Take your underwater image editing to the next level.

Buffalo, New York (PRWEB)  -- Amherst Media today announces "Adobe Photoshop for Underwater Photographers" by Jack and Sue Drafahl ISBN# 1-58428-189-8.

Underwater photography presents more challenges than does other specialties. Exposure concerns, backscatter, reflections, and color shifts are a part of life for the practitioner -- and re-creating a problem shot isn’t necessarily easy. Fortunately, Adobe Photoshop can save the day. In this first-ever book on using the digital darkroom to produce perfect underwater images, readers learn to finesse, fine-tune, retouch, and dramatically correct and enhance film scans and digital camera images. Starting with a comprehensive look at the tools and setups required in the digital darkroom, Jack and Sue Drafahl first outline hardware requirements, monitor calibration and room lighting -- key components to effective, believable and highly professional image enhancements.

Next, investigate the most popular image-editing software products on the market and learn what programs will best suit image-editing needs. Plug-ins, small, inexpensive software “accessories” that allow the user to supercharge their image-editing options, are discussed, as are a variety of printers and the pros and cons of various types. From this point, the reader will gain hands-on knowledge of all of the many processes available for image enhancement. They'll take a look at the top-ten editing tools and learn how to create “actions” -- automated corrections that can be made at the push of a button -- to handle commonly used digital “fixes.”

Readers also learn how to group images for editing, determine where to start making corrections for images that require a multi-step enhancement process, and how to revert to an earlier stage in the editing process when they realize that the correction doesn’t make the image look quite as was hoped. Next, the Drafahls show how to make tonal corrections to ensure good contrast and to correct color shifts to ensure that underwater scenes appear true to life. Readers also learn more creative correction techniques like removing unwanted elements in their photos, changing backgrounds and adding text for advertising or other creative uses. Finally, learn how to select the right output options for printed images, as well as for video, slide shows and web viewing.

FEATURES:

•Selecting the hardware needed to operate an efficient digital darkroom
•Using Levels and Curves to correct color problems and improve exposure contrast
•Using powerful tools to remove backscatter, artifacts, and other distracting image elements
•Creating Actions and keyboard shortcuts for high-speed underwater image editing
•Building an efficient workflow
•Working with RAW image files
•Compositing image elements and creating collages, and much more

Look for it and others at: http://www.amherstmedia.com/miva/merchant.mvc

Jack and Sue Drafahl are the authors of "Advanced Digital Camera Techniques," "Photo Salvage with Adobe® Photoshop®," "Digital Imaging for the Underwater Photographer" (2nd ed.), "Plug-ins for Adobe® Photoshop®," and "Master Guide for Underwater Digital Photography," all from Amherst Media. They are very active in the industry and are often called upon to lecture and serve as beta testers for forthcoming software. They are also popular lecturers and have authored as many as sixty articles a year in magazines such as Petersen Photographic, Sportdiver, and Rangefinder, just to name a few. They currently reside in Tillamook, Oregon.

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