Books About Digital Imaging

Adobe Photoshop 7.0 For Photographers

Martin Evening

Learn how to use Photoshop from a photographer's perspective. Expert tips on montage techniques, layer effects, color effects, filters, shortcuts and more.

For beginners and those already familiar with Photoshop.

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Professional Photoshop

Dan Margulis

Color correction to the max! Slightly difficult read, but worth it. Learn to rescue bad color, bad scans and bad negatives. Save pictures you thought were beyond hope. Learn a few simple tricks that will bring more sparkle to your images than you ever dreamed possible.

Not for the beginner.

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Photoshop 7 Artistry

Barry Haynes

Photoshop from the perspective of a photographer. Excellent chapters on matching PS 7 to the Zone System. Good discussion about calibration and the tools available.

Enough for both advanced and beginning Photoshop users.

Photoshop Color Correction

Michael Kiernan

Michael Kiernan is a leading authority on electronic color. This book is the result of his 10 years of experience in delivering workshops on color correction and color management.

The Photoshop Book for Photographers

Scott Kelby

Scott walks you through a wide range of digital image manipulations in Photoshop step-by-step. In many cases, he presents more than one way to do something. This book is a handy reference manual for all the little things you wish you knew how to do in Photoshop. A careful categorization of techniques makes it easy to find what you need to know quickly.

Real World Color Management

Bruce Fraser, Fred Bunting, Chris Murphy

If you are very serious about color management, this is the book for you. Color management is the struggle to get your prints looking very close to what you see on the screen when editing your photos in the computer.

Real World Color Management is not simply a series of screen shots with recommended settings. This book will give you the foundation you need to make the right choices, regardless of which software package, computer platform, or printer you decide to use.

Not for the beginner. A great help to patient advanced users.

Photoshop Channel Chops

Biedny, Monroy, Moody

Focus on using advanced channel-processing techniques. Assumes familiarity with Photoshop. Learn how to use channels, alpha channels, and masks creatively and effectively. New Riders.

Adobe Photoshop Master Class Edition 2

John Paul Caponigro

In this new edition, Mr. Caponigro refines his vision, updates the material from the first edition and adds 50% new material. This edition is fully compatible with Photoshop 7. It has new chapters on 16-bit files and on soft proofing. Fifteen chapters from his first book were revised and 11 new advanced techniques were added.

The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book

Jack Davis

In the The Photoshop 7 Wow! Book, the focus is on the visuals: Using beautiful, full-color pictures of professionally designed Photoshop projects, this volume clearly lays out the steps required to re-create these spectacular results in your own projects. To work visually, you need to think visually, and this book allows you to do just that. As with all of the titles in this popular series, the emphasis here is on results—how to produce the best work in the fewest steps possible. And sometimes that means using techniques even Adobe hasn't thought of, such as the Wow! Media Painting and Layer Style techniques introduced here.

Digital Art Studio

Schminke, Krause, and Lhotka

Utilizing the combined experience of three traditional artists turned digital imaging pioneers, Digital Art Studio champions combining traditional art techniques with digital media. From their unique position as artists, educators, and technology consultants, the authors provide a wide range of ways to integrate digital processes, using them in unusual and challenging ways to reinvent traditional art techniques. The computer is profiled as the ultimate mixed-media machine, allowing the artist to readily combine an unbelievable array of media. The book covers the basic processes for preparing commercially available surfaces (canvas and watercolor and printmaking papers) and custom surfaces (handmade papers, wood, leather, and antique fabrics). More advanced methods are covered, including transferring digital images to absorbent surfaces and transferring digital images to three-dimensional surfaces. A showcase of the work of artists who have combined digital and traditional materials to produce outstanding work will inspire all artists, new and seasoned alike, to explore the new world of mixing traditional art with digital media.