Getting Started with Camera Raw How to make

"If you're ready to learn how you can use Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements to make the most of your camera's raw capabilities, this book is the place to start. Author and photographer Ben Long introduces you to the raw format, explaining when it offers advantages over your camera's default options, and then how best to use it."--BOOK JACKET.

Ben Long is a professional photographer and videographer who has written numerous magazine articles and books (including Complete Digital Photography). He also writes a regular photography column for CreativePro.com.

Getting Started

1

(8)

Who This Book Is For

4

(1)

What You'll Need

5

(1)

Where to Begin

6

(1)

There's Nothing to Fear but Bad Images

7

(2)

What Is Raw?

9

(26)

How a Digital Camera Sees

10

(5)

Anatomy of an Image

15

(1)

How Your Camera Makes a JPEG Image

16

(10)

How Your Camera Makes a Raw Image

26

(5)

Raw Concerns

31

(2)

Choosing a Converter

33

(2)

Image Editing Basics

35

(28)

Color Information Theory

36

(8)

Correcting Tone and Contrast with Levels

44

(7)

Correcting Tone and Contrast with Curves

51

(8)

Too Much of a Good Thing: Recognizing Overcorrection

59

(2)

Ready to Raw and Roll

61

(2)

Getting Started with Camera Raw

63

(60)

The Raw Format

66

(3)

Getting Started

69

(7)

The Camera Raw Interface

76

(6)

Processing an Image Using Camera Raw

82

(27)

Camera Raw in Action

109

(12)

Summary

121

(2)

Workflow

123

(60)

XMP: The Key to Camera Raw Editing

126

(4)

Working with Individual Images

130

(3)

Defining a Raw Workflow

133

(5)

Raw Workflow with Camera Raw

138

(43)

Summary

181

(2)

Advanced Editing in Camera Raw

183

(68)

Camera Raw Interface Revisited

184

(7)

Where the Bits Are: Linear vs. Nonlinear Data

191

(4)

Going Further with Raw Controls

195

(14)

Curves: Another Interface to the Camera Raw Controls

209

(5)

More Camera Raw Editing Examples

214

(8)

Making Localized Corrections

222

(10)

Creating High-Dynamic-Range Images

232

(17)

Conclusion

249

(2)

Shooting Raw

251

(24)

Assessing Your Camera's Capabilities for Shooting Raw

253

(14)

Shooting HDR

267

(7)

Conclusion

274

(1)

Index

275

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Getting Started with Camera Raw How to make better pictures using Photoshop and Photoshop Elements

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