Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies<sup>®</sup>, 2nd Edition,9780764573286

Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®, 2nd Edition

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Pub. Date: 2004-10-01
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Summary

An 816-page All-in-One guide designed for both beginning and experienced digital photographers, offering seven minibooks on everything from buying a camera and choosing the right equipment to editing with high-end tools and restoring photos digitally Includes chapters on basics such as point-and-shoot photography, with later chapters exploring editing, printing, and shooting portraits or high-speed action This new edition covers the latest technology changes in digital photography, including Photoshop 7, new low-priced SLR cameras, updated storage and output options with DVD technology, and how each of these changes affects photography techniques David Busch is the author of more than fifty technology books, most covering digital photography, image editing, and digital restoration

Author Biography

David D. Busch has more than 20 years of experience as a professional photographer

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(1)
About This Book
2(1)
What's in This Book
2(3)
Book I: Digital Photography Overview
3(1)
Book II: Building Your Digital Photography Studio
3(1)
Book III: Taking Great Pictures
4(1)
Book IV: Basics of Image Editing
4(1)
Book V: Editing with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
4(1)
Book VI: Restoring Old Photos
4(1)
Book VII: Printing and Sharing Your Digital Images
5(1)
Color insert
5(1)
Conventions Used in This Book
5(1)
Icons Used in This Book
6(1)
Where To Go From Here
6(1)
Book I: Digital Photography Overview
7(78)
The Essentials of Good Digital Photography
9(10)
Knowing What Equipment You Need
10(2)
Minimum and Maximum Specs
12(2)
Taking Great Digital Shots
14(2)
Understand how your camera works
14(1)
Know some photography fundamentals
14(1)
Find out how to use an image editor
15(1)
Master a scanner
15(1)
Making Any Photo Digital
16(1)
Printing Your Final Pictures
17(2)
Basics of Equipment
19(14)
Deciding What You Need
20(4)
How much resolution do you need?
20(2)
Do you plan to manipulate your photos?
22(1)
Are you a photo hobbyist?
23(1)
How often do you plan to upgrade?
24(1)
Defining Categories
24(6)
Web cams
25(1)
Point-and-shoot models
25(1)
Intermediate models
26(1)
Advanced consumer models
26(1)
Prosumer models
27(1)
Professional models
28(2)
Checking for Key Camera Features
30(3)
Acquiring Your Digital Pictures
33(8)
From Camera to PC
33(2)
Grabbing Images of Hard Copies
35(4)
Kinds of scanners
36(1)
What to look for in a scanner
37(2)
Letting the Other Guy Do It
39(2)
Electronically Editing or Restoring a Photo
41(24)
Choosing an Image Editing Program
42(5)
Determining your needs
42(2)
Checking out different applications
44(3)
Performing Photographic Triage
47(1)
Making Quick Fixes
48(7)
Fixing red-eye
48(2)
Removing dust spots
50(3)
Correcting color
53(2)
Restoring, Replacing, and Removing Photographic Content
55(10)
Replacing missing or unwanted content
56(5)
Rearranging parts of the picture
61(2)
Getting rid of unwanted content
63(2)
Storing and Organizing Your Digital Photos
65(16)
Organizing Your Photos
65(11)
Using your computer's file-management tools
66(4)
Using photo album software
70(4)
Using online galleries
74(2)
Archiving and Backing Up Photos
76(5)
Backing up your best shots
77(1)
Using CD-R and CD-RW
77(1)
Using DVD storage
78(1)
Offsite storage for maximum safety
79(2)
Printing and Sharing Your Pictures
81(4)
Creating Prints on Demand
81(2)
Getting the Most from Your Printer and Supplies
83(1)
Sharing Your Photos
83(2)
Book II: Building your Digital Photography Studio
85(112)
Choosing the Right Camera
87(38)
Choosing a Camera Category
88(2)
Parts of a Digital Camera
90(3)
Evaluating Your Lens Requirements
93(1)
Understanding How Lenses Work
94(11)
Magnifications and focal lengths
95(4)
Lens apertures
99(2)
Focus range
101(1)
Exposure controls
102(3)
Choosing Your Resolution
105(4)
Choosing Your View
109(7)
LCD viewfinders
109(2)
Optical viewfinders
111(2)
Electronic viewfinders
113(2)
SLR viewfinders
115(1)
Considering Your Storage Options
116(2)
No Flash in the Pan: Determining Your Lighting Needs
118(1)
The Digital SLR Revolution
119(3)
Ten reasons why digital SLRs are cool
119(1)
Some digital SLR considerations
119(3)
A Dozen Exotic Digital Camera Features
122(1)
Checking Out Ease of Use
123(2)
Setting Up a Computer for Digital Photography
125(16)
Hardware Wars Revisited
126(4)
What Equipment Do You Need?
