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Summary: Best PS book ever. You can make money with Photo$hop.
Review: For starters, Dan Margulis is the Plato of Photoshop. Truth and simplicity is the philosophy he preaches, and the shocking thing is, it works. But Plato ain't no simple read, nor is this. His '95 book, "Professional Photoshop," completely changed how I use Photoshop, and put me on the path to professional retouch, which I now do (not for full face cosmetic ads in Vogue, but for almost every less-demanding project). Did I mention that Dan Marglis will save you that $1,200 you were thinking of spending on a monitor calibrator? You don't need it; you'll learn his own (free of charge) technique. The book is crammed with before & after photos in color. Professional Photoshop 5 is probably the best written book in the graphics field, and certainly the funniest. It ranges from easy to quite difficult, and shows you every step on every photo. But, please, Mr. Margulis, we need to work on the same pictures that you did, so if you'd put together a CD-ROM of them, we'd GLADLY buy them. Just so I could experience transforming that humdrum beer glass in chapter 16 into a sweating, foaming masterpiece like you did.
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Summary: The Book for Pre-Press Color Correction
Review: For those of us who truly care about sharpening imagery to "best possible quality," this book provides specific, workable paradigms to use. Clear explanations, and powerful visual examples, make it possible for a designer, like myself, to create crisper and more impacting imagery. From the first chapter, I was able to apply the techniques suggested by Mr. Margulis...and they worked. My printer is now using my recent work to promote their work, as the color is punchy, and the imagery very sharp. If you are honestly attempting to "push the limit" of your design ability in print, understanding this book is important to you. Especially clear were the new technical terms to describe dpi, lpi and other vagaries of graphic language. Finally, I understand the differences. This book is sitting next to my computer. Actually, it's my favorite reference when working in color.
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Summary: No CDs?
Review: Hi,I am based in India, and had to go to Singapore to source this book. Having spent some money on this book, I know that it was well worth it. The only thing that has left a bad taste in the mouth is that there is no accompanying CD with the images used in the book. Although the author, the highly respected Mr. Dan Margulis has given the sources of the images, I think that they could well afford to get the licence to use these images and distribute them on a CD instead of expecting readers to source the individual images themselves. All in all a great resource for pre-press colour correction work.
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Summary: A Must-Have Photoshop Book
Review: My interest in Photoshop is digital photography, and for me this is a must-have book. The information in this book has shown me how to quickly and effectively adjust colours in a digital photograph to optimize its appearance, and then how to selectively enhance the photograph even further. The author works in the pre-press industry, so he prefers to work in a CMYK colourspace, and all the instructions in the book are for CMYK as a result. I work in a RGB colourspace, but it is relatively straightforward for me to convert the techniques given for CMYK to RGB. The only difference is that RGB doesn't have a black colour channel, so the one chapter that focusses on black is not as useful to me (converting to LAB colour does produce a black channel, however, so the advice given for the black channel in CMYK colour aren't confined exclusively to the CMYK colourspace). If you want to gain an understanding of colour and means of using Photoshop to enhance and optimize the colour of photographs , then this book is a must-have.
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Summary: A Must-Have Photoshop Book
Review: My interest in Photoshop is digital photography, and for me this is a must-have book. The information in this book has shown me how to quickly and effectively adjust colours in a digital photograph to optimize its appearance, and then how to selectively enhance the photograph even further. The author works in the pre-press industry, so he prefers to work in a CMYK colourspace, and all the instructions in the book are for CMYK as a result. I work in a RGB colourspace, but it is relatively straightforward for me to convert the techniques given for CMYK to RGB. The only difference is that RGB doesn't have a black colour channel, so the one chapter that focusses on black is not as useful to me (converting to LAB colour does produce a black channel, however, so the advice given for the black channel in CMYK colour aren't confined exclusively to the CMYK colourspace). If you want to gain an understanding of colour and means of using Photoshop to enhance and optimize the colour of photographs , then this book is a must-have.
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Summary: Photoshop truth, not color mythology
Review: This is the Bible for color on the computer. If you only learn curves and sharpening you will be in the top 20 percent of color correctors. Dan is the master. After his book and classes, I use the LAB color space as much as CMYK. You will save thousands in unnecessary software and equipment that is marketed for the web using masses, or calibrationists looking to sell their theories. After working in prepress for twenty years and being self-taught in color and Photoshop- only one year after Dan's teachings, I have been a scanner operator, and now do color correction and special effects in Photoshop for a service bureau. I have thrown away every other book on photoshop I had- over 300$ worth, and endless tutorials that would not have changed my future. Toys are for children and mythology is for dreamers. This book is for the rest of us who have to meet deadlines with quality results that everyone will judge.
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Summary: Professional and then some
Review: Working at a prepress house doing high-end drum scanning, photography, color correction and retouching for 5 years has shown me that there are lots of opinionated blowhards in the graphics field. Mr. Margulis combines the rare gift of technical mastery, insight and humor into a potentially dull topic. This book is very readable on it's own, without sitting at your G4, since he is instilling a philosophy and insightful observations that make sense. The fog lifted from my eyes after reading this book, but now I know why. To quote the master: A full tonal range is absolutely the most critical element of color re-production. If you do not have one, regardless of your creative abilities, channel-maneuvering cognition,etc., you will never be able to beat even a modestly talented person who does no more than set a proper highlight and shadow.
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Summary: Even a non-Photoshop user should read this book
Review: You're not a Photoshop user? So what? This book is also helpful to you if you concern about colors. If you're like so many Photoshop users who only knew how to fool around with filters, let this book be your guide to the "left-side."
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