School Library Journal Review
Gr 5-8-This excellent guide is full of fun and functional activities that teach children how to select a camera, take beautiful, full-color photographs, and manipulate images. Bidner provides easy-to-follow steps for various projects that will assist readers as they learn to use a flash, how to focus the camera, to download images onto a computer, to crop photos, to design an image Web site, and much, much more. The book is filled with visual examples and dozens of photographs. Imaging terminology, such as jpeg and resolution, is defined within the text and supported with a glossary. This is the best how-to book available on digital imaging for this audience.-Jodi Kearns, University of Akron, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Directed to the computer-savvy young reader interested in photography, this well-designed, informative, and colorful guide provides inexpensive and practical advice. The text clearly describes basic concepts, recommends how to select a digital camera and use it effectively, tells how to use software to modify and improve images, and advises readers on how to print. Glos., ind. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
Gr. 7-10. Young people with access to a digital camera will find answers to nearly all their questions in this wide-ranging, nicely designed guide. Beginning chapters address basics, including understanding camera features, using focus and flash functions, capturing motion, and so on. Bidner then delves into picture-editing software and even how to set up a Web site (with parent's permission, of course). Final sections offer ideas for projects, such as handmade stationery and bookplates. With so much material covered, some subjects are glossed over, particularly the explanations of software. But Bidner introduces sophisticated technical material in enthusiastic language that is kid-friendly without being condescending, and older teens who aren't put off by the book's juvenile appearance (models are mostly elementary- and middle-school children) will find much that is useful. A glossary concludes the book, which promises readers will use terms like jpeg and megapixel with a confidence that will make your parents jealous. \b --Gillian Engberg Copyright 2005 Booklist
