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
