You're no idiot, of course. You know the photographs your friends e-mail back and forth were created digitally or rendered into digital images via scanner. But as both computer and camera technology become more sophisticated, it's hard to know when to freeze the frame and go digital.
You don't have to feel so exposed! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Digital Photography, Third Edition, will show you exactly how to take, download, and enhance digital images! In this revised and updated Complete Idiot's Guide®, you get:
* Comparisons between different types of digital cameras, including low- and high-resolution models.
4 Windows or Mac platform specifications best suited for digitally captured images, t Advice for determining whether to save your images as JPEGs. TIFFs, GIFs, BMPs, or other compressed file formats.
* Coverage of image-editing and special effects applications to augment your pictures.

• Part 1 Digital Capture: The Future Is Now

• 1 Look, Ma, No Film: Why Digital Photography?
• 2 Pixel, Pixel, Little Star, How I Wonder What You Are!

• Part 2 Cameras, Computer Hardware, and Software for Digital Capture

• 3 So Many Choices: Camera Models That Show Off Their Style
• 4 Attention to Details: Features You Need to Know to Get the Camera You Want
• 5 Mac Versus Windows: System Requirements for Digital Capture
• 6 Software: What You Want to See Is What You Get

• Part 3 Let's Take Pictures 7 Exposure Made Simple

• 8 I Can See Clearly Now: Lenses
• 9 Composition: No Snapshots Here!
• 10 Lighting: It Makes or Breaks a Shot!
• 11 Resolution: Is Bigger Better?
• 12 Learning Compression Helps Avoid Image Depression!

• Part 4 Let's See It: Imaging Techniques

• 13 Go Get It: Downloading Your Images
• 14 Improving Your Images
• 15 The Wonderful World of Color
• 16 Eeney, Meeny, Miney, Mo: Selections
• 17 Color Me Beautiful: Adding Fills and Color
• 18 The Clone Tool: The Ultimate Retouching Tool
• 19 Yadda Yadda Yadda: The Text Tool
• 20 Layer Cake: Adding Elements
• 21 Filters: Funky and Fun
• 22 What You See Is What You Get: Calibration

• Part 5 Output

• 23 Print It Out
• 24 Showing Your Pictures to Mom
• 25 A Few More Points of View
• Appendix Speak Like a Geek: Digital Photography Words
• Index