Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction Overview
Professional Photoshop 7 not only covers color correcting for press, but also reflects the changing needs of readers by addressing issues such as outputting to color printers and high-volume copiers. The author teaches color correction with Photoshop by demystifying classic skills-analyzing images, understanding colorspaces, working with numerical color curves, using the Unsharp Mask filter.
Covers new Photoshop 7. This edition includes three completely new chapters on previously unpublished techniques for correcting color.
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Includes original images from the book, bonus instructional materials, Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows and Macintosh.
Customer Reviews
For successful photographers and retouchers, this is the one true source. It will take you a while to get through it. You may want to go through it more than once. But once you are done with it, you can work in any market.
What's bad?
There are only three minor quibbles from my point of view:
1. The photos (which also come on a CD for you to do the exercises) are slightly horrible. But they are perfectly tailored to teach you what you have to learn. So don't let the photography turn you off from the book. The pictures may not be works of art, but they do the job.
2. The pictures don't line up with the text. He'll be talking about an image that appears like 2 pages earlier or later. It'd be nice if the pictures were on the same page as when he's talking about them.
3. It's dense. He could make an entire book out of basically each chapter. If you are a beginner, stay away. If you are not serious about color, stay away. If you want to be spoon-fed, stay away. But if you want to be good, this is the starting point and the finish line.
What's good?
He doesn't just tell you what to do; he gets you thinking critically about why you are doing it. He prepares you to work in the real world. Good color doesn't have to be an accident. Every retoucher I know will tell you this is THE source.
It's not for everyone. If you aren't good at learning from a book you probably won't get through this. If you are not already proficient in Photoshop, you may want to come back to this book later. Be prepared to spend some time on this book, (I think it probably took me like 2 months to get through it the first time.) You don't just read it; you have to do each exercise to get the full benefit. But if you want to be world-class good at color, this is the only place to go.
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