Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies®, 3rd Edition
by David D. Busch (Cleveland, Ohio)Edition: 3rd
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Pub. Date: 2006-09-01
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Summary
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
Author Biography
As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, David D. Busch illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He’s operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and Upstate New York college. His photos have been published in magazines as diverse as Scientific American and Petersen’s PhotoGraphic, and his articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He’s currently reviewing digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper.
When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, occupying the #1 and #2 slots were the last edition of this book, Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, and Busch’s Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he’s had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com’s Digital Photography Best Seller list — simultaneously! Busch’s 90 other books published since 1983 include best-sellers like Digital SLR Cameras & Photography For Dummies, and four books in Wiley’s Digital Field Guide series, with topics ranging from travel photography to guidebooks for the Nikon D50, D70s, and D200 cameras.
Busch earned top category honors in the Computer Press Awards the first two years they were given (for Sorry About The Explosion and Secrets of MacWrite, MacPaint and MacDraw ), and later served as Master of Ceremonies for the awards.
When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, occupying the #1 and #2 slots were the last edition of this book, Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, and Busch’s Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he’s had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com’s Digital Photography Best Seller list — simultaneously! Busch’s 90 other books published since 1983 include best-sellers like Digital SLR Cameras & Photography For Dummies, and four books in Wiley’s Digital Field Guide series, with topics ranging from travel photography to guidebooks for the Nikon D50, D70s, and D200 cameras.
Busch earned top category honors in the Computer Press Awards the first two years they were given (for Sorry About The Explosion and Secrets of MacWrite, MacPaint and MacDraw ), and later served as Master of Ceremonies for the awards.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| About This Book | p. 2 |
| What's in This Book | p. 2 |
| Digital Photography Overview | p. 3 |
| Building Your Digital Photography Studio | p. 3 |
| Using Digital SLRs | p. 4 |
| Taking Great Pictures | p. 4 |
| Basics of Image Editing | p. 4 |
| Editing with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements | p. 4 |
| Restoring Old Photos | p. 5 |
| Printing and Sharing Your Digital Images | p. 5 |
| Conventions Used in This Book | p. 5 |
| Icons Used in This Book | p. 6 |
| Where to Go from Here | p. 6 |
| Digital Photography Overview | p. 7 |
| The Essentials of Good Digital Photography | p. 9 |
| Knowing What Equipment You Need | p. 10 |
| Minimum and Maximum Specs | p. 12 |
| Taking Great Digital Shots | p. 14 |
| Understand how your camera works | p. 14 |
| Know some photography fundamentals | p. 15 |
| Find out how to use an image editor | p. 15 |
| Master a scanner | p. 15 |
| Making Any Photo Digital | p. 16 |
