Contents -- 1 Getting Started -- What You Need -- Choosing a Digital Camera -- How Many Pixels? -- How Much Memory? -- What Kind of Connection? -- How Much Zoom? -- What Other Features? -- Preparing Your Computer for Liftoff -- Checking Connections -- Managing Memory -- Handling Your Hard Drive -- Scoping Out Software -- 2 Introducing Your Digital Camera -- How a Digital Camera Takes Pictures -- How the Image Goes In -- How the Photo Comes Out -- What Does This Button Do? -- Checking Out the Controls -- Getting into the Menus -- Taking Care of Your Digital Camera -- 3 Different Shots, Different Settings -- Considering Quality -- About Compression, Memory, and Time -- Shooting in the RAW -- More Photos Now Equals Less Flexibility Later? -- Capturing the Shot No Matter What -- Keeping It Steady -- Achieving Focus -- Getting Enough Exposure -- Correcting the Color -- 4 Expressing Yourself -- Designing the Shot -- Using Composition Techniques -- Let There Be Lighting -- Taking All Kinds of Pictures -- Shooting People (with the Camera, Silly) -- Framing the World around You -- Capturing Still-Lifes -- Living Like a Photographer -- Practicing Like Crazy -- Getting Involved Everywhere -- Making Your Own Opportunities -- 5 Getting Your Pictures into the Computer -- Setting Up Folders -- Making That Connection -- Backing Up Your Work -- Keeping the Original Files Safe -- 6 Organizing Your Photo Library -- Working with a Photo Manager -- Devising a Process -- Getting Photos into the Photo Manager -- Making Stacks -- Tagging Your Pics -- Doing Searches for Specific Tags -- 7 Adjusting Light and Color -- Working with an Image Editor -- Getting the Hang of the Interface -- Using Color Management -- Editing a Photo -- Correcting the Exposure -- Adjusting Shadows and Highlights -- Adjusting Brightness and Contrast -- Correcting Color -- Setting White Balance.

Adjusting Saturation -- Removing Red-Eye -- Going Grayscale -- Changing One Color into Another -- 8 Pushing at the Edges (of a Digital Photo) -- Adjusting Resolution and Print Size -- A Tale of Canvases and Images -- Changing the Canvas -- Cropping the Photo -- Adding a Built-In Border -- Rotating the Canvas -- Flipping the Canvas -- Changing the Image -- Scaling the Photo -- Applying Your Own Digital Zoom -- Stretching or Squeezing the Photo -- 9 Rearranging Pixels -- Making a Selection -- Working with Layers -- Moving Pixels from One Layer to Another -- Bringing in Pixels from Other Photos -- Managing Multiple Layers -- Scaling and Rotating the Contents of a Layer -- Adjusting Opacity -- Saving a Layered Photo -- Touching Up the Photo -- Painting -- Erasing -- Cloning (or How to Remove Old Boyfriends) -- 10 Adding Finishing Touches and Special Effects -- Adjusting Sharpness -- Using the Adjust Sharpness Command -- Using the Sharpen Tool -- Designing Captions and Word Balloons -- Adding the Text -- Adding a Word Balloon -- Applying Layer Styles -- Applying Filters -- 11 Showing Your Photos Onscreen -- Getting Your Photos Ready -- Downsampling to Screen Resolution -- Resizing the Width -- Crushing the Image File -- Displaying Your Work -- E-Mailing Your Photos -- Posting Your Photos Online -- Making Movies from Your Photos -- 12 Making Prints -- Determining the Optimum Resolution -- Printing at Home -- Printing Elsewhere -- Resampling the Photo to the Optimum Resolution -- Printing -- Printing from Your Computer -- Printing from Your Camera or Memory Card -- Ordering Prints Online -- Creating a Photo Book in Photoshop Elements -- Building the Book -- Working with Frame Layers -- Changing the Theme of a Page -- Adding New Pages to the Book -- Saving and Printing the Book -- Making Other Photo Creations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H.

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