Digital Photography Bible

Inside you'll find copmplete coverage of digital photography :

• Find the best digital camera and accessories for your need
• Get tips on shooting memorable images, from lighting to location composition
• Outfit a PC or Mac for images processing and purchase the best scanner and printer for your needs
• Choose between professional and SOHO (Small Office/Home Office) image processing software
• Master Photoshop basics and take advantage of cool software accessories
• Zero in on the best Web processing software and prepare images for the Web
• Discover the secrets to printing great digital images
• Push the limits with software filters, masks, and special effects

How this book is organized ?
This book covers digital photography basics, trips and tricks, and load of digital shooting and processing details. You'll find what you nrrd in this book's five parts and the appendixes, outlined as follows.

Part I - Welcome to the World of Digital Photography
Here you get an introduction to the potentials and realities of digital photography and what you can expect to get out of it now and in the near future. Next, you are taught the basics of digitizing conventional photographs so you can manipulate them on the computer. I then show you the basics of making a photo using a digital camera. Then you learn the essentials of setting up an indoor studio for shooting with digital equipment. The next chapter discusses the equipment and software you're most likely to want to add to your computer system. Of course, it also discusses what to look for in the computer system itself. Finally, there's a discussion of the technology that makes digital images work so you have a better understanding of what you're paying for and what the future holds.
Part II - Tips and Tricks for Making Digital Images
This part of the book gets into more detail on converting images from conventional to digital format. There's a chapter on accessories for digital cameras and another on scanners.
Part III - Shooting Digital images
This part's two chapters take you through more advanced techniques for creating digital images from scratch. The second chapter in this part contains tips and tricks involving accessories that were just becoming available at press time.
Part IV - Choosing the Right Processing Software
This part consists of four chapters, each discussing how to choose a different category of software for processing digital images. Each chapter specializes in a different application: Professional-level image processing, image-processing software for the rest of us, Web processing software, and special-purpose image-processing software.
Part V - Processing Images Digitally
This part of the book consists mostly of a series of hands-on lessons that show you how to set up your computer for digital imaging and then efficiently transfer your images from camera to computer. Next, you learn the basics of Photoshop, the program most widely used for professional-level digital image processing. The next two chapters cover publishing: The first deals with publishing to the Web and the second covers publishing to paper. This part closes with a chapter that introduces the use of specialty processing software that was just coming onto the scene as this book went to press.
Color Gallery
The color gallery is a collection of the author's digital photographs that illustrate some of what digital photography can accomplish as discussed in this book.