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Photo-i (in association with Canon) is producing a series of DVDs.
www.photo-i.co.uk, the website dedicated to digital photography, has now set up a publishing division called photo-iDVD. The first (getting started) is aimed at the first time digital user. This DVD, which is optimised for TV viewing, contains a series of assignments shot on location exclusively for this DVD. It shows the viewer in a user-friendly way how to get the best results from their digital camera.
The pictures are manipulated in Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 (subsequent DVDs, available from 2006, will use Photoshop CS2). The manipulations are in the form of a fully animated screen movie, this enables the viewer to see the manipulations taking place in real time. Each assignment lasts for more than 12 minutes inclusive of the screen tutorial video and to-camera dialogue.
| Running time: | 2 hrs, 20 mins. |
| Language: | English |
| Format : | DVD video PAL 4:3, optimised for TV viewing |
| Publisher: | photo-i |
| ISB-10: | 0-9552062-0-0 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-0-9552062-0-7 |
| Price: | £19.99 |
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"A guide to digital photography is an excellent learning resource."
Amateur Photographer magazine
A guide to digital photography is visual, practical and presented in a user-friendly way. Designed to inform and inspire, the chapters and assignments include:
Introduction
Total running time: 1 minute, 23 seconds
Essentials
The camera - detailed footage of the various functions and menu screens
Memory cards and reader; close up shots of various card types and card reader, show images being downloaded
The computer; brief overview of specifications, RAM, CPU, hard drive. Mac or PC? Mice types, leading to graphics tablet.
Peripherals; scanner and printer
Software; image editing applications, using short cut key strokes
o Screen shot movie tutorials
Opening and saving files
Screen resolution
Selection tools
Clone tool
Total running time: 28 minutes
Portraiture
Using apertures to create a selective focus
Lens focal lengths the effect on portraits
Exploring the subject
o Screen shot movie tutorials
Red eye removal
Converting to b/w
Face transplant
Total running time: 19 minutes, 40 seconds
Action
Panning the shot
Delay in shooting half depress the shutter
Shutter speeds
Using a wide aperture together with a telephoto setting for selective focus
Adding a motion blur to convey fast speed
Adding selective blur to isolate the subject
o Screen grab movie tutorial
Adding motion blur to image
Total running time: 16 minutes, 57 seconds
Architecture
Perspective control
Using the wide angle setting
A different point of view / perspective
Correcting perspectives
Toning the picture
o Screen grab movie tutorials
Correcting perspective
Adding a new sky to a photograph
Total running time: 14 minutes, 04 seconds
Landscapes
Using a low JPEG compression for maximum detail
Focusing on infinity
Focus the attention on a detail how to take an impressive picture without trying to include the entire scene.
Using the LCD screen in bright light
Problems of using a digital camera in a remote area (carrying spare batteries and keeping them warm)
Snow scenes
Correcting exposures with the Brightness and Contrast adjustments.
Adjusting the colours in an image.
o Screen grab movie tutorials
Straightening the horizon
Colour adjustment workflow
Adding creative lens flare
Total running time: 20 minutes, 05 seconds
Panoramas
Shooting multiple pictures paying attention to the overlap and moving items
Stitching the images together using Photoshop elements
Printing out a large print
o Screen grab movie tutorials
Two panorama exercises
Total running time: 13 minutes, 52 seconds
Interiors
Using a tripod
Mixed lighting problems / white balance
Exposure control
Combining two shots to achieve a perfect exposure
o Screen grab movie tutorial
Merging two exposures
Total running time: 13 minutes, 43 seconds
After Dark
ISO settings
Exposure time exposures
Long exposures and movement from the actual scene (traffic/people)
Getting the best image quality and dealing with image noise.
Combining two images for the perfect exposure
o Screen grab movie tutorials
Colour correction
Adding fireworks to a scene
Total running time: 11 minutes, 52 seconds
