Professional Photoshop: Color Correction, Retouching, and Image Manipulation With Adobe Photoshop

By Dan Margulis

Book Overview

Learn How to Get the Color Right 4 With techniques the pros use . . . 4 With hundreds of four-color images . . . 4 With the latest features of Photoshop 3 The unsurpassed image-manipulation capabilities of Adobe Photoshop make it the professional's choice for prepping digital photographs. The problem is, most books on Photoshop devote so much space to telling you how to achieve spectacular special effects that they shortchange you on the details of basic image enhancementAEcolor correction, conversions, composites, and all the other fundamental techniques you need to make images ready for press. Written especially for desktop and graphics professionals, Professional Photoshop shows how to get the most out of an image, even one that at first seems unacceptable. Beginning with a concise review of color theory, it provides guidelines on how to analyze a picture before scanning and color correction, and explains in exhaustive detail Photoshop's single most powerful toolAEthe input-output curves. Here, at last, is a book that: Covers color correction extensively, including how to create lifelike skin tones, how to correct for color casts, how to guarantee that the full tonal range is used, the problem of neutral colors, and how to sacrifice one part of the image to improve another Reveals how professionals use the tools you would least expect to create contrast and sharpness, with complete coverage of the role of black ink and of "unwanted color" Describes advanced cut-and-paste techniques, how to convert color images into snappy black and whites, and the best way to create convincing duotones

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471018732
• ISBN13: 9780471018735
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the top 5 books on color correction and image editing

Dan has an easy style that is very readable.Not for the novice but a must for anyone serious about color correcting.I didn't like having to flip back and forth to see examples on different pages.Some of his explainations would have been easier to follow if the examples were adjacent to the text. I didn't find that it was written at the time Photoshop 3 was out any impediment. Photoshop 5 is out now and it is just aas germain. I also read his other book Makeready which was just as good and not a rehash. I went to his course in Atlants and it was great. I understand he is working on a new book now and I'll be first in line to get it.

The Bible of Prepress color

This book will rip the sunglasses off your tired eyes and save you time and headaches. No more multiple selections and paths, no piddling with useless tools, no more guess work. It all starts with the info palette and the eyedropper. It is must reading. I strongly recommend Dan's color correction seminars either before or after to see the image transformations right before your eyes. The channel blending information is worth the price of 10 books!

A book that made me understand color correction on a Mac.

This book teaches you how to color correct an image using familiar elements within the image and the eyedropper and levels PhotoShop tools. You can actually correct an image on a black and white monitor after studying this book.

Essential Photoshop Guide

Killer Photoshop book! Even though it "only" covers Photoshop 3. If you're a "normal" working photographer or designer chances are you don't use 90% of the stuff you read about in the "Photoshop Bible" all the time. What you really use is levels, curves and the Info box. "Professional Photoshop" concentrates on those areas and really helps you understand what you're doing, and why!! I'd give it a "10" if it was upgraded to PS 4!