Digital photography is hot, and kids want to get in on the fun. This comprehensive instructional guide, created especially for youngsters, tells them exactly what they need to know to capture those birthday parties, school events, sleepovers, and family vacations. Every important question gets an easy-to-understand answer: What’s a pixel? What is resolution and why does it matter? How can I make computers, scanners, and printers work with my camera? Children will get creative with software that alters and enhances images, and learn new ways to add text, adjust color and brightness, and change a background. Fifteen appealing projects, from turning snapshots into puzzles to crafting unique CD covers, photo magnets, and digital scrapbooks, make this a no-brainer for the budding photographer.
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Gr. 7-10. Young people with access to a digital camera will find answers to nearly all their questions in this wide-ranging, nicely designed guide. Beginning chapters address basics, including understanding camera features, using focus and flash functions, capturing motion, and so on. Bidner then delves into picture-editing software and even how to set up a Web site (with parent's permission, of course). Final sections offer ideas for projects, such as handmade stationery and bookplates. With so much material covered, some subjects are glossed over, particularly the explanations of software. But Bidner introduces sophisticated technical material in enthusiastic language that is kid-friendly without being condescending, and older teens who aren't put off by the book's juvenile appearance (models are mostly elementary- and middle-school children) will find much that is useful. A glossary concludes the book, which promises readers will "use terms like jpeg and megapixel with a confidence that will make your parents jealous."^B Gillian Engberg
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Wow! What a Great Book!,
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This review is from: The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play with & Print Your Digital Photos (Paperback)
While there may not be a "perfect" guide for digital photography, this one comes as close as I've ever seen.
It covers everything from choosing a camera (and how to get the most out of it) to editing, printing and even using the web. It even covers areas that many adults seem to have problems with, like the "Reality Check" regarding built in flash. Focus, composition, exposure and even ISO are all covered. Granted, some subjects are just touched on rather than discussed in depth but remember the intended reader. (In my case, my 12-year old.) If the kid really wants to learn about any given subject there are countless specialized books to be found. Overall I have to say that I highly recommend this book. I'd even go so far to say that I would even buy it for an adult, especially one that might be a bit technophobic.
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great book for kids or beginners,
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This review is from: The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play with & Print Your Digital Photos (Paperback)
this book covers the basics. easily written for a kid to understand. my daughter is 11 and that seems about the right level for her. i wish it covered more setting up a good composition. it covers the basics on camera use and scanners and fixing photos after in the computer. i wish photo books would stick to teaching how to take good pictures and not so much on fixing them up in the computer afterwards, but every book seems to spend a lot of time on that. overall, its the best book i could find for a kid. it's written in language that i think they will relate to well.
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The Perfect Gift,
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This review is from: The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play with & Print Your Digital Photos (Paperback)
This book is very informative and easy to understand.My daughters love it. They are both into photography and I am a photographer.
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A digital picture is simply photo that has been converted into "computer language" and saved as a file. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
printing template, focus lock, lens setting, flash mode, digital zoom, exposure modes, optical zoom, most digital cameras, label paper, text layer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Microsoft Word, Take Great Pictures, Digital Basics, Software Magic, Fun Ideas, Printing Pizzazz, Adobe Photoshop Elements New!
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A digital picture is simply photo that has been converted into "computer language" and saved as a file. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
printing template, focus lock, lens setting, flash mode, digital zoom, exposure modes, optical zoom, most digital cameras, label paper, text layer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Microsoft Word, Take Great Pictures, Digital Basics, Software Magic, Fun Ideas, Printing Pizzazz, Adobe Photoshop Elements New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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