Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction

PROFESSIONAL PHOTOSHOP
FIFTH EDITION THE CLASSIC GUIDE TO COLOR CORRECTION
The commonsense, by-the-numbers approach of Professional Photoshop has shaped the workflows of a generation of Photoshop experts. This new edition, the first in nearly five years, is completely updated for the age of digital photography. It continues the book's tradition of introducing astoundingly effective, previously unknown methods of image enhancement. The original photographs found in the book come from a variety of professional sources, and all correction exercises are on the included CD. Professional Photoshop has changed radically from edition to edition, and this time is no exception-with almost 90 percent new content and completely overhauled coverage of curves, channel blending, and sharpening.
Professional Photoshop offers a full explanation of:
- How curves bring out detail in the most important areas of the image
- A comprehensive strategy for blending channels to create deeper, stronger images
- the strengths and weaknesses of CMYK, LAB, and RGB, and when to use each one
- The first detailed look at the Shadow/Highlight command-and even more sophisticated ways to enhance contrast in the lightest and darkest parts of the image
- Sharpening strategies, in three full chapters, including the innovative hiraloam method (High Radius, Low Amount). Plus, a fiendishly effective method of merging hiraloam and conventional unsharp masking
- The realities-and the politics-of preparing files for commercial offset printing and how to deal with colors that are out of the press's gamut
- What Camera Raw and similar acquisition modules can offer
- Typical problems of digital captures that were not found in the age of film - and how to correct for them
DAN MARGULIS was one of the first three individuals-and the only writer-to be named as a member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame. In announcing his election, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals said, "Dan's ability to reduce complicated concepts to words that users can understand and his insistence on dealing with real-world relevance have made him today's most influential voice in color reproduction." Dan's 2006 best-seller, Photoshop LAB Color, revolutionized workflows. Channels expert David Biedny called Photoshop LAB Color "probably the most important Photoshop book ever written."
Companion CD-ROM contains the images from the book to experiment with plus bonus instructional material.
"Dan Margulis is the world's leading expert on Photoshop color. Professional Photoshop is considered to be the bible on color correction and digital prepress." -SCOTT KELBY, PRESIDENT of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION of PHOTOSHOP PROFESSIONALS
"If you read this enjoyable and approachable book, you will have a profoundly deeper understanding of how to adjust your images for maximum reproduction quality. A classic." -DESIGN TOOLS MONTHLY
"Dan Margulis is simply the best writer in the computer graphics field today, and his staggering knowledge of working with imagery in Photoshop and getting the results onto paper is unmatched by any self-proclaimed 'Photoshop Guru.' He has an amazing sense of humor, arrives to the point in the most entertaining and comprehensible of ways, yet never wavers from the task of teaching you how to think better." -DAVID BIEDNY, AUTHOR OF PHOTOSHOP CHANNEL CHOPS
The cover would have you believe that this is a book about digital prepress color correction, which is like saying that Leonardo da Vinci was a medical illustrator. Margulis' real agenda is to teach us to look critically at digital images, to understand what we see, and finally how to reason from our understanding toward an image we can take pride in. -THE USER MANUAL for DPHOTO SOFTWARE

Dan Margulis was one of the first three individuals―and the only writer―to be named as a member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame. In announcing his election, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals said, “Dan’s ability to reduce complicated concepts to words that users can understand and his insistence on dealing with real-world relevance have made him today’s most influential voice in color reproduction.” Dan’s 2006 best-seller, Photoshop LAB Color, revolutionized workflows. Channels expert David Biedny called Photoshop LAB Color “probably the most important Photoshop book ever written.”