When one hears Digital Photography – expert techniques, one first thinks about composition and such stuff. But if this is what you expect, there may be better books…Ken Milburn’s tome is very focussed on Photoshop! But is the selection of topics interesting…read on to find out!
The book starts off by looking at what a workflow is, why you should have one and how it should look. After that, it moves on to digital camera techniques for stuff like steady shooting and other things. A look at monitor calibration ends this (well-done) segment.
After that, the book moves on to Photoshop techniques for ‘technically’ better images. You learn how to apply filters(selectively) to enhance contrast and other parameters. A chapter on RAW files is there, too – useful for everyone who has a camera that dumps RAW files. Chapters on repairing and montaging pictures are in the book’s repertoire too.
The last chapter of the book is very interesting – it presents ways to make money with your images…interesting and maybe even lucrative!
Digital Photography Expert Techniques is well-written and contains many color illustrations. Paper quality is very high – no blotting with the Parker 45 x-nib.
Overall, if you use Photoshop for image post-processing, purchase this book by all means. The hints given inside are really worthwile, and the price of 30$ on Amazon is o.k.. If you, on the other hand, use an alternative image processor(read: GIMP) or none, this book will not help you very much. While many of the workflows can also be applied to GIMP, the ‘wisdom’ transported here can probably be had cheaper elsewhere.
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