The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop Author: Jeff Schewe | Language: English | ISBN:
B009AEM2TY | Format: EPUB
The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop Description
Shooting in the raw format gives digital photographers complete control over every aspect of image quality.
The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop is devoted exclusively to the topic and shows you how to make the most of that control. Now that raw image processing technology has matured as an essential aspect of digital photography, you need a modern book that takes a seasoned approach to the technology and explains the advantages and challenges of using Lightroom or Camera Raw to produce magnificent images.
Renowned photographer and bestselling author Jeff Schewe outlines a foolproof process for working with these digital negatives and presents his real-world expertise on optimizing raw images. You’ll also learn hands-on techniques for exposing and shooting for raw image capture and developing a raw processing workflow, as well as Photoshop techniques for perfecting the master image, converting color to black and white, and processing for panoramic and HDR images.
- Get the best tone and color from your digital negatives.
- Use Lightroom and Camera Raw sharpening controls to maximize image quality.
- Take advantage of Photoshop to do what Lightroom and Camera Raw can’t.
- Produce stunning black-and-white images.
Visit the book’s companion website at TheDigitalNegativeBook.com for sample images and more!
- File Size: 19837 KB
- Print Length: 312 pages
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 5 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1 edition (September 13, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009AEM2TY
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,247 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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First there was Photoshop that became the gold standard for photo processing. Then, when digital photography caught on, Adobe added the Camera Raw plug-in. More recently Adobe offered photographers Lightroom, a piece of software designed from the ground up for photographers, although many image smiths have found it useful to process first in Lightroom and then finish up in Photoshop. Jeff Schewe now presents us with a book that concentrates on how to manipulate images with these pieces of software to get the best possible photograph.
After an examination of the nature of the digital image and a history and overview of raw processing, he addresses the fundamental controls in Lightroom and Camera Raw, which offer, for the most part, the same features, although Lightroom offers a more convenient interface as well as other features, like archiving and website creation. Schewe emphasizes what is accomplished rather than the particular look of a control, and while he generally leads with Lightroom, also shows how to accomplish the same tasks with Camera Raw. Next he shows how to use these controls with particular examples, doing more with Lightroom than most people would even consider, to get the "hero" image. He then goes on to explain how to follow-up in Photoshop for those extra tweaks that are not readily available in Lightroom or Camera Raw. (Most of the Photoshop discussion is about Schewe's own tweaks, rather than general instruction in Photoshop.) There is little discussion of primary adjustments, or layers, or making selections, except to show how a particular image can be enhanced in Photoshop. He finishes the book with a general discussion of workflow.
At first, I was going to give this 3 stars. The first 25% of the book is a random walk of interesting, but not particularly useful facts and information. Jeff's description of CMOS and CCD sensors is horribly convoluted, and in general is not really correct. (I've been a semiconductor professional for almost 30 years and been involved with both CMOS and CCD imager R&D) There are several other points about detailed hardware that are wrong. But, they are pretty much extraneous to the theme of the book. Many of the illustrations through here seem random, or are obvious and redundant screenshots.
Once Jeff gets into the meat of the material though, the book picks up nicely. Here, the diversions into trivia become valuable as he explains some of the history and rationale for things being the way they are. Jeff's book doesn't try to be a recipe book - one of my complaints about Scott Kelby's books. Rather, he explains what various functions and controls do and often a bit of their algorithms, and discusses why, when and how he uses them with some solid examples. This helps me much more than simply being told to move a bunch of sliders to specific values and voila! A finished photo. Great. Next time I have the same photo I can do it again. Jeff avoids this practice quite well, and gives the reader plenty of material to help you figure out how to manage your digital negatives on your own, and why you might choose certain manipulation a and techniques.
The electronic edition does better than most in associating captions with pictures. Jeff uses a different font for captions that helps when the captions do get lost on another page. This book does need a color reader.
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