Understanding: Adobe Photoshop

3. Acquiring Digital Images While Photoshop is a great tool for a lot of tasks, most of them center around the sizing, manipulation, and processing of digital images. While their contents may vary, all digital images are essentially the same...

Digital Cameras This book will not teach you how to use your digital camera. There are many excellent books on that subject as well as classes offered. What we will address is how the pixels are converted, what file format you should choose to sho...

Scanners While it may come as a surprise to some of the people reading this book, not all cameras are digital. Shooting on film is still a very valid choice. Film offers greater flexibility for low-light situations, as well as offers some aestheti...

Importing from CD/DVD You will often find image collections available for sale on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM discs. While this is a great way to distribute images (cheap to manufacture and large-capacity discs that are cross-platform compatible) it is no...

Stock Photo Services Professionals find it is often necessary to purchase images to complete their projects. Whether it's a shot of broccoli for a magazine layout, or the New York skyline for the cover of a DVD, stock photo services can help. But ...

Public Domain Images I'd say "The best things in life are free" but that wouldn't be accurate here. More appropriately, "Why pay twice?" The federal government has several agencies that document their work and make it available...