Also, by considering how you will process the photos when you are taking them may make the final product better. A simple example is including a MacBeth color checker in the first photograph so that you can produce accurate colors in the photograph later in Photoshop.

Until I read Preventive Photoshop, I wondered why anyone would pay extra for a digital camera just for wireless transmission of the photos to their computer. But, if you want to connect your computer and use its viewing capabilities, and even Photoshop, during the photo shoot, it makes a lot of sense.

Contents:

1: What is Preventive Photoshop?

2: Understanding Digital Capture

3: Seeing Your Pictures in Advance

4. Casting the Right Light

5. Creating Effects In-Camera

6. Processing Raw Images

7. Managing Color

8. Working In Photoshop

9. Managing Your Images

Preventive Photoshop covers specific concepts in such a broad area that there really is not any typical example.

One example of "thinking Photoshop" at the start and using it at the end is working with mixed lighting for a picture inside a building. It was is lit by a skylight at the top, fluorescent lights part way down, and incandescent lights at the bottom.

A light meter was used to capture details in the bright skylight area. Colors were measured with a color meter, and separate exposures were made with the camera set at a white balance for the skylight region, the fluorescent light region, and the incandescent light region.

A composite image of the different color temperatures captured was close to what the photographer saw. Photoshop was then used make final adjustments to bring out a blue/purple hue and adjust the saturation of some yellows. Preventive Photoshop is easy to read with good information and excellent illustrations. I enjoyed doing some of the recommended experiments, though it is for more advanced photographers than I am.

I suggest that you take a look at Preventive Photoshop in the book store or user group library. At $40 for 160 pages, you might want to be sure it fits your needs before you buy it.

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