Professional Photoshop: Color Correction, Retouching, and Image Manipulation with Adobe Photoshop

by Dan Margulis

Learn How to Get the Color Right! 4 With techniques the pros use . . . 4 With hundreds of four-color images . . . 4 With the latest features of Photoshop 3! The unsurpassed image-manipulation capabilities of Adobe Photoshop make it the professional's choice for prepping digital photographs. The problem is, most books on Photoshop devote so much space to telling you how to achieve spectacular special effects that they shortchange you on the details of basic image enhancementæcolor correction, conversions, composites, and all the other fundamental techniques you need to make images ready for press. Written especially for desktop and graphics professionals, Professional Photoshop shows how to get the most out of an image, even one that at first seems unacceptable. Beginning with a concise review of color theory, it provides guidelines on how to analyze a picture before scanning and color correction, and explains in exhaustive detail Photoshop's single most powerful toolæthe input-output curves. Here, at last, is a book

Paperback

First published January 20, 1995

Reviews

[Shirley]

Great "how-to" book, with practical knowledge and tips about how to pull the best possible colour out of an image. Helped me in my work when I first bought it.

If working with newer editions of Photoshop, purchase the latest edition.