Digital Print, The: Preparing Images in Lightroom and Photoshop for Printing

I have been looking for a book that covers Photoshop and image color management in a concise and up to date manner. It's not a sexy subject, I but it's an essential one that distinguishes those photographers who do know it. I can spare you reading another tedious review - just get this book! First of all, Jeff gets it. He knows what it is we need to know and is able to communicate it with a great deal of clarity - perhaps too much clarity for some! He starts at a logical place and takes you through the entire color management process as a procedural workflow - which is uber helpful even to us professionals. He covers tough issues like image sharpening and preparation for printing, workflow and final printing - all of which can be HUGE challenges especially when you consider how quickly technologies come and go and change. He gives you the core-level stuff you really need to need to know to make smarter decisions and dodge all of the mental masturbation people who truly have no idea what they are talking about are spewing with regularity on the Internet. If there any weaknesses, it is probably that Jeff doesn't include anything about RAW converters like Capture One Pro, which would be nice since so many use it today. Maybe the next revision, Jeff? That's a pretty minimal nit when you consider the entirety of this work. This is one of the best books I've acquired in a long time - and it should be on every photographer's shelf. In an nutshell, I don't think you can call yourself a professional unless you know this stuff - and this is one place to get it and get it correctly. This book isn't for the faint of heart, but it's essential knowledge covered in a logical way that is both understandable and comfortable.

Extremely informative book from a real authority. If you are a photographer who wants to make great prints either as a home based hobbyist or a fine art creator, this book is definitely a top choice. The examples are mostly centered on PhotoShop and Lightroom, with analogous Capture One commands mentioned occasionally. About books that might disappoint photographers: Two other books by other authors that I have were written specifically for a rather different audience: workers in publishing who usually scan original artworks for the end use of publishing on offset presses. Maybe they will or maybe they won't use an inkjet printer for proofing the big press runs. Maybe the input image comes from a camera, or maybe not. Much discussion about CMYK color spaces, very little in RGB. Yes there is some overlap of color management principles between press work and home or fine art printing, but many considerations can get left out.

Schewe's two books have been quite helpful as I ramp up my digital camera usage to get more attractive hard copy results at sizes above 8x10. I respect him a lot from his contributions to the Luminous Landscape website. This book about printing covers all of the bases from digital image to mounted and framed ink+paper. It even covers exhibiting. It takes a grand tour approach with some tangents -- for someone looking for a howto does it make any difference that musician Graham Nash was a pioneer in digital printing? Despite its design that tries to touch every base (and a few too many) within modest length, this book has plenty of depth on some essentials -- his photos of art paper surface textures comparing natural versus white and cold press versus hot press were outstandingly informative. His coverage of color management inspired me to finally appreciate the value of ICC printer profiles and get them working. His settings-then-results approach is very useful even when I can't understand how the two connect initially. There are three problems with both of Schewe's books that lead to my less than 5 stars: (1) To try any of the software examples one must have an Adobe Lightroom or Photoshop license or subscription; (2) The books' software aspects go obsolete quickly as software versions proceed - he does release later book versions that one has to buy at full price again (in Kindle); (3) He is a very advanced practitioner of the arts and sciences of image processing and print production, and for me who is slowly ramping upward his writing often leaves me behind initially and I have to go elsewhere (e.g. Kelby or DPReview) to get up to speed before I can take advantage of what he covers. Compare his to Michael Reichmann's (R.I.P.) writing at Luminous Landscape which often meets me at my amateur, affordable level. Worthwhile purchases both.

If you want to learn all of the aspects of creating a successful fine art print and learn them in a way that is accessible to both a beginning printer and someone who is already very proficient, this is the book to own. I teach fine art printing at a local gallery and have been waiting for years for a book that I could recommend to my workshop participants as a reference source. It is clearly and efficiently written. Nothing is treated superficially and Mr. Schewe presents detail for those who want to drill deeper. The only issue that I didn't find addressed is the issue of printer linearization. Other than that, it is a spectacular effort from a leading expert on digital printing.

The book is an extensive study programme between covers that holds the potential of diversing my knowledge beyond the photochemical that has been .y mainstay. Thank you for the means of aquiring such a self assigned course. Best regards, Richard P.

It's an amazing book in terms of quality and depth of knowledge. It lacks some explanations that i believe would be required in order to fully understand the book without using internet or other source.