| Printing Your Final Pictures | p. 17 |
| Basics of Equipment | p. 19 |
| Deciding What You Need | p. 20 |
| How much resolution do you need? | p. 20 |
| Do you plan to manipulate your photos? | p. 23 |
| Are you a photo hobbyist? | p. 23 |
| How often do you plan to upgrade? | p. 23 |
| Defining Camera Categories | p. 24 |
| Web cams/phone cams | p. 24 |
| Point-and-shoot models | p. 25 |
| Intermediate models | p. 26 |
| Advanced consumer models | p. 26 |
| Prosumer dSLR models | p. 27 |
| Professional models | p. 28 |
| Checking for Key Camera Features | p. 30 |
| Acquiring Your Digital Pictures | p. 33 |
| Transferring Images from Your Camera to Your PC | p. 33 |
| Grabbing Digital Images of Prints and Slides | p. 35 |
| Kinds of scanners | p. 35 |
| What to look for in a scanner | p. 36 |
| Letting a Professional Do It | p. 38 |
| Editing or Restoring a Photo Electronically | p. 39 |
| Choosing an Image-Editing Program | p. 40 |
| Determining your needs | p. 41 |
| Checking out different applications | p. 41 |
| Performing Photographic Triage | p. 44 |
| Making Quick Fixes | p. 45 |
| Fixing red-eye | p. 45 |
| Removing dust spots | p. 47 |
| Correcting color | p. 50 |
| Restoring, Replacing, and Removing Photographic Content | p. 52 |
| Replacing missing or unwanted content | p. 53 |
| Rearranging parts of the picture | p. 57 |
| Getting rid of unwanted content | p. 59 |
| Storing and Organizing Your Digital Photos | p. 61 |
| Organizing Your Photos | p. 61 |
| Using your computer's file-management tools | p. 62 |
| Using photo album software | p. 66 |
| Using online galleries | p. 69 |
| Archiving and Backing Up Photos | p. 70 |
| Backing up your best shots | p. 70 |
| Using CD-R and CD-RW | p. 71 |
| DVD storage | p. 71 |
| Offsite storage for maximum safety | p. 72 |
| Printing and Sharing Your Pictures | p. 73 |
| Creating Prints on Demand | p. 74 |
| Getting the Most from Your Printer and Supplies | p. 75 |
| Sharing Your Photos | p. 76 |
| Building Your Digital Photography Studio | p. 77 |
| Choosing the Right Camera | p. 79 |
| Choosing a Camera Category | p. 80 |
| Examining the Parts of a Digital Camera | p. 82 |
| Evaluating Your Lens Requirements | p. 85 |
| Understanding How Lenses Work | p. 86 |
| Magnifications and focal lengths | p. 87 |
| Lens apertures | p. 91 |
| Focus range | p. 93 |
| Exposure controls | p. 93 |
| Selecting Your Resolution | p. 97 |
| Choosing Your View | p. 100 |
| LCD viewfinders | p. 101 |
| Optical viewfinders | p. 103 |
| Electronic viewfinders (EVFs) | p. 104 |
| SLR viewfinders | p. 106 |
| Considering Your Storage Options | p. 107 |
| No Flash in the Pan: Determining Your Lighting Needs | p. 108 |
| A Dozen Exotic Digital Camera Features | p. 110 |
| Checking Out Ease of Use | p. 111 |
| Setting Up a Computer for Digital Photography | p. 113 |
| Hardware Wars Revisited | p. 114 |
| What Equipment Do You Need? | p. 118 |
| Determining How Much Memory You Need | p. 119 |
| Choosing Local Storage | p. 120 |
| SCSI and EIDE hard drives | p. 121 |
| External hard drives | p. 122 |
| Archiving and Backing Up | p. 122 |
| Zip disks (R.I.P) | p. 123 |
| CD-Rs and CD-RWs | p. 123 |
| DVDs | p. 123 |
| Avoiding Microprocessor No-brainers | p. 123 |
| Determining What's Most Important | p. 124 |
| Choosing Pointing Devices | p. 127 |
| Getting Your Pictures from the Camera to the Digital Darkroom | p. 129 |
| Making the Connection between Camera and Computer | p. 130 |
| Getting Wired | p. 131 |
| Serial cable | p. 131 |
| USB | p. 132 |
| FireWire | p. 133 |
