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Thom Hogan’s Complete Guide to the Nikon D300
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After You’ve Taken Pictures with your D300
In this section I’ll present an overview of some of
your post-shooting options that involve the
camera. That includes in-camera corrections,
connecting to a computer, printing images, and
using television hookups to see your images.
Post-processing done on a computer has been
broken out to the new
Introduction to Nikon
Software
eBook that came with this
Complete
Guide
.
Things You Do After the Shot is Taken
You’ve followed my advice so far and now have a
CompactFlash card full of images you’ve shot. What’s next?
The primary things you do with your images boil down to:
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Modify them.
The D300 has a built-in capability to make
some basic modifications of images you shoot. See “The
Retouch Menu” below.
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Transfer them to your computer.
Because your images are
digital, they fit right into the computer world, at least once
you get them there. On your computer, you can modify,
annotate, email, and print your images, amongst other
things. Your computer in essence becomes your image
scrapbook and your desktop darkroom. See “Transferring
Your Images to Your Computer” on page <731> and the
section on Nikon Transfer in the
Introduction to Nikon
Software
eBook.
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Print them.
That’s what you used to do with your film
images, and you can do the same with your digital
images. You don’t need a computer to print your images,
by the way—plenty of other methods exist, including
