Professional Photoshop 6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Margulis
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0471403997
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.6869
EAN: 9780471403999
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Publication Date: November 20, 2000
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Plenty of books cover all things Photoshop, but Professional Photoshop 6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction is probably one of the few that ought to be required reading. Filled with clear text and color images, this new edition of the classic color usage guide stands out among its peers. Updated to reflect changes in Photoshop since the previous edition, nearly half the material is either new or has been rewritten. Color correction itself hasn't changed, but the way it's done and the need for doing it certainly have. The book contains 17 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of correction and image reproduction: colorspaces, resolution, luminosity, separation, channels, and much more. Each chapter is worthy of study, and all are interesting. While not a step-by-step tutorial guide, the text is written so that the driving idea behind each technique--in addition to a demonstration of it--is explained, allowing the reader to apply what is learned to his or her own work. For the first time, this book includes a CD-ROM. While not exactly overflowing with content, it does include images from the book that anxiously await color correction, as well as some chapters that were in earlier editions of the book but are not present in this one. There is also an important chapter on moving from a pre-version 5 Photoshop to version 6 (a significant jump). The book doesn't try to be a Photoshop all-inclusive encyclopedia. Instead, it focuses on one aspect of the tool. Fortunately, since color correction is probably the most important, complex, and misunderstood area of digital imaging, Professional Photoshop 6: The Classic Guide to Color Correction excels at explaining and exploring the process behind the curtain, and the right and wrong way to adjust the color of images. --Mike Caputo
Product Description
An electronic prepress master reveals how to get the most out of Photoshop Renowned among graphic design professionals for his technical grounding and ability to clearly explain difficult principles and techniques, Dan Margulis has updated his bestselling book, Professional Photoshop 5, to help readers quickly master Photoshop 6 and learn how to take full advantage of its latest tools and capabilities. Rather than focusing on program features, Dan Margulis builds on a solid foundation of classic design concepts and skills. This new edition has been substantially expanded to include coverage of issues surrounding image handling for devices other than offset printers, such as final output on desktop color printers, high-volume copiers, and large-format printers for outdoor displays.
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 professional photoshop 6 April 21, 2003
It doesn't get any better than this. Dan's ability to communicate by thoroughly explaining and then demonstrating is excellent. You may never need to use all of the included techniques but this publication is a resource that is unmatched for content relative to the imaging industry. I purchased additional copies as gifts.
 Really one of the best June 23, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are a photographer, this is the book for you. If you do any prepress work, this is the book for you. I have read and re-read this book to try to absorb everything inside. It's not a book about how to make the latest cool button for your website, it's about how to render a photo's color in the best possible way in a print or on a press. The book is very opinionated, and it's clear the author has attracted criticism from many parties. However, in the application of his techniques, I have never found any advice from him to be unwarranted.
He's been very influential in my work.
The Colour Correction Bible April 22, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First of all I would like to say this is not a book for beginners, it is intended for people who have a good understanding of Photoshop and how to apply it. That being said, this is by far the best book I have ever come across on any Prepress subject period. In fact in the first night of reading I had so much information to take in it almost made my head explode. The book contains 17 chapters that are each thoroughly explained, such as the different colourspaces avaiable to a Photoshop user (each colourspace gets it's own chapter), sharpening, and moires to name but a few. The thing I like most is that each chapter of this book is devoted to a specific subject and then each subject is broken down into its relevant components. I find this is a very thorough and detailed way of explaining information to the reader and I wish more Prepress books were written in this manner.
Number 1 in Color Correction March 6, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you want to learn beautiful and powerfull world of color correction, go and get it.
 CMYK color correction with lots of ego. January 29, 2002
16 out of 22 found this review helpful
Most of the online reviews promise a lot but the book doesn't deliver and that is a great disappointment since an understandable guide is need. The author does not explain and illustrate the relationships between rgb (additive) and cmyk (reflective) in enough detail for one to comprehend how to read color coordinates in the info window and then correct the images using PhotoShop's image adjustments whether they be curves, levels, or whatever (which require thinking in both color spaces). The author is an expert on the four process color inks on the press and how they relate to cmyk color densities on printed paper but how to achieve the corresponding correct color densities in your digital files using PhotoShop is not clearly communicated. I've learned more reading the compressed "Create Print" articles in MacWorld by authors like David Blatner (a fine writer) then I learned from this book. My recommendations are: if you want to understand the basics of digital prepress then the Agfa Guide to Digital Color Prepress (though dated) is far better; if you want to understand channels then PhotoShop Channel Chop (also dated) is better; if you wants to understand curves then the PhotoShop Artistry books (version 5 or 6) are better. If you want a professional's insights into how he goes about correcting cymk color situation along with lots of self accolades, well this is it. Also be warned that none of the photographs measure up to the quality of good commercial stock photo images. Hopefully, by the next version of PhotoShop a good technical editor can turn this book into the gem the PhotoShop audience needs on this topic.
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