Getting Started with Digital Imaging, Second Edition: Tips, tools and techniques for photographers [Paperback]

Joe Farace (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 024080838X | ISBN-13: 978-0240808383 | Publication Date: November 22, 2006 | Edition: 2

Whether you are using a digital compact or dSLR camera to shoot, or a Mac or PC to manipulate your images, Joe Farace explains what products are out there-and how to use them to get the best shots.

While most books offer photographers tips and tricks for working with the latest software package, this book offers a new approach to working with digital images:

Learn how to use digital imaging tools - not just a particular software package - to produce professional prints or digital images for the web.

Getting Started with Digital Imaging offers a new approach for amateur photographers working with digital images. It takes you behind the screens, showing you how to use the tools - not the software itself - to produce professional prints or digital images for the Web.

Joe Farace guides you through the entire digital workflow, from choosing the right digital camera, setting up your digital darkroom, learning the key imaging tools and shortcuts, understanding file formats, printing and preparing images for the web.

Packed with step-by-step tutorials, case studies and invaluable tips from the pros, this guide will help you get to grips with digital imaging and produce fantastic results in no time at all.

* Guides you through digital workflow from capture to output
* Relevant for ALL digital imaging software
* Real world examples and invaluable tips are clearly explained with high quality full color images and screengrabs

* Get the most out of the digital imaging tools you have without the need to upgrade
* Streamline your digital photography workflow
* Packed with step-by-step tutorials, fully illustrated real world examples, and tips from the pros

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A full-color tutorial takes amateur photographers through each stage in the digial workflow from image capture to output, combining helpful examples and tips as it describes the tools of digital imaging and shows how these tools function in different software packages (including Photoshop, Elements, and Paint Shop Pro) and offers advice on selecting the right digital camera, setting up a digital darkroom, and preparing images for output on the Web. Original. All Users. Illustrations" - Paper Clips (Oct. 2006)

Book Description

Amateur and student photographers learn how to use digital imaging tools to create great images for print and online!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Focal Press; 2 edition (November 22, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 024080838X
• ISBN-13: 978-0240808383
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,471,918 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Political Nonsense, July 25, 2007

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Peter Holgate "P_Holgate" (Lincolnshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Started with Digital Imaging, Second Edition: Tips, tools and techniques for photographers (Paperback)

This book covers many areas of digital imaging, or appears to do. If you bother to actually try to get any benefit from the book, you're wasting your time.
The first thing you realise is that the author should be a politician - talks a lot of words but doesn't actually say anything or commit himself to anything.
I was "lucky" to obtain this book at 25% of the cover price, via a book club, and I still feel I was robbed!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Missed target, April 2, 2008

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Charles I. Maas (Anchorage, AK USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Started with Digital Imaging, Second Edition: Tips, tools and techniques for photographers (Paperback)

Joe Farace is a prolific photo/technical writer with top credentials, but this effort misses the intended target. The title "Getting Started..." leads one to expect this book to be a primer for beginners learning about digital imaging, hopefully to gain a good grounding in the basics from which then to move on to more advanced topics. But that's not what I found. Instead, it seems more like a compilation of short pieces on a whole array of digital topics sort of thrown together, some at the beginning level, but many fairly advanced (like recording Photoshop actions and using layer masks). I'm not suggesting the latter aren't valid digital imaging topics, but I do wonder how they would be considered topics for a beginning digital photographer just "getting started."

Another serious flaw is how dated much of the material and illustrations are. I understand publishing lag time and shelf life, but in the fast-paced business of technical writing, references to hardware and software from several years ago makes one question the currency of the rest of the information. This looks to be a second edition that was rushed to print with limited effort to really make the whole book current. Accordingly, there are a number of better written, more cohesive, up-to-date "getting started" titles out there.

5.0 out of 5 stars Getting Started Help With Getting Started, August 13, 2009

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Rick Sammon - See all my reviews

This review is from: Getting Started with Digital Imaging, Second Edition: Tips, tools and techniques for photographers (Paperback)

Book titles are important. I think the title of this book is very appropriate. It's a getting started book for those who want to get started with digital imaging. It's not for advanced digital image makers, as the title implies. Again, it's a great guide for those who are just jumping on the digital bandwagon. (What took you so long.)