Any software available for beginners in Digital Photogaphy?

Question

Hi, my parent's just bought me this digital camera (a CANON IXUS750- has good reviews and all they say). It's not an SLR but my friends say it will do good for beginners like in digital photography. I would just want to ask if you ever know any software that teaches digital photography/ digital manipulation. Thanks!

Answer 1

No software is available at this time. But you can certain find a lot of help from the internet. One great thing about digital photograph is that it is free to experiment with. My suggestion to you, if you have the time, is to create a setup at home for camera testing. The setup can be a fruit basket and some flowers with different color or stuff animals with some other toys. Put them under the sun and take pictures of it with your camera under different settings (like aperture priority, shutter priority, different white balance, etc.). Keep a notebook and write down the setting you use for each photo. Next, look at the pictures in your computer and review the setting you used. After a while you will get a feel of how different settings affect the outcome of the pictures. When I got my first camera, I remember the manual can be quite useful too. So don't forget to read the manual cover to cover. When you start to feel comfortable with your camera, go one a trip with another photographer and start taking pictures. Ask the photographer to show you how to compose a picture and what the best technique to use in certain situations. You can learn a lot from another photographer. Last thing is to look at a lot of photos from the pros. Try to see why the photographer compose the picture the particular way and if you would have done differently.
Now, for indoor photo is a different story. For indoor photography, it is almost all about lighting and focus. You have to know the range of your built in flash. To do so, take picture of your setup with flash indoor. Take pictures of the setup at different distance. You will learn how far you can put the setup before the picture becomes too dark and how far before the objects are too bright. You will also learn the limitation of your focus system in the dark. If you practice enough, you will always be able to take good pictures regardless what camera you use.
For digital editing, you can do basic editing with Paint Shop Pro because it is a cheaper software and can do most of the thing that can be done by Photoshop. Use the help menu when you get stuck. Also you can joint online forum and post your questions.

Answer 2

A powerful yet easy to use program that you might try is Paint Shop Pro by corel. Just goto http://www.corel.com You can download trial version that will last 30 days. Its a full program just with a 30 day time limit. Its very reasonable at $60.00 compared to photoshop at $400.00 I have both programs and i use paint shop 90% of the time. PSP is so much easier to use than Photoshop.
It doesnt teach you to do things. But you can find free tutorials online that will help you in that respect.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

I dont think there ia any software to teach what you want. Read some photography related books. Then use your immagenation and creativity. Do not read more about photography techniques - it will destroy your own creativity.

Answer 5

Photoshop is the best program there is. It can get complicated to use, but for simple things like cropping, red eye removal and resizing, it's awesome. When you are ready to do the more complicated things, then there are PLENTY of tutorials on the web for it.