130(1)
Determining How Much Memory You Need
131(1)
Choosing Local Storage
132(2)
SCSI and EIDE hard disks
132(1)
External hard disks
133(1)
Archiving and Backing Up
134(2)
Zip disks
134(1)
CD-Rs and CD-RWs
134(1)
DVDs
134(1)
Kodak Photo CD
135(1)
Avoiding Microprocessor No-brainers
136(1)
Determining What's Most Important
137(2)
Choosing Pointing Devices
139(2)
Getting Your Picture from the Camera to the Digital Darkroom
141(22)
Making the Connection between Camera and Computer
142(14)
Getting wired
143(6)
Memory cards and disks
149(7)
Transferring Images from Camera to Computer
156(7)
Transferring pictures using camera utility software
156(2)
Copying files to your hard drive
158(2)
Importing images into image editing software
160(3)
Adding a Printer and Scanner
163(16)
Why You Want Prints
164(1)
Choosing a Printer for Digital Photography
165(3)
Choosing a Scanner
168(11)
Types of scanners
169(1)
Scanner prices and features
170(2)
What scanner features do you need?
172(4)
Resolution mythconceptions
176(1)
Color depth confusion
177(2)
Picking Up Some Accessories
179(18)
Getting Support from Tripods
180(6)
Types of tripods
182(1)
Scrutinizing tripod features
183(3)
Checking out tripod alternatives
186(1)
Making Good Use of an Electronic Flash
186(6)
Types of electronic flash units
188(1)
What to look for in a photographic slave flash
189(2)
Lighting/flash accessories
191(1)
Choosing a Camera Bag
192(1)
Acquiring Other Useful Devices
192(5)
A filter holder
192(1)
A second camera
193(1)
Cleaning kits
193(1)
Waterproof casings and housings
194(1)
Filters
194(2)
Battery packs
196(1)
Book III: Taking Great Pictures
197(204)
Tools and Techniques of Composition
199(26)
Photo Composition: The Big Picture
199(2)
Visualizing a Concept for Your Picture
201(2)
What do you want your image to say?
201(1)
Where will the image be used?
202(1)
Whom are you creating the image for?
202(1)
Selecting a Subject and a Center of Interest
203(3)
Narrowing down your subject matter
203(1)
Choosing one main subject
203(2)
Using secondary subjects
205(1)
Choosing an Orientation
206(3)
Arranging Your Subjects
209(3)
Choosing subject distance
209(1)
Optimizing backgrounds
210(2)
The Rule of Thirds
212(3)
Placing important objects at imaginary junction points
212(1)
When to break the Rule of Thirds
213(2)
Some Compositional Guidelines
215(1)
Using Straight Lines and Curves
216(3)
Balancing an Image
219(1)
Framing an Image
219(2)
What's That Tree Doing Growing Out of My Head?
221(4)
Close-Up Photography
225(24)
Defining Macro Photography
226(2)
Why Digital Macro Photography Is Cool
228(1)
Picking a Place to Shoot
229(1)
Setting Up Your Macro Studio
230(10)
Background check
231(2)
Visible means of support
233(2)
Lighting equipment
235(3)
Other equipment
238(2)
Shooting Tips for Macro Photography
240(6)
Setting up your subject and background
240(1)
Setting up your camera
240(1)
Lights, please
241(1)
Ready . . . aim
242(2)
Fire!
