Includes index.

1. Eye, brains, light and images: understanding how you see --
2. Getting to know your camera: using auto mode for snapshot shooting --
3. Camera anatomy: holding and controlling your camera --
4. Image transfer: building a workstation and transferring from your camera --
5. Image sensors: how a silicon chip captures an image --
6. Exposure basics: the fundamental theory of exposure --
7. Program mode: taking control of exposure, focus and more --
8. Advanced exposure: learning more about your light meter and exposure controls --
9. Finding and composing a photo: learning the art of photography --
10. Lighting: the process of controlling light --
11. Raw shooting: gaining more power through raw format --
12. Special shooting: camera features and techniques for specific situations --
13. Workflow: managing your images and starting postproduction --
14. Editing workflows and first steps: understanding the order of edits and making your first adjustments --
15. Correcting tone: ensuring that white, black and overall contrast are correct --
16. Correcting color: repairing, improving and changing color --
17. Selective editing and masks: making edits to specific parts of an image --
18. Photoshop adjustments layers: advanced tools for adjustments and corrections --
19. Black and white conversion: turning your color images into black-and-white images --
20. Layers, retouching and special effects: additional editing tools and concepts for improving your images --
21. Panoramic stitching and HDR merging: how to process the multi-shot effects --
22. Output: taking your images to print or electronic output.

In this thoroughly updated eighth edition of COMPLETE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, popular photographer, writer, and teacher Ben Long is your guide through the creative and challenging world of digital photography. In this book is everything you'll need to know in order to create great digital photos, from how a camera works and how to choose the right camera for you, to all the details of shooting, image editing, output, and workflow. The step-by-step tutorials included here offer great tips and techniques on improving your processes from start to finish; you'll learn about exposure theory, composition, lighting, complex masking, image adjustment, and much more. No prior experience is needed or assumed, and by the end of the book you'll be tackling complex photographic challenges with your own growing expertise. And the results will astound you.