How to organize and protect your entire photo collection in as little as 10 days... without losing your mind.

By Christine Sutton and Tracey DuBois

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Are you overwhelmed by your photographs?

Have you got years and years’ worth of photos that have never even made it out of the film developers’ envelopes?

Worse yet, have you got rolls and rolls of film that haven’t even been developed?

Are you up to your eyeballs in boxes and stashes of photos that are a jumbled mess?

Wondering how you’ll ever manage to organize the old photos you’ve inherited when you’re already frazzled by your own collection?

Feeling frustrated by rummaging through your piles in search of a special photograph only to come up empty handed?

Have you slowed down or even stopped your picture taking because you just don't know where you'd put any more photos?

Are you fed up with feeling overwhelmed and guilty about your out-of-control photo collection?

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• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 104 pages

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Basic Scanning Guide:  For Photographers and other Creative Types

By Rob Sheppard

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Designed to help photographers understand how a scanner works and how best to use one, this book offers advice on what to look for when purchasing a scanner and tips on achieving high-quality results. Covering the basic terminology of scanning, this book also discusses various types of scanners and what additional equipment is needed to set up a scanner at home. The basics of scanning are explained, from preparing images to selecting the resolution to using a preview scan. The differences between image formats (TIFF, JPEG, and EPS) are discussed. Also included is information on manipulating scanned images and displaying them on the Web or in print.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1906565 in Books
• Published on: 2000-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

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Cultural Heritage Collaborators:  A Manual for Community Documentation

By Melissa Mannon

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"Collaboration" is not just a trendy buzzword in museums, libraries, and archives. Working together can propel stability, focus, and success for the 21st century. Establishing collecting partnerships within a community not only strengthens an institution's visibility, but also promotes cultural awareness and improves civic engagement. Cultural Heritage Collaborators: A Manual for Community Documentation is a practical guide for cultural institutions that wish to work together to more fully document their local history. Archivist and cultural heritage consultant Melissa Mannon discusses the pervasiveness of archives throughout communities and argues that historical records serve as a cultural thread that supports local identity and the missions of diverse institutions.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #461389 in Books
• Published on: 2010-07-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 266 pages

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Fundamentals of Photography:  The Essential Handbook for Both Digital and Film Cameras

By Tom Ang

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The most comprehensive, accessible, and completely up-to-date guide available for today’s photographer: whether beginner or advanced, using a film camera or digital.

Award-winning photographer Tom Ang provides a thorough, explicitly detailed bottom-to-top understanding of modern photography, explaining all the techniques that will help anyone who uses a camera—in a professional capacity or as a snapshot shooter—improve the quality of his or her photographs. Here is everything you need to know: from the most practical advice (the fundamental facts about light sources) to the most sophisticated nuances (how light is measured through photometry), from the basics of the camera (which button controls which function) to the finer points of framing with an LCD viewfinder, featuring a selection of Ang’s most inspiring images. For users of film cameras, Ang explains the differences between types of film and details the various methods of processing and darkroom techniques.

Ang delves into the development and transformation of photography by digital techniques. For the digital-camera contingent, there’s a specificity of previously unavailable information about the cameras and about processing, digitizing, and outputting the images. Ang also discusses subjects usually ignored in manuals but of interest to all photographers, including critical theory, the presentation of images, the function of the human eye in the perception of images, and ethical and copyright issues.

Fundamentals of Photography is an essential book for every photographer.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #115068 in Books
• Published on: 2008-11-25
• Released on: 2008-11-25
• Format: Deckle Edge
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.10" h x 6.40" w x 8.90" l, 1.95 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

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How To Do Everything with Your Scanner

By David Huss

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Scan this book! Or, read it cover-to-cover. Either way, you’ll learn which scanner to purchase to suite your needs, important technical information about pixels and digital images, installation and calibration tips, and plenty of tricks to make scanning easier and more effective. Written for both PC and Mac users.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #1124343 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

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On Photography

By Susan Sontag

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Winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism.

One of the most highly regarded books of its kind, On Photography first appeared in 1977 and is described by its author as “a progress of essays about the meaning and career of photographs.” It begins with the famous “In Plato’s Cave”essay, then offers five other prose meditations on this topic, and concludes with a fascinating and far-reaching “Brief Anthology of Quotations.”

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #3430 in Books
• Published on: 2001-08-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .62" h x 5.53" w x 8.26" l, .46 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

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Organize Your Digital Life:  How to Store Your Photographs, Music, Videos, and Personal Documents in a Digital World

by Aimee Baldridge

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Now that digital cameras and music players have become so incredibly widespread, a forest of sound and imagery is blossoming in our homes. We’ve got digital pictures in the camera, scans on the computer, JPEGS attached to e-mails, and tunes on tiny players. But there’s also the old-fashioned stuff: photos in shoeboxes, videos in the attic, documents in desk drawers, songs on tape and vinyl. How do you transform all of these different elements into a convenient archive you can store in your computer, easily reach, and actually enjoy? This book delivers basic step-by-step instruction on streamlining and organizing your "digital life" so you can find what you need instantly and create presentations your friends and family will love. In addition, you’ll be amazed at the decrease in household clutter and paper waste.

