All you need is a digital camera and this bestselling book to unlock your full potential as a photographer! This handbook will help you improve your skills, give you a fresh perspective on how to approach a shoot, and which equipment will work best. If you have a burst of inspiration and ideas for new projects, this must-have will guide you through every step. Achieve stunning results with this expert advice on everything from how to choose the right equipment and aperture exposure, to image enhancement and flash. This comprehensive guide is a trusted resource and ideal starting point. Written for beginners, this photography book is easy to read and understand, even if you have never worked with a camera before. It has step-by-step tutorials covering the whole range of camera functions and photographic techniques. Each chapter of the book is full of practical hands-on projects and tutorials that will help you get the best from your camera. At-a-glance comparison images show how camera settings can produce remarkably different pictures. The results are shown side-by-side with each technique, along with the setting used to create a particular look or effect. You'll also learn how to enhance your images using a range of innovative ideas adopted by professionals. Go from Novice to Pro Photographer in a Flash It has been fully updated to reflect all the latest developments in technology and creative trends in digital image-making. This manual will teach you all the tips and techniques you need to ensure that your memorable moments are captured perfectly every time! The Beginner's Photography Guide will help you find your inner photographer: - Takes you through every technique you need to create stunning images. - Easy-to-follow layout and step-by-step and tutorials. - Handy checklists with a quick rundown of the equipment and camera settings. - Hundreds of inspirational images to motivate you to reach your goal.

How to Make Your Images Look Gorgeous - The Beginner's Guide to Image Editing This book was written for the single purpose of making it easier for beginners to achieve amazing results with image editing enabling them to make their photos look professional and beautiful. This book is not about how to use your camera or how to shoot photos. It is about what you do with your photos after you have shot them. Have you ever wondered why the pictures in magazines and print media are so perfect? Do you feel puzzled looking at the pictures shot by professional photographers and wonder how come their shots are way better in quality than yours, even though you have a good DSLR camera? That is because they have been edited my master editors. Now you can become one too, and this book by Michael will help you do exactly that, become great at image editing and that too in just 9 days. You'll learn to dramatically improve your images and image edits that take you hours to create will be achieved in minutes. Improving pictures doesn't need to be a time consuming, difficult and expensive task. Some of the topics covered in the book: Cropping and Re-sizing Images How to adjust Color Saturation HDR Photos How to adjust White Balance How to adjust Photo Contrast How to adjust Photo Exposure How to adjust Photo Sharpness Photo Vignette How to Create DSLR Like Depth of Field How to remove Noise in Pictures ...and much more So do not waste any more time reading how this book will help you, instead just scroll up and hit the BUY button to get immediate access. Note: If you want to learn digital photography, you can pick up the first book in this series, also by Michael; Point and Shoot: Digital Photography Basics for Beginners and Amateurs

Glass and Water is the first book on underwater photography for freedivers. With contributions from expert underwater photographers this book teaches the skills, knowledge and equipment necessary to successfully pursue underwater photography without scuba gear. Rather than seeking to replace books on underwater photography, Glass and Water focuses on freediving techniques, equipment and photo opportunities. By carefully choosing or adapting freediving and photographic equipment some early hurdles can be avoided. Using appropriate freediving techniques can increase the length of time available for taking photographs underwater. And by being aware of the possibilities, frustrations can be avoided and good subjects sought out.

Restoring and Tinting Vintage Images walks you through repairing damage to your cherished images and then colorizing them to provide a realistic color photograph. Even badly damaged photographs can gain a new lease on life. This book provides step by step details on how to repair significant damage and then tint (add color) to the image using Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or GIMP. Each skill is accompanied with example files so you can see the work in progress and then practice on your own. As an added bonus, step by step techniques are included to restore 3D (stereo view) images popular from the 1850's - the 1920's. Your knowledge base of digital photo editing will grow with the use of layers, tools and filters that will be practical in working with any image. Subjects covered: Why colorizing works Tools needed (including links to free software) Obtaining your images (scanning details and links to free public domain images) Repairing damage (from minor to major) Selecting the right color and creating a color palette Coloring your image to create a realistic image Stereo (3D) restoration and tinting essentials Digital Content: Practice and improve your skills using the more than two gigabytes (2Gb) of sample images from the book that are available to download.

Lightroom 4(r) Made Easy is a fresh look at Adobe's software program for photographers. Written by Adobe Certified Instructor Dave Kelly, this is a concise, straight to the point "how to" book. It is created to sit at the computer with the photographer and guide her or him through all the techniques available in the software using step by step easy to understand instructions. Some of the techniques have never been presented before in either a book or video tutorial. All seven modules of Lightroom 4(r) are covered in detail with images of the panels and bullet points for the techniques. In this book the photographer will learn simple image importing and organizing procedures, new techniques for developing images, creating books, slideshows and web galleries. The section on printing from Lightroom is one of the most complete presen