Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies (For...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 318 pages
• Published by: For Dummies February 12, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470048921
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470048924
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Product Description

• Shows digital photo enthusiasts how to ensure that the color in an image file is accurately represented and reproduced, from camera or scanner to monitor or printer
• Packed with color management solutions that will help novices create picture-perfect images
• Discusses the main components of color management including understanding light, matching digital images to displays and prints, working with color spaces, calibrating a printer, and using color management tools
• Familiarizes readers with the various color management tools that help calibrate consistent picture quality

Back Cover Copy
Here's your key to perfect color in digital images

Fine-tune brightness, contrast, and tone with Photoshop® Elements and these tips

Shooting great photographs is only half the battle—tweaking the details in your digital darkroom makes the difference between so-so images and spectacular ones. This book is packed with examples to guide you through understanding color basics, correcting brightness and contrast, getting the exact tone and hue, and creating perfect prints—in full color, of course!

Discover how to

• Build a viewing booth
• Create and apply color profiles
• Use adjustment layers to correct contrast
• Achieve great-looking skin tones
• Save money with accurate soft proofs

Reader Reviews
I would give this book ten stars if I could. Color management is something that all digital photographers need to be competent with. There is very little on the subject that is comprehensible to those that are not technically inclined. This book meets and fills that gap in an excellent and understandable manner. And it is brand new! And full of color illustrations (something new for "Dummies books"). And it is geared to Photoshop Elements 5, a program with a large following. I teach a Digital Darkroom class using Elements 5 and this book is a natural follow on for that class. It also ties in very nicely with the new Photoshop Elements 5 for Dummies book. (Also full of color illustrations). Of course if you use the full versions of Photoshop, the principals are the same but you implement them slightly different, so the book is valid for both versions. It also covers the Mac version of Photoshop Elements. All in all, a great book!