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Professional Photoshop 6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Margulis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Cdr
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471403997
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6869
EAN: 9780471403999
ASIN: 0471403997
Publication Date: January 3, 2001
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Plenty of books cover all things Photoshop, but Professional Photoshop 6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction is probably one of the few that ought to be required reading. Filled with clear text and colour images, this new edition of the classic colour usage guide stands out among its peers. Updated to reflect changes in Photoshop since the previous edition, nearly half the material is either new or has been rewritten. Colour correction itself hasn't changed, but the way it's done and the need for doing it certainly has. The book contains 17 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of correction and image reproduction: colourspaces, resolution, luminosity, separation, channels, and much more. Each chapter is worthy of study, and all are interesting. While not a step-by-step tutorial guide, the text is written so that the driving idea behind each technique--in addition to a demonstration of it--is explained, allowing the reader to apply what is learned to his or her own work. For the first time, this book includes a CD-ROM. While not exactly overflowing with content, it does include images from the book that anxiously await colour correction, as well as some chapters that were in earlier editions of the book but are not present in this one. There is also an important chapter on moving from a pre-version 5 Photoshop to version 6 (a significant jump). The book doesn't try to be a Photoshop all-inclusive encyclopedia. Instead, it focuses on one aspect of the tool. Fortunately, since colour correction is probably the most important, complex, and misunderstood areas of digital imaging, Professional Photoshop 6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction excels at explaining and exploring the process behind the curtain, and the right and wrong way to adjust the colour of images. --Mike Caputo
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| Customer Reviews:
The most authoritative book on colour and its correction. January 22, 2001
craig@aucklandphotographer.co.uk (Bristol, UK)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Before you rush out and buy this though, don't be mislead by the title. A guide to Photoshop 6 it is not. There are no hints and tips on where the paint bucket tool has been moved to, since version 5.5 of photoshop, or even a breakdown on the various tools available. This is a complete handbook to correcting colour, contrast, sharpness and preparing for printing. Dan Margulis is a colour expert, not a photographer/artist. Thus this is a technical book covering a very difficult subject and offers a particular 'by the numbers' approach that could change your way of correcting images. Particular emphasis is placed on using the CMYK colourspace; although the LAB and RGB spaces are not missed. Although a beginner could understand the principles and approaches used, certain knowledge of Photoshop and colour is required to reap the full benefits of the text. This is a book that serves as a reference guide and manual that is first read. Then read again, and again, and again. A CD-ROM is supplied with some pdf format chapters taken from the earlier books that have been omitted for 'the better stuff'. This also contains most of the images used in the book for side by side learning. In short: Buy this book to learn about colour correction. Be prepared to put a large chunk of brainpower into understanding the elements discussed and ultimately produce better colour images.
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