Teach Yourself Visually Digital Photography

Explains how to select and use a digital camera, offering advice on taking pictures, altering images, and adding photographic special effects to Web pages.

All-new update to this complete photography guide-over 125 photography tasks explained! Teach Yourself VISUALLY Digital Photography, Fourth Edition is a brand new take by a brand new author and professional photographer, who packs this book with heaps of essential tasks and new photos. Step-by-step screen shots show you best practices for completing more than 125 digital photography activities, including composing and lighting pictures; mixing and matching focus and lens settings; cropping, resizing, and sharpening photos; and enhancing photos with software. You'll find great tips and tricks for capturing your best photos and turning them into impressive prints and photo-based projects. As digital photography technology and photo-editing software evolve, so do the latest digital photography techniques Explores essential digital photography concepts, including composition, lighting, focus, sharpening, and enhancing photos with photo-editing software Demonstrates through step-by-step instructions and numerous, full-color screen shots and photos, so you can see exactly how to perform tasks Offers tips and tricks to help you make the best captures and turn them into impressive prints and photo-based projects See how to produce your best digital photographs ever with this easy-to-follow visual guide!

Explains how to select and use a digital camera, offering advice on taking pictures, altering images, and adding photographic special effects to Web pages.

Updated to cover the latest photo editing software, this Visual guide makes it even easier for readers to develop their digital photography skills With more than 500 step-by-step screen shots to demonstrate each task, this full-color guide teaches the essentials that make good photos–lighting, composition, exposure, shutter speed, and focus–along with must-know digital details like retouching, cropping, and printing.

An introduction to digital photography that provides information on what equipment is needed to get started, how to create a digital picture, how to manipulate images, from basic principles to more advanced skills, and how to save, print, store, and display pictures.

Follow these clear-cut steps and start taking better photos If you want to get more out of your digital camera and start taking better photographs, this easy-to-follow guide is for you. Designed for visual learners who'd rather see how to do something quickly instead of wading through paragraphs of text, this useful book offers highly visual tutorials and full-color screen shots on every page. You'll see just how to compose and light pictures using professional techniques, learn how to mix and match focus and lens settings, and find great ways to enhance your photos with digital imaging software. Helps digital camera users capture, produce, and print better photos Teaches practical techniques using easy-to-follow, step-by-step visuals and brief explanations Features full-color screen shots on every page to clearly illustrate techniques and steps Covers composing and lighting techniques, setting focus and lenses, enhancing photos with software, and more "Digital Photography Visual Quick Steps" is packed with full-color quick steps to help you improve your digital photography.

Take Better Photos: Teach Yourself is your complete guide to all the practical know-how, technical information and creative insight that will turn you into a confident user of your camera. Covering the very latest in equipment, with essential and straightforward guides to all the techniques - from exposure to use of flash - it will also teach you how to use digital manipulation, software and all the other technology that will make your pictures strong and memorable. It explains how to do everything from choosing the camera that's right for you to composing your shots, along with helpful screengrabs showing you how to get the desired result on screen and paper alike. 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 authors' 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 photography. THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.

A text that aims to take readers through the uses of digital photography. The book leads the reader through all the aspects of utilizing digital photography. It features interviews with expert photographers, who give tips and techniques, and is aimed at graphic artists and designers.