How to Do Everything: Digital Camera

Capture stunning photos with your digital camera

Now you can take professional-quality shots every time-no matter what kind of digital camera you're using. Completely updated for the latest technologies, How to Do Everything: Digital Camera, Fifth Edition shows you how to take full advantage of all of your camera's features and settings. You'll learn the fundamentals of photography, composition, lighting, and exposure, and get techniques for different subjects and situations. The book also explains how to use a variety of photo-editing tools and offers expert tips for storing, sharing, and printing your photographs.

• Choose the best digital camera and accessories for your needs
• Get the most out of a Digital SLR camera and interchangeable lenses
• Compose great shots and control lighting and exposure
• Master close-ups, action shots, panoramas, and high dynamic range photos
• Organize, store, and share photos in JPG, TIF, GIF, and RAW formats
• Edit, enhance, correct, repair, and crop your images
• Have fun with special effects and photo projects
• Print professional-quality photos
• Troubleshoot and maintain your digital camera

This easy-to-follow guide explains how to enhance and improve existing images as well as print your photos and publish them on the Web for others to see.

Library Journal

Although the title is a little overstated, this book does offer a fairly comprehensive introduction to digital photography. Johnson opens by discussing virtually all of the technical essentials of working with one's camera to make correct exposures and then proceeds to address questions about working with digital film and formats and transferring files. He further explains how to compose and edit photographs on one's computer, showing how to improve sharpness and contrast, clean up images, use special effects, and blend text with images. The book concludes with helpful chapters on printing one's photographs and sharing images through e-mail, web pages, and disks. Anyone who works with digital photographs will find this book quite thorough and useful. Recommended for all photography collections in public and academic libraries. Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, IL Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Dave Johnson is the editor of PC World's weekly digital photography newsletter, Digital Focus. He is the bestselling author of previous editions of this book as well as several other titles. Dave is also an award-winning photographer.