Mac Digital Photography

Summary

The Essential Companion to Your Digital Camera and Your Mac

You'll be amazed at what you can create with your digital camera and your Mac. Whether you're making striking portraits or hilarious montages, this book provides the essential tools, techniques, and advice to turn you into a photo pro. Written by two Mac and digital photography experts, Mac Digital Photography explores everything essential to snapping, enhancing, and sharing great digital images.

Inside you'll find expert techniques for refining your photo-taking techniques, editing and repairing your images, choosing the right camera peripherals, using your photos for fun craft projects, and sharing your creations with others across the globe or across the room.

Mac Digital Photography teaches you how to:

• Snap high-quality photographs by concentrating on composition, lighting, and posing
• Enhance your images and fix picture flaws with Photoshop Elements 2 and iPhoto
• Create panoramas, 3D images, and poster-sized photographs
• Get crafty—use your photos for T-shirts, calendars, greeting cards, tattoos, and more
• Share your photos via e-mail and the Web
• Make DVDs, picture CDs, and video CD slide shows
• Perform special effects such as warping, morphing, and animation

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Composition, Lighting, and Posing: Some Tried-and-True Advice
Chapter 2: Digital Camera Equipment
Chapter 3: An Introduction to iPhoto and Photoshop Elements
Chapter 4: Digital Photo Editing
Chapter 5: New Viewpoints: Postprocessing Your Images
Chapter 6: Digital Photo Printing
Chapter 7: Photos on CDs and DVDs
Chapter 8: Share Your Pictures
Chapter 9: Digital Camera Versatility
Chapter 10: Digital Camera Crafts
Chapter 11: Photo Transformation Projects
Chapter 12: Just for the Fun of It: Digital Photo Projects
Appendix: Field Guide to Online Photo Finishing and Album Sites
Glossary

Index