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Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace 1st Edition

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Discusses the basics of the Photoshop LAB colorspace, describing LAB's role in colorspace conversions, providing techniques to create color variation, and including the use of "imaginary colors."

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Dan Margulis is known as "the experts' expert on the logical and effective ways to make any image look its best"(Design Tools Monthly) and "the father of digital prepress" (Scott Kelby). In 2001, he was one of the first three individualsand the only writerto be named as a member of the Photoshop Hall of Fame. In announcing this election, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals said, "Dan's ability to reduce complicated concepts to words that users can understand and his insistence on dealing with real-world relevance have made him today's most influential voice in color reproduction."

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Peachpit Pr; 1st edition (January 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 366 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321356780
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321356789
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.36 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.8 x 9.75 inches

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Dan Margulis, an expert on color correction of photography, is author of Professional Photoshop, which, since its first edition in 1994, has become the unofficial Bible of the prepress and printing industries. His 2005 book Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace revolutionized workflows for many Photoshop users, and became the top-selling book in the entire computer/internet field.

Formerly a professional prepress manager with over 20 years experience heading electronics departments at high-end trade shops, he went on to offer hands-on color correction classes in the U.S., Canada and Europe, in four different languages. In September 2001, Dan was one of the first three persons named to the "Photoshop Hall of Fame" of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals.

Now semi-retired, he still teaches the occasional class. HiIs latest books are Modern Photoshop Color Workflow (2013) and, in 2020, a complete remake of M.E. Chevreul’s classic On the Law of Simultaneous Contrast of Colors.

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Tony in SF

An Excellent, Inexpensive, Comprehensive 360 Page Book

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2005

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Photoshop LAB Color is targeted at photo editing/correction using a method that is either completely unknown to most Photoshop users, or is at least only slightly familiar. If you think you already know all about LAB, don't buy this book. If you know nothing about LAB and you use Photoshop as your photo editor, this book will be a revelation to you. It's chock-full of excellent info and real-world examples of problem-photo corrections using LAB, and it explains in detail why LAB is often a better color space to work in than RBG (or CMYK).

Also, this isn't an absolute beginner's book but it doesn't pretend to be, and warns you that this can be a subject that requires a lot of thought to grasp completely.

Here are a few pluses and minuses as I see this book:

Positives:

1. The author has a sense of humor, and most of the time he's funny. This is well-balanced and the book doesn't rely heavily on humor to get you through it. If you prefer dry manuals full of bland statistics and dusty white-page explanations on theory and history, though, this ain't a book for you.

2. IMO this book is well-organized. The author starts with the basic concepts of LAB color, using simple changes to photos using LAB and shows you the differences between changes to the same photo using the RGB and CMYK color spaces. As the book progresses, the examples of problems become more and more complex so the solutions also become more complex.

3. The author uses lots of photos to show you what he's talking about, and they often take up lots of room on the pages. This book is about photo editing in LAB color, so this shouldn't be a big surprise to most people, and it's a definite benefit to SEE what the author is talking about.

4. If you are relatively new to Photoshop, there are many excellent techniques the author uses in conjunction with LAB that apply to good Photoshop editing in general, and you'll get a lot out of this book even if LAB color makes your head spin.

5. The book comes with a CD full of the original (unaltered) photos the author used in the book. This is cool, because you can take the photos into Photoshop and try them out yourself using LAB corrections. Of course, it's great to have the CD but if you don't sit in front of a computer while you read (I've read this book often on the bus to and from work every day) the pics in this book are invaluable as examples.

6. LAB Color is densely packed, but the type-face is large enough that you won't destroy your vision trying to read it. It will definitely take you a while to get through it, but it'll be very much worth your time.

7. Compared to the price of many other Photoshop books out there, this one is cheap and more than worth the price for what it offers.

Slightly Negatives:

1. The Forward and author's Intro are unnecessarily long and self-congratulatory, but you can decide that for yourself and skip a few pages if they bore you. I skimmed through both, got the gist of what they were saying, and moved on to Chapter 1. Not a big deal.

2. Example photos occasionally end up on different pages than the text that refers to those photos. It isn't always the case, and the problem is easily solved by turning back or forward a page or two. Sometimes irritating, but big deal!

Err, that's all I could think of, because I found this book to be very valuable overall. This one is definitely worth your time and money!

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Color Pro let's the rest of us in.

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2007

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It is easy to go wrong when you have the two best names in the trade write & review a technical book. This is as technical as technical gets for color manipulation. Think how incoherent geeks could be. Yet, this is easy reading. Color lab could be a place, with test tubes... but right out of the gate we are told it isn't "lab" it's "el ay bee" the L is for luminance and the A & B are just two arbitrary names for two strange interactions that our eyes do to see color.

This is about neurology. We don't see color as wavelength. Many interactions in our heads go into color perception - and - those interactions can be manipulated by linking color pairs as opposite ends of two sticks (two sticks, four colors).

So you learn to see images - no - you learn to re-see images as having qualities wherein the one stick is leaning too far and the other is too vertical. Huh? Lots of pictures and in no time at all you see it. Actually, it gets pretty obvious right away. Words like too thin, or flat looking, and where's the life? have you grabbing for those sticks so that you can turn them and fix the image.

This is the image handling equivalent of driving a stick shift. A little work, quickly intuitive and great control.

So, where do you go to buy these sticks? They are already in Photoshop (gathering dust).

