How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera

Jacket Description/Back: Digitize-and realize-your vision! This complete volume will help you get great results from your digital camera. Learn digital photography basics, share results through e-mail or the Internet, electronically store images, apply advanced photography techniques, perform image editing, and more. This book dissects digital photography in bite-sized, understandable sections that will help anyone--from beginner to professional--make the transition to the digital arena. Master image handling and editing tools including scanners, monitors, and software applications. Now, you can tap the mystery of digital image making-and start taking your very best pictures. Bring your digital vision to life with powerful digital toolsOrganize, edit, and store your favorite photos in digital mediaPrint your own pictures, e-mail them to friends and family, or display them on the Internet for everyone to enjoyMaster companion hardware like storage cards, scanners, and color printersUpload pictures directly from your camera to your own Web site, or post them to a gallery siteExplore advanced digital photography techniques like night, action, and slow-motion photographyTroubleshoot and care for your digital cameraAccess online and offline resources to help you pick the best digital camera, and make hardware choicesPublisher Marketing: Publishing Rationale - Digital Camera use is clearly on the rise -sales of cameras have topped $1 Billion, and the digital category now makes up about 36% of the entire camera market, with 1.8 million units sold in 1999 (a 63% increase in 1999), according to market researcher NPD Intelect. - Digital Camera prices are dropping. There are lots of digital cameras on the market in a wide price range, but the introduction of sub-$300 cameras, and the increased sales coming from non-cameras specific retailers (Kmart, and chain drugstores, in addition to Circuit City and Fry's Electronics) means there's a huge spike in digital camera owners who have cameras but may not know what to do with them - or with the digital images they capture. - Osborne's How to Do Everything series is a strong seller, and the addition of new titles is sure to expand the success - especially for this hot topic Review Citations:

Library Journal 06/15/2001 pg. 68 (EAN 9780072127720, Paperback)

Wilson Public Library Catalog 01/01/2001 pg. 62 (EAN 9780072127720, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  Johnson, Dave Dave Johnson Dave is the co-founder and CTO of Nitobi Software, a Vancouver-based AJAX component vendor and consulting firm. Dave spends most of his time on architecting and building high performance AJAX components for use in web-based applications. A core focus of Nitobi is building AJAX components and user interfaces that deliver real value to customers through increased productivity and higher efficiency. Dave has spoken around the world about AJAX and web development, including AJAXWorld 2006, XTech 2007, and JavaOne 2007. Dave has a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia and is completing his Ph. D. at Imperial College London. Alexei White Alexei is a developer, designer, and user-experience advocate. As product manager for component tools at Nitobi and a long-time developer of AJAX components and applications, he tries to find ways to build web applications that are faster, cheaper, and that users love. He is the primary architect of RobotReplay (www.robotreplay.com), a next generation web-analytics tool by Nitobi and SayZu (www.sayzu.com), an AJAX-driven, up-and-coming web survey service. At Nitobi, he has been involved in the design and development of many mission-critical and largescale web applications with an emphasis on rich, AJAX-driven interfaces. Alexei has a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of British Columbia, and he lives in Vancouver. Andre CharlandAndre Charland co-founded Nitobi in 1998 after working for several other Internet startups. As president and CEO, he is directly involved in software development and has successfully executed more than 100 development projects. He was also an earlyproponent of the building blocks of AJAX. Andre has spoken widely on AJAX, blogging, and web usability. He has been quoted internationally in the media on blogging for business and maintains his own blog at http: //captainajax.com. Charland is on the board of BALLE BC and co-founder of the Social Tech Brewing Co.