[...]... then how to use Photoshop to edit and optimize them They need a straightforward workflow that pertains to nature photography and that’s easy and efficient to follow That’s the goal of Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers: A Workshop in a Book Further, this book addresses some of the unique concerns nature photographers experience, such as white balance and color correction Of course, all photographers. .. for most people, it doesn’t sink in until you actually do it By providing you with images to practice on, we hope to make this book more like a workshop Who Should Use This Book Every nature photographer who wants people to look at their pictures and say “Wow!” should use this book Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers: A Workshop in a Book is designed for nature photographers who want a straightforward... of much use to most photographers And although some Photoshop books do target photographers, few specifically address the unique needs of nature photographers Many of these books focus on areas unimportant to nature photographers For example, they may spend many pages dealing with retouching portraits or repairing scans of old photos Most nature photographers need to know how to take their images off... tim@timgrey.com For more information about Ellen’s workshops and photography, visit her website at www.sunbearphoto.com To learn more about Tim’s writing and appearances, visit www.timgrey.com Sybex strives to keep you supplied with the latest tools and information you need for your work Please check its website at www .sybex. com for additional content and updates that supplement this book Type photoshop and nature. .. within Photoshop itself to this 8-bit image and will result in some destruction of pixels and therefore image degradation In reality, this may often be so slight that it’s not noticeable, but it’s there And, sometimes the differences may be huge For example, if you accidentally use the wrong white balance, a JPEG image may seem nearly useless at first and at best may require extensive corrections in Photoshop. .. filters within Photoshop Use a filter later to accentuate the effect if desired Occasionally, nature photographers may choose to use Shutter Priority for a specific need such as to create a blur of birds in flight (like the ones shown in Figure 1.2) or to create a pleasing softness to moving water Although you can create motion blurs in Photoshop, planning your image ahead of time (for example, using... JPEGs Before considering the benefits of each format, we’ll define what each one is RAW is actually a pseudoformat used to refer to a lot of camera manufacturer proprietary formats: Canon CR2 and CRW, Nikon NEF, Olympus ORF, Fuji RAF, and more It’s a category of files rather than a specific file format like JPEG and TIFF raw files are similar to film negatives They’re files containing all the information... distribute the information the sensor captured in ways that will maximize the contrast, decrease it, or change the white balance, and so on, what you can’t do is to re-create information that isn’t there So if you have highlights with no information or shadows with no information, you may be able to lighten or darken them, but you won’t be able to re-create detail within them That may make it seem... workshop devoted to Photoshop for photographers involves a major time commitment, to say nothing of the significant expense involved You’ll find lots of Photoshop how-to books on the bookstore shelves, but many address the needs of graphic artists more than those of photographers Graphic artists need to use vector tools such as the Pen tool or Shape tool, which aren’t of much use to most photographers And... may need to be lightened in the raw converter or in Photoshop, this is the ideal in-camera capture because it captures all the detail information in both the highlights and the shadows Don’t get confused between an ideal in-camera histogram for the capture and the final histogram of the optimized image, which may be noticeably different The goal in-camera is to capture all, or at least as much, information . and say “Wow!” should use this book. Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers: A Workshop in a Book is designed for nature photographers who want a straightforward workflow customized to make their. PM Page ii Dear Reader, Thank you for choosing Photoshop CS3 for Nature Photographers, A Workshop in a Book. This book is part of a family of premium-quality Sybex graphics books, all written. INC. Photoshop ® CS3 for Nature Photographers A Workshop in a Book Ellen Anon Tim Grey 119891fm.qxd 4/5/07 8:58 PM Page i 119891fm.qxd 4/5/07 8:58 PM Page i WILEY PUBLISHING, INC. Photoshop ® CS3 for