Wow. Just wow. Jeff Schewe knows what he's talking about. I got to the point where I was getting serious about my photography as a potential business ... but highly dissatisfied with the inconsistent results I'd get from various labs. Sometimes great. Sometimes horrible. So I picked up an Epson SureColor P600 to get my feet wet. Here's the thing though - my previous experience with digital printers was horrible. I would see others getting great results and my prints were crappy. This book fixed that. My first print out after reading this book was right on the money. It matched what I was seeing on screen and - better yet - matched my vision. Now, if I had a quibble, it would be that the author spends too much time up front on color theory. A lot to wade through that I'm not sure is necessary. But it's a minor quibble. The payoff for those early chapters are that you're set up nicely for the following how-to guides on Lightroom and Photoshop. I'm sure there are other great books out there on digital printing. But this one - from my experience - is excellent.

A great book. Much useful info as the other reviews have pointed out explicitly so I won't repeat An excellent companion to Schewe's The Digital Print Book. It certainly helps to have at least a basic working knowlege of LR or PS, but you can easily get this type of knowledge and more details from Martin Evening's books on LR and PS. What I will add that the other reviewers didn't comment on is that Schewe is a very good and engaging writer with a dry wit. Makes reading his books (and I go back to the much earlier PS book he co-wrote with Bruce Fraser) a pleasure. Reading him (and Evening) is far better than dealing with an off-putting approach that some other popular (and too prolific?) writers on the subjects have.

Having read the last book, The Digital Negative, I felt compelled to purchase this next book and I have not been disappointed. Jeff writes with the experience and knowledge from a life time of photography. The information is explained in a very down to earth, matter of fact, common sense way. The book is worth getting just for Chapter 5 it self, Attributes Of A Perfect Print. There's knowledge in this chapter you'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else, or take days to find and its all here in this one chapter. The only gripe I do have is, I feel, is his unfair criticism of printing from Photoshop, over emphasising how time consuming it is making sure all those boxes are ticked correctly. When I have a print ready, I apply a Pixel Genius Output Sharpener, open the print dialogue make sure all the settings are correct and print, it only takes a few seconds. A man of Jeff's talent would whizz through this seconds. I think there's some subtle manipulation going on here to slowly persuade us to eventually move over to Lightroom, but I'm very happy with Photoshop, its more hands on. Anyway, apart from that, this is a highly informative book that everybody who has any interest in quality printing should buy. If you got this then you should buy the last one and if you got the last one you must buy this one, you'll never know what you're missing! In fact if you have these 2 books and buy Martin Evenings new book, Adobe Photoshop CC For Photographers, or if you are into Lightroom his new Lightroom 5 book or both, these are all the books you'll ever need for still photography.

Libro ben scritto sull'arte della stampa digitale. Fornisce sia approfondimenti teorici (molto ben spiegati, ma forse un po' tecnici per chi non ha un po' di basi) sia suggerimenti pratici. Questi ultimi sono specifici per Lightroom e Photoshop, ma sono anche estendibili ad altri software per la postproduzione una volta compresi. Il capitolo sulla preparazione delle stampe per quanto riguarda gestione del colore e della luminosità potrebbe forse essere esteso con ulteriori approfondimenti ed esempi, ma nella globalità il libro copre tutti i temi importanti e riporta numerosi esempi che aiutano a capire i concetti ed a vederli applicati in pratica. In conclusione: libro consigliatissimo per chi ha già qualche base di postproduzione di foto e di stampa digitale e vuole ulteriormente approfondire queste tematiche.

A good stand-alone book and also a good companion book to Jeff's earlier Digital Negative book. Easy to use and comprehend. Quite detailed and plenty of helpful suggestions! Anticipate that examples and method will continue to apply for many future software releases.

I like Jeff and the way he explains things. I bought most of the videos he had produced with Michal Reichmann about printing and Lightroom. So sad that Adobe leaves the ambitioned semi pros behind with its price/product policy since 2013. If you have Ligthroom and Photoshop or both and a Printer like the Epson R3000 or better this book will really give an expert aid for printing fine art at home. I've learned a lot about color so far.

Jeff Schewe is incredibly knowledgable about processing images, and not only provides guides/tips for maximising image quality, but also technical info on the way LR/Photoshop/Printers work so you understand why things turn out the way they do. Highly recommended to anyone who is interested in printing their own images, or send images to be printed.