Digital Photography For Dummies (Digital Photography for Dummies) Digital Photography For Dummies (Digital Photography for Dummies) Your digital camera can do so much! And Digital Photography For Dummies, 6th Edition helps you shoot, edit, and share great photos. This full-color guide is packed with stuff that’s not in your camera manual — tips on upgrading your equipment, working with focus and exposure, shooting like a pro, organizing and enhancing your images, and printing them or getting them online.

Are you already you’re hip-deep in images? Here’s how to manage them. This guide helps you learn what you need for the way you take pictures, how to prolong battery life, the pros and cons of digital SLR, and more. Baffled by the lingo? The glossary explains all those terms and acronyms. You’ll also learn to:

  • Set up your camera for basic shooting and learn to use automatic mode, common scene modes, and all the camera’s features
  • Manage depth of field, exposure, and white balance, and make easy fixes with your photo editor
  • Compose your photos for better pictures
  • Easily transfer your pictures to the computer, print them, or distribute them electronically
  • Edit your images and fix common problems like dim photos and red-eye
  • Send photos to a cell phone
  • Organize your pictures so you can find what you want
  • Decide if your camera needs updating, what equipment you need, and what your digital darkroom should have

Rich, full-color examples show what you can achieve. Digital Photography For Dummies, 6th Edition will make your digital camera a lot more fun!
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Customer Review: Reviewed by Robert King , Alaskan Apple User Group

Pros: This book covers the basics of taking pictures with your digital camera plus managing them on your computer–with everything well illustrated and clearly explained.

Cons: No real cons, although the 2005 publication of the book made me wonder if some parts were somewhat dated.

This full-color, 380-page book provides great information for shooting, sharing, and editing digital photos. Like other “Dummies” books, it is very well written in clear English for beginners and intermediate users of digital photography. Its tips and well-organized information also make it a good reference book for advanced users who will certainly discover things they didn’t know. As a book especially for the beginner, it is structured to cover a great variety of subjects, including providing an introduction to the subject of digital photography that places it in historical context with film-based photography.

The book is conveniently organized into five parts. Part 1 is “Peering through the digital viewfinder” and is an overview that also introduces topics that are explored in greater detail later in the book. These include what digital photography is and how it works, type of cameras and how to operate them, saving and displaying digital information, plus what you can do with them on your computer.

Part 2, entitled “Ready, Set, Shoot!,” builds on information in the first part by explaining how to achieve the right camera settings, how to control exposure and focus, and in general, how to get optimal pictures.

Part 3 takes your digital photographs from your camera to your computer and beyond into ways to display, share, and print them.

Part 4, called “Tricks of the Digital Trade,” provides a great overview of how you can use your computer and various programs to manipulate your digital image to achieve things virtually impossible with older film-based photography. Here you learn important skills like how to sharpen focus, cover flaws, create “new” photos by adding or removing elements, and a lot more.

Part 5 is a review and extension of what you have learned previously, with information structured as a series of “tens”: 10 ways to improve your digital images, 10 great ways to use your digital images, and 10 great online resources for digital photographers (at least through 2005).

The book also includes a nice-done glossary explaining the terms used in digital photography that can make the beginner’s eyes glaze over. Also helpful is a nice easy-to-use index. In addition, there is a companion website for the book listed on the back cover that would help keep its information current, for those wanting to take the additional time and effort to use it.

My initial approach to reading this book was to thumb through it and view subject headings, illustrations, and whatever caught my interest. Doing that I learned a lot and got a good sense of the subjects. Then I went back to ones of particular interest.

I especially liked the easy explanations of how to set up your camera and choose the right file format to achieve the quality of picture needed for the size photo you want. There were good illustrations of what too much compression does for a photo, and more, for example.

In sum, I found this book quite helpful, well organized, and will be going back to it whenever I have questions about how to use my digital camera to make great photos.


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