Digital Photo Projects For Dummies [Paperback]

Julie Adair King (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 5, 2007

Digital Photo Projects For Dummies presents a unique twist on understanding the basics of digital photography. This full-color book walks you through the most common projects and tasks you’ll encounter in your digital photography activities. The book demonstrates the basics of setting your camera for the best shot before diving into how to improve your photos. Projects include brightening a dark photo, improving focus, getting rid of red-eye, touching up blemishes, creating a collage, adding a photo to a business card, rescuing old or damaged photos, and turning a photo into a piece of artwork ready for framing.

This book includes a DVD that contains "screencast" lessons created by the author that let you watch the specific steps of selected projects on your screen while you do them yourself. The DVD also includes trial versions of photo software as well as sample images from the book.

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From the Back Cover

Complete all projects with Adobe Photoshop Elements tryout on DVD!

Software and video make this your complete kit for enhancing digital photos

Do you have digital photos stored on your camera and no idea what to do with them? This package provides the tools needed to turn photos into fun projects. The book shows how to take great shots and transform them into cool photo creations. The DVD features video training to help you understand photo editing along with the software you need to complete the projects.

Julie Adair King is the bestselling author of five editions of Digital Photography For Dummies as well as the recently published Digital Photography Before & After Makeovers. She is a speaker at digital photography seminars around the country.

• Fix common digital photo flaws

• Combine pictures into a collage

• Enhance focus, color, and exposure

• Restore treasured family photos

• Spice up photos with text and special effects

All this on the Bonus DVD

• Over two hours of video training

• All the sample photos that appear in the book

• Trial Versions of the software

See DVD appendix for system requirements

About the Author

Julie Adair King is the best-selling author of many books about digital imaging, including Digital Photography For Dummies, Shooting & Sharing Digital Photos For Dummies, and Digital Photography Before & After Makeovers. When not writing, she teaches at various locations, including such noted photography schools as the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in Florida.
A native of Ohio and a graduate of Purdue University, King now resides with her furboy, Mocha the Wacky Wheaten Terrier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (June 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470121017
• ISBN-13: 978-0470121016
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,565,741 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Julie Adair King is the best-selling author of many books about digital imaging, including Digital Photography For Dummies, Shooting & Sharing Digital Photos For Dummies, and Digital Photography Before & After Makeovers. When not writing, she teaches at various locations, including such noted photography schools as the Palm Beach Photographic Centre in Florida.
A native of Ohio and a graduate of Purdue University, King now resides with her furboy, Mocha the Wacky Wheaten Terrier, in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Digital Photo Projects for Dummies, November 25, 2007

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R. Walters (Wasilla, Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Photo Projects For Dummies (Paperback)

With this book, Digital Photo Projects for dummies, you start out learning the basics, then progress to expert projects. The book gives the basics to get good results from your digital camera, without assuming you are an "expert", by overloading you with lots of technical background. The book takes you from the first step of shooting the photo, to starting the appropriate software for your camera, to how to retouch and enhance your photos.

This is a step-by-step book for those of us who need training from the very beginning. This book covered everything from finding the right camera, printer and software to taking you into shooting a photo; where it explains exposure, color and focus. After taking the photo, it explains how to download the software that belongs with your camera onto your computer. Then, it talks about simple photo-editing tools, retouching photos, tips on red-eye, covering blemishes and whitening teeth. I learned how to add text, take out people from my photos and add new backgrounds. I was amazed at how easy it was to fix a photo that I thought was a complete loss, and turn it into a photo that I could print. It was easy to do simple tasks on a photo, but also get creative and turn photos into digital collages, postcards and calendars.

The best selling point about this book is that it comes with a DVD that contains video tutorials that show you how to accomplish projects in the book and a few additional ones that are not in the book. The DVD is about two and a half hours long. The DVD also has some free trial versions of photo-editing software like Adobe Photoshop Elements that you can try before you buy. The DVD was easy to follow right along with the book. The book also gives tips as a sidebar and warnings of potential pitfalls to avoid. There are even technical tips for the more advanced; making the book useable by the more advanced photographer.

Overall, the book and DVD were of great help to me in learning the basics then incorporating them into my photo editing skills and giving me an end result that I was
proud of. I would highly recommend this book to all digital photographers and scrapbookers.