 291
Byte Order: IBM PC option
(TIFF Options dialog box),
93
Byte Order: Macintosh option
(TIFF Options dialog box),
93
bytes, 183

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