Chapter 7, "It's All About the Workflow," describes, now that you understand many of the tools, you now need to learn how to perform the actual work of Raw processing. This can be described into five basic stages; image ingestion, image verification, preproduction, production, and post production. While you may go back and revisit some of these stages throughout the process, everything you do falls into one of these categories.
Chapter 8, "Mastering Metadata," examines the "data about data"; that is the information contained within the raw file. This EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) standard is the information that is provided by the camera manufacturers when you take a picture. Also examined is XMP which is Adobe's initiative to promote a standard for Metadata. It, like DNG, is an open standard to try to make digital become manufacture independent.
Chapter 9, "Exploiting Automation," shows that although, up until now, everything has been done on a one off basis, to be truly effective, you need to be able to automate as many of these processes as possible. Now you will learn how to transpose these techniques and process a batch of images with the minimum amount of effort.
If you are serious about digital imaging, you work with raw files from your camera. This is usually a DSLR, but many higher end point and shoot cameras are offering raw file abilities as well. If you want to learn how to work effectively with Raw files then you will need to study Real World Camera Raw: with Adobe Photoshop CS4. It is the standard on the topic.
In the second version under Jeff Schewe Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS4 has become more refined, more detailed, and hence, better. If you are serious about digital imaging then you really need to work with raw files. If you want to learn to work with raw file effectively then Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS4 is an absolutely, positively, must own.
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