Digital Photography for Next to Nothing : Free and Low Cost Hardware and Software to Help You Shoot Like a Pro

The Rise of the RAW Format -- The Snags of Using RAW -- Software for RAW Processing -- Chapter 10: Shooting Macro Without a Macro Lens -- Four Ways to Get Macro Shots -- Lighting for Your Macro Shots -- Using Lens Stacking to Take Macro Shots -- Making a Tabletop Studio for Macro Photography -- Building a Mini Light Box for Small Product Photography -- Chapter 11: DIY: Cleaning Your DSLR Sensor -- Common Contaminants and How to Get Rid of Them -- Cleaning the Chamber -- Testing Your Cleaning Method -- Chapter 12: DIY: Making Your Own Lens Hood -- Considering Lens Hood Types -- Finding Lens Hood Templates Online -- Making a Superhood for a 50mm Lens -- Making a Flexihood for a Telephoto Lens -- Chapter 13: More DIY Photo Fun Accessories -- Making Pop-Up Flash Diffusers -- DIY Accessories for Flash Guns -- Making Your Own Lenses -- Getting Decorative Bokeh Effects -- Getting Soft Focus Without a Special Lens -- Finding Low-Cost Tripods for Your Compact Camera -- Emulating Aerial Photography Without the Airplane -- Chapter 14: FREE Photo Calculators -- Printing, Cutting, and Assembling Your Own FREE Exposure Calculator -- Using the Golden Ratio -- For a Few Dollars: Photo Calculation Software for the iPhone -- Optical System Calculators -- Print Size Calculation -- Chapter 15: FREE and Low-Cost Utility Software -- FREE and Low-Cost Exif Tools -- FREE and Low-Cost Screen Capture Utilities -- FREE Color Pickers -- FREE Online Color Analysis -- FREE File Archiving Utilities -- Low-Cost Image Compression Software -- FREE JPEG Lossless Rotation -- FREE and Low-Cost Data Recovery Software -- "Free Scan" Photo Recovery Software -- PART IV: SCRUTINIZING, SORTING, AND RESIZING YOUR IMAGES -- Chapter 16: Monitor Calibration for Next to Nothing -- Understanding Gamma -- Calibration for Windows and Mac -- FREE Online Monitor Calibration. FREE Online Tutorials on Monitor Calibration -- Chapter 17: FREE and Low-Cost Image Viewers -- Top FREE and Low-Cost Image Viewers for Windows -- Image Viewers for Mac: Why the Mac Is Different -- Chapter 18: FREE and Low-Cost Photo Organizing Software -- The Difference Between Sorting and Cataloging -- Searching Through Untagged Images -- Other Good FREE Photo Organizing Software -- For a Few Dollars: More Photo Organizing Software -- Chapter 19: FREE and Low-Cost Image Resizing Tools -- Choosing the Right Tool -- FREE Desktop Image Resizing Software -- FastStone Photo Resizer -- FREE Software for Batch Resizing -- FREE Online Image Resizing Tools -- For Just a Few Dollars -- PART V: IMPROVING YOUR IMAGES -- Chapter 20: FREE and Low-Cost Image Enhancement Software -- Enhancement and Editing: What's the Difference? -- Recommended FREE Basic Image Adjustment Tools -- Other FREE Image Adjustment Tools -- FREE Batch Correction Image Adjustment Tools -- For a Few Dollars -- Chapter 21: FREE Image-Editing Software -- What to Look for in a FREE Image Editor -- The Top Four FREE Windows Products -- Seashore for Macintosh -- The Best of the Rest: All FREE -- Chapter 22: FREE Online Image Editors -- Online Software: The Long-Term Winner -- Featured Software: The Top Five -- Best of the Rest -- Chapter 23: FREE and Low-Cost Denoising Software -- Noise Reduction Software -- Recommended FREE Denoising Software -- FREE Multiplatform (Java-Based) Denoising Software -- For a Few Dollars: Low-Cost Denoising Software -- Chapter 24: Building Powerful Software Suites with Plug-ins -- Adobe Photoshop Elements: The Low-Cost Host for Best-of-Breed Plug-ins -- GIMP: Pimp Your GIMP with Dozens of Great Plug-ins -- Enhancing Paint.NET with Plug-ins -- PART VI: MAKING HI-RES MOSAICS, PANORAMAS, AND HDR IMAGES -- Chapter 25: Getting Hi-Res Images from a Low-Res Camera. FREE Versus Commercial Stitching Software -- Chapter 26: Panoramic Photography -- Taking Panoramas Without a Tripod -- Finding the Optical Center of a Lens -- Why Is Panoramic Photography Normally Expensive? -- The Panosaurus: a Low-Cost