Ivan Leste
03-01-2008, 10:13 PM
I have been looking for a book or article that would comprise a raw to finish workflow using photoshop, ideally one that would allow the download of one or more raw files with birds or wildlife images, with no processing at all, and then go all the way, showing all the actions taken, from raw conversion to the finished photo, including all the raw adjustments to convert to tiff and then, in photoshop, performing cropping, dust specs removal, cloning unwanted parts, using levels, curves, hue/saturation, shadow/highlights and other adjustments, both global and over selected areas, and then resizing and sharpening to the final product.
I’ve bought some books on the subject (including The Art of Bird Photography II by Arthur Morris) but, so far, none would allow the reader to take, on his own computer, all the actions described in print. I think that the possibility of downloading the very same unprocessed raw files used by the author would make all the difference in the learning process. Those raw files would also show us, amateurs/beginners, what a professional consider as an image worth keeping, allowing us to make comparisons with our own pictures
If someone knows of a book, article or thread conforming to that, I would be very happy to know about it.
I’ve bought some books on the subject (including The Art of Bird Photography II by Arthur Morris) but, so far, none would allow the reader to take, on his own computer, all the actions described in print. I think that the possibility of downloading the very same unprocessed raw files used by the author would make all the difference in the learning process. Those raw files would also show us, amateurs/beginners, what a professional consider as an image worth keeping, allowing us to make comparisons with our own pictures
If someone knows of a book, article or thread conforming to that, I would be very happy to know about it.