244(2)
Digital SLRs and Close-Up Photography
246(3)
Photographing People
249(48)
Capturing Satisfying Portraits
250(2)
Shooting in the Studio or on Location
252(2)
Setting Up an Informal Portrait Studio
254(14)
Choosing backgrounds
254(2)
Selecting supports for lights, camera, and subjects
256(1)
Basic lighting equipment
257(4)
Professional studio lighting
261(1)
Lighting gadgets
262(6)
Lighting Basics
268(9)
Using multiple light sources
269(1)
Arranging a multiple-light setup
269(8)
Basic Lighting Techniques
277(1)
Advanced Lighting Techniques
278(7)
Short lighting
278(2)
Broad lighting
280(2)
Butterfly lighting
282(1)
Backlighting
282(3)
Taking Your First Portraits
285(3)
Shooting the Portrait
288(6)
Posing your subjects
289(4)
Arranging your lighting
293(1)
Taking the picture
293(1)
Advantages of Digital Cameras
294(3)
Shooting for Publication
297(34)
Finding Outlets for Print Publication
298(4)
Local newspapers
300(1)
Understanding what newspapers need
300(2)
Working as a Professional Newspaper Photographer
302(4)
Being a stringer versus freelancing
303(3)
Getting your foot in the door
306(1)
Magazines and Magazine-Like Markets
306(7)
Making contact
310(2)
Submitting photos
312(1)
Shooting for Publication
313(4)
Understanding group photography basics
313(1)
Photographing groups of two to two dozen
314(1)
Composing effective group shots
315(1)
Managing the group
315(2)
PR Photography
317(9)
Executive portraits
317(3)
Company events
320(1)
Arranging a PR event worth photographing
321(1)
Other photoworthy events
321(1)
Producing placeable PR photos
322(1)
Printing your PR photos
323(1)
Writing cutlines
323(1)
Preparing the cutline for submission
324(2)
Submitting the photo
326(1)
Following up
326(1)
Product Photography
326(5)
Product shot opportunities
327(1)
Product demo shots
328(3)
Sports and Action Photography
331(34)
Choosing Your Weapons
331(10)
Digital camera features and action photography
333(5)
Digital cameras and latency
338(3)
Taking Great Sports Photos
341(11)
Choosing your sport and your spot
342(8)
Winter sports: A special case
350(2)
Taking Your First Action Photo
352(8)
Setting your ISO speed
352(1)
Understanding how to stop action
353(1)
Stopping action with slow shutter speeds
354(2)
Panning
356(1)
Action approaching the camera
357(1)
Using blur creatively
358(2)
Taking the Picture
360(5)
Capturing great sports moments
360(1)
Setting up for predictable action
360(3)
Capturing the fans
363(2)
Travel Photography
365(36)
Choosing Equipment
365(13)
Selecting a camera for your needs
365(3)
Choosing key camera features
368(1)
Choosing lenses for travel
369(1)
Considering a tripod
369(1)
Choosing an electronic flash
370(2)
Selecting a camera bag
372(2)
Keeping your camera powered
374(2)
Other useful devices
376(2)
Getting Ready to Go on the Road
378(1)
Meeting Your Storage Requirements
379(1)
Tried-and-True Travel Photography Techniques
380(13)
Shooting scenics
380(2)
Capturing monuments and architecture
382(4)
Shooting panoramas
386(1)
Shooting adventure sports
387(1)
Photographing people
388(3)
Capturing people and their places
391(2)
Documenting Your Trip
393(8)
Varying your shots
393(1)
Composing your shots
394(1)
Getting organized
395(6)
Book IV: Basics of Image Editing
401(108)
What You Can and Can't Do with Image Editing Tools
403(38)
Correcting Colors
403(5)
You can't add color that isn't there
404(1)
Fixing color casts
405(2)
Causes of color catastrophe
407(1)
Adjusting Brightness and Contrast
408(8)
Murky shadows and washed-out highlights
410(3)
Maintaining consistency
