Follow the links below to download companion files for Complete Digital Photography, 9th Edition. We do not have the support pages for earlier versions.
If you don’t have the book, we have ebook versions on sale in the CDP store for only $15. Print copies are available on Amazon.
Primary Support Materials
The supplemental exercise book can be downloaded from this link:
Complete-Digital-Photography9e-exercise-book.pdf
The Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop intro videos can be found on this page:
Complete Digital Photography 9: Photoshop/Lightroom intros
The Glossary is online as well.
The files below are ordered by the chapter in which they appear. They are available individually and as a compressed ZIP file by chapter. If you would like to download all of the tutorial images at one time, use this file:
All-Tutorial-Images-CDP9.zip
NOTE: If you are having problems when trying to download any of the files listed below, try right-clicking on the link and choosing Download Linked File from the pop-up. That should save the file to your Downloads folder.
Chapter 2 – Getting to Know Your Camera
Choosing a Digital Camera (PDF)
Chapter 6 – Exposure Basics
Chapter 9 – Finding and Composing a Photo
Chapter 9 Tutorial Files (zip)
Focal Length and Depth of Field (CDP post)
Camera Position (PDF)
Cropping Tutorial (PDF)
Chapter 12 – Special Shooting
Panoramas Made Simple ebook (PDF)
Infrared Photography (PDF)
Chapter 13 – Workflow
Lightroom Intro Tutorial (zip)
Chapter 14 – Editing Workflow and First Steps
Chapter14 Tutorial Files (zip)
Using DNG Converter with Lightroom 6 (and Elements) and new cameras (CDP post)
Chapter 15 – Correcting Tone
Chapter 15 Tutorial Files (zip)
Interactive Curves Tutorial
Chapter 16 – Correcting Color
Chapter 16 Tutorial Files (zip)
Chapter 17 – Selective Editing and Masks
Chapter 17 Tutorial Files (zip)
Note: The Fall Tree image is with the Chapter 16 images; Lake Tahoe is with the Chapter 14 images.
Chapter 18 – Photoshop Adjustment Layers
Chapter 18 Tutorial Files (zip)
Chapter 19 – Black-and-White Conversion
Chapter 20 – Layers, Retouching and Other Effects
Chapter 20 Tutorial Files (zip)
Color Correction.mov
Cloning Tutorial.mov
hippo.jpg
Chapter 21 – Output
Chapter 21 Tutorial Files (zip)
Selective Sharpening (PDF)
Inkjet Printer’s Buyer’s Guide (PDF)
Soft Proofing (PDF)
I didn’t spot any errata for the book, and the contact form isn’t working (I suspect it has been disabled after a while). Since I saw a few erroneous claims in the book, I’ll list them here for future reference, in the hope other readers get here.
p. 60: “By the way, if you’re wondering why there are so many more green pixels than red or blue pixels, it’s because the eye is more sensitive to green. Consequently, it’s better to have as much green information as possible.”
The retina has S, M, and L cone cells, for short, medium, and long wavelength, respectively. The M and L cones, which are around 534 and 364 nm correspond roughly to green and red, but there’s a large overlap, and they both are responsible for the perception of luminance by our vision system. Since we have a bigger number of M cells than L cells (about 64% and 32% of the cone cells), and since there was this overlap, green was duplicated by Bryce Bayer in his first patent to mimic our system and for practical purpose (3 cells not fitting a square area).
p. 62: “your eyes are extremely sensitive to subtle changes in contrast—much more than they are to changes in color. This is because the light-sensitive portion of your eye is composed mostly of luminance-sensitive rods, while only a tiny part is composed of color-sensitive cones.”
No, this oversimplification is wrong. There are two different notions that the author seemed to have mixed up.
The reason our vision has a wide range is because we perceive the light logarithmically, like most of the sensations. That’s why we perceive more details in the dark part of the scale and fewer in the light part, comparatively to a linear scale (e.g. a digital sensor). I think that is clear in the text.
But the day vision and the detailed vision is performed only by the cone cells, which work from 3.10^-2 cd/m² to about 3 cd/m². They’re mostly situated in the focal area of the retina, near the fovea. The night vision, from 1 µcd/m² to 10^-2 cd/m², is performed only by the rod cells, which are NOT around the fovea, and mostly on the outside of the visual cone, for peripheral vision. They are of course much more sensitive to small light sources, but that doesn’t mean they’re more sensitive to small changes in luminance. More importantly, they simply don’t work in daylight because they’re constantly depleted, so they wouldn’t be able to provide us with luminance information.
Signals from both rods and cones are merged together in multiple layers in the retina, which performs the earlier stages of the image processing. A part of that processing is to detect differences between neighbour cells, emphasizing the contrasts—stimuli increase more from differences than from absolute values of the receptors.
Also, note that the retina has an instantaneous range that is much smaller than the overall range that includes adaptation (resp. in the range of 10^2 and 10^12).
Hopefully that debunks some of the misconceptions. 🙂