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Photo Finish: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Printing, Showing, and Selling Images | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jon Canfield, Tim Grey
Publisher: Sybex
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 501882
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0782143482
Dewey Decimal Number: 775
UPC: 025211443484
EAN: 9780782143485
ASIN: 0782143482
Publication Date: August 17, 2004
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Product Description
If you've ever been overwhelmed by the complexities of optimizing images for output, this results-oriented guide will clear everything up. Photo Finish: The Digital Photographer's Guide to Printing, Showing, and Selling Images shows you how to attain the best possible output for any medium. Digital imaging experts Jon Canfield and Tim Grey combine practical technical information with inspiring examples to teach you how to: get consistently great prints, mount and frame your work, create compelling photo slideshows, build attention-grabbing photo websites, get your work shown in exhibitions and galleries, and sell your images online. While other books focus on one aspect of output, this comprehensive guide covers all the ways you can share your images.
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 Useful Book March 16, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the fourth Tim Gray book and second Jon Canfield book I have bought and read. While this book treats many of its various subjects in much less detail as Tim and Jon do in their other books I still found it useful. The section on creating digital slideshows was particularly helpful and all of the other subject matter is covered at least a summary level, providing good review and synopsis of the more detailed treatments in their other books.
 Very Basic October 24, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an excellent book for anyone needing the basic on producing web content or printed media. However, I found it not up to the standards I have come to expect from Tim Grey. It borrows from a lot of his other work and does go into great detail on how to produce web files or printed media. It falls well short of providing content on Showing and Selling Images. While there is certainly an art to these two processes, I had hoped to see some examples of how to incorporate these into my current procedures. There really was no content on these subjects.
Great book for the beginning to intermediate photographer wanting to improve their product. Falls well short of useful content for the more advanced photographer.
 Doesn't deliver the level of content and information required October 17, 2005
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
This book was a huge disappointment. It's content is weak in almost all sections with much of the information available from either the Internet or you local photo lab. I didn't find it very useful at all and I'm even tempted to send it back.
The book is pretty much broken up into the three section as described in the book's title. The first part brushes over optimising your workspace - calibrating your monitor - and selecting a printer and then basic printing output. Things most people know already.
The second goes into a bit more depth regarding getting your pics on the web: registering a domain name, selecting a hosting company, etc. Information you'll find better provided by a quick search in any web search engine. However, one of my main gripes is that it reads like a magazine review of 3rd party programs you should buy to help with the web authoring in html. In fact it advises using Macromedia Dreamweaver. A program which cost more than 500 USD. Now, I understand that writing html sounds complicated to the novice but you would - honestly - be better served and save some money from learning a bit from any basic html/web authoring book(any of the O'Reilly books are well recommended) Creating a basic html web gallery is not complicated.
The final part of the book continues on the team of glossing over the subject. It briefly mentions approaching galleries and selling on the Interent. I was expecting so much more from ths section but I really didn't learn much more than I knew already.
I find it hard to believe that one of the reviews here gives this book 5 stars yet points out some of the same failings of the book as me. The book has good intentions but just doesn't deliver the level of content and information required to make really useful.
Missed my target September 28, 2005
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I really thought the book would be more geared to professional photographers and workflow, etc. with regard to digital photos. Much more space was spent on website building, which I would have expected from a website book, not a book titled as a digital photographer's guide. Did I get $30 worth of information? Probably, but I would have liked more information on digital workflow, file management, professional lab tips, etc. as a professional photographer making the move from film to digital.
More than just selling... September 22, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
When I found Photo Finish listed in Outdoor Photographer I thought it would help me with selling my photos. I didn't realize the amount of material it covers in helping prepare to sell. Not only does it cover the actual preparation of the photo, it will take you through a complete web site construction in order for you to place you images on the Internet. It also covers a lot of material in between. I find Photo Finish to be a resource that I return to frequently as a text in hand as I proceed with various photography projects.
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