| Riding the (infrared) lightwave | p. 134 |
| Transfers with teeth (blue) | p. 135 |
| Memory Cards | p. 135 |
| CompactFlash cards | p. 137 |
| Secure Digital/MMC cards | p. 138 |
| Memory Stick | p. 139 |
| SmartMedia cards | p. 140 |
| PC Cards | p. 140 |
| Mini-CD | p. 140 |
| Microdrive | p. 140 |
| Transferring Images from Camera to Computer | p. 141 |
| Transferring pictures using camera utility software | p. 141 |
| Copying files to your hard drive | p. 143 |
| Importing images into image editing software | p. 145 |
| Adding a Printer and Scanner | p. 147 |
| Why You Want Prints | p. 148 |
| Choosing a Printer for Digital Photography | p. 149 |
| Choosing a Scanner | p. 152 |
| What you can do with a scanner | p. 152 |
| Types of scanners | p. 153 |
| Scanner Prices and Features | p. 154 |
| Entry-level scanners | p. 154 |
| Intermediate scanners | p. 155 |
| Advanced (or business) scanners | p. 155 |
| Professional (or prosumer) scanners | p. 155 |
| What Scanner Features Do You Need? | p. 156 |
| Scan quality | p. 156 |
| Scanner speed | p. 156 |
| Scanning size | p. 157 |
| Physical size | p. 157 |
| Film scanning | p. 157 |
| Configuration | p. 158 |
| Bundled software | p. 158 |
| Type of sensor | p. 159 |
| Scanner interface | p. 159 |
| Color depth | p. 160 |
| Resolution Mythconceptions | p. 160 |
| Color Depth Confusion | p. 161 |
| Picking Up Some Accessories | p. 163 |
| Getting Support from Tripods | p. 164 |
| Types of tripods | p. 166 |
| Scrutinizing tripod features | p. 167 |
| Checking out tripod alternatives | p. 170 |
| Making Good Use of an Electronic Flash | p. 170 |
| Types of electronic flash units | p. 172 |
| What to look for in a photographic slave flash | p. 174 |
| Lighting/flash accessories | p. 175 |
| Choosing a Camera Bag | p. 176 |
| Acquiring Other Useful Devices | p. 176 |
| A filter holder | p. 176 |
| A second camera | p. 177 |
| Cleaning kits | p. 177 |
| Waterproof casings and housings | p. 178 |
| Filters | p. 179 |
| Battery packs | p. 180 |
| Using Digital SLRs | p. 181 |
| The Digital SLR Advantage | p. 183 |
| Six Great dSLR Features | p. 184 |
| A bigger, brighter view | p. 184 |
| Faster operation | p. 185 |
| Lenses, lenses, and more lenses | p. 185 |
| Better image quality | p. 185 |
| Camera-like operation | p. 185 |
| More control over depth of field | p. 186 |
| Six dSLR Drawbacks You Can Live With | p. 186 |
| No LCD preview | p. 186 |
| Limited viewing angles | p. 187 |
| Lack/expense of super-wide lenses | p. 187 |
| Dirt and dust | p. 188 |
| No movies | p. 188 |
| Weight and size | p. 188 |
| How Digital SLRs Work | p. 188 |
| Managing dSLR Quirks | p. 191 |
| Noise about noise | p. 191 |
| The real dirt on sensors | p. 192 |
| Going in crop factor circles | p. 194 |
| Mastering Digital SLR Controls | p. 197 |
| Exposure Controls | p. 198 |
| Metering modes | p. 198 |
| Correcting exposure | p. 199 |
| Other exposure adjustments | p. 200 |
| Shooting modes | p. 202 |
| Focus Controls | p. 203 |
| Other Controls | p. 205 |
| Working with Lenses | p. 207 |
| Optical Allusions | p. 207 |
| Primes or Zooms | p. 210 |
| Pros for primes | p. 210 |
| Prose for zooms | p. 210 |
| Special Features | p. 212 |
| Taking Great Pictures | p. 215 |
| Tools and Techniques of Composition | p. 217 |
| Photo Composition: The Big Picture | p. 218 |
| Visualizing a Concept for Your Picture | p. 219 |
| What do you want your image to say? | p. 219 |
| Where will the image be used? | p. 220 |
| Whom are you creating the image for? | p. 221 |
