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- Acknowledgments
- Contents
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Introduction
- The DDQ Story
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Questions (of Course)
- Where did you get these questions from? Did you make them up yourself?
- Where do you find the time to answer a question every day?
- Does someone help you answer questions?
- Do you ever get questions you can’t answer?
- Do you have someone who reviews your DDQ emails for accuracy, grammar, and spelling before they go out?
- Have you ever discovered you answered a question incorrectly?
- Got a favorite quote about answering questions?
- What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
- For More Information
- About the Author
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Chapter 1: Digital Fundamentals
- Is Digital Photography Comparable to Film?
- What is Resolution?
- What is the Difference Between DPI and PPI?
- What Does an Imaging Sensor Do?
- What Is Dynamic Range?
- Does Setting a Higher ISO Increase the Imaging Sensor?
- Do Digital SLRs Increase Lens Magnification?
- What is Chromatic Aberration?
- Do My Settings Affect the File Size of My Images?
- What Is RAW?
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Chapter 2:Digital Cameras and Tools
- What Brand of Camera Should I Buy?
- Do I Really Need a DSLR?
- How Can I Get a Live Preview on My DSLR?
- Can I Clean Sensor Dust Myself?
- Are High-Speed Memory Cards Really Better?
- Are Lenses Designed for Digital a Gimmick?
- How Many Megapixels Do I Need?
- How Much Data Storage Do I Need to Carry Around?
- What Do You Think about Lensbabies?
- Should I Use Lower-Capacity Digital Media Cards?
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Chapter 3: Digital Capture
- Should I Choose JPEG or RAW?
- Why Shoot RAW?
- Should I Shoot for the Highlights?
- When Should I Change ISO?
- How Should I Set Color Temperature?
- Can I Get Accurate Exposure Feedback When I'm Shooting RAW?
- How Much Information Do I Lose If I Shoot JPEG?
- Should I Ever Use the "Wrong" White Balance?
- How Do I Shoot with Future Technology in Mind?
- How Do I Shoot for Panoramas?
- Should I Set Color Space on My DSLR?
- Is Infinite Focus for Every Image a Real Possibility?
- Should I Use In-Camera Sharpening?
- Should I Not Use the Camera to Erase the Memory Card?
- Does Formatting on the Computer and Again on the Camera Really Have a Benefit?
- Are There Only a Certain Number of Shutter Releases Built into My Camera's Lifetime?
- How Do I Interpret a Histogram That Falls Off One Side or the Other?
- How Does ISO Affect My Exposure?
- Should I Capture in Black-and-White?
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Chapter 4: Digital Darkroom
- Do I Choose Mac or Windows?
- How Much Memory Does Photoshop Need?
- What Are the Critical Photoshop Preferences Settings?
- Should I Use a RAID Setup?
- What Is Your Recommendation for a Backup Solution?
- Do you Recommend a Tablet for Photo Editing?
- Do I Need an LCD Display?
- Should I Use Adobe Lightroom?
- How Should I Store All My Photos?
- Why Isn't Bridge Giving Me Previews for Some Files?
- Why Are My Bridge Thumbnails for RAW Images So Small?
- What Do the HIghlighted Menu Items In Photoshop CS3 Mean?
- How Do I Keep JPEGs from Always Opening in Camera RAW?
- Why Are My Canon Images Different Dimensions than My Friend's Nikon Images?
- How Do I Get Vista to Show Thumbnails of My RAW Files?
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Chapter 5: Color Management
- Should I Use a Custom Camera Profile?
- Do I Really Need to Calibrate My Monitor?
- Why Did Calibrating Give My Monitor a Color Cast?
- What Is the Best Angle for Viewing My Laptop Screen?
- Do I Need to Use a Viewing Booth to Evaluate My Prints?
- Why Do I Evaluate Prints at 5000 Kelvin but Calibrate the Monitor at 6500?
- What Color Space Do You Recommend?
- What Color Management Settings Should I Use in Photoshop?
- How Do I Get More-Accurate Results from My Profiles?
- Why Don't My Monitor and Prints Match Despite Using a Custom Profile?
- Why Am I Still Losing Shadow Detail in My Color-Managed System?
- Can I Convert to CMYK from the Mode Menu?
- Why Do Projected Images Look So Off?
- How Do I Preview Print Outcomes in Photoshop?
- Do I Need a Custom Profile for My Scanner?
- Why Aren't My Web Images as Vibrant?
- What Is the Difference Between Assigning and Converting to a Profile?
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Chapter 6: Optimizing in Photoshop
- Which Adjustments Should I Make in Adobe Camera Raw versus Photoshop?
- What If My Older Version of Photoshop Doesn't Suport My Camera's RAW Files?
- Do I Still Need Levels Now That Curves Can Control Black and White Points?
- How Do I Get Better Results with Curves?
- How Do I Use Dodge and Burn Effectively?
- How Do I Check the Mask I've Created?
- Should I Use Only Two of Three Sliders in Color Balance?
