Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom (2nd Edition) |  | Authors: Bruce Fraser, Jeff Schewe
Publisher: Peachpit Press
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Edition: 2
Pages: 360
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0321637550
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
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Publication Date: August 31, 2009
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Product Description
Just about every digital image requires sharpening since softness is inevitably introduced during the image digitizing process, and oftentimes with digital photography, images are sharpened badly. This second edition of the definitive book by the late Bruce Fraser teaches readers all they need to know about sharpening, including when to use it, why it's needed, how to use the camera's features, how to recognize an image that needs sharpening, how much to use, what's bad sharpening, and how to fix oversharpening.
Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom, Second Edition is written by Fraser's friend and renowned photographer Jeff Schewe. It adds essential coverage of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw, since many of the key sharpening functions have migrated from Photoshop to those tools since the first edition of the book was published.
The book shows readers how to: recognize the kind of sharpening that each image needs; become acquainted with the full arsenal of sharpening tools built into Photoshop, Lightroom, and Camera Raw; sharpen part of an image selectively; create a complete sharpening workflow that allows sharpening images optimally for different uses; balance the contradictory demands of sharpening and noise reduction; and more.
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 Comprehensive! November 20, 2009
steveofoto1 (Edina, MN USA)
The most comprehensive source I've seen on sharpening. As a professional photographer, many aspects of this book will be useful in helping me produce better images. At times, the material seems to be over-the-top technical, but that's probably just me. If I read a passage over 10 times or more, eventually it sinks in. Kudos to Fraser and Schewe for a job well done!
 Image sharpening great book November 15, 2009
Rob Corrado (Toronto, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great resource for image sharpening for Adobe products Photoshop, Camera Raw, Lightroom. I use it as reference for the printing classes I teach at Humber Collage.
Digital Image Sharpening and noise reduction for Adobe users October 30, 2009
David B. Thomas (Eugene, OR USA)
As anyone who uses digital imaging software is aware, the vendor provides very limited support on how to achieve the best results from their product. Adobe, with their work books and help support may do better than most, but for the most part photographers are left to find their own way in developing an effective and asthetically pleasing workflow. In this book, Jeff Schewe has puled together an exceptional amount of information and outright wisdom on how the thoughtful photographer can best use current versions of PS, CRW and LR2 to manage image noise and sarpening from initial capture to output. Drawing on his work as a consultant to Adobe, supplier of some of their sharpening algorithms and alpha and bata tester for the subject applications, you are given a solid understanding of how the verious functions of the tool are actually operating at the pixil level as well as how to effecively integrate them into your image editing workflow. Unless you have the depth of knowledge of this author, you need this book and can expect to see immeidate improvement in your image editing results.
Dave Thomas, Eugene, Oregon
Simply the best October 27, 2009
Júlíus Kr Björnsson (Iceland)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is a very easy job writing a review for this book, as it is simply the best explanation of digital photo sharpening I have ever seen. After reading it my understanding of the subject is totally changed and never again will I apply some undefined sharpening procedure to my photos as the book explains in a vivid way how to do this in an intelligent way. Simply the best.
 Where is the Real World Workflow? October 25, 2009
R. Adams (Montana)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was surprisingly underwhelmed by this book. I am normally a big fan of Jeff Schewe (see my Real World Camera RAW review for example) but this book really missed the mark for me. I really expected the same book layout presented in Real World Camera RAW, that is, a brief overview of the advantages of the proposed process, lots of in-depth examples to show the technical variations, and some additional "advanced" topics to help readers structure an improved process. Unfortunately, this book was plagued by a lack of focus and a theoretical approach that lacked substance.
The book seemed to get lost in esoteric and sometimes confusing examples that are often concluded with summary paragraphs with this basic theme of, "You could do it that way but it's not very good." I was left with the feeling that the authors included numerous examples and provided great detail just to debunk a specific technique. I don't really need 4 pages to get the point, simply recommend that we not use Sharpen or Edge Sharpen and be done with it.
My interest was in seeing examples of differing sharpening approaches and the advantages and disadvantages of each. There are a few examples like that in the book, but they are, unfortunately, few and far between. In fact, if you've read Real World Camera RAW, you've actually seen one of the examples already. Perhaps I had false hopes in a book about sharpening focusing primarily on examples. I have no interest in Continuous Tone printing, I do very little Creative Sharpening for the majority of my work, and I only rarely sharpen images for Offset Press. With only a portion of the book aimed at photographers using Camera RAW and an Inkjet Printer, this book seems to be misaligned with the majority of photographers out there with DSLRs and a desire to understand sharpening.
I really hope that the author retools this book for the third edition and simply goes after "Real World Sharpening in Camera RAW and Lightroom" and aims it towards the majority of photographers printing to inkjet printers. This approach would seem to have a much larger base of interested readers and would address the key concepts of sharpening as applied to a tangible workflow. As the book now stands, it's a theoretical approach short on examples that leaves this reader needing additional information.
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