Today serious photographers shoot raw images only. Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop was the first book devoted exclusively to the topic.
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It exceeds my expectations by a wide margin.
Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS5
A few other minor differences don't detract at all from the applicability of this book to Lightroom 3. While this is a book on specifically Camera Raw 6, the first couple of chapters are broad applicability to any digital photographer who wants to understand where the data in a digital image comes from it's not very intuitive , how it is processed within the camera surprisingly complex , and what needs to be processed externally and how the data and metadata in the image affects all steps of image processing.
The tradeoffs of RAW vs. I have about half a dozen books on various topics related to Lightroom, color, workflow, and so on, and Real World Camera Raw RWCR far outshines all of them in both breadth and depth of useful, practical techniques. Every feature of Camera Raw is covered, not as a checklist but with very clear emphasis on the things that are most important and always within the context of why and what is going on with the data.
Short passing mentions of less important or duplicated functions don't clutter the book and keep the reader focused on the key concepts and techniques. The goal of the book is to equip the reader with the conceptual framework, the understanding of the important questions and tradeoffs, all the way down to the specific techniques, that make for the best possible image file to feed into the next stage of processing.
In the case of a Lightroom user like myself, that "final stage" is actually the end result -- the printed, displayed, or shared image, so to a large extent RWCR is an absolutely outstanding "Missing Lightroom Manual", far and away the best I've seen. I particularly enjoyed the clarity of discussion of how the basic tone controls impact the available data in the image, and the resulting observation that photos should be just slightly overexposed to maximize the information that can be produced.
Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS5
The discussions of sharpening and noise reduction are also very well done, and these features in Lightroom 3 or, Camera Raw 6 are particularly well evolved. After reading RWCR you will have a firm grasp of how to approach optimizing the quality of each image, whether you are a beginning or advanced Lightroom 3 or Camera Raw 6 user. Hats off to the authors for an outstanding work with immediately useful information on almost every page.
Michael Farber Top Contributor: I am an digital photography enthusiast. All my shootings are done in strictly Raw format and all my raw images are in Canon CR2 extension file type. There is no question about some benefits of this book for actually any type of photographers, however, unless you are a professional photographer and this is how you make your living but not a hobbyist like me, you are going to be somehow disappointed with the content of the book information.
I am very much analytical person and my profession is in the computer programming field so I have developed this ability to learn from a book complex and highly analytical information and processes. The author of this book mostly focuses on how to organize and efficiently process your images using Camera Raw and Bridge CS5 using the concept of the Workflow without actually spending too much time on the image editing itself using the Camera Raw as a step by step manual.
He only dedicated 2 chapters for using Camera Raw software and he actually did not show you and explain as if your image had that problem, you would have to use that tool to do that type of an adjustment and why.
He just tells you that Jeff made highlights warmer and shadows cooler, or sometimes he would say you might have to do either Parametric or Point adjustments, or use Split Toning and so on showing some sample images that you can download but far not all of them. He did not connect the image particular problems with Camera Raw very large array of adjustments to correct them.
Despite the fact he follows you with the usage of different tools and shows you how to use them but unfortunately, you can't pinpoint the specific principles for doing right editing adjustment for specific image problems. The most frustration I've got when the author shows some dialog boxes with the properties, however, he fails to tell you where to find these dialog boxes and you have to search around in your software page interface for the place where you can click some menus or preferences and might find this optional dialog boxes.
All in all, this book is mostly dedicated to professional photographers for planning, strategies, organizing and filtering images, metadata of images, workflow and as how to use Adobe Bridge CS5 to make it all easy. If you really want to understand the Camera Raw image editing software, I think you should try to find a book that targets a hobbyist in digital photography who is looking to find technique for creating his images as close as possible to professional ones as we do not deal with thousands of images on a weekly basis and really do not need all these organizing and special strategic workflow skills to save some time.
The information in this Kindle edition definitely kicked my image processing skills up a notch. The only difficulties I've had with the Kindle edition are areas where Adobe's ACR program doesn't really make much sense, and the fact that the example images are smallish and grainy on my iPad.
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They do the job, however. I wasn't sure if this was the latest available version, but it's certainly up to date. Only the latest features in e. Bought as a gift for a digital photography enthusiast, who reported that it contains so much information on the fundamental concepts of the processes involved that it has wide application beyond the exact version of the software discussed,.
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One person found this helpful. Concepts are very clearly explained and the relationship between Camera Raw and Photoshop CS-- is explored nicely - such as, how much to do in Camera Raw and when to move to PhotoShop. I use CS6 and sometimes CS4. But this book is directly applicable to both and well worth a very detailed read if you are exploring how to use these powerful tools. Camera Raw Process Versions. Exposure and Linear Capture. Image Editing and Image Degradation. Opening Multiple Files as Layers. Download the sample pages includes Chapter 4 and Index.
Get unlimited day access to over 30, books about UX design, leadership, project management, teams, agile development, analytics, core programming, and so much more. Publishers of technology books, eBooks, and videos for creative people. The information in this Kindle edition definitely kicked my image processing skills up a notch. The only difficulties I've had with the Kindle edition are areas where Adobe's ACR program doesn't really make much sense, and the fact that the example images are smallish and grainy on my iPad.
They do the job, however. I wasn't sure if this was the latest available version, but it's certainly up to date. Only the latest features in e. Bought as a gift for a digital photography enthusiast, who reported that it contains so much information on the fundamental concepts of the processes involved that it has wide application beyond the exact version of the software discussed,.
Concepts are very clearly explained and the relationship between Camera Raw and Photoshop CS-- is explored nicely - such as, how much to do in Camera Raw and when to move to PhotoShop. I use CS6 and sometimes CS4. But this book is directly applicable to both and well worth a very detailed read if you are exploring how to use these powerful tools.
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