- How Do I Specify a Specific Range of Colors for Hue/Saturation Adjustments?
- Why Do My Cloned Pixels Look Wrong?
- Why Is the Spot Healing Brush Doing Weird Things?
- How Do I Adjust Opacity on a Healing Brush Effect?
- How Do You Choose the Feather Amount on Targeted Adjustments?
- How Do I Adjust an Undesireable Selection That I've Used Multiple Times?
- Is There a Way to Create a Gradient Effect on an Adjusted Area?
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Chapter 7: Creative Effects
- How Do I Make a Black-and-White Image from a Color Original?
- How Do I Create a Slightly Toned Image?
- How Do I Create a Sepia Effect?
- How Do I Create a Vignette?
- How Do I Create the Effect of a Soft-Focus Filter?
- How Do I Limit the Effect of Photoshop Filters to a Particular Area?
- How Do I Create an Elliptical Crop with a Feathered Edge?
- How Do I Create an Artistic Edge Around My Image?
- Can I Re-create the Harris Shutter Effect in Photoshop?
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Chapter 8: Image Problem-Solving
- How Do I Fix an Overexposed Sky?
- How Do I Get Rid of a Rogue Color in My Image?
- How Do I Remove a Color Cast from an Old Photo?
- How Do I Fix White Balance in a JPEG Image?
- Can I Fix Motion Blur in Photoshop?
- Can I Fix Focus in Photoshop to Any Degree?
- How Do I Reduce Haze in My Image?
- Can I Replace Information in One Channel to Improve Image Quality?
- How Do I Get Rid of Noise Caused by High ISO?
- How Do I Fix Perspective in a Photo?
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Chapter 9: Printing
- What Photo Inkject Printer Do You Recommend?
- Whatever Happened to Dye-Sub Printers?
- Can I Use Third-Party Inks?
- Does Inkjet Ink Really Expire?
- How Do I Prevent Clogs on My Inkjet Printer Nozzles?
- Why Do My Prints Have Lines Across Them?
- Should I Use a RIP?
- What Image Adjustments Do I Make Before Printing?
- How Big Can I Print?
- Do You Recommend Special Software for Resizing?
- How Do I Avoid a Posterized Sky in My Black-and-White Print?
- Should I Send Out My Photos for Printing?
- How Do I Choose My Paper?
- What Do You Think of Book-Printing Services?
- Do You Use the Special Optimization Feature When You Use an Online Print Service?
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Chapter 10: Digital Sharing
- How Do I Choose a Photo-Sharing Website?
- How Do I Sell My Images Online?
- How Do I Display GPS Info on a Map?
- What's the Best Way to Share Electronic Photos on the Road?
- What Should I Use for Creating Slideshows?
- How Do I Use the Lightroom Web Module?
- Should I Convert to sRGB When I'm Sharing Electronically?
- How Do I Choose a Digital Projector?
- How Do I Make Horizontal and Vertical Images the Same Size in my Slideshow?
- How Do I Use One Action for Both Horizontal and Vertical Images?
- Index
For six years, digital photography expert Tim Grey has answered readers' questions on his website and daily mailing list, "DDQ (Digital Darkroom Questions)." As a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of instructors, Grey knows his stuff -- and after answering hoards of questions from photographers, he knows the most persistent and burning issues. In his new book, Take Your Best Shot, Tim Grey answers the most-often asked questions about the digital darkroom and more in an easy-to-read format, organized by subject, and illustrated with beautiful photographs and instructive screenshots. The book includes several new topics not covered on Grey's website Tim Grey. The topic list includes: Digital Fundamentals -- resolution, bit-depth, and imaging sensors Digital Cameras & Tools -- SLR vs. point-and- shoot, megapixels, field storage, sensor cleaning, CompactFlash card speed, and digital lenses Digital Photography -- JPEG vs. RAW, ISO settings, white balance Digital Darkroom -- Windows vs. Mac, LCD vs. CRT, Lightroom vs. Photoshop, storage, backup, image downloading, and film and print scanning Color Management -- Monitor calibration and color temperature, printer profiling, when the printer doesn't match the monitor, and when prints lack shadow detail Image Optimization -- RAW conversion, tonal adjustments, curves, color balance, hue/saturation, clone stamp, spot healing brush, and healing brush Creative Effects -- Dodge and burn, black and white conversion, sepia tone, and artistic edge Image Problem-Solving -- Noise, washed-out sky, color cast, and color contamination Printing -- Printer choice, print resolution, raster image processors, paper choice, and print services Digital Sharing -- Preventing image theft, slideshow solutions, Web galleries, and sharing websites You may know him from the series of popular "Tim Grey Guides" (Sybex), or from the hundreds of articles he's written for publications such as Outdoor Photographer, Digital Photo Pro and PC Photo. In Take Your Best Shot, Grey answers questions in the same clear and accessible style. If you want to know the "why" along with the "how", this book is the one you want -- the straight scoop from an expert who knows his business.
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Publication year : 2008
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