Total Digital Photography : The Shoot to Print Workflow Handbook

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Summary: Instant Classic
Review: As a serious photographer just now getting into digital, this book has been a godsend, clearly explaining and providing useful context to the often daunting new world of digital workflow issues. The all-color approach with plenty of photographic examples is an added, eminently useful benefit. I'm a Mac-based guy, but this book is platform-agnostic. Bottom line: When it comes to real world digital photo issues, Timacheff and Karlins cover it all beautifully.

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Summary: Nice overview with lots of tips as well
Review: This book delivers on the promises made on it's back cover. It is well-written, well-organized, with up-to-date information. It's greatest strength comes from the "insider's view" it gives of professional digital photography. Readers who are not professionals can easily skip the extra information about goals such as selling photographs through the web. I read the book cover to cover, so I was sometimes annoyed when some points were repeated - but this is of course an asset for the reader who uses the book as a reference, who needs to get needed information from a given chapter, without undue cross-referencing between chapters. I would have liked more information on best practices for common image editing problems like altering exposure or color balance. Lots of well-reproduced color photographs - with interesting content as well.