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Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace | 
 enlarge | Author: Dan Margulis
Publisher: Peachpit Press
Category: Book
List Price: $54.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  74 reviews
Sales Rank: 45223
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0321356780
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780321356789
ASIN: 0321356780
Publication Date: August 18, 2005
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Product Description
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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 Absolutely a must for the serious photographer! September 26, 2008
I just don't know about the low reviews on this book and fully get the high reviews! This is one of those books that comes along once in a while with such valuable information that after reading it, it will leave you feeling crippled in the digital darkroom without using the techniques contained within. The final output of my photos have improved dramatically by using the LAB color workspace and my understanding of the LAB color workspace would be very elementory indeed if not for this book. Understanding and implementing the LAB color workspace is in my opinion a higher level of education, and as such will require putting more effort and thought into mastering it. With this book, Margulis gives you the ability to not only understand LAB, but implement it very effectively and masterfully. Good work Margulis and thanks for writing it!
Excelente!!! September 9, 2008
Um excelente livro para quem quer se aprofundar no modo LAB para fazer correçoes de cor. Como diz a chamada da capa: "This book will radically change how we do color correction". Recomendo.
 Great, and it could have been better July 11, 2008
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.
A totally new way of improving your pictures February 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
A MUST READ January 28, 2008
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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