Photoshop for Photographers

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Pass your cursor over the image to see the original — a scanned 40-year old color slide that had yellowed with age. It took less than 2 minutes to make corrections in Photoshop. Looking for a book? A search for "Photoshop" at Amazon.com returns 8,822 entries! Here are a few of the best.

	The Photoshop CS5 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby If you buy one book, this is the one you want. Finally, after all these years, a book that contains useful information for photographers!
	Real World Camera Raw by Bruce Fraser & Jeff Schewe How to use Adobe Camera Raw by the folks who know.
	123 of Digital Imaging by Vincent Bockaert An interactive series of lessons that covers the complete workflow including how digital cameras work, Photoshop techniques, and printer output.

Much of the material at this site can be found elsewhere. There are a few topics I suspect are original. At least I have yet to see them in print.

• Copy tones using Curves
• Blends described using Curves
• Printer calibration using Curves

Curves, an important feature in Photoshop, have many applications. You may also be interested in some of my non-mainstream opinions.

• 8-bit vs. 16-bit
• JPEG vs. TIFF
• Adobe RGB vs. sRGB
• Black/white points

You'll also find yet another color to B&W converter and a new way to paint with light.

To print individual pages, left-click on the page to give it focus then right-click and choose Print. You should be able to distinguish each of the patches in the following grayscale. If not, then you need to calibrate your monitor.

Tom Niemann
Portland, Oregon
epaperpress.com