Digital Photography From Camera to Printer, Print to Computer, Videotape to DVD, and More!

by Busch, David D.

• ISBN13: 9780131472198
• ISBN10: 0131472194
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-23
• Publisher: PEARSO

Summary

Go digital the easy and fun way, with the help of this worry - free guide and bonus CD!

Author Biography

David D. Busch has been a professional photographer and photojournalist, and operator of his own commercial studio and photo lab. He's written thirteen books on digital imaging and photography, including The Official Hewlett-Packard Scanner Handbook, Digital Photography All in One Desk Reference for Dummies, Mastering Digital Photography, Mastering Digital Scanning, Photoshop CS: Photographers' Guide, and Digital Photography Solutions. He is a two-time winner of the Computer Press Association's annual technology book awards.

Table of Contents

Your Digital Imagery Computer

What Do You Need?

Other Features

Other Computer Considerations

Preparing to Capture Your Videos

How We Got Here

What You Can Do

The Equipment You Need

Selecting A Video Source

Transferring Video to Your Computer

Why Transfer Your Tape Library?

Selecting Movies and Footage for Transfer

What About Commecial Movies and DVDs?

Preparing to Transfer

Capturing Video

Working With Wizards

Editing Your Videos

Wherefore Art Thou Editing?

Basic Editing Terminology

Making Movies

Exporting Video

Choosing a Digital Camera

What Do You Hope To Do?

Pick a Category

Selecting Features

Going Beyond Point-and-Shoot

Making (Vs Taking) a Photograph

Four Basic Ways to Change An Image

Guidelines for Good Composition

Creating a Composition

Photographic Cornucopia

Close Ups

People

Pet and Child Photography

Sports

Landscape and Travel Photography

Editing Digital Photos

Easy, Automated Image Transformations

More Advanced Image Manipulations

Graduating to a Fully Featured Image Editor

What Can You Do With Image Editors?

Sharing Your Digital Photos

Sharing Off-Line

Sharing Online

Creating Your Own Web Pages

Viewing Photos On Your TV

Grabbing Images with a Scanner

What Can You Do With A Scanner?

Types of Scanners

How Scanners Work

What to Look For in a Scanner

Choosing A Scanner Category

Hardware Requirements

Setting Up Your Scanner

Getting Great Scans

Printing Your Digital Images

Why Prints?

Sizing Up Your Options

Choosing Printer Features

Printing Your Digital Pictures

Getting the Best Prints

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Excerpts

Digital Photography: Preface PrefaceYours"ve taken your last snapshot, and grabbed your last video clip! This book will help you move to the next level, using digital imagery to create exciting images of your favorite photo subjects and events. Whether yours"re looking to create picture-perfect stills or transfer your videos to neatly-edited, professional-looking DVDs, yours"ll Find everything you need to know in this book.This book is your introduction to all the exciting things you can do with images, from your camera to your printer, from your print to your computer, and videotape to DVDhellip;plus a lot more! About the BookImages and sound have always fascinated us, because of their power to preserve memories, tell stories, and convey information quickly and memorably. Digital imagery takes traditional photography and video to the next level, giving you the power of the computer to shape pictures and sound into the exact Finished product you want.This book is organized into easy-to-digest bites, with stand-alone chapters you can read in any order to learn exactly what you want to know about computers; capturing, editing and transferring videos; shooting digital still photos; sharing pictures; and making prints.The great Hewlett Packard products are used as examples throughout this book, because HP is the only manufacturer that produces every component (other than video cameras) that you need to enjoy digital imagery. These include media-ready computers, digital cameras, scanners, DVD burners with built-in video capture capabilities, and printers. However, if you use components from other manufacturers-say a different computer or DVD drive-everything in this book will still be useful to you.So, if you want to know how to outFit your computer for best results, you can start out with Chapter 1, "Your Digital Imagery Computer." If yours"d rather jump right in to learning how to capture or transfer your existing videos to digital form, you can skip ahead to Chapter 2, "Preparing to Capture Your Videos" or Chapter 3, "Transferring Your Video to Computer." Need to edit your videos? Chapter 4 shows you how.Perhaps still photos are more your cup of tea. You can learn how to choose a digital camera in Chapter 5, and discover some ways to take better pictures in Chapter 6, "Going Beyond Point-and-Shoot." Chapter 7 will get you started editing your digital photos, and Chapter 8 offers tips on how to share them with others through email, Web pages, or digital photo albums.If you want to digitize your existing snapshots so you can edit them in your computer, Chapter 9, "Grabbing Images with a Scanner," reveals the secrets of the HP ScanJet line. The companyrs"s other claim to fame, printers, is the focus of Chapter 10.Even if you purchased this book because you wanted to learn just one thing, say, how to transfer VHS videos to your computer, I hope yours"ll explore everything that digital imagery has to offer. Still photos, videos, prints, and online images all provide you with different ways of enjoying and sharing the sights and sounds that make your life interesting. AcknowledgementsThanks to the folks at Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, including executive editor Jill Harry, production editor Kathleen Caren, and the panel of reviewers. Thanks again to my agent, Carole McClendon, for putting this all together.