| Selecting a Subject and a Center of Interest | p. 221 |
| Narrowing down your subject matter | p. 221 |
| Choosing one main subject | p. 222 |
| Using secondary subjects | p. 224 |
| Choosing an Orientation | p. 224 |
| Arranging Your Subjects | p. 227 |
| Choosing subject distance | p. 227 |
| Optimizing backgrounds | p. 229 |
| The Rule of Thirds | p. 230 |
| Placing important objects at imaginary junction points | p. 230 |
| When to break the Rule of Thirds | p. 231 |
| Incorporating Direction and Movement | p. 232 |
| Using Straight Lines and Curves | p. 234 |
| Balancing an Image | p. 236 |
| Framing an Image | p. 237 |
| What's That Tree Doing Growing Out of My Head? | p. 239 |
| Close-Up Photography | p. 241 |
| Defining Macro Photography | p. 242 |
| Why Digital Macro Photography Is Cool | p. 244 |
| Picking a Place to Shoot | p. 245 |
| Setting Up Your Macro Studio | p. 246 |
| Background check | p. 247 |
| Visible means of support | p. 249 |
| Lighting equipment | p. 251 |
| Other equipment | p. 254 |
| Shooting Tips for Macro Photography | p. 256 |
| Positioning your subject and background | p. 256 |
| Setting up your camera | p. 256 |
| Lights, please | p. 257 |
| Ready...aim... | p. 257 |
| Fire! | p. 260 |
| Digital SLRs and Close-Up Photography | p. 262 |
| Photographing People | p. 265 |
| Capturing Satisfying Portraits | p. 266 |
| Shooting in the Studio or on Location | p. 268 |
| Setting Up an Informal Portrait Studio | p. 270 |
| Choosing backgrounds | p. 270 |
| Selecting supports for lights, camera, and subjects | p. 272 |
| Basic lighting equipment | p. 274 |
| Professional studio lighting | p. 277 |
| Lighting gadgets | p. 278 |
| Lighting Basics | p. 284 |
| Using multiple light sources | p. 285 |
| Arranging a multiple-light setup | p. 286 |
| Basic Lighting Techniques for Shooting Multiple Sittings Quickly | p. 292 |
| Advanced Lighting Techniques for More Outstanding Portraits | p. 292 |
| Short lighting | p. 293 |
| Broad lighting | p. 294 |
| Butterfly lighting | p. 295 |
| Backlighting | p. 297 |
| Preparing to Take Your First Portraits | p. 298 |
| Working on a tight schedule | p. 298 |
| When you have more time | p. 300 |
| Shooting the Portrait | p. 303 |
| Seating your subjects | p. 303 |
| Posing your subjects | p. 304 |
| Arranging your lighting | p. 307 |
| Taking the picture | p. 307 |
| Advantages of Digital Cameras | p. 308 |
| Shooting for Publication | p. 311 |
| Finding Outlets for Print Publication | p. 312 |
| Breaking into Newspaper Photography | p. 314 |
| Submitting photos to your local newspaper | p. 314 |
| Working as a professional newspaper photographer | p. 317 |
| Magazines and Magazine-Like Markets | p. 321 |
| Exploring magazine photography | p. 321 |
| Getting into book publishing and stock photography | p. 323 |
| Gathering publishable photographs | p. 324 |
| Making contact with a publication | p. 325 |
| Submitting your photos | p. 327 |
| Getting model releases | p. 327 |
| Shooting Groups for Publication | p. 328 |
| Understanding group photography basics | p. 328 |
| Photographing groups of two to two dozen | p. 329 |
| Composing effective group shots | p. 330 |
| Managing the group | p. 331 |
| PR Photography | p. 332 |
| Executive portraits | p. 332 |
| Company events | p. 335 |
| Arranging a PR event worth photographing | p. 336 |
| Other photo-worthy events | p. 336 |
| Producing placeable PR photos | p. 337 |
| Printing your PR photos | p. 338 |
| Writing cutlines | p. 338 |
| Preparing the cutline for submission | p. 339 |
