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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