Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2
by Bruce Fraser
Peachpit Press
(336 pages)
Keyword(s): Nonfiction, Photography
Dates read: January 26 - February 04, 2007,
Rating:
I've been shooting my digital photos in RAW format for more than two years now. In that time, I've used Nikon Capture, Adobe Lightroom, and Adobe Camera Raw to process them, but until I read this book, I thought Camera Raw was the weakest of the three. Now I get the best results with it, and it's my software of choice for getting good images from my RAW photos. Between Lightroom and Camera Raw, I will probably never again use the Nikon software.
Fraser's book is comprehensive, understandable, and accurate. It's very realistic about which edits should be done in a RAW intepreter and which should be left to Photoshop. If you use a Digital SLR camera, you owe it to your photos to shoot RAW and to read this book.

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