|
 |
|
 |
 |
Digital Photography Before and After Makeovers
|
by Julie Adair King
Sales Rank: 370353
|
Discount: 80 %
$29.99
At Amazon
|
|
Paperback: 213 pages
Publisher: Wiley August 14, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0471761168
ISBN-13: 978-0471761167
Product Dimensions:
9.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Book Description
- Over 200 full-color images, an attractive two-column design, and a price under $30 make this guide a must for digital photographers who want to take their skills to the next level
- Presents step-by-step instructions in uncluttered, highly visual format
- Clear steps illustrate the before-and-after transformations of images
- Topics covered include selecting proper camera settings, shooting against the best backdrop available, using photo-editing tools to correct mistakes, adjusting software and printer settings for better results, and performing "extreme" makeovers
- 40 percent of U.S. households now own a digital camera, and digital camera sales grew by 43 percent in 2004 over the prior year
Back Cover Copy
Make the shot you got the shot you want
A digital camera shows you right away whether you got the shot you wanted. But what if you didn't? Do you know how to fix the shot you got? What should you do differently next time? These step-by-step instructions, illustrated with full-color "before" and "after" examples, show you how to turn disappointing photos into super shots. Some help you fix images you can't re-take, while others demonstrate how to adjust settings, lighting, and other factors so what you get is what you want.
Makeovers from easy to extreme - Improve picture quality by choosing the right ISO, resolution, and format settings
- Gain creative control by mastering your camera's advanced control
- Fine-tune focus to serve your picture's purpose
- Discover some simple hacks to improve your exposure
- Bring out sunset colors or reduce saturation to reveal detail
- Use your photo editor to tweak color balance, blur a busy background, or remove red-eye
- Apply multiple techniques to the same image for radical makeovers
Companion Web Site
Find images from projects in this book, and more at www.wiley.com/go/makeovers
Customer Reviews & Comments
There are plenty of books that go into great detail about taking pictures with digital cameras and then processing them through computer software like Photoshop. But I imagine there are a lot of digital camera owners who aren't interested in becoming Photoshop experts and instead want to do just a little extra work to make a picture a little better. This book is aimed at these camera owners. The concept of this book is to take a poor picture and show how it could be easily improved by changing the defaults on the camera or using changed techniques for picture taking or doing a minimal amount of processing of the file in a computer. The author divides the things that can be done into three main areas of change: exposure, focus and color. She concludes with reference to some photo editing tools that don't fall into these neat categories, like cropping and straightening. Under each heading she describes a problem and then suggests a solution. For example, in the color section she describes the phenomenon known as red eye, which is created when the red cells in the back of the eyeball reflect back a red light into a photograph. The author tells how to avoid it when taking a picture, by changing the lighting in a room, or adjusting one's flash, or composing the picture in a certain way. Finally she explains how to correct red eye in a photo editor. Most of her photo editing suggestions rely on the use of Photoshop Elements, the inexpensive version of the popular software, but she tries to explain the process so that people using other software will be able to figure out what steps to take. While it would be nice to say that this is the only book that a toe-dipper in the digital photography world will need, I'm afraid that more will be required. Even though the instruction that is provided is accurate and helpful, some parts of the digital process are ignored. For example, there is no discussion of how the picture gets from camera to editing software. And while references to important printer concepts are sprinkled throughout the book, I would have liked to see printing treated as a continuous process. (On the other hand King does tell the reader how to prepare a picture for use on the World Wide Web.) I suppose that many readers will be able to get this information from the manuals that come with their camera, or software, or printer, but it would have been nice to see it in this book of fundamentals. Still, this will be a worthwhile read for the inexperienced photographer who doesn't expect to make digital photography a way of life.
Comment | Permalink |
(Report this)
|
Digital Photography Before and After Makeovers
Discount: 80 %
Available from Amazon
Price: $29.99
| |
|
|
|
|