| Submitting the photo | p. 340 |
| Following up | p. 340 |
| Product Photography | p. 341 |
| Product shot opportunities | p. 342 |
| Product demo shots | p. 342 |
| Sports and Action Photography | p. 345 |
| Choosing Your Weapons for Sports Photography | p. 345 |
| Digital Camera Features and Action Photography | p. 347 |
| Viewfinder | p. 347 |
| Electronic flash | p. 349 |
| Tripods | p. 349 |
| Lenses and attachments | p. 350 |
| Latency and Shutter Lag | p. 352 |
| Dealing with latency of your camera | p. 352 |
| Coping with shutter lag | p. 353 |
| Timing your shot properly | p. 353 |
| Choosing Your Sport and Your Spot | p. 355 |
| Football | p. 356 |
| Baseball and softball | p. 358 |
| Basketball | p. 359 |
| Soccer | p. 360 |
| Other sports | p. 360 |
| Winter sports: A special case | p. 364 |
| Exploring Action Photo Techniques | p. 365 |
| Setting your ISO speed | p. 365 |
| Freezing action with fast shutter speeds or an accessory flash | p. 366 |
| Stopping action with slow shutter speeds | p. 367 |
| Panning | p. 369 |
| Capturing action approaching the camera | p. 370 |
| Using blur creatively | p. 371 |
| Taking the Picture | p. 373 |
| Capturing great sports moments | p. 373 |
| Setting up for predictable action | p. 374 |
| Photographing action sequences | p. 375 |
| Travel Photography | p. 377 |
| Getting the Right Gear | p. 377 |
| Selecting a camera for your needs | p. 378 |
| Choosing key features for travel photography | p. 380 |
| Selecting lenses for travel | p. 381 |
| Considering a tripod | p. 382 |
| Investing in an accessory flash | p. 383 |
| Selecting a camera bag | p. 384 |
| Keeping your camera powered | p. 385 |
| Picking up other useful devices | p. 388 |
| Getting Ready to Go on the Road | p. 390 |
| Meeting Your Storage Requirements | p. 390 |
| Tried-and-True Travel Photography Techniques | p. 391 |
| Shooting scenics | p. 392 |
| Capturing monuments and architecture | p. 393 |
| Shooting panoramas | p. 397 |
| Shooting adventure sports | p. 399 |
| Photographing people | p. 401 |
| Capturing people and their environments | p. 403 |
| Documenting Your Trip | p. 405 |
| Varying your shots | p. 405 |
| Composing your shots | p. 406 |
| Getting organized | p. 408 |
| Basics of Image Editing | p. 413 |
| What You Can and Can't Do with Image Editing Tools | p. 415 |
| Correcting Colors | p. 416 |
| You can't add color that isn't there | p. 417 |
| Fixing color casts | p. 417 |
| Causes of color catastrophe | p. 420 |
| Adjusting Brightness and Contrast | p. 421 |
| Murky shadows and washed-out highlights | p. 424 |
| Maintaining consistency | p. 425 |
| Reviving lost detail | p. 427 |
| Using Blurring and Sharpening Tools | p. 428 |
| Sharpening here and there | p. 429 |
| Blurring for effect | p. 430 |
| Removing Artifacts (Tiny Blemishes) | p. 433 |
| Finding an artifact's source | p. 434 |
| Sweeping away dust | p. 435 |
| Painting over the dirt | p. 436 |
| Smudging or blurring out the paint lines | p. 436 |
| Spackling Over More Serious Damage | p. 438 |
| Preparing your digital spackle | p. 439 |
| Replacing content that's ripped or torn away | p. 439 |
| Removing Unwanted Image Content | p. 441 |
| Combining Pictures | p. 443 |
| Pasting content from other images | p. 444 |
| Using layers to create overlapping images | p. 446 |
| Adjusting opacity for interesting effects | p. 447 |
| Common Editing Options | p. 449 |
| Checking Out Your Editing Toolkit | p. 450 |
| Painting Tools | p. 451 |
| Customizing your Brush and Pencil tools | p. 453 |
