The Photoshop Darkroom: Creative Digital Post-Processing

piThe Photoshop Darkroom/i 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! /p pThe images in iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i will inspire you and help you unleash your creative potential. You'll learn to view your own digital photography with new eyes. /p pStep-by-step directions show you real-world examples of how to achieve the results you want from your photography and post-processing. /pbrbrp*Learn how to work with RAW image files /p p*Understand the Photoshop darkroom workflow /p p*Multi-process RAW files /p p*Extend the dynamic range of your photographs /p p*Create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images by hand /p p*Create stunning black and white imagery with Photoshop /p p*Use layers and masking for compositing /p p*Create striking color effects using LAB color /p

bProduct Description/bbr/ iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i 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! /p pThe images in iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i 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. /p p*Learn how to work with RAW image files br*Understand the Photoshop darkroom workflow br*Multi-process RAW files br*Extend the dynamic range of your photographs br*Create High Dynamic Range (HDR) images by hand br*Create stunning black and white imagery with Photoshop br*Use layers and masking for compositing br*Create striking color effects using LAB color /p br/ hr class="bucketDivider" size="1" / br/ B class="h1"Amazon Exclusive: A Letter from Harold and Phyllis Davis, Authors of iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i/B br / br / img align="right" border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/PhyllisDavis150.jpg"/ img align="right" border="0" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/HaroldDavis150.jpg"/ Dear Amazon Readers,/p If you are thinking of buying iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i:/p 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 iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i./p 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./p Speaking of day-by-day, we've created iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i 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./p And your own creative journey it is! We didn't create iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i as a statement about how cool or great we are. This book is about you, the learner, and about what you can do next./p 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 iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i, you can extend the dynamic range of your photos, selectively sharpen, paint with LAB colors, and much more./p 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 iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i is your springboard to creating great images!/p piHarold Phyllis Davis/i/p br/ hr class="bucketDivider" size="1" / br/ p align="left" B class=h1A Look at Techniques from iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i/Bbr/ bClick to Enlarge/bbr/ The images below are digital photographs enhanced (and in some cases composited with other images) in the Photoshop darkroom using the techniques explained in iThe Photoshop Darkroom/i. ptable width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="25%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/PoppiesonWhite200.jpg" border="0" /td td width="25%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/PoppiesonBlack200.jpg" border="0"/td td width="25%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/EyeStudy2_200.jpg" border="0"/td td width="25%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/EyeofWonder200.jpg" border="0"/td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="25%"Utilized apparent transparency and the LAB color space for color adjustments and effects./td td width="25%"Utilized the LAB color space to create an inversion. /td td width="25%"Simple photo compositing in the Photoshop darkroom adds a flower to the pupil of this eye./td td width="25%"Three photos are combined in Photoshop to create this exciting composite. /td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="25%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/InsidetheTower200.jpg" border="0"/td td width="25%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/CapitolioNacional200.jpg" border="0"/td td width="25%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/StairKnot200.jpg" border="0"/td td width="25%" img src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/hmh-ems/StairtoHeaven200.jpg" border="0"/td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" class="tiny" td width="25%"This image uses image duplication and reversal to create a composite./td td width="25%"Black and white HDR conversion of the Cuban capitol building./td td width="25%"An Escher-like effect from a single fisheye shot of a staircase in Photoshop using various techniques./td td width="25%"Starting from one or two photographs one can create graphics that look more like paintings /td /tr /table HR class=bucketDivider noShade SIZE=1="/"