Panoramic Head -- Building Your Own Panoramic Head -- Useful Resources -- Chapter 27: Low-Cost Panoramic and Virtual Tour Software -- Software for Making Panoramas -- Software for Displaying Panoramas -- Chapter 28: Creating High Dynamic Range Images -- Two Reasons to Use HDR -- Commercial or FREE? Which Software Is Best for HDR? -- FREE HDR Software -- Low-Cost HDR Software -- PART VII: SHARING & PUBLISHING YOUR WORK -- Chapter 29: FREE Image Hosting -- What to Look for in a FREE Image Host -- Directories -- Selected FREE Image Hosting Providers -- Chapter 30: FREE Online Photo-Sharing Sites -- Must-Have Photo-Sharing Features -- Selected FREE Online Photo-Sharing Sites -- Photo-Sharing Sites with FREE Basic Accounts -- FREE Sites with Additional Features -- Chapter 31: Online Photo Communities -- What Online Photo Communities Can Do for You, and You for Them -- Communities FREE to Registered Users -- Low-Cost Photo Communities -- Smaller and Specialist Photo Communities -- Chapter 32: FREE Web Publishing Software -- Using PHP to Create Your Online Gallery -- FREE PHP-Based Photo Gallery Software -- FREE Flash Gallery Creation Software -- CSS-Based Image Galleries -- FREE Java-Based Photo Gallery Software -- Creating AJAX-Based Photo Galleries -- FREE Website Design Software with Gallery Features -- PART VIII: GETTING READY TO PRINT -- Chapter 33: Low-Cost Image Rescaling Software -- Why Is Most Up-Rezzing Software So Pricey? -- Some Low-Cost Image-Rescaling Alternatives -- Chapter 34: Low-Cost Online Printing Services -- Cheaper Than Home Printing. Online Photo Printers with Opening Offers (U.S. and International) -- Online Photo Printers with Opening Offers (U.K.) -- Directories of FREE Photo-Printing Offers -- Premium Printing Services -- PART IX: LEARNING MORE ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY, FOR NEXT TO NOTHING -- Chapter 35: FREE Online Tuition -- How to Evaluate Online Instruction -- Highly Recommended FREE Online Tutorials -- FREE Video Tutorials on Photography -- FREE Photoshop Tutorials Online -- Chapter 36: FREE Online Photo Resources -- Photo Megasites You Have to Visit -- Leading Camera-Speci. c Websites -- FREE Photography Magazines Online -- FREE Art Photography Magazines Online -- Sites for Landscape Photographers -- Sites for Nature and Wildlife Photographers -- Sites for Photojournalists -- Sites for Portrait Photographers -- PhotoStartSheet.com -- Index.

Take photos like a pro without breaking the bank by using FREE and nearly FREE software and hardware explained in this book.

• Get professional looking shots from a low-cost camera
• Save money by building your own lighting rigs, tripods, monopods and stabilisers for next to nothing
• Learn how to use older lenses on modern digital cameras, and make your own macro lens, lens hoods, flash diffusers, flash concentrators, decorative Bokeh effect lenses and more
• Use dozens of FREE and low cost photo applications for processing, viewing, cataloguing, editing, creating HDR, and photo stitching
• Build powerful photography processing and editing suites with free software and plugins that go head to head with expensive tools like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom

Take photos like a pro without breaking the bank by using FREE and nearly FREE software and hardware explained in this book.

• Get professional looking shots from a low-cost camera
• Save money by building your own lighting rigs, tripods, monopods and stabilisers for next to nothing
• Learn how to use olderlenses on modern digital cameras, and make your own macro lens, lens hoods, flash diffusers, flash concentrators, decorative Bokeh effect lenses and more
• Use dozens of FREE and low cost photo applications for processing, viewing, cataloguing, editing, creating HDR, and photo stitching
• Build powerful photography processing and editing suites with free software and plugins that go head to head with expensive tools like Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom

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