Digital Photography Tricks of the Trade

Tim Gartside runs his own photographic and design company. He specialises in architecture, landscape and digital photo art techniques and has had his photographs published in many books and magazines. He is the author of Digital Landscape Photography (llex, 2003) and is a regular contributor to Photography Monthly on digital topics. Tim lives in Thamesmead, London.

Introduction 1 Taking Better Pictures - Cameras, lenses, depth-of-field, filters, accessories, exposure, composition, light and colour, flash 2 Dealing with Digital Files - Computers, file formats, saving, sorting and filing, archiving, scanners, scanning 3 Optimizing Your Images - Contast/brightness, levels, hue/saturation, correcting colour casts, cropping and straightening, sharpening, dust and scratches, dodging and burning, making basic selections 4 Manipulating Your Images - Layers, cloning, filter effects, replacing a sky, creating sunsets with gradient fill, creating rays of light, changing images from colour to black and white, making complicated selections, blurring backgrounds, changing the colour of one element in a scene, adding frames and borders, creating a mirror image, retouching portraits, adding a moon, creating motion and radial blur 5 Creative Projects - Create your own greetings cards, putting people in a different location, stitching panoramics, montage, repairing an old photograph, hand tinting, adding text and graphics, creating a simple website 6 Printing Your Images - Printers, printing, pc free printing, optimizing for output, troubleshooting tips, printing duotone images, alternative printing methods Index