For everyone —from teenagers who thrive on the technical to families with overflowing photo albums and seniors who’d love to collate decades’ worth of letters and pictures —this reader-friendly source has all the answers. These easy-to-follow solutions can truly enhance and simplify the hectic, over-saturated lives so many of us find ourselves leading today.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #445906 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-06
• Released on: 2009-01-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .55" h x 7.54" w x 9.72" l, 1.25 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

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Preserving Your Family Photographs

By Maureen A. Taylor

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Maureen A. Taylor, author of Uncovering Your Ancestry Through Family Photographs, provides all the information you need to care for your family photograph collection. She outlines in straightforward steps how to add value to your home collection by using the methods that conservators and photo curators use every day! You'll learn how to: * Identify the types of damage already done to the photos in your collection. * Take care of all your photos going forward, so that damage is a thing of the past. * Preserve your digital images - for you and future generations. * Select a conservator to repair damaged photos and protect them from more deterioration. * Select a restoration expert to restore damaged photos using airbrushing, digital manipulation, or photographic enhancements. * Create a stunning scrapbook that will endure, using archival quality guidelines. * Properly handle cased images such as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes. * Explore techniques to share your images. * Take advantage of low-cost alternatives to traditional photo preservation techniques.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #351166 in Books
• Published on: 2010-02-12
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

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Scanners For Dummies

By Mark L. Chambers

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Fully updated to cover new hardware and technology

Here’s how to choose a scanner, set it up, and start capturing images

Flatbed or sheet-fed? USB or FireWire? And what the heck is a dpi, anyway? This handy guide tells you all that and more -- everything you need to know to get the most use, and fun, out of your scanner. Choose the right image editing software, share photos online, even get the scoop on tricks the experts use.

All this on the bonus CD-ROM

• Evaluation versions of Paint Shop Pro® and Photo Album
• Adobe® Photoshop® Elements and Acrobat® Professional tryout versions
• Mac® GraphicConverter and VueScan trial versions
• SnapCopier™ and Ulead PhotoImpact® XL trial versions

Discover how to:

• Buy the right scanner for your needs
• Choose your software
• Fine-tune your scans
• Select and install extra equipment
• Edit images like a pro
• Keep your scanner happy and healthy
   

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #186477 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-07
• Format: Bargain Price
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 334 pages

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Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives

By Sascha Steinhoff

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Many photographers have either moved into digital photography exclusively or use both analog and digital media in their work. In either case, there is sure to be an archive of slides and negatives that cannot be directly integrated into the new digital workflow, nor can it be archived in a digital format. Increasingly, photographers are trying to bridge this gap with the use of high-performance film scanners.

In this 2nd edition, you will learn how to achieve the best possible digital image from a negative or a slide, and how to build a workflow to make this process efficient, repeatable, and reliable. The author uses Nikon's film scanners, but all steps can easily be accomplished while using a different scanner. The most common software tools for scanning (SilverFast, VueScan, NikonScan) are not only covered extensively in the book, but trial versions are also provided on a DVD, which also contains other useful tools for image editing, as well as numerous sample scans.

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Amazon Sales Rank: #32658 in Books
Published on: 2009-03-07
Original language: English
Number of items: 1
Dimensions: .60" h x 8.08" w x 9.92" l, 1.61 pounds
Binding: Paperback
256 pages

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Your Digital Afterlife:  When Facebook, Flickr and Twitter Are Your Estate, What's Your Legacy?

By Evan Carroll, John Romano

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Almost without realizing it, we have shifted toward an all-digital culture. Future heirlooms like family photos, home movies, and personal letters now exist only in digital form, and in many cases they are stored using popular services like Flickr, YouTube, and Gmail. These digital possessions form a rich collection that chronicles our lives and connects us to each other.

But have you considered what will happen to your treasured digital possessions when you die?

Unfortunately the answer isn't as certain as we might presume. There are numerous legal, cultural, and technical issues that could prevent access to these assets, and if you don't take steps to make them available to your heirs, your digital legacy could be lost forever.

Written by the creators of TheDigitalBeyond.com, this book helps you secure your valuable digital assets for your loved ones and perhaps posterity. Whether you're the casual email user or the hyper-connected digital dweller, you'll come away with peace of mind knowing that your digital heirlooms won't be lost in the shuffle.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #609449 in Books
• Published on: 2010-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

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