So you’ve made the jump to digital photography and you’re having a ball with your new camera, right? Now, you’re wondering just what it would take to make your photos a little more than just snapshots. Well, Digital Art Photography For Dummies is a great place to find out!

You’ll not only discover great new ideas, you’ll see the effects in full color. This book will help you

• Get fabulous, well-exposed photos, no matter what your shooting conditions may be
• Tweak, edit, and enhance your images to create something a lot better than what you started with, or maybe something entirely new
• Produce gallery-worthy art prints that people are willing to pay for
• Find out if it’s time to upgrade your computer to handle graphics work

Sound like fun? This plain-English guide makes it easy, too! You’ll find out just what makes a picture artistic, how to plan and set up a good photo shoot, what kinds of tools are available in Photoshop to help you enhance or even completely revamp an image, and how to be sure that what comes out of your printer meets all your expectations. Best of all, this book is jam-packed with full-color images that show you just what you can produce. You’ll find out how to

• Select the right digital equipment
• Shoot in color, black-and-white, and at night
• Choose subject matter that fits your style
• Understand and use your camera’s settings to get the best shots
• Photograph landscapes, people, action, and just about anything else
• Create special effects in Photoshop
• Improve the quality of your photos or turn them into true works of art
• Mat and frame your work for maximum effect

If you’re comfortable with your digital camera but want to find out more about creating cool effects in Photoshop, you can jump directly to Part III and discover tips and techniques that turn ordinary pictures into extraordinary art. Or maybe you’ve been trying to get better nighttime photos. Part II is all about setting up your equipment and getting the perfect shot. Like all For Dummies books, Digital Art Photography For Dummies is designed so you can go directly to the part that most interests you.

Whether you’ve been thinking of selling your work or you just want to create a knock-their-socks-off family gallery that your relatives can view online, this book shows you how to take your photography hobby to the next level. Even if you just want to look at the pictures for inspiration, you can’t go wrong!

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Digital Art Photography For Dummies

By Matthew Bamberg

Edition: illustrated

Published by For Dummies, 2005

ISBN 0764598015, 9780764598012

370 pages

Crafting a perfect rendering in 3D software means nailing the details.Your success in creating realistic-looking illumination depends on your professional rendering techniques. This work shows how to: master Hollywood lighting techniques to produce professional results in 3D application; composite 3D models into real-world environments; and more.

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Digital Lighting And Rendering

By Jeremy Birn

Edition: 2, illustrated

Published by New Riders, 2006

ISBN 0321316312, 9780321316318

416 pages

Whether you're a new photographer or an experienced pro, this book will guide you through the labyrinth of options and choices you face from the moment you see a photo opportunity to the time you share your final results. And it will help you minimize the time needed to fix your mistakes along the way.

Through step-by-step procedures based on years of experience, professional photographer Ken Milburn describes a complete workflow sequence that begins with essential equipment and preparation, takes you through detailed editing techniques, and ends with your finished images looking the way you want, ready to be shown to the world.

This completely revised edition of Milburn's original bestseller teaches you everything you need to do before, during, and after the editing process.

• Be prepared with the right equipment
• Get the basic shots right
• Organize your photos and find the gems
• Make reversible adjustments
• Refine your images with care
• Use special effects cautiously and tastefully
• Publish and share your images effectively

You'll also learn advanced techniques with Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop Elements, though this isn' t a typical Photoshop how-to book. Milburn's workflow strategy ensures that high-production jobs are done professionally with a minimum of frustration. With Digital Photography: Expert Techniques, you'll become a better (and more profitable) photographer.

