Family Computer Fun: Digital Ideas Using Your Photos, Movies, and Music [With CDROM]

by Ralph Bond

Customize your music library, share and play with digital photos, record and edit your own music and video and more. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789733781
• ISBN13: 9780789733788
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 9.1"

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your PC as a media centre

Bond shows how your PC can be an invaluable and fun part of your life, if you want to capture and manipulate pictures, video and audio. The idea is to transform the PC into a digital media centre. Now, to be sure, there has been a lot of hype about this kind of thing, from vendors. Here, you can see for yourself what is easily achievable by an average or new PC user. Many of the comments in the first part of the book are directed towards a reader who might already have been taking traditional photos for years. (Decades?) Bond explains a photo editing package called PhotoShow. This can trivially remove redeye from your photos of people that you took with a flash, for example. With traditional photos, redeye was a constant affliction to be endured. But now, it is remarkably easy to remove. PhotoShow has many other features, of course. Like annotating a photo with text. Or rescaling and rotating the photo. Later parts of the book discuss manipulating audio and video. Not surprisingly, these operations are more intricate than simply editing single images. But Bond explains how, with the right software, you can also understand and apply these ideas.