Digital Photography - Advanced dSLR
http://edu-observatory.org/cfs/DP2/Week4.html
IMAGE PROCESSING SOFTWARE
Many camera manufacturers provide software that can be installed on
Macs and Microsoft Windows computers. Also there are many third party
image software products such as:
GIMP (open source)
http://gimp.org/
http://docs.gimp.org/en/
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
ASSIGNMENT No.4-1 (optional) - Download and install GIMP on your
computer. It is freely available and comes with excellent
documentation and tutorials. The GIMP (freely available for all
computers) is the most widely supported image manipulation
available today.
Photoshop (commercial)
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/
Aperture (commercial)
http://www.apple.com/aperture/
Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 (free version)
http://www.corel.com/servlet/Satellite/us/en/Product/1184951547051
Image Magic (open source)
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
xv (open source - Mac, Unix/Linux only)
http://www.trilon.com/xv/manual/xv-3.10a/cover.html
ASSIGNMENT No.4-2 - Create photographic challenges for yourself every
week, for you will always learn something from trying something new
with your camera. Your photographic experiment is worth a thousand
expert opinions!
Articles by Ken Rockwell
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech.htm
Photography Tutorials
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm
http://www.geofflawrence.com/photography_tutorials.htm
Basic Photography: A Set of Exercises
http://teeksaphoto.org/Writing/BasicPhotoExercises.html
An Excellent source of Photographic Books
http://www.photoeye.com/
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
Akkana Peck
"Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional"
Apress (2006)
ISBN-10: 1590595874
Klaus Goelker
"GIMP 2 for Photographers: Image Editing with Open Source Software"
Rocky Nook (2006)
ISBN-10: 1933952032
Scott Kelby
"The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers"
New Riders Press (2005)
ISBN-10: 0321384830
Stephen Johnson
"Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography"
O'Reilly Media, Inc. (August 1, 2006)
ISBN: 059652370X
Tim Daly
"The Digital Photography Handbook"
Amphoto Books (2003)
ISBN: 0-8174-3793-2
David D Busch
"Mastering Digital SLR Photography"
Course Technology PTR (2004)
ISBN: 1-59200-605-1
Jon Canfield
"Print Like a Pro: A Digital Photographer's Guide"
Peachpit Press (2006)
ISBN: 0-321-38554-3
Harald Johnson
"Mastering Digital Printing, Second Edition"
Course Technology PTR (2004)
ISBN: 1-59200-431-8
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