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Summary: good book for students
Review: I am a technical writer for educational products. I chose this book to be included with our digital photography module for middle and high school students. I think it is a great book for those who are beginning to learn and explore the basics of digital photography. It is very readable and the color pictures used in the book are very expressive and help explain the concept discussed. Students should have no problem with grasping the beginning concepts of digital photography as explained in this book. It worked well for me to use to coincide with Adobe Photoshop 5.5. The book covers a variety of functions you can do in Photoshop-color controls, straightening a picture, duplicating, montaging, and so on. I highly recommend this book for beginners and students.
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Summary: good book for students
Review: I am a technical writer for educational products. I chose this book to be included with our digital photography module for middle and high school students. I think it is a great book for those who are beginning to learn and explore the basics of digital photography. It is very readable and the color pictures used in the book are very expressive and help explain the concept discussed. Students should have no problem with grasping the beginning concepts of digital photography as explained in this book. It worked well for me to use to coincide with Adobe Photoshop 5.5. The book covers a variety of functions you can do in Photoshop-color controls, straightening a picture, duplicating, montaging, and so on. I highly recommend this book for beginners and students.
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Summary: Good Introduction for Beginners
Review: The author does a good job of introducing digital photography but stops way short of introducing intermediate or advanced topics. This is essentially a good (not great) introduction for beginning digital photographers. The author covers topics like selecting a digital camera, beginning photography, and manipulation of digital images. I found that the author had an excellent amount of knowledge and was very accurate. Where I was disappointed was that there were not concrete examples of imaging using a specific software. The pictures in the book show the author using a Macintosh imaging program but in an effort to stay generic no specific instruction is given. Another drawback was the amount of time (or lack there of) spent on manual control digital photography. The author justifies this by saying most digital cameras are automatic but for those of us with manual control it is an incomplete source of information.All in all I think this book is a good introduction and it has given me some good ideas. So if you are looking for something to scratch the surface of digital photography (and maybe go a little bit deeper) this is the book for you. But if you are already knowledgable about photography or you are looking for a fair amount of substance find another book.
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Summary: Good Introduction for Beginners
Review: The author does a good job of introducing digital photography but stops way short of introducing intermediate or advanced topics. This is essentially a good (not great) introduction for beginning digital photographers. The author covers topics like selecting a digital camera, beginning photography, and manipulation of digital images. I found that the author had an excellent amount of knowledge and was very accurate. Where I was disappointed was that there were not concrete examples of imaging using a specific software. The pictures in the book show the author using a Macintosh imaging program but in an effort to stay generic no specific instruction is given. Another drawback was the amount of time (or lack there of) spent on manual control digital photography. The author justifies this by saying most digital cameras are automatic but for those of us with manual control it is an incomplete source of information. All in all I think this book is a good introduction and it has given me some good ideas. So if you are looking for something to scratch the surface of digital photography (and maybe go a little bit deeper) this is the book for you. But if you are already knowledgable about photography or you are looking for a fair amount of substance find another book.
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