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Digital photography: expert techniques

By Ken Milburn

Edition: 2, illustrated

Published by O'Reilly, 2006

ISBN 0596526903, 9780596526900

387 pages

8 books in 1 - your key to terrific digital photos!Your one-stop, full-color guide to creating digital images with "wow"From picking your camera to posting photos on the Web, here's what you need to know about digital photography in eight easy-to-use minibooks! Packed with full-color examples that will get your creative juices flowing, this guide helps you take better pictures; edit, organize, and share them; restore vintage prints; and more.Discover how to Choose the right camera and software Compose and shoot great pictures Edit images with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements Scan old prints and repair them Print your photos or share them online

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Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies: All-in-one Desk Reference for Dummies

By David D. Busch

Contributor David D. Busch

Edition: 3, illustrated, revised

Published by For Dummies, 2006

ISBN 0470037431, 9780470037430

726 pages

Digital photography is sweeping the country, and it’s easy to see why. You can take pictures of anything, do it quickly, see instantly what you got (or didn’t get), save only the stuff you like, and share your pictures as prints, on the Web, as a slideshow, or even on things like mugs and mousepads. A digital camera and the appropriate software let you

• Take wide-angle or closeup shots, indoors or out
• Know immediately whether you got what you wanted
• Delete shots you don’t like and retake them
• Improve your images on your computer
• Combine images into a montage
• Customize your pictures by adding special visual effects

Digital photography is fun, but whether you’re an old hand at taking digital pictures or still picking out your first camera, there are plenty of times when you know what you want to do and just want to figure out how to do it, right now. That’s exactly what Digital Photography Just the Steps For Dummies helps you do. It’s designed so you can quickly find the task you want to perform and follow step-by-step instructions to get the job done, right now. Loaded with full-color photos to show you what you can do, Digital Photography Just the Steps For Dummies helps you

• Choose the camera, lenses, and flash equipment that are best for the type of photography you want to do
• Compose good pictures regardless of your subject
• Scan and digitize existing photos so you can enhance or repair them
• Change the size or format of an image
• Adjust color, brightness, contrast, sharpness, and other attributes of a digital image
• Repair tears, creases, or scratches in a scanned photo, remove red-eye, and restore a faded image
• Use layers to alter an image, add text, or change the background
• Photograph items you want to sell online to show them at their best
• Sort and organize photos on your computer
• Print picture albums, make photo T-shirts, create a slideshow, or burn a video CD

When you’re looking for a clear set of instructions so you can get results right away, you want a Just the Steps For Dummies book. With Digital Photography Just the Steps For Dummies, you’ll find everything quickly comes into focus!

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Digital Photography Just The Steps For Dummies

By Frederic H. Jones

Edition: illustrated

Published by For Dummies, 2005

ISBN 0764574779, 9780764574771

240 pages

Finally, a Photoshop book that is written expressly for professional photographers and hi-end serious amateurs that doesn't talk about F-stops, exposures, and how to frame a shot (you know all that stuff already--if you don'tAI hate to say it, but this isn't for you).

This new book, from Photoshop User magazine editor and bestselling author Scott Kelby, starts at the moment your digital camera photos come into Photoshop, and he shows you the Photoshop pros techniques for managing, correcting, retouching and outputting your photos to knock your client's socks off, and turn you into a Photoshop production wizard. This book is absolutely ideal for traditional photographers who are making the jump to digital photography, and Scott's casual, step-by-step, plain-English style makes even the most complex Photoshop techniques seem so easy and accessible. It's the type of book that makes you smile and think "Ahhhh, so that's how they do it" and then immediately you realize "Hey, I can do this!"

The entire book is graphically rich, in full color cover-to-cover, and best of all it's packed with real-world project-based tutorials that will take you through the process of sizing your images with the proper resolution (and the secret to doing so without losing image quality), how to deal with High ISO noise, blue channel noise, and other common plagues introduced by digital cameras; you'll learn how the pros color correct their photos for output on everything from inkjet printers to printing presses, and the secrets to getting perfect fleshtones no matter where itAs output. You'll learn the sharpening techniques today's top digital photographers use, and how the leading retoucher's perform"digital plastic surgery" in Photoshop, plus professional facial retouching techniques using Photoshop 7.0's amazing new tools.

Plus, you'll also learn how to manage your photos, "digital dodging and burning" tricks, dealing with common problems, making client presentations within Photoshop and on the Web, and the inside tips on how to work faster and more efficiently than you ever thought possible. If you're serious about digital photography and Photoshop, this is book you've been waiting for.

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The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers

By Scott Kelby

Edition: illustrated

Published by New Riders, 2003

Item notes: pbk.

Original from the University of Michigan

Digitized Nov 29, 2007

ISBN 0735712360, 9780735712362

358 pages