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Create Your Own Digital Photography (Create Your Own)
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by Peter Bauer
Sales Rank: 1427311
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List Price: $19.99
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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Sams October 20, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0672328305
ISBN-13: 978-0672328305
Product Dimensions:
9 x 7.3 x 0.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
Product Description
You purchased a digital camera to join the digital revolution. Yet you find yourself still using disposables because your digital camera is too complicated and you don't even know where to start to figure out how to use it. That's where Create Your Own Digital Photography comes in. From choosing a digital camera, to photography dos and don'ts, to printing and resolution contraints, you will walk through the entire digital photography process in days. You will learn five projects that every digital camera owner should know, including: - Creating a slideshow with music
- Mixing film prints with digital pictures
- Making posters, greeting cards, and calendars
- Altering digital photos
- Sharing photos on the web
Create Your Own Digital Photography won't bog you down with the intracacies of camera mechanics or software use. But it will give you numerous other tricks, tips, and information on how to get the most out of your digital camera, and it will show you how to use your camera to create the best digital photography you can in a short amount of time.
About The Author
Peter Bauer is perhaps best known as the help desk director for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). He is also the author of a number of books on computer graphics and digital photography. Pete writes regularly for Photoshop User and Layers magazines and the graphics portal PlanetPhotoshop.com. He's part of the Photoshop World Instructor Dream Team. Pete and his wife, Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell (who holds the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law at the Notre Dame Law School), live in a historic area of South Bend, Indiana.
Customer Reviews & Comments
While no one would mistake me for a professional photographer, I do enjoy playing around with my digital camera. I figured it'd be worth taking a look at Peter Bauer's book Create Your Own Digital Photography - 5 Easy Projects In Full Color. This book gets high marks on a couple of different fronts. Contents: Introduction; Capture Your Life Visually; Create Your Image Albums; Taking The Next Step: Improving Your Pics; Cards, Calendars, and Other Creative Projects; Advanced Image Editing; Index This isn't a book that's going to get an intermediate photographer excited. The material is geared towards the person who just bought a digital camera and is a little overwhelmed by all the options, settings, and terminology. Bauer dispenses with all the insider jargon and advanced subjects (like f-stops, apertures, and the like), and proceeds to get the digital newbie comfortable with their new-found capabilities. A little time spent with this book before heading out on your first photo safari will pay big dividends in dramatically better pictures. Once you get past the "how do I take the picture", then you're ready for the rest of the book. That covers how to use computer software to manage your photos and improve the composition and quality. Using Photoshop Elements and Picasa, you'll learn to do the vast majority of tasks that most people need to manage. And once you get those basics down, you'll be well-equipped to explore the finer points on your own. Throw in a CD with sample software and practice photos for the projects, and it's a very nice package. Personally, I'd seen most of this material in other books. But this book gets a five for turning me on to Picasa. I was aware that Picasa was Google's foray into digital imaging "stuff", but I was under the (mistaken) impression that it was just another site to store photos. Shows you how much I know. Picasa is free software that does a fantastic job of organizing your pictures on your computer, as well as offering a number of *very* nice features for manipulating images (like cropping, color correction, and other handy things). These are all things I *used* to do with Paint Shop Pro. No more... I went to Picasa's site, downloaded the software, and I'm hooked. If you're still wondering how to use your camera or how to do things with the pictures once they're on your computer, this book is an excellent choice. And I'll personally be forever indebted to the author for Picasa... :)
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