The Complete Idiot's Guide to Digital Photography

Steven Greenberg

344 pages, parution le 19/12/2002 (3^eme édition)

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Résumé

You're no idiot, of course. You know the photographs your friends e-mail back and forth were created digitally or rendered into digital images via scanner. But as both computer and camera technology become more sophisticated, it's hard to know when to freeze the frame and go digital.
You don't have to feel so exposed! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Digital Photography, Third Edition, will show you exactly how to take, download, and enhance digital images! In this revised and updated Complete Idiot's Guide®, you get:
* Comparisons between different types of digital cameras, including low- and high-resolution models.
4 Windows or Mac platform specifications best suited for digitally captured images, t Advice for determining whether to save your images as JPEGs. TIFFs, GIFs, BMPs, or other compressed file formats.
* Coverage of image-editing and special effects applications to augment your pictures.

Contents

Part 1 Digital Capture: The Future Is Now
1 Look, Ma, No Film: Why Digital Photography?
2 Pixel, Pixel, Little Star, How I Wonder What You Are!
Part 2 Cameras, Computer Hardware, and Software for Digital Capture
3 So Many Choices: Camera Models That Show Off Their Style
4 Attention to Details: Features You Need to Know to Get the Camera You Want
5 Mac Versus Windows: System Requirements for Digital Capture
6 Software: What You Want to See Is What You Get
Part 3 Let's Take Pictures 7 Exposure Made Simple
8 I Can See Clearly Now: Lenses
9 Composition: No Snapshots Here!
10 Lighting: It Makes or Breaks a Shot!
11 Resolution: Is Bigger Better?
12 Learning Compression Helps Avoid Image Depression!
Part 4 Let's See It: Imaging Techniques
13 Go Get It: Downloading Your Images
14 Improving Your Images
15 The Wonderful World of Color
16 Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo: Selections
17 Color Me Beautiful: Adding Fills and Color
18 The Clone Tool: The Ultimate Retouching Tool
19 Yadda Yadda Yadda: The Text Tool
20 Layer Cake: Adding Elements
21 Filters: Funky and Fun
22 What You See Is What You Get: Calibration
Part 5 Output
23 Print It Out
24 Showing Your Pictures to Mom
25 A Few More Points of View
Appendix Speak Like a Geek: Digital Photography Words
Index

L'auteur - Steven Greenberg

Steve Greenberg

has been a commercial photographer in Boston for more than 15 years. He is a 1979 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1991, he started using electronic imaging to enhance his design capabilities, thus pushing his work past the physical barriers of traditional photography. He received additional advanced training at the Kodak Center for Creative Imaging and at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Que
Auteur(s)	Steven Greenberg
Parution	19/12/2002
Édition	3^eme édition
Nb. de pages	344
Format	18,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	735g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780028644530
ISBN13	978-0-02-864453-0