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Secrets of Digital Photography Nikon eBook 6 & Upgrade 4 3 04 |
Mastering Nikon Compact Digital
Cameras, more often referred to as the Nikon eBook
...is the most popular (and
first) digital photography eBook ever produced. Now in its sixth
version, it covers Nikon Coolpix compact digital cameras starting
with the CP950, 990, 995, 717, 4500, 5000, 5700, 5400 and includes
a special chapter on the Nikon converter optics, wide, tele and
fisheye.
Convenient
The eBook can be conveniently read off your computer screen with
included Adobe Reader 6 (Mac and Windows included), or if you
wish, sections of it can be printed out in laser or color ink-jet.
Interactive
Click on highlighted text and you jump to other places in the
eBook--and even make instant connections to the Internet. Roll
your mouse over images and they change, showing you A/B/C comparisons,
or triggering embedded movie sequences. If a picture is worth
a thousand words, what's a movie worth?
Exceptional
Quality
eBook files are in two resolutions. High; meaning able to be
enlarged up to 200% without showing enlarged pixels, and Ultra,
with images that can be blown up to 400%. Small images on each
page can be viewed full-screen! It's like pushing your face to
within 3 inches of a paper book (if you could focus that close).
You can study details here far better than you could in a magazine
or printed book, and the color is experienced in the wider tonal
range of your computer monitor, not the limited presentation
of ink on paper.
iNovaFX Software
Included with the eBook are 420 iNovaFX Photoshop Actions, files
that automate the full version of Photoshop (6, 7 and CS) into
achieving stunning sophisticated results that correct errors
like color white balance mistakes, chromatic aberration effects,
barrel distortions and even vignette effects.
Some lift exposure, lighten shadows, provide local contrast enhancements, cut through atmospheric haze (for shots from airplanes), lower noise, combine images in novel ways and produce film-like conversions to black and white.
Still others convert images into a huge range of special effects results including graphic, painting, watercolor, and many artistic translations from simple sepia-like results to complex sophisticated museum-quality transformations.
A whole series of Actions act as substitutes for optical filters. Neutral and color Grad filters, Cross Star filters, Polarize Sky filters, Diffusion Filters, Fog Filters and Highlight Filters. Some produce visual results exactly like physical filters, and others produce next-generation effects that no optical filter could achieve.
Graphic treatments, Tutorials that teach
perspective alteration and Panoramic stitching, and many printing
treatment Actions are here to complete your pictures.
Reader
Software
With an eBook, you need software to view it. Adobe Reader 6 is
included for both Windows and Macintosh platforms. And since
Adobe provides free Readers for all platforms including Unix,
Linux and others, the eBook can be read on virtually all computers.
Extras
Demonstration software like 20/20 Color MD and PhotoRescue 2
are right on the CD, too. Special images that are used with Tutorial
Action sets let you learn how to achieve sophisticated Photoshop
results quickly and intuitively.
Photography Course
In 24 fun pages, you, the photographer, are given 22 challenges
that expand your photographic awareness. You become your own
best critic as you set out to find and photograph a wide range
of specified image types.
Photoshop
Course
Some people fear Photoshop. It seems so big and complex that
they blow past it. But it really isn't that way at all. Included
is a 7-step Basic Photoshop Course that takes you from zero to
zippy in an hour or two.
Gallery
A Gallery of Coolpix photographs from Nikon enthusiasts all over
the world is presented to give you encouragement and inspiration.
The Nikon eBook has a lot. It gives you knowledge, understanding, challenges and loads of tools to help you leap forward in getting more out of your camera.
Upgrade to Version 6
Three IDEAS: (I am not a mathematician)
Upgrading your current version of the Nikon eBook is easy. And low-cost, too. Our philosophy is that this is "software" and should be treated like a version upgrade to, say, Photoshop. But it is only for first owners of an original, full price eBook.
1. Version 6.0 Upgrade is shipping now. New CP995 and CP775 chapters arrived in V3.0. Version 4.0 brought revisions throughout the eBook plus a whole new chapter on CP5000 operation. But that's not all there is to it. Version 5 included the CP4500 and CP5700 chapters and Version 6 includes the CP5400 and new chapter on Nikon Converter Optics including the FC-E9 Fisheye Converter.
Now the eBook is 513 pages with over 1600 illustrations. Click!
2. Present (existing/prior) owners can get the 6.0 Upgrade CD for only 24% of the price of a new eBook. Meaning: 76% off the original's price! It's a software upgrade price to the next edition of the eBook that includes the complete new disk. Any current original owner is licensed acquire the 6.0 version for $12 plus $3 P&H. Check out the special order page.
3. Purchases made through camera stores and on-line sources such as Amazon.com will need to send a proof of purchase (copy of your receipt, image of your disk or its serial number from the clear center section --or [NEW] the serial number from a special serial number sticker in or on the package) to the publisher.
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