Color Management For Digital Photographers For Dummies (with CD files)

Shooting great photos is only half the battle—tweaking the details in your digital darkroom makes the difference between so-so images and spectacular ones. This book is packed with examples to guide you through understanding color basics, correcting brightness and contrast, getting the exact tone and hue, and creating perfect prints—in full color, of course!

You rarely find a photo you can take with a digital camera or scan on a desktop scanner that doesn’t need some kind of brightness, contrast, or color correction. Taking pictures with your camera is only half of your job when you want to print pictures or host them on the Web. The other half of your job is editing in your digital darkroom.

In this book, you can find out how to get color just right by setting up a digital darkroom in your home (or wherever you work on your digital photos) and using the plentiful and robust tools in Photoshop Elements to correct tone and color.

In this book, we try to provide a comprehensive view of tone and color correction, using the tools available in Photoshop Elements versions 4 and 5. We stick to what Elements provides you in the application without using third-party products designed to overcome limitations in the program. What Elements offers off-the-shelf is all you need to create the pictures you want with proper brightness, contrast, and color.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Understanding Color
Chapter 02 - Controlling Lighting
Chapter 03 - Calibrating Your Monitor
Chapter 04 - Color Profiles and File Formats
Chapter 05 - Making Tonal and Brightness Corrections
Chapter 06 - Correcting Contrast
Chapter 07 - Using Adjustment Layers
Chapter 08 - Identifying Color Problems
Chapter 09 - Color Correcting Skin Tones
Chapter 10 - Using Levels and Color Variations to Make Color Corrections
Chapter 11 - Advanced Color-Correction Methods
Chapter 12 - Camera Raw Color Correction
Chapter 13 - Printing
Chapter 14 - Soft Proofing Color
Chapter 15 - Ten Tips for Better Tone and Color
Chapter 16 - Ten Reasons to Upgrade to Photoshop

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