Create And Share Digital Photos

A guide for beginning users explains how to evaluate digital cameras, compose and capture scenes, adjust color balance, crop out unwanted elements, sharpen focus, apply special effects, and prepare images for printing.

Share your favorite digital photos with family and friends Do you have a collection of great vacation shots just waiting to impress your friends? Or critical photos you must get to yourbusiness associates? This book shows you all the differentoptions for sharing your photos with a few or a lot of people — quickly, easily, and even for free! Open the book and find: Tips for e-mailing photos Insights on posting to photo-sharing sites and blogs Steps for getting the best results from a scanner How to create a photo slide show or video Digital picture frame advice

"this book is an excellent resource for the beginning digital photographer." —MacCompanion The Essential Companion to Your Digital Camera and Your Mac You'll be amazed at what you can create with your digital camera and your Mac. Whether you're making striking portraits or hilarious montages, this book provides the essential tools, techniques, and advice to turn you into a photo pro. Written by two Mac and digital photography experts, Mac Digital Photography explores everything essential to snapping, enhancing, and sharing great digital images. Inside you'll find expert techniques for refining your photo-taking techniques, editing and repairing your images, choosing the right camera peripherals, using your photos for fun craft projects, and sharing your creations with others across the globe or across the room. Mac Digital Photography teaches you how to: Snap high-quality photographs by concentrating on composition, lighting, and posing Enhance your images and fix picture flaws with Photoshop Elements 2 and iPhoto Create panoramas, 3D images, and poster-sized photographs Get crafty—use your photos for T-shirts, calendars, greeting cards, tattoos, and more Share your photos via e-mail and the Web Make DVDs, picture CDs, and video CD slide shows Perform special effects such as warping, morphing, and animation Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

The 3-volume set LNCS 8510, 8511 and 8512 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2014, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in June 2014. The total of 1476 papers and 220 posters presented at the HCII 2014 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 4766 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas.

Today's digital cameras have changed the face of professional and amateur photography. Everybody is taking pictures of everything. Every event is recorded for posterity; but ... do you know where your photographs are? In Managing Photographs in the Digital Age, explore methods for organizing your photographs so they can be found again. What a concept! Learn new options for bringing some structure to your growing digital collections using the software you already have. Capitalize on using the Internet as well as some of today's newer scanning and photography products to further expand your ability to store, retrieve and share those precious moments.

Most people are awash in digital photos—some taken, some received—stuffed here and there in random folders and albums across a hard drive. In The Digital Shoebox, Sarah Bay Williams, creator of the image archiving system used by the Academy Awards®, shares her foolproof method for effectively organizing, finding, and sharing photos so you never lose track of your most precious memories. Unlike many books on digital photography that are driven by software, The Digital Shoebox teaches readers an easy-to-remember and easy-to-repeat system that doesn’t feel like homework or require learning lots of complicated software applications. Part 1 of the book guides readers through the seven most important steps for organizing photos; Part 2 is packed with tips on ways to enjoy and share those photos. Each chapter closes with some slightly more advanced information, should readers want to get "technical." Based on the author’s experience as photography coordinator for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and as someone who simply loves taking photos, The Digital Shoebox is the first concise and user-centered guide solely dedicated to organizing a personal digital photography collection. Takes a fun and easy-to-implement approach to asset management, featuring a friendly writing style and charming illustrations Teaches the seven key steps needed to help users keep photos organized, available, and safe Includes a "Beyond the Box" section at the end of each chapter for more advanced readers who want to move beyond the basics

Think you've exhausted all of the possibilities in Adobe's awesome Photoshop Elements software? Think again. In this fully updated essential guide, Philip Andrews delves deeper into the software than ever before with advanced tips, tricks, and techniques to help the experienced Elements user take their skills to the next level. Move beyond the basics and learn how to work with raw files. Create stunning panoramas without breaking the bank on a pano camera using the Elements Photomerge technology. Create professional-quality multimedia projects in no time. Using easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions as well as full color, inspirational images to demonstrate techniques, Philip shows you how to do all this and more in Advanced Photoshop Elements 6 for Digital Photographers. Don't fall behind the learning curve - instead, let Philip show you how to get one step ahead!

Do you want to get to grips with your camera? Do you want to take some great photos and make them even better using your computer? Do you want to learn how to create great photo albums, share photos on the internet, even create slideshows to share with family and friends? Teach Yourself Photography for the Over 50s shows you how to choose a digital camera, become familiar with its functions and use it to produce some memorable photos. The book uses clear instructions, useful hints and tips and illustrations to show you all the essential techniques. Avoiding jargon and computerspeak, it also shows you how to use your computer with your camera and explores opportunities for producing great photos without a computer. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of digital photography. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.