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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Digital Image Processing => Topic started by: macgyver on January 04, 2006, 05:44:20 pm

Title: RAW Book
Post by: macgyver on January 04, 2006, 05:44:20 pm

I'm really trying to make an effort to switch to RAW for most all of my shooting (other than action stuffs)  any ideas on extremely helpful books or websites?

Title: RAW Book
Post by: Tim Gray on January 04, 2006, 05:50:37 pm

Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photooshop CS by Bruce Fraser.

http://ronbigelow.com/articles/articles.htm (http://ronbigelow.com/articles/articles.htm) (bottom of the page) has some decent material as well...

Title: RAW Book
Post by: Hermie on January 05, 2006, 09:48:42 am

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I'm really trying to make an effort to switch to RAW for most all of my shooting (other than action stuffs)  any ideas on extremely helpful books or websites?
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Uwe Steimueller's e-book "The Art of Raw Conversion"
See [a href=\"http://www.outbackphoto.com/booklets/dop3002/DOP3002.html]http://www.outbackphoto.com/booklets/dop3002/DOP3002.html[/url]

Quote from outbackphoto:
-Our latest and most complete E-Book about RAW conversion
-Photoshop CS2 Camera Raw 3.x
-Pixmantec RawShooter, Phase One Capture One, Canon DPP, Nikon Capture, Bibble 4.x
-Understanding the full RAW workflow
-Introduction to DNG
-Understanding basic color management
-Converting to B&W with your RAW converters
-Perfecting images by removing image artifacts like: Noise, Chromatic Aberrations, -Lens Distortions, dust and sharpening
-Based on real-world experience
-Optimized for working on the screen

Herman

Title: RAW Book
Post by: Lisa Nikodym on January 05, 2006, 12:11:53 pm

I've read both Real World Camera RAW and The Art of RAW Conversion, and prefered the first one.  Not cheap, but worth it.
Just my 2 cents...

Lisa

Title: RAW Book
Post by: macgyver on January 06, 2006, 12:31:52 am

Thanks guys, I think I may grab that one by Fraser, it looks good.