Start With a Digital Camera: A Guide to Using Digital Photography to Create High-Quality Graphics

As digital cameras drop in price and the images they produce grow in quality, more and more people are finding the lure too strong to resist. If you're in the market for a camera, or already own one and want to know how to get the most out of it, Start with a Digital Camera will provide you with both hands-on knowledge and creative examples.

This book combines simple instructions with beautiful full-color photographs to teach you how to create high-quality digital photos and incorporate them into graphic designs. Whether you're an amateur searching for buying advice and digital basics or a design pro looking for new inspiration and the latest technological advances, you'll find Start with a Digital Camera an invaluable resource.

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John Odam is an award-winning graphic designer who grew up in England and received his degree from Leicester College of Art. Unlike most of his fellow art students, John wasn't particularly attracted to advertising, so decided to focus his design career on publishing. He has been living in California since 1968.
He was for many years art director of the early desktop-published Verbum magazine and a contributor to Step-By-Step Electronic Design and Before & After.

In addition to his collaboration with Janet Ashford on Start with Scan, he is also co-author of The Gray Book (Ventana Press, 1990), a book on techniques for black-and-white computer art. He has contributed many articles and illustrations to magazines and books worldwide.

John runs a full-service design studio producing cover and page designs for college and trade books, advertising, signage, packaging, catalogs and multimedia.
John's other business revolves around Beardsley and Company, makers of a special favored shampoo for beards. You can visit the Beardsley website at infonex/~beardsley

In addition to playing mandocello, mandolin, mandola and guitar with Janet in Lime in the Harp, John also plays fiddle and mandolin in The Continental Drifters, a contradance string-band.