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The Creative Digital Darkroom
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by Katrin Eismann and Sean Duggan
Sales Rank: 12868
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List Price: $49.99
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Paperback: 429 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; 1 edition January 11, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596100477
ISBN-13: 978-0596100476
Product Dimensions:
10 x 7.9 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Product Description
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.
About The Author
Katrin Eismann is known throughout the world for her talent as a Photoshop expert and photographer, but above all she's considered one of the best teachers her field has ever seen. This book uses the clear, concise tutorial approach that made her two previous Photoshop books bestsellers that take photographers beyond quick tips and gimmicky effects.
Sean Duggan is a fine art photographer, educator and Adobe Certified Photoshop Expert with extensive experience in both the traditional and digital darkroom. Co-author of "Real World Digital Photography" and "Photoshop Artistry", he has been helping photographers master Photoshop and digital darkroom technique through his workshops and classes for over 10 years.
Customer Reviews & Comments
Katrin Eismann is a phenomenal author and has compiled two excellent books, photoshop masking and compositing as well as photoshop restoration and retouching...with those books in mind, one may have thought that this book would be special, it's not...the book appears to be aimed at those people interested in a broad understanding of photoshop including workspaces, color management, color settings, types of printers, types of cameras, curves, levels etc...the basics...the authors eventually get into some reasonably "creative" work but not before most of the book deals with general information. There are too many books like this on the market. There are books that specialize in color (any of Dan Margulis's books) and sharpening and layers, masks, skin, etc...To try to pack that all into one book is simply giving one a taste, a general taste of the subject. This may be a good book for the beginner that wants to understand more about photoshop or an educator teaching a basic course, but this is not a book for a moderately skilled photoshop user. Unfortunately, this book was listed without a table of contents or an accurate description of its purpose. I would expect more from a Katrin Eismann book at this point in her career. p.s., thanks for the editorial review...i wish it or something similair would have been available prior to the date this book was first shipped to customers...If you're looking for a good book that focuses on the creative side of photoshop, consider Vincent Versace's, Welcome to Oz. My suggestion would be to proof read a copy of this book at Barnes and Noble etc...and decide if it's right for you. Various opinions will prevail and don't get fooled by reviews that covertly promote the author at the expense of the reader.
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The Creative Digital Darkroom
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