Maike Jarsetz' digitale Dunkelkammer

Your guide through the jungle of image editing with Photoshop and Lightroom!

The 2nd edition includes new features from Lightroom, Camera Raw, and Photoshop. The ideal book for Adobe photo subscribers. Effective learning success through step-by-step workshops. It provides an understanding of the fundamental operation of the functions. With meaningful image examples from practical photography and numerous software screenshots. Includes downloadable image material.

With this book, Maike Jarsetz addresses everyone who wants to develop, optimize, and perfect their photos using Photoshop and Lightroom. She guides you through the thicket of image editing and sharpens your eye for the subject and its correction needs. She shows you how to harness the full potential of image development in Lightroom or Camera Raw and go beyond the limits of image development with Photoshop. Due to its in-depth foundational chapters and numerous step-by-step workshops of varying difficulty levels, this book serves as a comprehensive school of image editing, suitable for both beginners and professionals.

Even in image development, it’s not just about listing the sliders and software functions, but about the correct order of corrections, subject-specific image optimization, and effective workflow approaches. Photoshop and Lightroom users benefit equally from the parallelism of the functions and can confidently achieve the perfect image result with the help of this book. When the limits of image development are reached, many subjects still require individual image editing in Photoshop. Complex retouching, meticulous cutouts, or filter techniques are first explained in their functionality and then gradually guided to the goal in example workshops. The book spans the range from the initial development steps to key Photoshop techniques.