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Learn Digital Photography & Elements

By Carla Rose, Jennifer Fulton

Sams Teach Yourself Digital Photography and Photoshop Elements 3 All in One ... digital photography from start to finish...

You received a digital camera as a gift or you are ready to move into the digital age - either scenario means you need a book on your shelf like Sams Teach Yourself Digital Photography All in One.

Author, Jennifer Fulton, a self-taught computer guru, understands that you need more than a description of what each button on your camera does. You need to know how and when to use those buttons. In her book Jennifer explains not only how to create great digital pictures but also: loading digital images onto a computer; Organizing and tweaking photos with Photoshop Album; Editing photos and getting creative with Photoshop Elements; and Outputting digital photos to a printer, a Web album, a CD or DVD, or to a printing service.

Trust Jennifer Fulton to be your one easy-to-understand teacher when you are learning digital Photography.

Carla Rose started her photography career at the age of 8 with a Brownie Hawkeye camera. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she worked as a TV news photographer and film editor, as well as an advertising copywriter and graphic artist. She has written more than two dozen computer books including Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop 7 in 24 Hours and Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 in 24 Hours. She is a contributing editor for Photoshop User Magazine and has written for Atlantic Fisherman, Adobe Magazine and the New Yorker.

This books covers:

• What Is Photography? A Brief History of Photography
• The Photograph As a Communications Tool
• The Photograph As an Abstraction of Reality
• Understanding the Digital Revolution.
• Advantages of Digital Photography Over Film. Disadvantages of Digital Photography
• Computers As a Photo Tool; Making Versus Taking a Picture; How Photos Are Used Today; Magazine and Newspaper Photographs; Advertising/TV Photography
• The Digital Camera; How the Camera Works; Lenses and Focusing; Camera Pros and Cons
• Bit Depth and Resolution; Memory Cards
• Using Video Cameras for Still Photos; Understanding How Lenses Work
• Manipulating Exposure Controls; Learning Workarounds for Camera Settings; Caring for Digital Cameras
• TAKING BETTER PICTURES; Seeing Photographically; Organizing Perception = Composition; Framing a Picture
• Discovering Perspective-The Illusion of Reality; The Importance of Scale; Using the Horizon
• Working with Texture and Pattern
• Telling a Story - How Does a Picture Communicate?
• Using Color; Defined; Using Limited Palettes; Working with Tonality; Monochrome
• Controlling the Environment; Natural Backgrounds; Indoor Settings
• Shooting Portraits; Portrait Posing; Children and Other Animals
• PUTTING YOUR PHOTOS TO WORK; Saving and Uploading Your Pictures; Getting from the Camera to the Computer; Transferring an Image
• File Formats and File Sizes; Saving File Space; Using File Compression with Saved Images
• Photoshop Elements; Understanding the Shortcuts Bar; Using the Tools in the Toolbox
• Understanding the Options Bar; Taking a Look at the File and Edit Menus; Image Menu; Transformations; Divide Scanned Photos; Crop/Resize
• Handling Photoshop Elements Files; Browsing; Saving; File Formats; Resolution; Attaching Files to Email; Exporting a PDF; Using the Undo History Palette
• Printing Your Pictures; Choosing a Printer; Preparing the Image; Printing the Page; Making Contact Sheets and Picture Packages
• Posting Your Work on the Web; Internet Limitations; Optimizing Images for the Web; Optimizing a Graphic Step by Step; Creating a Web Gallery
• Keeping Track of Your Pictures; Photoshop Elements Organizer; Starting an Album; Finding Your Photos; Making Photo Collections
• iPhoto for Macintosh; Importing Photos; Arranging and Sorting Your Pictures; Creating Albums; Sharing Your Photos
• GETTING CREATIVE; Color Modes and Color Models.; Calibrating Your Monitor
• Creating Art from Scratch; Choosing Colors; Using the Shape Tools; Using the Brush Tool; Adding New Elements to an Existing Picture; Using the Artistic Filters; Making Composite Images

Also see:

• Bad Pics Fixed Quick: How to Fix Lousy Digital Pictures - By Michael Miller.
• Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography - By Joseph Ciaglia, Barbara London, John Upton, Peter Kuhns.
• Easy Digital Cameras By Mark Soper.

Learn Digital Photography & Elements
List Price: $34.99; Price: $23.79; You Save: $11.20 (32%); Published by Sams; Series: Sams Teach Yourself; Pages: 768

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