You purchased a digital camera to join the digital revolution. Yet you find yourself still using disposables because your digital camera is too complicated and you don't even know where to start to figure out how to use it. That's where Create Your Own Digital Photography comes in. From choosing a digital camera, to photography dos and don'ts, to printing and resolution contraints, you will walk through the entire digital photography process in days. You will learn five projects that every digital camera owner should know, including:

• Creating a slideshow with music
• Mixing film prints with digital pictures
• Making posters, greeting cards, and calendars
• Altering digital photos
• Sharing photos on the web

Peter Bauer is perhaps best known as the help desk director for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP). He is also the author of a number of books on computer graphics and digital photography. Pete writes regularly for Photoshop User and Layers magazines and the graphics portal PlanetPhotoshop.com. He's part of the Photoshop World Instructor Dream Team. Pete and his wife, Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell (who holds the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law at the Notre Dame Law School), live in a historic area of South Bend, Indiana.