This tutorial takes photographers beyond the quick tips and gimmicky effects of many digital photography books. Author Katrin Eismann -- an internationally acclaimed artist, bestselling author, and gifted educator -- offers high-profile work, including her own, as examples for teaching photographers how to use the digital medium to create, edit, and output images that reflect their true vision. Co-authored by photographer and teacher Sean Duggan, The Creative Digital Darkroom translates skills, concepts, and nomenclature of the traditional darkroom into digital solutions for photographers who sense that, despite the newness of the technologies at hand, there remains a timeless method for learning and practicing photography the right way. This is not a Photoshop book per se, but it does focus on the photographic aspects of Photoshop, something other books claim to do but rarely have the discipline to accomplish. The Creative Digital Darkroom includes:

• Four sections that cover the black & white darkroom, the color darkroom, creative techniques, and production essentials

• Chapters that begin with a thorough foundation followed by numerous tutorial examples that apply the theory to real-world examples

• Examples and a layout that enables readers to find, understand, and apply the featured techniques quickly and easily

• The authors are both renowned photographers and Photoshop experts

Clearly, The Creative Digital Darkroom is not your typical digital photography "how to" book. It's ideal for intermediate and advanced photographers, artists, and educators looking for clear, concise, insightful, and inspiring information and techniques on how to make their photographs shine. The language, and techniques will immediately appeal to serious students and professionals, and the original tutorial images and high-profile work will make the book an important visual resource for educators and art appreciators.

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Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 38 Ratings

A reader point of view - 2009-10-11
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Full of tips and, most important, with a clear workflow for any amateur, this book is a must. I congratulate myself for purchasing it.

The Creative Digital Darkroom - 2009-09-27
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This book is not for beginners, and assumes you already know the basics of Photoshop CS3 for which it was written. It has not been updated. A person familiar with CS3 should have no problem with the information. Multiple examples and procedures for both MAC and PC are given. Because of this, there is an occasional slip in wording that is not accurate for one or the other, but does not negatively affect the material presented.

Really like the book - 2009-08-14
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Well written, well illustrated. Information seems to be targeted toward the right audience based on the title. Exceeded expectations based on description. Thanks.

Prepare your photos to view on your monitor. - 2009-07-09
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This book is chock full of great information. After a quick scan of the entire book I was excited to really delve into it in-depth in spite of the really lousy page design. On closer study, I was fairly appalled at the errors throughout this book. None of which are listed on the companion web site's errata page. When I'm following someone else's step by step work flow, I expect it to be correctly laid out for me. This book does not do that.

The largest problem with this book is that it seems to operate on the assumption that one is going to go through all of these processes only to have one's photographs appear better on the monitor's screen. The fact that to learn anything about printing one must read the "printing" chapter online is ludicrous.

All in all, a very good book information wise, graphically a disaster, and a true challenge to decode some of its step by step methodology. But seriously folks, we do all this work to our files so that we can print. This book falls flat.

Knows whereof she speaks - 2009-07-02
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The author of the classic digital retouching and restoration handbook is back with an updated "digital darkroom" book for the latest version of your favorite image editor.

This one covers topics that really need explanations for the ambitious photographer/image editor. It covers RAW processing, workflow, image correction, and software options such as Lightroom and various plug-ins. You'll learn about color spaces, file preparation, and other essential topics. Although I expect that few readers of this book have ever actually worked in a chemical darkroom, they'll find the digital orientation of this book useful and informative.

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