This book was recommended to me by a friend who is very experienced in photography. I myself basically
take pictures of the family and hope to doctor them up, make them look good, and print them for my wife. While my skills are very minimal, this book allowed me to find the necessary tools (For FREE!!!) and how to use them to make me look like a professional. My friend, who is a great photographer who also recommended this book is very familiar with the tools and yet he thought this book to be a great resource in maximizing the use of the tools and as an easy resource to finding exactly what you need when you need it. Your're literally gonna save hundreds of dollars buying this book!!! It is a must have for the beginner (like me) to the most advanced digital photographer!
Author(s): Sebastian Montabone
Edition: 1
Publisher: Apress
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 314
Prelim......Page 1
Contents at a Glance......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
About the Author......Page 14
About the Technical Reviewer......Page 15
Acknowledgments......Page 16
Introduction......Page 17
Digital Photography......Page 19
Light and Photography......Page 20
Digital Camera......Page 23
Lens......Page 24
Viewfinder or LCD Screen......Page 25
Storage......Page 27
Controls......Page 28
Composition......Page 29
Field of View......Page 30
Composition Rules......Page 40
Exposure......Page 41
Shutter Speed......Page 42
Aperture......Page 44
Sensitivity......Page 46
Post-Processing......Page 47
Summary......Page 48
Vector Images vs. Raster Images......Page 49
Resolution for Computer Displays......Page 50
Resolution for Printing......Page 53
Aspect Ratio......Page 54
Color......Page 56
Color Depth......Page 57
RGB......Page 58
CMYK......Page 60
YUV......Page 61
GIF......Page 62
Which Format Should You Use?......Page 63
Changing File Formats with Gimp......Page 64
Summary......Page 65
Resizing......Page 67
Resizing Methods......Page 68
Resizing with Gimp......Page 69
Resizing with ImageMagick......Page 71
Changing the Print Size with Gimp......Page 72
Cropping......Page 73
Cropping with Gimp......Page 77
Rotating with Gimp......Page 81
Flipping......Page 87
Summary......Page 88
White Balance......Page 89
Adjusting White Balance with Gimp......Page 91
Adjusting Color Balance with Gimp......Page 94
Brightness and Contrast......Page 95
Hue and Saturation......Page 99
Curves......Page 103
Summary......Page 114
Selecting a Region......Page 115
Rectangle Select......Page 116
Ellipse Select Tool......Page 117
Free Select Tool......Page 118
Fuzzy Select Tool......Page 119
Select By Color......Page 120
Intelligent Scissors Select Tool......Page 121
Editing the Selection......Page 122
Simple Blur......Page 123
Gaussian Blur......Page 124
Motion Blur......Page 127
Pixelize......Page 129
Unsharp Mask......Page 131
Noise Reduction......Page 135
Old Photo......Page 137
Softglow......Page 138
Summary......Page 139
Red-Eye Removal......Page 141
Object Removal......Page 144
Removing Objects with Gimp......Page 145
Removing Objects with the Clone Tool......Page 151
Removing Small Objects with the Healing Tool......Page 154
Selective Colorization......Page 155
Metadata......Page 161
Reading Metadata......Page 162
Modifying Metadata......Page 165
Organizing Files Using Metadata......Page 166
Summary......Page 167
HDR Imaging......Page 169
Generating an HDR Image from One RAW File......Page 171
Demosaicing with UFRaw......Page 172
Adjusting White Balance with UFRaw......Page 173
Generating an HDR Image from Multiple Pictures......Page 175
Generating the HDR Image with Qtpfsgui......Page 178
Tone Mapping with Qtpfsgui......Page 183
Mantiuk......Page 185
Fattal......Page 187
Drago......Page 189
Durand......Page 191
Reinhard ’02......Page 193
Reinhard ’05......Page 195
Ashikhmin......Page 197
Pattanaik......Page 199
Summary......Page 201
Barrel Distortion......Page 203
Pincushion Distortion......Page 204
Vignetting......Page 205
Lens Distortion Correction with Gimp......Page 206
Perspective Distortion Correction......Page 212
Perspective Distortion Correction Using Gimp......Page 214
Correcting Perspective Distortions with Shear......Page 219
Summary......Page 222
Capturing a Panorama......Page 223
Image Projections......Page 226
Creating Panoramas With Hugin......Page 227
Regular Crop......Page 233
Crop With Filling......Page 234
Creating More Complex Panoramas......Page 235
Other Projections......Page 239
Creating a Little Planet With Hugin......Page 240
Creating a Little Planet With Gimp......Page 241
Hugin Options......Page 243
Summary......Page 252
Frame Selection and Playback Options......Page 253
Codecs and Video Formats......Page 256
Frame Rate......Page 257
Filters......Page 258
Transform Filters......Page 259
Color Filters......Page 266
More Filters......Page 268
Summary......Page 269
Canon Hack Development Kit......Page 271
Creating the Files in Microsoft Windows......Page 272
Asking the Camera for Its Firmware Version......Page 274
Shooting in RAW......Page 276
Using Zebra Mode......Page 277
Displaying Grids......Page 279
Changing the Exposure time......Page 280
Bracketing mode......Page 281
Games and More......Page 284
Running Scripts......Page 288
Summary......Page 291
Installing UFRaw in Microsoft Windows......Page 293
Installing Resyntheziser in Microsoft Windows......Page 294
Installing Imagemagick in Microsoft Windows......Page 296
Installing Qtpfsgui in Microsoft Windows......Page 297
Installing ExifTool in Microsoft Windows......Page 298
Installing ExifTool in Ubuntu......Page 299
. B......Page 301
. C......Page 302
. F......Page 303
. G......Page 304
. I......Page 305
. L......Page 306
. P......Page 307
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. T......Page 309
. W......Page 310
