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Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace By Dan Margulis ( Peachpit Press )
Release Date: 2005-08-18
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With a mantra like “There are no bad originals, only bad Photoshop operators,” you know best-selling author Dan Margulis is serious about exposing people to the magic of Photoshop. Nowhere is that magic more apparent than in its LAB color processing capabilities, which can make even the subtle canyon colors of rock, sand, and dirt come to vivid life. However, you may be wary of taming the complex beast. Here’s your guide! In these pages, Dan shows that you can derive enormous benefits from just a few simple tools and techniques. He also demonstrates that you can take these techniques as far as you wish, employing the power-user features he describes in later chapters. Starting with canyons and progressing to faces, you will see just how quickly you can begin improving your images by following the “recipes” included here. Each chapter includes a sidebar with review questions and exercises as well as a “Closer Look” section that examines some of the principles behind the techniques. A CD includes exercise files.
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 Great, and it could have been better ( carlohagemann )
Yes, the use of the LAB space is not so easy to learn, and it has many uses. Margulis shows these uses, but he is not the teacher who will make it easy to learn. Sometimes he dwells on the obvious (it is a great color space), sometimes he jumps over some practical issues.
The fun part is that Mr. Margulis' classes in [...] are really great. So, he definitely knows what he is talking about, but maybe a book is not the ultimate best tool.
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 A totally new way of improving your pictures ( shrink1@empnet.com )
A fellow flickr member pointed me toward this title, when I asked him how he got such beautifully, vivid colors. The author is, prior commentaries notwithstanding, a master of words, using them to make a fairly complex and potentially dry subject quite palatable. As I am not an expert in photography or color management, I will most likely not use most of what he lays out in the latter chapters, however, it is not hard to understand, merely hard to keep in working memory. This book certainly does far more toward getting stunning pictures than any 10 volumes of 'Photoshop for ' and is worth the 30+ bucks I paid for it.
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A MUST READ
I've been an avid advanced amateur photographer for years and a Photoshop enthusiast almost since the inception of the program. I have not however read too many Photoshop books in the past since I concluded early on that I could get what I needed from experimentation and the occasional magazine article.
This book, Photoshop LAB color is, however, a must read for anyone using Photoshop who wants to take their photo editing to another level. This is not an easy read, as the author acknowledges. On the other hand it is worth it. The techniques described in the book are revolutionary, and will change the way any reader uses Photoshop -- whether they are advanced users or rank beginners.
I not only recommend this book -- I think it should be required reading for anyone using Photoshop.
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Photoshop LAB Color ( camille51 )
This is a wonderful book I have learned so much about color from this book. The writer is doing a class on the NAPP website. You should check it out. Your pictures will be wonderful after you read this book. Debbie
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THE book on LAB Colour ( lurikeen )
Dan's book may be over the heads of most digital photographers, but is well worth the investment for professionals. There are occasions where the LAB colour space is the only place to do certain adjustments, and its helpful to know that there is a reference available for those "accepted practices" types of questions one may face in a forensic setting.
This one is on my must have list.
Jim Hoerricks
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Author of Forensic Photoshop - a comrehensive imaging workflow for forensic professionals
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