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Essentials of Digital Photography with CDROM

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As a digital imaging professional, I highly recommend this book. It covers absolutely everything you'll ever need to understand and practice digital imaging and digital photography. Digital imaging can be mind-boggling at times so use this book as your best resource for all those answers that you need.

The book was really well written and the photo examples are perfect. The CD-ROM contains really valuable calibration tools that no one should be without.

The book may not be the most inspirational I have read about digital photography, manipulation or techniques. However it is one of the most complete, thorough and in-depth texts I have stumbled upon. Hard to find material on color calibration is there and I found it quite valuable. It is not a book to browse through just looking at the pictures, it is a book to reach for whenever you need to deepen your understanding.

I have made research and tought graduate courses in image processing so I may not be the typical reader, but since I do a lot of digital photography and manipulation in my free time, I can only conclude: one of my best book buys so far.

The book begins with a definition of digital photography. Then the following chapters are presented in the order of a good classroom course. The second chapter covers digital photography basics including light, color and an overview of digital cameras.

The other chapters include photo correcting, scanning, exposures and output. There is even a chapter on hardware and software. The section on masking explained what it was and its uses in clear, understandable words.

The authors use lots of visual graphics so you can see what they are talking about. The CD-ROM has a tutorial and demo versions of Photoshop, Live Picture, xRes, Painter, quantum Mechanic and Valis Flo Sampler.

For a Web Designer, this book is a must have. It will bring you up to speed on Digital Photography and Photoshop and show you how to make great pictures to add that special touch to your or your client's web.

The hardware (computers, cameras, scanners, etc.) and software (OS's and bitmap editors) used in this book are antiquarian and for the most part no longer available. The techniques are also for the most part out dated due to new features in the latest software versions such as contained Photoshop 7. This book is useful only to someone running Photoshop 3 on MAC OS 7 or Windows 98 with 64 MB of RAMwith 1GB drives.

El libro esta un poco desactualizado pero es la biblia de la imagen digital para fotografos A eso me dedico en mi estudio en Bs As y encontre la guia mas rápida y completa de todo lo necesario para trabajar en imagen digital. Agradecido