Best Buy - Learning Place: Digital Imaging (CD)

Get the most from your digital camera or camcorder as you explore its features and learn to take great digital images and videos, download and organize your images on your PC, and edit and share them with family and friends.

Use the unique CD Key code from this Learning Place disc with your home computer and an Internet connection — it's that easy.

Interactive tutorials

let you learn about digital cameras, camcorders and imaging at your own pace, on your own time, with unlimited access for 6 months. Content is updated monthly, so it doesn't lag behind technology.

Lessons are easy to understand and topics are useful — learn how to:

Shoot great images.

Decipher image sizes, resolution, recording modes, exposure and composition; get tips on viewing and deleting photos. Many lessons are specific to popular digital camera models! Other portions cover camcorders and video capture

Store your images.

Topics explore connecting to a PC, downloading images, renaming and saving image files, and burning photos to a CD. More subjects include downloading video segments and copying video onto VHS tapes.

Style your images.

Lessons include acquiring images (CD, camera, scanner, camcorder), image quality factors and file formats, plus adjusting color, contrast and sharpness, removing red-eye and objects, adding special effects and making panoramas.

Share your images.

Get comfortable with digital photo activities, including printing, e-mailing, sharing over the Web, turning images into computer wallpaper, postcards, T-shirts, calendars and slide shows, and creating family trees.

You'll also learn the ins and outs of popular editing software titles, including Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop 6, MGI PhotoSuite, Microsoft Picture It!, Microsoft Publisher and Pinnacle Studio 7.

Note: Internet connection required.

Tutorials are online and can be accessed from any computer with an Internet connection once you register with the CD Key code provided. All newly registered users are provided with 6 months of unlimited access.