عنوان

How to do everything with your digital camera /

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How to do everything with your digital camera /

[Book]

Dave Johnson.

New York :

Osborne/McGraw-Hill,

©2001.

xviii, 394 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm.

How to do everything with--

Includes index.

Your Camera -- Welcome to the Future -- A History Lesson -- A Slow Evolution -- The Future of Digital Cameras -- Features, Gadgets, and Goodies -- The Optical System -- TTL Viewfinders -- Power Systems -- Memory Storage -- Camera Controls -- Choosing Your Own Digital Camera -- The Upgrade Race -- Resolution -- Optics -- Memory -- Flash -- Special Effects -- Transfer Mechanism -- Gear You'll Need -- Understanding Exposure -- How Cameras Take Pictures -- Inside a 35mm Camera -- The Moment of Exposure -- How Digicams Are Different -- Use ISO for Exposure Control -- Change the ISO Setting -- Perfecting Shots with Aperture and Shutter -- How Cameras Choose Aperture and Shutter Speed -- The Truth About Shutters -- Adjust Exposure Manually -- Use Shutter or Aperture Priority Adjustments -- Tricky Lighting Situations -- Use Exposure Compensation -- Switch Metering Modes -- Use Exposure Lock -- When to Take Control -- Composition Essentials -- Why Composition Is Important -- What We See -- Rules of Composition -- Isolate the Focal Point -- Use the Rule of Thirds -- Fill the Frame -- Move the Horizon -- Use Lines, Symmetry, and Patterns -- Use Foreground to Balance the Background -- Know When to Break the Rules -- Using Depth of Field -- Applying Depth of Field to Your Pictures -- Getting the Most Out of Your Zoom Lens -- Using Your Camera's Exposure Modes -- Choosing Exposure Modes and Lenses in Special Situations -- Flash and Lighting -- The Basics of Flash Photography -- Stay Within the Range of Your Flash -- Master Your Flash Modes -- Improve Your Outdoor Photographs -- Beware the Sun -- Add Fill Flash -- Reflect Some Light -- Improve Your Indoor Photographs -- Use Window Light -- Avoid the Red Eye -- Correct the Color Balance -- Correcting Images with White Balance -- Adjusting White Balance Presets -- Trying Your Hand at Night Photography -- Taking Your First Night Shots -- CCDs and Noise -- Taking Close-Ups -- Capturing the Microscopic World -- Coaxing a Digital Camera to Take Close-Ups -- Close-up Enemy No. 1: Parallax -- Using Add-on Lenses -- Close-up Techniques -- A Steady Base -- Keep the Subject Sharp -- Mind the Background -- Beware of the Flash -- Shooting Through Glass -- Pushing Your Camera to Its Limits -- Get Creative -- The Old-Fashioned Look -- Make a Panorama -- Getting the Right Overlap -- Adding Lenses for Different Perspectives -- Choosing Lenses -- Add-on Lens Precautions -- Taking Time-Lapse Photos -- Making Movies -- Taking Care of Batteries -- Rechargeable Versus Alkaline -- Get the Most Out of Your Batteries -- Transferring Images -- Conquering File Formats -- What Are File Formats and Why Do I Care? -- The Most Common File Formats -- Using File Formats -- On the Camera -- On the PC -- Working with Digital Film -- The ABCs of Digital Film -- Transferring Images to the PC -- Transferring Images with a Serial Cable -- Transferring Images with a USB Port -- Transfer Shortcuts: Using Memory Adapters -- Caring for Your Memory Cards -- Keeping Images on the PC -- Managing Your Digital Pictures -- Organizing Your Images in Windows 98 -- Renaming Images in Windows 98 -- Working with Quick View -- Locating and Cataloging Images in Windows 98 -- What's a Keyword? -- Organizing Your Images in Windows Me -- Estimating File Size -- Calculating TIFs -- Calculating JPGs -- Archiving Images -- Pixel Potential -- Adding Extra Hard Drives -- Turning Prints into Digital Images -- Understanding Scanners -- Shopping for a Scanner -- Scanning and Correcting Your Images -- Determining the Right Resolution -- Tweaking Your Images -- Slides, Negatives, or Prints? -- Editing Images -- Quick Changes for Your Images -- How Much PC You Need -- Choosing an Image Editor -- Tweaking the File Format -- Shrinking Your Images -- Changing the Color Depth of an Image -- Saving Images in Different File Formats -- Improve Your Composition -- Crop Your Image -- Using Cut and Paste -- Rotate Your Perspective -- Level a Crooked Picture -- Improve the Color and Brightness in Your Image -- Brighten Gloomy Shots -- Add Snap to Your Colors -- Brightness Only Goes So Far -- Correct the Color Balance -- Cleaning Up Your Images -- Sharpening Blurry Pictures -- Using the Sharpen Filter to Enhance Your Picture -- Blur to Sharpen -- Painting on Your Pictures -- Choosing Colors -- Applying the Paint -- Painting More Accurately -- Repairing the Evil Eye -- Using Automatic Red Eye Removal -- Removing Red Eye the Old-Fashioned Way -- Airbrushing Away Distractions -- Clean Up Old and Damaged Pictures -- Remove Picture Scratches -- Remove Dust, Dirt, and Digital Noise -- Make a Panoramic Photo -- Stitching Photos Together by Hand -- Creating Special Effects -- Using a Hollywood-Style Bluescreen -- Make a Weather Map -- Bluescreen Without a Screen -- Shake Hands with Elvis -- Shoot a Sci-Fi Firefight -- The Disintegrating Subject -- The Laser Blast -- Paint Like Van Gogh -- Decolorizing Your Pictures -- Colorize an Image -- Create Stop-Motion Movies -- Working with Text and Creating Projects -- Adding Text to Pictures -- Special Effects with Text -- Create Gradient-Filled Text -- Create Picture-Filled Text -- Add Drop Shadow -- Combine Image and Drop Shadow -- Projects for Your Digital Images -- Using Digital Images as Wallpaper -- Adding an Image to Letterhead -- Creating Your Own Greeting Cards -- Create a Newsletter -- Using Your Images -- Printing Your Pictures -- Using the Right Printer -- Choosing a Printer -- What to Look For -- Printing Your Images -- The Right Resolution -- Working with Paper -- Making Your Prints -- Which Side Is the Right Side? -- Caring for Your Prints -- Working with Printing Services -- Sharing Your Pictures -- Send Images via Email -- Attaching Pictures in Email -- Distributing Images on Floppy and Zip Disks -- Strategies for Sharing Lots of Images -- Creating Your Own Web Pages -- Choosing an Image Size and File Format for the Web -- Sharing Images on the Web Without Designing a Web Site -- Which Is Best? -- Showing Off Images on a Palm -- Showing Off Images in a Digital Picture Frame -- Create a Slide Show on Videotape -- Record Video Directly from the Camera.

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