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Ted Padova (Author), Don Mason (Author)
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February 12, 2007 0470048921 978-0470048924 1
  • Shows digital photo enthusiasts how to ensure that the color in an image file is accurately represented and reproduced, from camera or scanner to monitor or printer
  • Packed with color management solutions that will help novices create picture-perfect images
  • Discusses the main components of color management including understanding light, matching digital images to displays and prints, working with color spaces, calibrating a printer, and using color management tools
  • Familiarizes readers with the various color management tools that help calibrate consistent picture quality

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From the Back Cover

Here's your key to perfect color in digital images

Fine-tune brightness, contrast, and tone with Photoshop® Elements and these tips

Shooting great photos is only half the battle—tweaking the details in your digital darkroom makes the difference between so-so images and spectacular ones. This book is packed with examples to guide you through understanding color basics, correcting brightness and contrast, getting the exact tone and hue, and creating perfect prints—in full color, of course!

Discover how to

  • Build a viewing booth
  • Create and apply color profiles
  • Use adjustment layers to correct contrast
  • Achieve great-looking skin tones
  • Save money with accurate soft proofs

About the Author

Ted Padova first began his interest in amateur photography as a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela. He toured five Latin American countries, collecting shoeboxes of slides he hopefully will one day sort out. Upon completion of his two-year Peace Corps tour, he attended the New York Institute of Photography in Manhattan when it was a resident school, earning a diploma in Commercial Photography.
In 2004, he retired from his Digital Imaging Service Bureau and Custom Photo Finishing Lab after 15 years of owning and operating three facilities. He has authored over 25 computer books on Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Adobe Illustrator. Today, he spends his time writing and speaking nationally and internationally on Acrobat PDF and digital imaging.

Don Mason is a graduate of Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. He has been a professional photographer for more than three decades and works in virtually every aspect of commercial photography. Don first started using a computer in 1999, when he didn’t believe that digital imaging would ever replace his wing lynch system used for processing all his E-6 film and his darkroom where he made his own C-prints. After 4 years of intensive work in Adobe Photoshop, he abandoned his analog film lab and went completely digital. Today, he divides his time shooting professional commercial photography and printing art prints for a wide range of clients on his two, oversized Epson inkjet printers.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 318 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (February 12, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470048921
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470048924
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #944,889 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Ted Padova is the author of more than 25 computer books. He writes primarily on Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and Adobe Illustrator. He is a nationally and internationally known speaker on Adobe Acrobat and digital imaging.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Wow - Color Management that is understandable!, August 13, 2007
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I would give this book ten stars if I could. Color management is something that all digital photographers need to be competent with. There is very little on the subject that is comprehensible to those that are not technically inclined. This book meets and fills that gap in an excellent and understandable manner. And it is brand new! And full of color illustrations (something new for "Dummies books"). And it is geared to Photoshop Elements 5, a program with a large following. I teach a Digital Darkroom class using Elements 5 and this book is a natural follow on for that class. It also ties in very nicely with the new Photoshop Elements 5 for Dummies book. (Also full of color illustrations). Of course if you use the full versions of Photoshop, the principals are the same but you implement them slightly different, so the book is valid for both versions. It also covers the Mac version of Photoshop Elements. All in all, a great book!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Product description unsatisfactory, November 2, 2010
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I am very disappointed with Amazon's Product Description for this book. Both book title and Product Information belies subject content. The book is meant for Photoshop Elements users, but nowhere in the product description is this mentioned. I use Photoshop CS2 and so it is non-specific for my use. For other Photoshop users not using "Elements", the book you want apparently is "Color Correction for Digital Photographers Only" (Wiley Publishing) - according to the book I purchased.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent on Photoshop, February 22, 2008
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This is a very good book. There's a lot of useful information specially for beginners. The book explains all the basics of color management. It gives you a good understanding on what's going on your image file from the moment you take a picture up to the printing of your final images. It's really focused on Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0. So, I found the title a little misleading since I was looking for a book to teach me about Color Management without leaning to a particular software. Nevertheless it's a very good book.
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calibrating your monitor, printer color management, target gamma, rendering intent, best photo, target white point, profile converter, soft proofing color, contrast increase curve, color workspace profile, final edited image, output color profile, histogram hill, index color mode, correcting skin tones, monitor color profile, raw converter, magenta shift, brightness corrections, gray balance, contrast corrections, desktop color printer, using adjustment layers, making tonal, color editing
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Photoshop Elements, Auto Levels, Color Variations, Input Levels, Adjust Color Curves, Standard Edit, The Basics of Color Editing, Full Edit, Color Corrections, Levels Learn, Advanced Color-Correction Methods, Adobe Gamma, Output Levels, Auto Contrast, Remove Color Cast, Finishing Work, Image Size, Color Correcting Skin Tones, Color Settings, Photo Bin, Resample Image, Adobe Photoshop, Moving the Gamma, The Part of Tens, Correcting Contrast
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