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Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS
- By Bruce Fraser
- Published Jul 8, 2004 by Peachpit Press. Part of the Real World series.
- Copyright 2005
- Dimensions: 7-1/2 X 9-1/4
- Pages: 256
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-321-27878-X
- ISBN-13: 978-0-321-27878-4
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Bruce Fraser is an internationally known author, consultant, and speaker on the topics of digital imaging and color reproduction. He is a contributing editor for Macworld magazine as well as co-author of the best-selling books Real World Photoshop and Real World Color Management.
Call it a control thing, but until recently--or, more specifically, until the availability of digital raw camera formats--you simply weren't ready to make the move to digital photography. Raw formats, however, changed all of that by allowing you to retrieve images before any in-camera processing has been performed. Photoshop's Adobe Camera Raw plug-in makes that process even easier by providing a standardized way of accessing and working with these uncompressed digital negatives in your favorite image-manipulation software. In the first volume devoted exclusively to the topic, best-selling author Bruce Fraser shows you how to take advantage of Adobe Camera Raw to set white balance, optimize contrast and saturation, handle noise, correct tint, and recover lost detail in images before converting them to another format. After learning about the raw formats themselves, you'll discover hands-on techniques for exposing and shooting for digital raw, using the File Browser to preview images and automate tasks, and building a workflow around the digital raw process.
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89 of 93 people found the following review helpful
If You Use PS Camera Raw, Read This Book, By
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Let me start out by saying that when it comes to photography, I'm a control freak. I love the histogram and blinkies on my DSLR, and naturally I shoot in camera raw so that I can control processing even more. I've used the camera raw plug-in for PhotoShop ever since it came out. But I;ve been unhappy with the information I?ve been able to find about camera raw in the various books and magazines I've read. Oh, everything you need to know is in the off-line and on-line documentation, but I've always found you have to know what you are looking for to find some of the features. A typical example for me was sharpening. I knew that I wanted to sharpen my images after I got done with all of my adjustments so I set sharpness at zero in the camera raw plug-in, but sometimes that meant that I had to make adjustments in camera raw on fuzzy images. I never knew that you could set the preferences for camera raw so that there was sharpening of the preview but not of the image exported to PS...
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51 of 53 people found the following review helpful
Short and to the point- Must have book for Photoshop RAW, By
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Many find his other books a bit overwhelming (Real World Photoshop, Real World Color Management). This one is short and to the point.He tells you how to squeeze every drop of quality from your digital capture. And, he says how to do it quickly and reliably with Photoshop's built in RAW processor. The language in this book is simpler. Or maybe it is just that I have already read the other books. One idea that I have picked up already and will use every day is "Highlight recovery" using the exposure slider. I had always figured that burned out highlights meant a trip to the trash can. "Not necessarily so" he says. Highly recommended for intermediate to advanced users. He has given me more useful advice for Photoshop than all other writers combined. Henry Domke [...]
31 of 32 people found the following review helpful
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I gave this book only 4 stars because of the photos, the before and after of which are surprisingly similar, if not identical. Didn't anyone proof the photos in a Photoshop book?!If you are an intermediate or advanced Photoshop user, it is a most informative and easy to understand book. If you want to learn about why to shoot in RAW and how to process with the RAW format, it's all here. Having used the basic Camera Raw program that came with my camera, it is such a joy to use Photoshop Camera Raw program with understanding and skill! Other than this book though, you should know that there is a wealth of information on Camera RAW right on the Adobe website under Support. Click on Search and enter first the White Papers, and next enter "Digging into Camera Raw" under tutorials and troubleshooting. This information gave me all the instructions that I needed. But I also copied the links for you: [...] Many of the Adobe Digital Photography White... Read more |
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Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS
3/25/2005
Charlotte Co. Computer Group Corp
" This is a very specialized book. However, it provides a wealth of information for those photographers working with RAW files and using Adobe’s Photoshop CS to process them. It is a worthy addition to a photographer’s library."
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