{PRETITLE} The Digital Print: Preparing Images in Lightroom and Photoshop for Printing {POSTTITLE}

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Author: Jeff Schewe
ISBN : 0321908457
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Whether you’re a digital or a film photographer, you can learn to leverage today’s technologies to create masterful prints of your work, and this unique book is devoted exclusively to teaching you how. In it, renowned photographer, educator, and author Jeff Schewe presents targeted chapters on digital printing from Lightroom and Photoshop and shares his expert techniques for optimal output and fine-art reproduction. A companion to The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop, this book teaches you how to take your already perfected images and optimize them for the highest quality final printing. Jeff teaches you about printer types and principles of color management so you get the results you expect. He also shares his strategies on proofing, sharpening, resolution, black-and-white conversion, and workflow, as well as on identifying the attributes that define a perfect print.

•  Learn techniques for optimizing your images for printing
•  Discover how color management can work for you instead of against you
•  Develop an eye for the perfected print

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• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1st edition (August 2013)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321908457
• ISBN-13: 978-0321908452
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

{PRETITLE} The Digital Print: Preparing Images in Lightroom and Photoshop for Printing {POSTTITLE}

When I was only a little younger, but far less experienced with digital imaging, I once said (somewhat facetiously) that in an ideal world all one should need to print an image well was the printer manufacturer's instruction manual. I am a little older and a great deal more experienced and I now know printing images is no joking matter. Luckily I can turn to Jeff Schewe now for printing help.

This book is a companion to his book The Digital Negative: Raw Image Processing in Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop. In it Schewe covers almost everything one needs to know about printing. He does it for both Photoshop and Lightroom without confusing the separate procedures, and for both color and black and white. He does not have much faith in printers other than Epson and Canon for fine arts printing, so HP and other printer owners will be disappointed. After a brief history of image printing and printers, he launches into a discussion of color management, which is the adjustment of images from camera or scanner to monitor to print so that colors appear consistent. Although he sometimes provides really detailed procedures that many folks might skip if they are not obsessive about their prints, he is also realistic, as when he opines that one really only needs to profile one's camera for a few conditions. Next he describes how to prepare an image for printing, briefly touching on tone and color adjustments and spending more time on sharpening and noise reduction. He shows how to soft proof an image to adjust it fit the qualities of the paper being printed. He then shows the actual procedures for sending the image to print.

A print is a thing of great beauty. A great print is that completed long pass down the football field at the end of a very exciting Super Bowl. You have captured that fabulous image, which it feels as if it took your entire career to capture. It looks terrific on your screen but it's just not translating to the paper.

One of the many areas we are called upon for our consulting expertise is printing. It frustrates many serious photo enthusiasts as well as some of the industry's top professionals. We admit to being frustrated by the process, ourselves. What's maybe even more frustrating is that being able to make that translation from the display screen to the paper is the scarcity of information on professional printing techniques.

The reviews we publish are our own journals. They serve as our reference notes. We want to be up front about disclosing that we travel in many of the same circles as the author, Jeff Schewe. We have never met nor even conversed, but he shares comments on product developments in a private professional online forum we frequent.

CH 1 - A DIGITAL PRINTING PRIMER - We strongly believe that it's not possible to know where you are going unless you understand what has come before you got involved. Jeff opens with an excellent review of the history of inkjet printing. For those who have not lived it, this sets the stage. Don't skip it. This is a fun read with some celebrity storytelling.

CH 2 - COLOR MANAGEMENT - Understanding color requires you to digest a fair amount of physics classes but this is far more exciting than we remember from high school. This is where too many books skimp and the complete story is never told. This chapter alone is worth the purchase price.