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The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play With & Print Your Digital Photos

AUTHOR: Jenni Bidner
ISBN: 1579906435
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The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play With & Print Your Digital Photos
- Book Review, by Jenni Bidner

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Gr. 7-10. Young people with access to a digital camera will find answers to nearly all their questions in this wide-ranging, nicely designed guide. Beginning chapters address basics, including understanding camera features, using focus and flash functions, capturing motion, and so on. Bidner then delves into picture-editing software and even how to set up a Web site (with parent's permission, of course). Final sections offer ideas for projects, such as handmade stationery and bookplates. With so much material covered, some subjects are glossed over, particularly the explanations of software. But Bidner introduces sophisticated technical material in enthusiastic language that is kid-friendly without being condescending, and older teens who aren't put off by the book's juvenile appearance (models are mostly elementary- and middle-school children) will find much that is useful. A glossary concludes the book, which promises readers will "use terms like jpeg and megapixel with a confidence that will make your parents jealous."^B Gillian Engberg
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Book Description
Digital photography is hot, and kids want to get in on the fun. This comprehensive instructional guide, created especially for youngsters, tells them exactly what they need to know to capture those birthday parties, school events, sleepovers, and family vacations. Every important question gets an easy-to-understand answer: What’s a pixel? What is resolution and why does it matter? How can I make computers, scanners, and printers work with my camera? Children will get creative with software that alters and enhances images, and learn new ways to add text, adjust color and brightness, and change a background. Fifteen appealing projects, from turning snapshots into puzzles to crafting unique CD covers, photo magnets, and digital scrapbooks, make this a no-brainer for the budding photographer.

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Book Review

The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play With & Print Your Digital Photos
- Book Reviews, by Jenni Bidner

The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play With & Print Your Digital Photos

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Your parents may have trouble making the transition from film, but you were born in the Information Age. You'll find that digital photography is as natural to you as surfing the web or playing video games. In fact, if you don't have a digital camera yet, one of the first things you'll learn from this book is how to convince your parents to buy one.

But what are the features to look for in a digital camera? What's the best way to send a picture in an email? How can you freeze sports action? And what can you do to keep your batteries from running down too fast?

You'll find the answers to all your technical questions here. And you'll also learn all about the art -- and the fun -- of digital photography. For example, use new software in dozens of interesting and practical ways, design a website, and transfer your photos to fabric or decals for temporary tattoos.

Along the way, Jenni Bidner gives you a professional photographer's tips on finding interesting angles, posing groups of people, choosing the right background, eliminating unwanted shadows, and other important techniques.

The last part of The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography is the most fun of all: 10 creative projects, from a photo-decorated change purse to photographic stationery and birthday invitations -- all to get you off to the best possible start with your new skills.

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