| Choosing a paint color | p. 454 |
| Applying the paint | p. 457 |
| Selection Tools | p. 463 |
| Making geometric selections | p. 464 |
| Drawing freeform selections | p. 469 |
| Selecting pixels by color with the Magic Wand | p. 474 |
| Blending Tools | p. 477 |
| Smudging and smearing your colors | p. 477 |
| Blurring the edges | p. 478 |
| Using the Scratch Remover | p. 480 |
| Correction Tools | p. 481 |
| Using the Sponge tool to add and remove color | p. 482 |
| Adjusting lights and darks | p. 483 |
| Choosing the Right Image Editor for You | p. 487 |
| Looking at Popular Image Editors: The Basics | p. 488 |
| Adobe Photoshop - Alone at the Top | p. 489 |
| What's good about Photoshop | p. 490 |
| What's not so good about Photoshop | p. 491 |
| What you can do with Photoshop | p. 492 |
| Where to get Photoshop | p. 493 |
| The Best of the Rest | p. 494 |
| Adobe Photoshop Elements | p. 494 |
| Corel PhotoPaint | p. 497 |
| Corel Paint Shop Pro | p. 500 |
| Corel Painter | p. 502 |
| Macromedia Fireworks | p. 506 |
| Ulead PhotoImpact | p. 509 |
| Microsoft Digital Image | p. 511 |
| Roxio PhotoSuite | p. 514 |
| Apple iPhoto | p. 516 |
| Deciding Whether You Need More Than One Image Editor | p. 517 |
| Editing With Photoshop and Photoshops Elements | p. 519 |
| Latest Features of Photoshop CS2 and Photoshop Elements 4.0 | p. 521 |
| The Relationship between Photoshop and Photoshop Elements | p. 521 |
| What's New in Photoshop CS2 | p. 522 |
| What's New in Elements 4.0 | p. 523 |
| Making Selections | p. 525 |
| Making Simple Selections with the Marquee Tools | p. 525 |
| Selecting geometric shapes | p. 526 |
| Selecting single-pixel rows and columns | p. 527 |
| Adding to, reducing, and combining selections | p. 528 |
| Snagging Irregular Shapes with the Lasso Tools | p. 531 |
| Selecting freeform shapes | p. 531 |
| Selecting magnetically | p. 534 |
| The Magic Wand Tool's Digital Prestidigitation | p. 535 |
| Making and adjusting selections based on color | p. 536 |
| Controlling the magic | p. 536 |
| Specialized Selection Tools | p. 537 |
| Working with the Selection Brush tool | p. 537 |
| Selecting in Quick Mask mode | p. 538 |
| Using the Select Menu | p. 539 |
| Brushing Away Problems with Digital Photos | p. 541 |
| Photoshop and Photoshop Elements' Painting and Drawing Tools | p. 541 |
| Working with Brushes and Pencils | p. 542 |
| Painting with the Brush tool | p. 543 |
| Working with the Pencil tool | p. 545 |
| Customizing Your Brushes and Pencils | p. 545 |
| Choosing the right size and shape | p. 547 |
| Obtaining third-party brush sets | p. 550 |
| Restoring Images | p. 551 |
| Adding Light and Shadows | p. 552 |
| Using the Dodge tool to lighten tones | p. 552 |
| Burning your image to darken areas | p. 554 |
| Using Smudging, Sharpening, and Blurring Tools | p. 555 |
| Finger painting to blend colors and textures | p. 556 |
| Using the Sharpen tool to add detail | p. 558 |
| Blurring some or all of your image | p. 560 |
| Finding Relief with the Healing Tools | p. 562 |
| Using the Healing Brush | p. 562 |
| Working with the Patch tool | p. 565 |
| Cloning content to cover damage and unwanted content | p. 567 |
| Correcting Faded, Funny, and Funky Colors | p. 571 |
| Using Automated Tools in Photoshop and Elements | p. 572 |
| Auto Correction in Photoshop | p. 572 |
| Auto Correction in Photoshop Elements | p. 572 |
| Adjusting Color Balance | p. 573 |
| Adjusting color levels | p. 573 |
| Using the Variations dialog box | p. 574 |
| Equalizing colors | p. 576 |
