The complete idiot's guide to Digital Photography

• Quick and easy steps to buying the perfect digital camera for your needs
  
• Idiot proof steps on getting the most from your equipment
  
• CD-ROM contains powerful demos of Eye Candy 3.0, Chromatica, EdgeWizard, HVS Color JPEG, HVS Color GIF, and more

Table of contents

Part 1: Digital Capture: The Future Is Now

Chapter 1: Look, Ma, No Film: Why Digital Photography? The pros and cons of digital photography

Chapter 2: Pixel, Pixel, Little Star, How I Wonder What You Are! Learn the basics of digital photography and how digital cameras work.

Part 2: Cameras, Computer Hardware, and Software for Digital Capture

Chapter 3: So Many Choices: Finding and Buying the Digital Camera That's Right for You

Chapter 4: Mac Versus Windows: System Requirements for Digital Capture

Chapter 5: Software

Part 3: Let's Take Pictures

Chapter 6: Exposure

Chapter 7: 1 Can See Clearly Now: Lenses

Chapter 8: Composition: No Snapshots Here!

Chapter 9: Lighting: It Makes or Breaks a Shot!

Chapter 10: Resolution: Is Bigger Better?

Chapter 11: Compression

Part 4: Let's See It: Imaging Techniques

Chapter 12: Go Get It: Downloading Your Images

Chapter 13: Improving Your Images

Chapter 14: Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo: Selections

Chapter 15: Color Me Beautiful: Adding Fills and Color

Chapter 16: The Clone Tool: The Ultimate Retouching Tool

Chapter 17: Yadda Yadda Yadda: The Text Tool

Chapter 18: Layer Cake: Adding Elements

Chapter 19: Filters: Funky and Fun

Chapter 20: What You See Is What You Get: Calibration

Part 5: Output

Chapter 21: Print It Out

Chapter 22: Showing Your Pictures to Mom

Chapter 23: A Few More Points of View

Part 6: Appendix

Index