413(1)
Reviving lost detail
414(2)
Using Blurring and Sharpening Tools
416(5)
Sharpening here and there
417(1)
Blurring for effect
418(3)
Repairing Damage, Small and Large
421(8)
Removing artifacts (or tiny blemishes)
421(4)
Spackling over more serious damage
425(4)
Removing Unwanted Image Content
429(5)
Delete your ex-brother-in-law
429(1)
Cranial tree-ectomies
430(4)
Combining Pictures
434(7)
Pasting content from other images
435(1)
Using layers to create overlapping images
436(2)
Adjusting opacity for interesting effects
438(3)
Common Editing Options
441(38)
Checking Out Your Editing Toolkit
441(3)
Painting Tools
444(12)
Customizing your Brush and Pencil tools
445(1)
Choosing a paint color
446(3)
Applying the paint
449(6)
Using the Eraser as a painting tool
455(1)
Selection Tools
456(13)
Making geometric selections
456(5)
Drawing freeform selections
461(4)
Selecting pixels by color with the Magic Wand
465(4)
Blending Tools
469(4)
Smudging and smearing your colors
469(1)
Blurring the edges
470(1)
Using the Scratch Remover
471(2)
Correction Tools
473(6)
Using the Sponge tool to add and remove color
473(1)
Adjusting lights and darks
474(5)
Choosing the Right Image Editor for You
479(30)
Looking at Popular Image Editors: The Basics
479(2)
Adobe Photoshop --- Alone at the Top
481(4)
What's good about Photoshop
482(1)
What's not so good about Photoshop
482(1)
What you can do with Photoshop
483(2)
Where to get Photoshop
485(1)
Second-Tier Image Editors
485(17)
Adobe Photoshop Elements
486(2)
Corel PhotoPaint
488(2)
Jasc Paint Shop Pro
490(3)
Macromedia Fireworks
493(3)
Corel Painter
496(3)
Ulead PhotoImpact
499(3)
Third-Tier Image Editors
502(4)
Microsoft image editing software
502(2)
Roxio PhotoSuite
504(1)
Apple iPhoto
505(1)
Deciding Whether You Need More Than One Image Editor
506(3)
Book V: Editing with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
509(98)
Latest Features of Photoshop Elements 3.0 and Photoshop Elements
511(6)
The Relationship between Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
511(1)
What's New in Photoshop cs and Elements
512(2)
What's New in Elements 3.0
514(2)
What's New in Photoshop cs
516(1)
Making Selections
517(18)
Making Simple Selections with the Marquee Tools
517(6)
Selecting geometric shapes
518(2)
Selecting single-pixel rows and columns
520(1)
Adding to, reducing, and combining selections
520(3)
Snagging Irregular Shapes with the Lasso Tools
523(4)
Selecting freeform shapes
524(2)
Selecting magnetically
526(1)
The Magic Wand Tool's Digital Prestidigitation
527(2)
Making and adjusting selections based on color
528(1)
Controlling the magic
529(1)
Specialized Selection Tools
529(3)
Using the Selection Brush tool
529(2)
Selecting in Quick Mask mode
531(1)
Using the Select Menu
532(3)
Brushing Away Problems with Digital Photos
535(12)
Photoshop and Photoshop Elements' Painting and Drawing Tools
535(1)
Working with Brushes and Pencils
536(3)
Painting with the Brush tool
537(2)
Working with the Pencil tool
539(1)
Customizing Your Brushes and Pencils
539(8)
Choosing the right size and shape
541(4)
Obtaining third-party brush sets
545(2)
Restoring Images
547(24)
Adding Light and Shadows
548(3)
Using the Dodge tool to lighten tones
548(1)
Burning your image to darken areas
549(2)
Using Smudging, Sharpening, and Blurring Tools
551(8)
Finger painting to blend colors and textures
552(2)
Using the Sharpen tool to add detail
554(2)
Blurring some or all of your image
556(3)
Finding Relief with the Healing Tools
559(12)
Using the Healing Brush
