I first read this book when I was a teenager studying photography for an O-level. I have been reading through it again and although much in the book I already know, it does no harm to re-cap on previously learned knowledge to both freshen up my memory and discover additional information that that I previously didn’t take in at the time. This edition was published in 2015 and refers to new features in Photoshop, Photoshop Cloud and Lightroom.
More importantly for me, this new edition has two very good chapters for digital workflow and Photoshop which I found very useful and helpful and good referral material for the future. One very valuable piece of advice was to set up the colour spacing in Adobe RAW and Lightroom; so that all future photos that are imported are correctly set for the appropriate colour spacing for print and can then be later down graded for screen use if necessary. This insures that valuable information on the original RAW file is not automatically thrown away before you even get started and can future proof your images. Although the chapter on Photoshop is not a training manual in itself, it covers enough to get you started.
This book also covers working with and developing film and I may refer back to those chapters at a later date. I still have much of my old darkroom equipment although I haven’t used it in over 30 years.
There is also a very useful chapter at the back on presentation of your final work, which I am sure will be valuable referral resource later in my degree course when I am required to produce work for assessment to exhibition standard.
No matter how experienced you think you are, I would always recommend that you have this book on your book-shelf anyway.
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