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Black and White in Photoshop CS3 and Photoshop Lightroom: Create stunning monochromatic images in Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Lightroom and Beyond | 
 enlarge | Manufacturer: Focal Press
Category: EBooks
List Price: $34.95
Buy New: $19.92
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 4312
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Dewey Decimal Number: 006
ASIN: B0014D6O1G
Publication Date: August 13, 2007
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Very useful, capable and comprehensive July 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Congratulations to Alsheimer to this Job. There is a pratical, easy going language to vast public even to basic amateurs. Undestand B&W is quite important to everyone who is trying to be a better photographer and this book is very capable with very good examples, tips and refined theory. For next ediditon I would recomend this author to be more torelant when aplying tips over photoshop world and describing more steps.
 Black & White in Photoshop & Photoshop Lightroom July 14, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is exceptional in its clarity of concepts. I have read many other color management books or sections in photoshop books, and this is so cogent. It totally clicks.
I love the examples and the clarity of the explanations.
 Good book back lacking in key areas May 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'm keen to further explore B&W in the digital world and thought this looked the ideal book (even though I use Photoshop Elements 6 instead of Photoshop CS3). Much of the material is thorough and well written, but some key areas I found to be lacking.
While many books cover workflow, colour management etc, this book repeats these topics and covers them well. Unfortunately the B&W component is a lacking, especially in Lightroom. A substantial part of the first 80 pages is devoted to Lightroom, yet the B&W conversion process is descibed in only one page. I was hoping to get more out of this conversion process and tips of a more artistic nature to ensure the best possible image is carried across to Photoshop. Instead it basically suggests "click greyscale conversion" and open Photoshop. The art of the B&W conversion is what makes/breaks an image and I would have thought that Lightroom would be more appropiate than the channel mixer in Photoshop. With "channels" for each colour I would have liked to seen examples and how these were achieved in Lightroom
Although I have not yet fully covered the photoshop part of the book, what I have read is thorough and well written.
I found it difficult to rate this book - it is very good in many ways, but unfortunately did not fill the gap in which I was looking for.
 Very disappointed in this purchase... April 28, 2008
20 out of 24 found this review helpful
I picked this up off of Amazon because I wanted some literature on B&W relating to CS3. After having gone through it I have to say I'm very disappointed in my purchase. I have about a dozen or so other books I've gone through in the last year and this is probably the worst. But the sad thing is, there are actually very few books out there on B&W so maybe that's why other reviewers gave it such high marks?? Save your money...she doesn't offer anything more than you can get from free ipod downloads on the subject..or various other free sources out there. Also, only about 1/3 of the book actually covers B&W topic!! The first 91 pages is basically 'fluff'..as well as the last 100 pages. Basically a big push on why you should be using Lightroom (gee...there's another $200 that probably isn't necessary)...how to best setup for quality printing...color management, etc. The same crap that we see in book after book. I know why I should be using Adobe RGB (1998) instead of sRGB...I don't need to pay another $40 for a book that devotes an entire chapter on color management..or why I should be taking my photos in RAW format instead of low quality jpeg's... Pages 91 to about 139 actually cover B&W topic. Before and after this she squeezes in topics like (1) printing (2)editing in photoshop (3)quality capture RAW (4) Lightroom crap (5) Color management. Her coverage of these topics is OK...certainly not the best I've read on them...but my point is, I wasn't expecting it in the book. Anyways, if you want to throw your $ away..buy it...I'd pass on it though..
Good help for average photoshop users April 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a good help for processing photographs in Adobe Photoshop, with specific guidelines for black and white images. It provides some detailed descriptions of steps in the software, including the flow of procedures from archiving in Adobe Lightroom and Bridge into the elaborated menus of Photoshop CS3. One of the good things is the good explanations on file types and B&W conversions, as well as the links between shooting and final processing. My main concern is the excessive personalization of the flow of procedures, as the author presents primarily his particular way of operating the software and not the full array of alternatives present. Anyway I would say that this is one of the best manuals for those, with average skills in Adobe Photoshop, interested in processing B&W images.
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