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The Creative Digital Darkroom
by: Katrin Eismann, Sean Duggan

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 771
EAN: 9780596100476
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0596100477
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 429
Publication Date: January 11, 2008
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Sales Rank: 11348
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.

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This tutorial takes photographers beyond the quick tips and gimmicky effects of many digital photography books. Author Katrin Eismann -- an internationally acclaimed artist, bestselling author, and gifted educator -- offers high-profile work, including her own, as examples for teaching photographers how to use the digital medium to create, edit, and output images that reflect their true vision.

Co-authored by photographer and teacher Sean Duggan, The Creative Digital Darkroom translates skills, concepts, and nomenclature of the traditional darkroom into digital solutions for photographers who sense that, despite the newness of the technologies at hand, there remains a timeless method for learning and practicing photography the right way. This is not a Photoshop book per se, but it does focus on the photographic aspects of Photoshop, something other books claim to do but rarely have the discipline to accomplish. The Creative Digital Darkroom includes:

Four sections that cover the black & white darkroom, the color darkroom, creative techniques, and production essentials
Chapters that begin with a thorough foundation followed by numerous tutorial examples that apply the theory to real-world examples
Examples and a layout that enables readers to find, understand, and apply the featured techniques quickly and easily
The authors are both renowned photographers and Photoshop experts

Clearly, The Creative Digital Darkroom is not your typical digital photography 'how to' book. It's ideal for intermediate and advanced photographers, artists, and educators looking for clear, concise, insightful, and inspiring information and techniques on how to make their photographs shine. The language, and techniques will immediately appeal to serious students and professionals, and the original tutorial images and high-profile work will make the book an important visual resource for educators and art appreciators.

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- Getting the best out of your digital darkroom
Katrin Eismann and Sean Duggan set out in 'The Creative Digital Darkroom' to share some of the creative concepts and techniques they use when working in the digital darkroom. It's " ... more than just a book of Photoshop recipes and quick tips ... [it's about] How to look at the image and 'listen' to it; how changes to the delicate matrix of light and shadow tones can transform the mood and meaning of a photo; how to sculpt with light and contrast; and how to imagine colour and tonal changes that will best express your vision for the photograph."

Katrin is an internationally respected artist, teacher and writer specialising in creative digital photography. Sean is an art photographer, educator and Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert.

They hope the book will serve as a good travel companion as the reader explores their photography in their own creative digital darkroom.

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- gteat resource
Great book for those familiar with Photoshop. Not a book for novice users. Well written, good support images.

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- Excellant book on digital enhancement
At first glance the title might make you think this s an digital art type book but it is not. Katrin and Sean are experts on how to enhance your photos from RAW to finished print (online bonus chapter). The book is filled with color examples and explanations on how to modify a picture for the best look. While it is centered around Adobe Camera RAW and Lightroom, I find the examples to be quite easily applied to Bibble. If you are trying to upgrade your skills using todays computers and software, this book will greately enhance them. It is like being tuttored by Katrin and Sean. I highly recommend this book. Also, take a look at [...] for RAW software.

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- Solid Information
We all know that film photography will likely be around to some degree forever and ever, but we also know that just as snapshot processing kiosks have disappeared from parking lots, the general public's dedication to film cameras is already dead. Computerized post-processing is now squarely in the hands of John Q., and ever-increasing numbers of people are learning how to take and produce better photographs. In addition, really excellent and complex cameras are finding their way into the hands of more and more people.

"The Creative Digital Darkroom" is for people who are interested in making their photos better than the ones in Uncle George's cell phone. It's thorough, solid, informative, and serious in its approach to photographic post-processing. Yes, it's Photoshop and Lightroom specific, but let's face it: despite the many good digital dark-room programs available, Adobe's are the flagship standard. ... Read More

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