Part 4 (chapter 10-16) shows you what you need to know about workflow, editing, and output in a digital world. Here you will learn about post-production work and working with programs such as Apple's Aperture and Adobes Lightroom. Then you will explore the ideas of correction of tone and color. Here the author uses Photoshop, but explains that other software has many of the same concepts and features. You continue to the topics of Raw Conversion and editing and building your editing arsenal by using brushes, stamps, masking and layers. Other topics of this part include Imaging tactics, special effects and output for the web and print.
Complete Digital Photography also comes with a CD-Rom that contains 50-minutes of tutorial video's, 30 full-color pages of additional tutorials, dozens of sample images to be used with the step-by-step tutorials that are explored in the book.
Complete Digital Photography is an absolutely great book for anyone who has been into film and is looking to make the switch to digital, has been doing digital and has had no formal training, or is totally new to photography and wants to learn it from the ground up.
The author writes clearly and has a good grasp of organization and presentation. He makes clear connections between camera or software settings, and how they apply to the image and in explaining why it happens. Complete Digital Photography is a very focused, very complete, book on digital photography. If you just want to take better pictures, it may be the only book you need.
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1 - Mayra Calvani
Thanks for the great review! I'm adding the book to my wish list for Christmas! :-)