Product Description

8 books in 1 - your key to terrific digital photos!

Your one-stop, full-color guide to creating digital images with "wow"

From picking your camera to posting photos on the Web, here's what you need to know about digital photography in eight easy-to-use minibooks! Packed with full-color examples that will get your creative juices flowing, this guide helps you take better pictures; edit, organize, and share them; restore vintage prints; and more.

Discover how to

• Choose the right camera and software
• Compose and shoot great pictures
• Edit images with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
• Scan old prints and repair them
• Print your photos or share them online

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #128190 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 752 pages

Book Info
Covers equipment from economical to extravagant, studio setup, enhancement and restoration, picture-taking tips, online galleries, and whole lot more. Your key to digital photography success. Softcover.

From the Back Cover
8 books in 1 — your key to terrific digital photos!

Your one-stop, full-color guide to creating digital images with "wow"

From picking your camera to posting photos on the Web, here's what you need to know about digital photography in eight easy-to-use minibooks! Packed with full-color examples that will get your creative juices flowing, this guide helps you take better pictures; edit, organize, and share them; restore vintage prints; and more.

Discover how to

• Choose the right camera and software
• Compose and shoot great pictures
• Edit images with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements
• Scan old prints and repair them
• Print your photos or share them online

About the Author
As a roving photojournalist for more than 20 years, David D. Busch illustrated his books, magazine articles, and newspaper reports with award-winning images. He’s operated his own commercial studio, suffocated in formal dress while shooting weddings-for-hire, and shot sports for a daily newspaper and Upstate New York college. His photos have been published in magazines as diverse as Scientific American and Petersen’s PhotoGraphic, and his articles have appeared in Popular Photography & Imaging, The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and hundreds of other publications. He’s currently reviewing digital cameras for CNet and Computer Shopper.
When About.com named its top five books on Beginning Digital Photography, occupying the #1 and #2 slots were the last edition of this book, Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies, and Busch’s Mastering Digital Photography. During the past year, he’s had as many as five of his books listed in the Top 20 of Amazon.com’s Digital Photography Best Seller list — simultaneously! Busch’s 90 other books published since 1983 include best-sellers like Digital SLR Cameras & Photography For Dummies, and four books in Wiley’s Digital Field Guide series, with topics ranging from travel photography to guidebooks for the Nikon D50, D70s, and D200 cameras.
Busch earned top category honors in the Computer Press Awards the first two years they were given (for Sorry About The Explosion and Secrets of MacWrite, MacPaint and MacDraw ), and later served as Master of Ceremonies for the awards.

Customer Reviews

Excellent whether you're a beginner...or not.
This book is easy to read, has plenty of examples, tells you what to do to get good composition, talks about how digital cameras can get great photos, and much more. I have read the "Complete Idiot's" version of Digital Photography and while that book was OK, this one covers more information that I was looking for, particularly how to store and archive/organize digital photos as well as go into impressive detail on a lot of basic photography stuff. While this book isn't perfect, it's very, very good for a beginner to intermediate user and is fun to read. I have learned a lot so far. Also, it helps to have different books to read on the same subject of digital photography and this is a welcome edition to that learning "package."

I've looked at other books besides the Dummies and Idiots guides, and this may be the most complete reference to date for digital photography. There's lots of stuff in the book that pertains to ANY kind of photography. If photographers use the book the way Dummies books are really meant to be used--by turning to the topic that most interests them at the moment, or the part that will help them with a specific (photographic) problem--they'll find plenty of valuable information. One thing they won't find, however, is much about setting f-stops and shutter speeds (though there's quite a bit about the connection between film speed and shutter speed). But then most digital photographers just put their cameras on "P" (for program) and let the camera make those settings for them! While the reading and presentation is easy, the depth of material is actually surprisingly thorough. Beginning, or even some advanced photographers, will be referring to this book more than once, over time.. Hey, where was this book when I started in photography?

Best I've Ever Read
This author does a masterful job of explaining a complex subject in a clear & simple manner. His explanation of the 1.6x lens 'crop factor'
is superb. This is the book to buy if you are thinking of trading up to a dSLR. Much more thorough than some Dummies books I have read.

Much invaluable information in this book.
This book is divided into seven subbooks, actually minibooks ranging in length from about 80 pages to several hundred pages long. This is good, because you can find a topic you are interested and read everything that's important about that topic in one minibook.

Book I, A Digital Photography Overview, is actually both a summary and a preview of the books to come. If you're interested in the basics of digital photogaphy and equipment, or need to know right away how to connect your camera to your computer or whether you can share or print your pictures, you'll find short, easy-to-digest chapters on each of these here. Longer treatments of the topics can be found later in the book.

Book II, Building Your Digital Photography Studio tells you everything you need to know about choosing a camera, setting up your computer, importing pictures, using printers and scanners, and what key accessories are needed.

Book III, Taking Great Pictures has a lot more about photography than you find in nearly every other digital photography book, with complete chapters on composition, macro photography, portraiture, taking pictures for publication, sports photography, and travel Photography.

Book IV, Basics of Image editing provides a good introduction to choosing a good image editor and learning the basic functions.

Book V, Editing with Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, explains how to do the most common tasks using these two popular image editors.

Book VI, Restoring Old Photos, actually deals more with using scanners, but has a chapter to fixing vintage pictures.

Book VII, Printing and Sharing Your Digital Images has good chapters on printing pictures and sharing them on the Web.

The most important part of the book is Book III, in my opinion, and is worth the price all by itself. Books I and II summarize everything you wanted to know about digital cameras and equipment, too. The last third of the book on image editing is very good for those who are wondering what they can do and how to do it. I liked this book.