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Complete Guide To Digital Cameras

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CHAPTER 5 Connecting To A Computer

CONNECTION OPTIONS
Serial connection
SCSI
USB
FireWire/IEEE-1394
MEMORY CARD READERS AND ADAPTERS
PCMCIA Adapter
FlashPath Floppy Disk Adapter
Memory Card Readers
CompactFlash Direct to USB
Clik! Drive
SOFTWARE
DEDICATED APPLICATIONS
CAMERA MOUNTERS
TWAIN DRIVERS

CHAPTER 6 Adjusting Resolution On Your Computer

IMAGE RESOLUTION
Should you capture at a lower size?
IMAGE QUALITY/COMPRESSION
RESAMPLING
How Good are the Results?
DISPLAYING AND PRINTING PIXELS
Resolution of your monitor
Changing monitor resolution under Windows
Changing monitor resolution under Macintosh OS

THE INS AND OUTS OF MESSING WITH RESOLUTION
Changing DPI doesn't do anything
When is resolution passed from application to application?
What about file size?
What size should my graphics be?

GRAPHICS IN WEB PAGES
Doesn't HTML let you resize a graphic anyway?

CHAPTER 7 The Digital Darkroom: Image Editing

IMAGE EDITING: WHAT'S AN IMAGE?
BITS AND BYTES: HOW A COMPUTER USES MEMORY TO STORE CHARACTERS
What's an Adaptive Palette
24-BIT COLOR
CMYK AND OTHER COLOR FORMATS
What file format should I use when I'm editing?
What resolution should I use?
Red-Eye reduction
What is Red-Eye and how to avoid it
Removing unwanted people or objects from a scene

ADJUSTING COLOR BALANCE
BRIGHTNESS, CONTRAST AND LEVELS
Sharpen Filter Works like a Contrast Adjustment
PREPARING AN IMAGE FOR PRINTING
Image Editing in the Camera and Printer

CHAPTER 8 Color

COLOR TERMS
WHERE COLOR DIFFERENCES OCCUR
COLOR MANAGEMENT AND CALIBRATION
CONVERTING BETWEEN COLOR SPACES
Gamma: The biggest difference
Calibrating your monitor and printer

CHAPTER 9 Printing

OUTPUT OPTIONS
Working with a Service Bureau
BEFORE YOU PRINT
CMYK
Pixels-to-pixels
Differences between printers
The importance of paper
Big differences in color or contrast
Enlarging a file using editing software , or using the printer driver
Printing Posters
Printing to the Edge
Can't get a good black & white print?

EVALUATING PRINTERS
PRINT LONGEVITY
PRINTERS
Inkjet printers
Refilling inks
User report: Epson Stylus Photo
Hewlett-Packard PhotoSmart printer
Iris

COLOR THERMAL PRINTERS
DYE SUBLIMATION
ALPS
Others

LASER PRINTERS
Polaroid Printer
AFTER IT'S PRINTED
Lamination
Print Trimming
Framing

PRINTING PROBLEMS
Thin white lines
Everything has a strange tint to it
Print skewing

COMPUTERLESS PRINTING
The future will see printers on the Internet

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