Battle of the books … color correction

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David_Stiller
Aug 23, 2004
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Anyone weigh in? I was browsing in Barnes and Noble today and saw "Photoshop Color Correction," by Michael Kieran. At first glance, this book looks both exhaustive and immensely helpful, covering correction techniques in a variety of colorspaces, including *when* to use what colorspace to the greatest advantage. I was a bit put off by the $50 price tag, but the same book is available for $30-something at Amazon.

While online, I also saw "Professional Photoshop: The Classic Guide to Color Correction," by Dan Margulis. Both of these books appear to be several notches up from a "For Dummies"-type reference.

Can I get a few real-world appraisals of either book? Or any others?

David
stiller ( at ) quip ( dot ) net
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BobLevine
Aug 23, 2004
Both of those authors know their stuff, but, IIRC, they go about it in a different way. I attended a couple of Michael Keiran seminars about the time that PS 5.0 was released and was very impressed with his knowlege.

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Pierre_Courtejoie
Aug 23, 2004
I have not read his book, but I know for a fact that the Dan Margulis book is VERY print (press printing) oriented. AFAIK, the kieran one is maybe more geared towards photographers.
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Chris_Cox
Aug 23, 2004
I would recommend "Real World Photoshop".
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Pierre_Courtejoie
Aug 23, 2004
OH yes, RWCS… Is RWCR (camera raw)as good?
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Chris_Cox
Aug 23, 2004
I don’t know – I haven’t had time to read it yet….
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Stu_Bloom
Aug 23, 2004
Kieran’s book is excellent, with two caveats.

1 – There are a lot of silly errors. The book badly, badly needed a technical editor, not because Kieran doesn’t know his stuff (he clearly does) but because there are (many) places where the text contradicts itself within a span of two or three paragraphs.

2 – The book is slanted toward CMYK. There is a fair amount of RGB stuff, but for some techniques, RGB gets a once-over-lightly treatment and CMYK a detailed explanation.
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Gary_Hummell
Aug 24, 2004
Dan Margulie’s book is an intermediate to advanced book for sure. He does spend a fare amount of effort refining color correction skills for CMYK, but he certainly shows the value of learning the unique characteristics of color correction in LAB and RGB. He packs a lot of information into a modestly sized book. It is one of my standard references. I haven’t read Kieran’s book so I can’t offer a comparison.

Gary
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David_Stiller
Aug 26, 2004
Thanks for the input, folks! I do appreciate it. Even with Amazon’s customer review area, it’s always nice to hear opinions from people you know are associated with the discipline in question.

David
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David_Stiller
Aug 26, 2004
Stu,

Do you know if there’s an errata list somewhere? O’Reilly is usually good about such corrections, but I checked Peachpit’s website for this book and didn’t see anything. You’re not the only one to mention the unfortunately poor editing … I was hoping that if enough people commented, Peachpit would have provided something.

David
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Kieran’s book is excellent, with two caveats.

1 – There are a lot of silly errors. The book badly, badly needed a
technical editor, not because Kieran doesn’t know his stuff (he clearly does) but because there are (many) places where the text contradicts itself within a span of two or three paragraphs.
2 – The book is slanted toward CMYK. There is a fair amount of RGB stuff,
but for some techniques, RGB gets a once-over-lightly treatment and CMYK a detailed explanation.

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