Preventive Photoshop shows you how to shave hours off your computer time by learning essential photographic techniques that, when coupled with Adobe Photoshop, let you create professional-quality images. According to author Douglas Ford Rea, the key is knowing which problems are more easily solved before the shutter is clicked rather than after the files are down loaded. By understanding image fundamentals like lighting, white balance, and color correction, you'll begin to "think in Photoshop." You'll learn:
- How to eliminate image noise for sharp-looking images
- Why shooting camera raw yields the best image results
- How to color manage your camera and your computer
- Why in-camera sharpening must be turned off
- How to read histograms and highlight warnings
- Why previewing images on your camera LCD is misleading
- How to create a camera-to-computer feedback loop
Chapter 1 What Is Preventive Photoshop?
Chapter 2 Understanding Digital Capture
Chapter 3 Seeing Your Pictures in Advance
Chapter 4 Casting the Right Light
Chapter 5 Creating Effects in-Camera
Chapter 6 Processing Raw Images
Chapter 7 Managing Color
Chapter 8 Working in Photoshop
Chapter 9 Managing Your Digital Photoshophs
"Douglas Ford Rea is a digital Renaissance man: talented, insightful, articulate, and through. By showing the reader how to create better pictures before launching Photoshop, Doug challenges the assumption that Photoshop is the fix-it-all solution. After reading this book, you'll be a better, more effective digital photographer. I know I will." --Katrin Eismann Artist, author, and educator--