How To Do Everything With Your Digital Camera

Digitize-and realize-your vision! This complete volume will help you get great results from your digital camera. Learn digital photography basics, share results through e-mail or the Internet, electronically store images, apply advanced photography techniques, perform image editing, and more. This book dissects digital photography in bite-sized, understandable sections that will help anyone—from beginner to professional—make the transition to the digital arena. Master image handling and editing tools including scanners, monitors, and software applications. Now, you can tap the mystery of digital image making-and start taking your very best pictures.

*Bring your digital vision to life with powerful digital tools *Organize, edit, and store your favorite photos in digital media *Print your own pictures, e-mail them to friends and family, or display them on the Internet for everyone to enjoy *Master companion hardware like storage cards, scanners, and color printers *Upload pictures directly from your camera to your own Web site, or post them to a gallery site *Explore advanced digital photography techniques like night, action, and slow-motion photography *Troubleshoot and care for your digital camera *Access online and offline resources to help you pick the best digital camera, and make hardware choices

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 an accomplished photographer in both analog and digital mediums, as well as an amateur musician and music fanatic. As Senior Editor at Planet IT, Dave covers topics like handheld computing, portables, wireless, and imaging technologies. Dave has written for magazines like Home Office Computing, Windows Magazine, Family PC, and Digital Camera, and his 14 books include How To Use Digital Video and the best-selling How to Do Everything with Your Palm Handheld (nearly 35,000 copies sold).