This comprehensive guide equips photographers with essential knowledge on the latest digital imaging advancements, covering major photo-editing software such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. It addresses the differences between Macs and PCs, including memory and processor requirements. The book outlines five key stages of digital photographic manipulation, from input and image sizing to output and printing, enabling photographers to achieve professional-quality results using modern digital imaging tools.
Focusing on enhancing photography skills, this guide offers valuable insights for both amateurs and professionals. It teaches readers how to effectively use in-camera exposure controls to elevate their photos from average to exceptional. Additionally, it covers techniques for making final adjustments using computer software, ensuring that users can achieve the best possible results in their photography endeavors.
Focused on enhancing your photography skills, this guide provides clear instructions on selecting and using a camera effectively for capturing memorable moments. It simplifies essential techniques with practical tips and illustrations, avoiding technical jargon. The book also covers how to integrate your camera with computer use for photo editing, while offering alternatives for those who prefer not to use a computer. With quick learning segments, it caters to busy individuals looking to improve their photography in short bursts.
To carry a camera all the time was once the preserve of those that needed to - professional photographers and dedicated enthusiasts. Smart phones, however, have put powerful and competent cameras, literally, in our pockets. As a result we are documenting our lives as never before, photographing and filming the important celebrations and mundane delights of everyday life. And then sharing them. But do we realize the full potential of these camera phones? This book is a dedicated guide to taking, creating, manipulating and sharing photographs taken specifically on a smart phone or tablet, with other sections covering their video settings to help you shoot your very own blockbuster film. Both instructive and inspirational, the book has sections devoted to the Top 10 rules for taking photographs on a camera phone, to particular genres, including shooting children and pets, concerts and festivals, action and sport, before discussing the best apps and special effects to download that will enable you to get really creative. Enhanced with Pro Tips to help you elevate ordinary photos into something more professional, 'Try this' panels, and jargon buster boxes that explain technical terms in context, the book provides all the information you need to make the most of your smart phone, from the moment impulse strikes to displaying your images on file-sharing websites.
A comprehensive guide to all the terminology associated with Photoshop software, including entries for over 3000 terms. It even includes entries for those terms which, although not part of Photoshop, are vital to the Photoshop user. It also explains the metaphors that Photoshop has adopted from the world of traditional graphic design and photography.