Curvemeister is a commercial product to stand alone or be used as a hand holding plug-in with photoshop which uses L_a-b color manipulation.

So it is, what? Quicker once you learn it? Yeah. It's that.

Great for impressing people? No. Hard to explain. They'll think you are babbling.

Then what?

It can do things to images that the other methods just cannot do. They challanged and I tried. Certain types of color manipulation are just not possible working with the standard RGB switches. But it is easy for L_a-b (and it turns out for images of nature really important and commonplace).

If you are the type who really does not want to fool around with Photoshop manipulating RGB sliders or CMYK... then you'll hate L_a-b color and the book will not sit well with you.

But if you have Photoshop and are concerned about getting images their absolute best - especially >> FOR PRINT <<, then just do it. Get the book. Get off your big bottom and learn. I can hear them clapping for you already. Nice pictures!

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S. Davis

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Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2009

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Photoshop LAB color by Dan Margulis is the ultimate book on how to use LAB in photoshop to enhance color in photographs that tend to look dull and are lacking contrast. I enjoyed the first few chapters which were fairly straight forward in the application of LAB. Later chapters however, become very complex and may need to be read several times in order to fully understand the concepts being presented. I would only recommend this book for photoshop users that want to dig much deeper into methods for enhancing photos, and who are willing to wade through the technical explanations offered.

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A. J. Pye

Some nice tips, tricks and techniques...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 18, 2009

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After seeing some of Dan Margulis's previous work and being reasonably impressed, and after a tutorial on boosting colour with LAB, I finally decided to buy this book.

It's a useful textbook from which I've learned some new and interesting techniques. They won't all be hugely relevant to every photographer, but they're still useful to have up your sleeve in case you can find a use for them.

I feel like I should attempt to dispel some of the criticism I've read for this book in other reviews. This is generally aimed a few areas:

- "He keeps referring to images that aren't even on the same page as the text": this is true, but 90% of the time they're only on the next or previous page. Any textbook will refer to figures at other points in the book, it's unavoidable.

- "It's written in too complicated a fashion": I disagree completely. Even the intro to the book warns that it's complicated and says things along the lines of, "even highly-experienced professional retouchers have needed to reread sections to understand them". Well, I'm not exactly an expert (I've been buried in Elements and then CS4 for around a year now) and I've understood every section so far without rereading. That's not me boasting about how clever I must be - it's just that it isn't necessarily as complicated a book as some people seem to be making out.

- "He labours the point and spends aaaaages explaining everything": OK, this one's true. But it isn't necessarily a bad thing; sometimes he puts a little reminder of a previous point in a few chapters later, or gives 2-3 examples of a particular technique, each a little more complicated than the last. Alright, this means there's a lot of text in the book, but I've found that it makes learning from it progressive and straightforward.

- "The whole book could be summed up in an 8-page white paper": Again, this is pretty much true. But the author hints at applications of the techniques presented, and with some thought, anyone who's understood them will be able to find applications for them where they might not have realised there was any possibility...

- "His writing style is too aggressive": Once more, possibly (it's a matter of taste). I think it could come across this way, but it seems to me that it's written to prove a point. Sometimes it's admittedly a bit blunt and forceful, but taking everything he says with a pinch of salt helps ;-)

My only concern is that the book seems to assume for the most part that you're starting from a bad original image. I shoot RAW format and use CS4's Camera Raw to improve my images before opening them in Photoshop, so some of the things he discusses don't apply to the same extent as in the textbook example. However, they're still useful and effective techniques.

A worthwhile read - if you can make yourself read it!

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Michel T

I was finding that color correction using traditional RGB channels was lacking or even worse, degrading the final output

Reviewed in Canada on June 17, 2016

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I bought this book after reading about the utility of using the LAB color space to enhance my pictures using Photoshop. I was finding that color correction using traditional RGB channels was lacking or even worse, degrading the final output. Cranking up color in post processing was often over saturating my images.

The book is 366 pages, includes color and black and white images, plus a DVD workshop.

So, this book by Dan Margulis, is a guide into the LAB colorspace. It has taught me a new way of processing my color images. I regard it as a companion to my Photoshop techniques. It comes highly recommended for Photoshop users looking to enhance their images.

Mr. S. Hyams

Conundrum of a read...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2010

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I agree with many of the previous reviews. This book takes a bit of reading even if you exclude the more "complex" explanations as suggested by the author. That said, I have immediately changed the way I process certain types of image. There are plenty of Lab techniques to learn and with a bit of re-reading, prove to be much better than RGB or Channels. In particular, I now use it for general saturation, noise reduction and sharpening. Its amazing how good Lab lends itself to these three processes, with less damage to the original image, especially sharpening artifacts.

It only gets 4 stars because, as stated, its a tough read/re-read book.

What an eye-opener!

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Yukonlady

Well written, and great information.

Reviewed in Canada on April 17, 2015

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I had never worked in LAB before this book, and found it extremely informative, and a totally new way to improve and work with colour in Photoshop. I haul it off the shelf frequently to follow along to improve my photos. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in learning about LAB, but have to say that some Photoshop knowledge is a prerequisite, as it is not a beginners book.

m2gdh

I bought this as I had heard and seen a ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 24, 2017

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I bought this as I had heard and seen a lot about the benefits of image editing using LAB.
It is clearly written by an expert that knows his stuff and can explain it to mere mortals.
I picked up a used copy that still had the DVD.
This is fairly important as it means you can replicate the workflow explained in the text on the original images.

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