This absorbing book, by professional photographer and author Ken Milburn, offers a ton of expert advice to those who are ready to move to the next level with digital photography. Rather than a general discussion of photography principles, Digital Photography: Expert Techniques focuses on workflow: time-tested, step-by-step procedures based on hard-nosed experience by and for genuine practitioners of the art. The book's conversational tone presents detailed information about what to look for in today's affordable high-end digicams, how to use simple techniques and equipment to shoot breathtaking shots, instructions on shooting great panoramas, dos-and-don'ts for creating better Photoshop masks, and professional digital darkroom techniques for everything from knockouts to restoration to transforming your photos into watercolors. It even shows you how to get your most prized photographs printed and ready for exhibition.

Contents include:

• Understanding your digital camera from the inside out.
• Creating effects with the camera: making panoramas, high-resolution matrixes, infrared photos, and more.
• General composition and managing your workflow.
• Using the digital darkroom and Photoshop CS to make your images professional caliber.
• Understanding the power of Photoshop CS selections and masks.
• Using special effects to save what's good, and get rid of the bad and the ugly.
• Creating fictitious photos: bend and wrap images to fit an object, insert a more interesting skyscrape, and more.
• Professional color and tonal management
• Creating portfolios and presenting your images on the Web.

Ken Milburn has been a photographer, both full- and part-time, for nearly five decades. Ken has written over 300 articles and columns for computer magazines as well as 17 books on web design, Flash, and (mostly) Adobe Photoshop and digital photography. Books currently in print include Digital Photography: 99 Tips to Make you Look Like a Pro, The Photoshop 7 Virtual Classroom, and Photoshop Elements 2.0--The Complete Reference (all from Osborne/McGraw-Hill), and The Digital Photography Bible, 2nd Edition, from Wiley. His newest book, for O'Reilly, the Digital Photographer's Handbook, releases in January 2004.