The Digital Photographer's Software Guide

The Digital Photographer?s Software Guide is your comprehensive guide to the full range of photographic software and plug-ins available to assist in digital photography editing and output. Written for digital photography enthusiasts of all levels, from the novice to the serious hobbyist, and to accommodate any budget, the book provides solutions to meet every photographic need, including enhancement, manipulation, special effects, color management, slide show and scrapbook creation, archiving, image rescaling, and much more. There is even coverage of professional-level tools, technical diagnostic software, and studio management, and an in-depth look at two popular photographic workflow products, Apple?s Aperture and Adobe Lightroom. Each chapter focuses on a specific type of software, detailing every individual product available including technical specifications, suitability for various scenarios, and full contact information to help you locate the product and get support from the developer. Chapters are organized so that you can choose the software type you are interested in and quickly and easily find the information you need. This complete guide combines coverage of over 300 digital photography software products into one convenient handbook to help you become mor efficient, creative, and satisfied with your photographic output.

User review
Extensive Software List but with a Notable Omission
This book includes discussions of an extensive list of photographic software, but with at least one surprising omission. Corel Photo-Paint is ignored, even though it has been a major part of the CorelDraw Graphics Suite for over a dozen revisions. The author does include Corel Paint Shop Pro and perhaps has confused the two programs, which are not the same.

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Aptly named book title
A large part of digital photography involves post picture taking processing and organization. At least if the objective is to have photographs to enjoy rather than hide in the hard drive. This book offers a cataloging of much of what is available (300 programs) to help the photographer achieve this objective. Instead of searching online and then sifting through advertising hype, you can look up noise reduction software, for example, and get an unbiased description and commentary on the major products that are available for that purpose, including noting those that are considered by many photographers as the standard by which others are judged. It is a very useful way to shop for your image processing, organizing, and presentation tools of the trade.