| The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing |  | Authors: Harold Davis, Phyllis Davis
Publisher: Focal Press
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Product Description
The Photoshop Darkroom offers limitless possibilities for photographers looking for jaw-dropping results, using powerful and innovative creative post-processing techniques. If you want folks to ask "How did you do that?" then this is the book for you! The images in The Photoshop Darkroom will inspire you and help you unleash your creative potential. You'll learn to view your own digital photography with new eyes. Step-by-step directions show you real-world examples of how to achieve the results you want from your photography and post-processing. *Learn how to work with RAW image files
*Understand the Photoshop darkroom workflow
*Multi-process RAW files
*Extend the dynamic range of your photographs
*Create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images by hand
*Create stunning black and white imagery with Photoshop
*Use layers and masking for compositing
*Create striking color effects using LAB color
Amazon Exclusive: A Letter from Harold and Phyllis Davis, Authors of The Photoshop Darkroom
  Dear Amazon Readers, If you are thinking of buying The Photoshop Darkroom: We believe we can promise you a Photoshop experience unlike any other. Our ideas--and many years of relevant experience--came together when we created The Photoshop Darkroom. We can promise you a very practical learning experience. Unlike the authors of many other Photoshop books, we are first and foremost photographers, creators, and experimenters. We do not care about the software bells and whistles that Photoshop provides unless these features are useful in the day-by-day tasks of image creation and photo enhancement. Speaking of day-by-day, we've created The Photoshop Darkroom using our experience working professionally with photography and Photoshop. That's working everyday, day in and day out, many hours a day--to create award-winning published imagery. We are eager to share the techniques we've developed over the years, and have designed our book to be your guide in your own creative journey with Photoshop. And your own creative journey it is! We didn't create The Photoshop Darkroom as a statement about how cool or great we are. This book is about you, the learner, and about what you can do next. Why should a Photoshop book be visually boring? We've designed our book to be as exciting and rich as the images you can create in the Photoshop environment itself. With the step-by-step directions in The Photoshop Darkroom, you can extend the dynamic range of your photos, selectively sharpen, paint with LAB colors, and much more. Digital photography is one part photography and one part digital software. So take the plunge and start on your journey towards becoming the best digital image maker you can be. It's our sincere hope that The Photoshop Darkroom is your springboard to creating great images! Harold & Phyllis Davis
A Look at Techniques from The Photoshop Darkroom
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The images below are digital photographs enhanced (and in some cases composited with other images) in the Photoshop darkroom using the techniques explained in The Photoshop Darkroom.  |  |  |  | | Utilized apparent transparency and the LAB color space for color adjustments and effects. | Utilized the LAB color space to create an inversion. | Simple photo compositing in the Photoshop darkroom adds a flower to the pupil of this eye. | Three photos are combined in Photoshop to create this exciting composite. |  |  |  |  | | This image uses image duplication and reversal to create a composite. | Black and white HDR conversion of the Cuban capitol building. | An Escher-like effect from a single fisheye shot of a staircase in Photoshop using various techniques. | Starting from one or two photographs one can create graphics that look more like paintings |
Product Description
The Photoshop Darkroom offers limitless possibilities for photographers looking for jaw-dropping results, using powerful and innovative creative post-processing techniques. If you want folks to ask "How did you do that?" then this is the book for you! The images in The Photoshop Darkroom will inspire you and help you unleash your creative potential. You'll learn to view your own digital photography with new eyes. Step-by-step directions show you real-world examples of how to achieve the results you want from your photography and post-processing. *Learn how to work with RAW image files *Understand the Photoshop darkroom workflow *Multi-process RAW files *Extend the dynamic range of your photographs *Create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images by hand *Create stunning black and white imagery with Photoshop *Use layers and masking for compositing *Create striking color effects using LAB color
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The Photoshop Darkroom July 19, 2010
Michael
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book - consise and extremely well put together - everything is easy to follow, unlike some "How To" books!! I also purchased one for another photographer friend and he's really enjoying it.
The Photoshop Darkroom March 28, 2010
R. I. Coles (Sydney)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Photoshop is a huge program, it could take years to learn all its capabilities if you only use it in your leisure hours. As an amateur photographer I wanted to learn which tools to use and a workflow for post processing of digital images. This book is perfect for that task, and is suitable for recent versions of Photoshop not just the current version CS4.
The almost impossible accomplished: Photoshop processes simplified March 27, 2010
William L. Davidson (Santa Fe)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first became aware of author and photographer Harold Davis a couple of months ago through an article he wrote on Selective Sharpening for "Photonet" ([...]). You can review this article on the Photonet Website under the "Learning" tab menu options.
There are many digital sharpening processes (that is increasing edge contrasts) available but Harold Davis' selective LAB sharpening is the first I have found which is an easily learned selective sharpening; a way to restrict sharpening to the areas which benefit from sharpening. It is necessary to advoid sharpening areas of soft focus, noise and other artifacts as sharpening these areas will degrade rather than improve the image. With this process, the user maintains fine control over each step.
Based on this very well written sharpening article, I researched the author to find that he has published more than thirty computer programming and digital photography books, each to excellent reviews by readers as well as professional reviewers. He is recognized in the digital photography field for his ability to share his expertise through classroom teaching and writting.
In The Photoshop Darkroom, he presents several varied processes for improving and applying special effects to digital images in Photoshop. He expands his selective sharpening presentation through screen shots of the Photoshop steps accompanied by concise notes. He follows this format for each of process presented in this book. He simplifies and improves many of the Photoshop processes I struggled with in learning Photoshop. This book will be helpful for those digital photographers beginning Photoshop through to the advanced users.
(If interested in digital black and white processing, note that Harold Davis will be releasing a book on this subject in April, 2010. I am eagerly awaiting my copy!)
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Fantastic! March 2, 2010
C. Dalessandro (Santa Fe, NM USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been doing photoshop for years and this book is written in easy to understand examples. I say it is a must for everyone.
THE BEST February 12, 2010
Maureen Welsh (Florida)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is the best I have ever used. Precise and to the point easy to follow instructions. All levels of photographers can benefit from this book.
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