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digital photography Last modified: Thursday, February 01, 2007

The art and science of producing and manipulating digital photographs -- photographs that are represented as bit maps. Digital photographs can be produced in a number of ways: Directly with a digital camera By capturing a frame from a video By scanning a conventional photograph Once a photograph is in digital format, you can apply a wide variety of special effects to it with image enhancing software. You can then print the photo out on a normal printer or send it to a developing studio which will print it out on photographic paper. Although the resolution of digital photos is not nearly as high as photos produced from film, digital photography is ideal when you need instant, low-resolution pictures. It's especially useful for photos that will be displayed on the World Wide Web because Web graphics need to be low resolution anyway so that they can be downloaded quickly.

A Short Course in Digital Photography Provides an introduction to digital photography, with sections on digital cameras, digital imaging, scanning, and graphic files formats. Also offers a collection of free tools and links to digital photography resources. Digital photography & imaging This online magazine is devoted to digital photography and digital imaging and contains product, technology and professional and consumer equipment reviews. Digital photography as legal evidence This paper reveals an abbreviated overview of how digital images are captured, stored, and manipulated, how digital photography is part photograph, part computer data, and how neither doctrine is entirely adequate to address the foreseeable danger of negligent or fraudulent misuse of inaccurate images, and suggestions to assure the integrity of visual evidence presented in court. Genetic Photo Optimizer Describes a tool used for optimizing color images from digital cameras.