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The Kids' Guide to Digital Photography: How to Shoot, Save, Play with & Print Your Digital Photos
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 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.
96 pages, Hardcover
First published September 1, 2004
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January 7, 2010
I had to read a non-fiction book for a book report, so I was lazy and picked this book. I figured it would be another boring NF book that I's blow thorough (im more of a fiction kind of guy) I was surprised at how much i actually learned. Im kinda a "techno geek" so i was expecting much from an out-dtaed book. Lemme tell ya, Jenni knows her stuff!
November 24, 2014
[This book was reviewed by Kimberly Weatherston, a volunteer with the Idaho Art Lab.]
Just looking at the cover of this book, flipping briefly through its pages, one can tell that this is a bright, cheerful book full of tons of energetic photos.
As I started to read the book, I was pleased to find that the book did a good job of defining important technical terms without drowning you in technical jargon. The entire book is easy to read, in fact, divided into easy to read sections that flow smoothly from one to another.
Unlike many basic photography books, this one deals with more than just the camera and taking pictures. There are sections explaining how to handle the computer side of digital photography, including an entire section about scanners. The book also has several chapters on what to do AFTER you take the picture, giving you ideas of what to make with your photos.
One thing I found impressive, considering how quickly technology moves on and how quickly the information in books can go out of date, even though the book was published in 2004, the book is still perfectly usable. There are a couple pieces of information that might be outdated, but nothing critical, nothing that would mean it would be better to get a different book.
In conclusion, this was a fun, energetic way of learning about digital photography that is written to appeal to kids, but that adults can also learn a lot from - I learned things from this book, and I've had my camera for years!
Just looking at the cover of this book, flipping briefly through its pages, one can tell that this is a bright, cheerful book full of tons of energetic photos.
As I started to read the book, I was pleased to find that the book did a good job of defining important technical terms without drowning you in technical jargon. The entire book is easy to read, in fact, divided into easy to read sections that flow smoothly from one to another.
Unlike many basic photography books, this one deals with more than just the camera and taking pictures. There are sections explaining how to handle the computer side of digital photography, including an entire section about scanners. The book also has several chapters on what to do AFTER you take the picture, giving you ideas of what to make with your photos.
One thing I found impressive, considering how quickly technology moves on and how quickly the information in books can go out of date, even though the book was published in 2004, the book is still perfectly usable. There are a couple pieces of information that might be outdated, but nothing critical, nothing that would mean it would be better to get a different book.
In conclusion, this was a fun, energetic way of learning about digital photography that is written to appeal to kids, but that adults can also learn a lot from - I learned things from this book, and I've had my camera for years!
August 7, 2010
Sean has been taking photographs since he as about two and a half. He started with my digital camera and moved onto his own a year or so ago. I thought The Kid's Guide to Digital Photography by Jenni Bidner would be a good book for his weekly assigned free reading.
The book has a good introduction to photography and the equipment involved. There are basic pointers on composition, lighting, and so forth. From there the book goes into the ways that digital cameras work and how to use their settings.
The remainder of the book has ideas for digital editing of photographs with some creative projects. The digital editing bits were of the most interest to my son. Besides taking photographs, he's also been dabbling in Photoshop and Illustrator.
As the book was published in 2004, some of the technical aspects are getting out of date but the core skills hold up and will continue to until the point that photography changes into a very different art form.
The book has a good introduction to photography and the equipment involved. There are basic pointers on composition, lighting, and so forth. From there the book goes into the ways that digital cameras work and how to use their settings.
The remainder of the book has ideas for digital editing of photographs with some creative projects. The digital editing bits were of the most interest to my son. Besides taking photographs, he's also been dabbling in Photoshop and Illustrator.
As the book was published in 2004, some of the technical aspects are getting out of date but the core skills hold up and will continue to until the point that photography changes into a very different art form.
June 2, 2013
A larger format, 95 page hardcover book that also, like the other two recently reviewed here, is worthwhile, colorful, and informative for any child or young person getting started in photography. Even for an older person who has experience with using film, and is just getting acquainted with digital, would benefit from these books. What I haven't seen yet is a compact, pocket-sized, paperback that is also lavishly illustrated with an eye for creativity (after all photography is an art form) that could be seen as a beginner text of digital photography, written perhaps so it could be easily used by beginning adult as children.
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