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The Complete Raw Workflow Guide: How to get the most from your raw images in Adobe Camera Raw, Lightroom, Photoshop, and Elements

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I my humble opinion, this is the best book on understanding Camera Raw processing and gaining the hands on experience in a user friendly way.
Why? The book is written in plain straight forward English, with plenty of screen shots pertaining to the application interfaces. The layout of the book is very user friendly. Unlike many other instructional books, the pictures here are large enough to easily see all the details. The book is divided logically into independent chapters regarding both the hands on process and the more in detail background information. You can focus on those chapters you are interested in, or just read the book from A to Z.
I checked and bought several books on this subject and The Complete Raw Workflow Guide is clearly the winner!

I am an amateur photographer and have been shooting in raw for over a year now. I think this has to be the best book on Camera Raw I have seen to date. The author not only discusses the actual application of Camera Raw, but also talks about setting up your workflow, camera(not brand specific), and how to take better pictures while set up to shoot raw. The chapters are in-depth and full of useful information you would actually use on a regular basis. He also touches on some often overlooked aspects such as the best way to download your raw images, organize them and protect them. No book on Camera Raw would be complete without a chapter on Lightroom, but it's not overdone and keeps the focus on Camera Raw. Another nice feature of this book is the addition of a chapter for editing pictures in Photoshop including photo restoration. Overall, I would highly recommend this book for anyone who would like to take their photography to a new level via post processing.

When writing "Stoppees' Guide to Photography & Light" I had a great deal of research to do for the chapter on camera raw. I would have LOVED to have this book. Philip Andrews has done an excellent job. The depth of his exploration on the topic fully deserves the name "Complete." If you're new to this and starting with Photoshop Elements, Philip has you covered. If you're a long-time Photoshop Extended user, Mr. Andrews has plenty to share with you as well. From one author to another, "There Cheers" (if not four or five)!

I'm still reading it but it's been very useful so far. I'm not as good on the computer as my sons (not many people of my generation are) but he explains things well. I have the "Lightroom" program but I always found it too difficult to use and relied instead on "Digital Photo Professional" by Canon to work on my Raw files. I've finally ventured back to "Lightroom" and it's beginning to make sense. This will be a great reference for a long time for me. Bonnie Yagiela (PS I have a Canon 20D and a 50D, Adobe CS4 and Lightroom.)

The book has helped me to use RAW and to understand what I'm doing. I really wish they could spend a little mor on illustrations, any word within the illus. are to small for me to read without a magnifier. Then maybe the book would get a 5.

a great book to learn adobe lightroom with it covers all aspects of the system including raw development(always a problem) but not with this book.
Delivery from Amazon was first class and well within the time specified on purchase.I would not hesitate to purchase other media from Amazon.Keep up the good work
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