 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | Black and white photography has come a long way in the digital world. This comprehensive reference will help you maximize your workflow with coverage of all of the relevant new features of Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom 2, including every stage of the black and white process from capture to printing. Along the way, you'll find in-depth explanations of key topics such as color management, optimizing your workspace, softproofing and calibration (both onscreen and for output), evaluating histograms, non-destructive editing, and much more.
New features in this edition include:
*In-depth coverage of workflow using the Bridge and Adobe Camera RAW components of CS4
*New recipes and tips for advanced black and white conversion
*Coverage of Lightroom and Photoshop integration features
*An overview of scanners and scanning your black and white film
*Advice on exposure essentials and how to apply the Zone System to your digital shooting
*A brand new chapter on black and white and creative image editing in Lightroom
Breathtaking color and black and white photographs, including Leslie Alsheimer's image which won the coveted Vincent Versace award at Photoshop World in 2008, will inspire you to expand your own creativity to limitless possibilities. This is the essential resource for any photographer shooting black and white in the digital age.
*The only book available that takes a head-on approach to creating stunning black and white shots with a workflow using the industry-standard software packages, Photoshop and Lightroom
*Packed with stunning, inspirational images that place the highly practical informative content in a visual context
*Written by Photoshop product manager and Lightroom evangelist Bryan O'Neil Hughes, and NAPP guru award winner Leslie Alsheimer |
Average Customer Rating:  Best B&W Conversion Techniques around Fantastic B&W conversion book, easy to follow. Starts with in camera settings all the way through to printing. This book is all you will ever need to produce absolutly stunning conversions. Creative Insight For some time my ability with digital to black and white has been suffering. I had seen many examples of black and white digital shots that wowed me and this made me yearn to expand my abilities with black and white conversion.
This was the book I chose. I usually go down to Borders and browse the many titles. Later I will think about the books and most often come shopping on Amazon to make my final purchase to save money.
This time was different. I spent about 15 minutes looking at this book and a few others and I knew I wanted it enough to where I put down the extra 12 buck and walked out of the store.
I was not and have not been disappointed. My black and white pictures were immediately improved. And although I originally bought this to use with Photoshop I was pleasantly surprised as how well it works with Lightroom as well.
It is laid out an sections that work together and separately and there are many examples on varying manners in which to achieve different results.
Most informative and useful book I have found I am very interested in using Photoshop for creating Black and White images for digital printing.
The source of the images are from a digital camera as well as large format negatives which have been carefully scanned
I am familiar with traditional darkroom techniques but needed information on using Photoshop to produce effects like dodging, burning, contrast adjustment, filtering, large sky burns or edge burns etc.
I also hoped to become more familiar with non destructive PS techniques such as layers masking and selections
Every book I purchased (and there are far to many) provided information not related to my interest despite the titles.
The authors of Black and White in Photoshop CS4 and Lightroom go directly to the heart of the matter as defined in the title. The book proved useful immediately.
There is a step by step approach which is never boring and always instructive
The critical areas of scanning, capture and adjustments from color to B&W are brilliantly covered
I recommend this book to anyone who is captivated by the Title
The book will not disappoint black and white in pshopcs4 any one who loves b/w here is a book to help change those digital to the b/w everyone enjoys The Best Book On Digital Photography That I Have Read This is about the fifth book on using Photoshop that I have ordered in the past year, and I think it is the best by far. This book is about black and white photography, but the authors do such a great job on explaining how digital photography works that I believe any serious photographer would benefit from reading this great book.
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