Put away your old-fashioned camera, file those worn-out photo albums and get ready to send your photos to friends and family over the internet. Taking a digital photograph is not a problem for those who know how to use a camera. The question, what do you do once you’ve taken the digital photograph? This brand new title in Capital’s popular "First Week" series, will take you into the Digital Age! Now with this easy-to-read and use book, by the master of non-patronizing instruction, you’ll understand what is going on inside the camera when you take a digital photo, how to download them into your computer or web site, edit, send, and store them. Pamela Lessing makes clear all the wonders of digital cameras and the software programs that allow you to keep all those precious photos safe. The book concludes with the hallmark of The First Week series, a clear and concise step-by-step guide for performing each of the basic tasks of the four most popular digital camera software programs.
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"It gets you oriented in a parallel universe that owes as much to personal computing as photography..." -- Mike Maza, The Dallas Morning News, September 26, 2003
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Pamela R. Lessing has had a very diverse career as a librarian, art consultant, member of various advisory boards of numerous non-profits, a member of the Trustee’s Council of the University of Rochester and a member of its visiting committee evaluating the College. She is the author of The First Week With My New PC (Capital Books, 2000), The First Week with My New iMac (Capital Books,2001), The First Week with My New Digital Organizer (Capital Books, 2002), and The First Week with My New Digital Camera (Capital Books, 2003).
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Intended for the first time owner of a digital camera.,
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This review is from: The First Week with My New Digital Camera: A Very Basic Guide to Understanding, Editing, and Saving Digital Photographs (Capital First Week) (Paperback)
This is the perfect book for the first time owner of a digital camera. The author explains basic terminology and how pixels and resolution effect the photographs, and guides the reader through how to transfer, edit, process and archive the photos.It is not a guide on how to take photos, nor is it highly technical. It is designed for the first time user answering many of the questions and easing the confusion felt when entering the digital world. I am buying it for my sister-in-law and my 75 year old father, who both recently purchased cameras and are struggling with the understanding what resolution to use, how to print the photos, etc. I wish I had this book years ago when I purchased my first digital camera.
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A Book for Author's Friends Only,
By Sn2000py "Sn2000py" (The South, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The First Week with My New Digital Camera: A Very Basic Guide to Understanding, Editing, and Saving Digital Photographs (Capital First Week) (Paperback)
I'm afraid I for one cannot figure out the purpose of this book. It reads like something the writer should have simply photocopied and passed out among her friends. It is neither a very knowledgeable digital photography book, nor an amusing account of the author's introduction to digital cameras. (Shenton's illustrations are quite funny, however!)Lessing's description of memory fails to even mention SD or MM cards. Her description of photo software just covers her opinion of the few she has used. She's a Sony user who states there are no really good HP or Kodak digital cameras; although she admits her opinion there might become outdated, which it certainly has. Actually, the whole book is outdated, even though it was just published in 2003, and just hit my local library as a "new" book.Take my advice, which is no worse than the author's advice--take the money you would spend buying this book, and instead get a year's subscription to PC Photo magazine.PC Photo will give you the latest information on digital cameras, memory, scanners, printers and software...and will give you much, much more knowledgeable, as well as easy to understand, advice about picture taking, storage, editing and burning.
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Photoshop Elements, After Shot, Common Tasks, Browser Bar, Undo History, Memory Stick, Help Center, Auto Contrast, Red Eye Brush New!
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"This is the fourth in a series of books called The First Week, and that is exactly what I am talking about." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Photoshop Elements, After Shot, Common Tasks, Browser Bar, Undo History, Memory Stick, Help Center, Auto Contrast, Red Eye Brush New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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