Digital Photography for Teens

Contents......Page 8
1 Getting Started......Page 18
What You Need......Page 20
Choosing a Digital Camera......Page 22
How Many Pixels?......Page 23
How Much Memory?......Page 24
What Kind of Connection?......Page 28
How Much Zoom?......Page 29
What Other Features?......Page 32
Checking Connections......Page 34
Handling Your Hard Drive......Page 35
Scoping Out Software......Page 36
How a Digital Camera Takes Pictures......Page 42
How the Image Goes In......Page 45
How the Photo Comes Out......Page 46
Checking Out the Controls......Page 52
Getting into the Menus......Page 56
Taking Care of Your Digital Camera......Page 59
Considering Quality......Page 62
Shooting in the RAW......Page 63
More Photos Now Equals Less Flexibility Later?......Page 65
Capturing the Shot No Matter What......Page 66
Keeping It Steady......Page 67
Achieving Focus......Page 68
Getting Enough Exposure......Page 72
Correcting the Color......Page 80
Designing the Shot......Page 86
Using Composition Techniques......Page 87
Let There Be Lighting......Page 97
Shooting People (with the Camera, Silly)......Page 101
Framing the World around You......Page 105
Capturing Still-Lifes......Page 107
Practicing Like Crazy......Page 109
Getting Involved Everywhere......Page 110
Making Your Own Opportunities......Page 111
Setting Up Folders......Page 114
Making That Connection......Page 118
Backing Up Your Work......Page 119
Keeping the Original Files Safe......Page 122
Working with a Photo Manager......Page 126
Devising a Process......Page 131
Getting Photos into the Photo Manager......Page 132
Making Stacks......Page 137
Tagging Your Pics......Page 141
Doing Searches for Specific Tags......Page 148
Working with an Image Editor......Page 152
Getting the Hang of the Interface......Page 153
Using Color Management......Page 155
Editing a Photo......Page 158
Correcting the Exposure......Page 163
Adjusting Shadows and Highlights......Page 166
Adjusting Brightness and Contrast......Page 169
Setting White Balance......Page 170
Adjusting Saturation......Page 172
Removing Red-Eye......Page 174
Going Grayscale......Page 176
Changing One Color into Another......Page 179
Adjusting Resolution and Print Size......Page 182
A Tale of Canvases and Images......Page 186
Changing the Canvas......Page 187
Cropping the Photo......Page 188
Adding a Built-In Border......Page 192
Rotating the Canvas......Page 193
Flipping the Canvas......Page 195
Scaling the Photo......Page 196
Applying Your Own Digital Zoom......Page 199
Stretching or Squeezing the Photo......Page 202
Making a Selection......Page 206
Moving Pixels from One Layer to Another......Page 210
Bringing in Pixels from Other Photos......Page 213
Managing Multiple Layers......Page 214
Scaling and Rotating the Contents of a Layer......Page 217
Adjusting Opacity......Page 219
Saving a Layered Photo......Page 220
Touching Up the Photo......Page 221
Painting......Page 223
Erasing......Page 226
Cloning (or How to Remove Old Boyfriends)......Page 228
Adjusting Sharpness......Page 232
Using the Adjust Sharpness Command......Page 234
Using the Sharpen Tool......Page 237
Adding the Text......Page 239
Adding a Word Balloon......Page 245
Applying Layer Styles......Page 247
Applying Filters......Page 249
Getting Your Photos Ready......Page 254
Downsampling to Screen Resolution......Page 255
Resizing the Width......Page 257
Crushing the Image File......Page 259
Displaying Your Work......Page 262
Posting Your Photos Online......Page 263
Making Movies from Your Photos......Page 265
Determining the Optimum Resolution......Page 268
Printing at Home......Page 269
Printing Elsewhere......Page 270
Resampling the Photo to the Optimum Resolution......Page 271
Printing......Page 272
Printing from Your Computer......Page 273
Ordering Prints Online......Page 276
Creating a Photo Book in Photoshop Elements......Page 277
Building the Book......Page 278
Working with Frame Layers......Page 281
Changing the Theme of a Page......Page 283
Adding New Pages to the Book......Page 284
Saving and Printing the Book......Page 285
Making Other Photo Creations......Page 286
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