559(3)
Working with the Patch tool
562(2)
Cloning content to cover damage and unwanted content
564(3)
Removing red-eye
567(4)
Correcting Faded, Funny, and Funky Colors
571(14)
Using Automated Tools in Photoshop and Elements
571(2)
Auto correction in Photoshop
572(1)
Auto correction in Photoshop Elements
572(1)
Adjusting Color Balance
573(7)
Adjusting color levels
573(1)
Using the Variations dialog box
574(2)
Equalizing colors
576(1)
Fixing a color cast
577(2)
Displaying and using channels
579(1)
Working with Color Intensity and Quality
580(5)
Increasing and decreasing color intensity
581(2)
Tinkering with brightness and contrast
583(1)
Riding the curves
583(2)
Restoring and Enhancing Photos with Filters and Special Effects
585(22)
Working with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements' Filters
586(15)
Understanding how filters work
586(2)
Fixing flaws with corrective filters
588(5)
Turning photos into paintings with artistic filters
593(3)
Going a little crazy with special effects filters
596(5)
The Photoshop Elements' Effects Tab Palette
601(3)
Displaying and moving the tab
603(1)
Applying an effect
603(1)
Getting Your Hands on Third-Party Filters
604(3)
Book VI: Restoring Old Photos
607(48)
Scanning Print Images
609(14)
Prepping an Image for a Scan
609(2)
Working with Scanner Settings
611(12)
Choosing a resolution
611(4)
Interpolate, schmerpolate
615(2)
Sharpening
617(1)
Blurring/descreening
618(1)
Knowing when to halftone
618(1)
Other scanner controls
619(4)
Restoring Images Captured from Slides, Negatives, and Other Formats
623(14)
Film and Photography
624(2)
Scanning Options
626(3)
Let the pros do it
626(1)
Buy a slide scanner
626(1)
Use a transparency-capable flatbed
627(2)
Try the Rube Goldberg approach
629(1)
Types of Originals
629(4)
Prints
629(1)
Slides
630(1)
Transparencies
630(1)
Black-and-white or color negatives
631(1)
Exotica
632(1)
Scanning Film
633(4)
Prepping the film
633(2)
Performing the scan
635(2)
Some Common Fixes for Vintage Photos
637(18)
Repairing Vintage Photos: The Basics
638(2)
Replacing Depth and Detail
640(5)
Shedding light on the subject
641(1)
Don't be afraid of dark shadows
641(2)
Creating focus by sharpening images
643(2)
Correcting Faded Colors
645(4)
Adjusting color levels
645(1)
Increasing saturation
646(1)
Adding color adjustment layers
647(2)
Getting Nostalgic with Sepia Tones
649(3)
Evening out existing sepia tones
650(1)
Converting a black-and-white photo to sepia tone
650(2)
Rip! Replacing Torn or Missing Content
652(3)
Book VII: Printing and Sharing Your Digital Images
655(26)
Printing Your Final Result
657(10)
Why Do You Need Prints?
657(2)
Evaluating Your Printing Options
659(1)
Inkjet printers
659(1)
Laser printers
659(1)
Dye-sublimation printers
660(1)
Touring the Print Process
660(4)
Preventing surprises with Print Preview
661(1)
Understanding your output options
662(1)
Printing your photos
663(1)
Using Professional Printing Services
664(3)
Choosing a service bureau
664(1)
Tell them what you want, what you really, really want
665(1)
Knowing when you need a service bureau
666(1)
Sharing Pictures on the Web
667(14)
Appreciating the Advantages of Web Sharing
667(4)
Sharing your personal photos
669(1)
Sharing images with business associates
670(1)
Choosing a Sharing System
671(10)
Using commercial sharing sites and services
672(1)
Using You've Got Pictures and Kodak Picture Center with America Online
673(3)
Using your own Web space
676(5)
Glossary 681(22)
Index 703

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