Halftones, for most graphics professionals, are at least as important as color photographs and for some, color just never happens. While there are many books that help with photoretouching and image manipulation most emphasize only the more gee-whiz color retouching techniques. Photoshop in Black and White is a guide to using the black and white editing tools available in Adobe Photoshop for reproduction purposes.
January 8, 1997
Appendices cover scanning and calibration. Sections are included covering converting color photographs to grayscale, creating contrast, eliminating those pesky moires, image sharpening, highlights and shadows, and adjusting midtones.
This is not a fat book-it's tightly focused on teaching the reader to adjust tones of black and white images. It does not show how to paste the head of Bill Clinton onto the body of Roseanne. Desktop scanning and calibration are covered but the bulk of the book is concerned with adjusting the tones of black and white images. Although the book isn't for beginners I suspect most advanced Photoshop users will already be familiar with most of the techniques mentioned. I use Photoshop only two or three times each week mostly because the bulk of my work is with black and white and I consider myself to be at the lower end of intermediate level. After working my way through the book I've learned enough to produce visibly better work than I did before and I learned new ways to use Photoshop that hadn't occurred to me before. Mac or Windows users will appreciate the heavily illustrated lessons presented.
Appendices cover scanning and calibration. Sections are included covering converting color photographs to grayscale, creating contrast, eliminating those pesky moires, image sharpening, highlights and shadows, and adjusting midtones.
