Shipments and sales of digital cameras are soaring! Learn how to get the most out of your digital camera. This book shows you how to manipulate images, get rid of red eye, correctly crop, create panorams and mosaics, take 3D pictures, create videos, sharpen images, and airbrush. Plus, it's full of fun ideas, like using your digital camera to increase sales on online auctions, having fun with your camera at parties, creating fun crafts and gifts, and much, much, more. The CD is jam-packed with great photo editors, installers for major site upload software, slideshow programs, animation software, filters, coupons, etc.
Unless you're planning to enlarge your photographs to poster size, there's not much reason to use a film camera for everyday family and business photography. A digital camera enables you to get your pictures right onto your personal computer, where it's easy to edit them, post them to the Web, and distribute them by e-mail.
Digital Photography! I Didn't Know You Could Do That... takes a beginner-at-the-viewfinder look at digital photography techniques. It's a good choice if you were given a digital camera as a gift and need to figure out what it can do, or if you're looking for project ideas.
This book stays away from recommending specific camera equipment, and similarly refrains from exploring model-specific camera features. The focus (pun intended) is on good all-purpose camera techniques (like avoiding backlighting and arranging subjects) and on editing photos with Adobe PhotoDeluxe (a copy of which appears--without a time limitation--on this book's companion CD-ROM). PhotoDeluxe documentation fills much of this book, with specific instructions for achieving desired effects and a color section that illustrates techniques. --David Wall
Topics covered: Capturing images with digital cameras and editing them with Adobe PhotoDeluxe. The author explains how to manage camera memory and batteries, how to transfer images from camera to computer, and how to get around in PhotoDeluxe. Specific PhotoDeluxe sections address fixing problems (such as bad lighting and poor focus), creative effects, and suggested projects.