The Practical Guide to Digital Imaging: Mastering the Terms, Technologies, and Techniques

This thorough guide to digital photography provides instructions for every step of making photographs with a digital camera, from capturing an image to producing beautiful prints. Hints for choosing a camera, tips for evaluating images, and advanced techniques for manipulating pictures are discussed, as is the importance of selecting the correct software. Using digital images online is reviewed, with suggestions for minimizing file size to reduce upload time, ideas for using images to create graphics for a web page, and guidelines for creating a safe digital work flow.

Michelle Perkins is the author of Beginner’s Guide to Adobe Photoshop Elements, Digital Landscape Photography Step by Step, and Traditional Photographic Effects with Adobe Photoshop. She has written for PC Photo and Rangefinder magazines. She lives in Buffalo, New York.