| Fixing a color cast | p. 578 |
| Displaying and using channels | p. 579 |
| Working with Color Intensity and Quality | p. 580 |
| Increasing and decreasing color intensity | p. 581 |
| Tinkering with brightness and contrast | p. 582 |
| Riding the curves | p. 583 |
| Removing Red-Eye | p. 583 |
| Enhancing Photos with Filters and Special Effects | p. 585 |
| Working with Photoshop's and Photoshop Elements' Filters | p. 586 |
| Understanding how filters work | p. 586 |
| Fixing flaws with corrective filters | p. 587 |
| Turning photos into paintings with artistic filters | p. 594 |
| Going a little crazy with special effects filters | p. 594 |
| The Photoshop Elements Styles and Effects Tab Palette | p. 600 |
| Displaying and moving the tab | p. 602 |
| Applying an effect | p. 602 |
| Getting Your Hands on Third-Party Filters | p. 604 |
| Restoring Old Photos | p. 607 |
| Scanning Print Images | p. 609 |
| Prepping an Image for a Scan | p. 610 |
| Working with Scanner Settings | p. 611 |
| Choosing a resolution | p. 612 |
| Interpolate, schmerpolate | p. 616 |
| Sharpening | p. 618 |
| Blurring/descreening | p. 619 |
| Knowing when to halftone | p. 620 |
| Other scanner controls | p. 620 |
| Restoring Images Captured from Slides, Negatives, and Other Formats | p. 623 |
| Film and Photography | p. 624 |
| Why Scan Film? | p. 625 |
| Scanning Options | p. 626 |
| Let the pros do it | p. 626 |
| Buy a slide scanner | p. 627 |
| Use a transparency-capable flatbed | p. 627 |
| Try the Rube Goldberg approach | p. 628 |
| Examining Different Types of Film Originals | p. 629 |
| Prints | p. 629 |
| Slides | p. 630 |
| Transparencies | p. 631 |
| Black-and-white or color negatives | p. 631 |
| Exotica | p. 632 |
| Scanning Film | p. 633 |
| Prepping the film | p. 633 |
| Performing the scan | p. 635 |
| Some Common Fixes for Vintage Photos | p. 637 |
| Repairing Vintage Photos: The Basics | p. 638 |
| Replacing Depth and Detail | p. 640 |
| Shedding light on the subject | p. 640 |
| Don't be afraid of dark shadows | p. 641 |
| Creating focus by sharpening images | p. 642 |
| Correcting Faded Colors | p. 644 |
| Adjusting color levels | p. 644 |
| Increasing saturation | p. 645 |
| Adding color adjustment layers | p. 645 |
| Getting Nostalgic with Sepia Tones | p. 648 |
| Evening out existing sepia tones | p. 648 |
| Converting a black-and-white photo to sepia tone | p. 649 |
| Rip! Replacing Torn or Missing Content | p. 650 |
| Printing and Sharing Your Digital Images | p. 653 |
| Printing Your Final Result | p. 655 |
| Why Do You Need Prints? | p. 655 |
| Evaluating Your Printing Options | p. 657 |
| Inkjet printers | p. 657 |
| Laser printers | p. 657 |
| Dye-sublimation printers | p. 658 |
| Touring the Print Process | p. 658 |
| Preventing surprises with Print Preview | p. 659 |
| Understanding your output options | p. 660 |
| Printing your photos | p. 660 |
| Using Professional Printing Services | p. 661 |
| Choosing a service bureau | p. 662 |
| Tell them what you want, what you really, really want | p. 662 |
| Knowing when you need a service bureau | p. 663 |
| Sharing Pictures on the Web | p. 665 |
| Appreciating the Advantages of Web Sharing | p. 665 |
| Sharing personal photos with family and friends | p. 667 |
| Sharing images with business associates | p. 668 |
| Choosing a Sharing System | p. 669 |
| Using commercial sharing sites and services | p. 670 |
| Displaying images on your own Web space | p. 671 |
| Glossary | p. 675 |
| Index | p. 697 |
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