Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Printed | Page xiii 1st sentence |
In the first sentence of the preface of your book, the phrase "looking and seeing pictures" does not make sense. Did you, perhaps, mean to say "looking for and seeing pictures"? |
Anonymous | |
Page * throughout the TOC - at least |
I just downloaded the PDF and noticed that all the links from the table of contents are pointing to page 3 of the document (same with thumbnails), making document navigation impossible. |
Benno P?tz | May 22, 2010 | |
Printed | Page 8 Second Picture |
The reference made to figure 1-11, however the actual second picture is in press as figure 1-21. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 8 figure 1-21 bottom left image of page |
should be figure 1-11 to match reference in text |
Anonymous | Jul 24, 2008 |
Printed | Page 8 Figure "1-21" should be "Figure "1-11" |
1st edition - |
Wes Foote | Jan 10, 2016 |
Printed | Page 23 3rd paragraph header on the right hand side of the page |
I believe the third header should be "Prefer Adobe Camera Raw for Supported Raw Files" |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 23 Last sentence under heading, "Prefer Adobe Camera Raw of JPEG Files" |
For Windows XP, the phrase "Photoshop Open dialogue box" should read "Photoshop Open As dialogue box" |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 24 first line of last paragraph on left side of page |
"sPhotoshop" -- I assume the s is silent |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 24 Bottom right |
Page 24 Bottom Right Side of page under the Header "Performance" . The sentence |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 24 generally in this section |
The book is referring to part of the preferences pages that exist tend to go from CS2 pages to CS3 pages. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 57 End of third paragraph Applying Keywords |
Repetition of explanation (which I am sure was not intended). |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 99 figures 4-15 to 4-18 |
The titles of the figures 4-15 to 4-18 are wrong. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 100 Number 4 |
Instead of 'click the A channel' should be 'click the Lightness channel' as shown in figure 4-22. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 100 Paragraph 4 |
Section 4 provides "click the A channel". Compare with Figure 4.22, where the instruction is to add sharpening to the Lightness channel. |
David L. Forney | Jun 15, 2010 |
Printed | Page 100 Item 4 |
In the book, The Creative Digital Darkroom, page, number 100, item 4, the author wrote “To offset the softening that blurring may have caused, click the A channel and use Filter Sharpen Unsharp Mask to tighten up the luminance information. In this example, we used a low Strength setting with a high Radius setting to gently sharpen and improve the overall contrast (Figure 4-22). The Threshold setting of 5 is useful to avoid sharpening very small tonal differences that may look like noise in the final result”. |
Valter Chapetta | Dec 01, 2014 |
Printed | Page 104 In the Yellow "tip" area on left. |
Text provides, "To view a layer without the layer mask, Shift-click the layer mask icon." On my MAC, it's Option-click. David |
David L. Forney | Jun 15, 2010 |
Printed | Page 105 Number 6 |
.... menu to select Alpha 4 should say menu to select Blue copy |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 107 Numbers 3 and 5 |
There is no figure to go with number 3. Figure 4-35 should go with number 5 (instead of 4-36 which does |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 113 Third Party Optical Correction - 2nd column - line 5 |
'once processed via Adobe Camera Raw and once with DxO Optics Pro ...' |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 137 Figure 5-20 |
'The Levels clipping display shows white' - should be '.... shows black'. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 143 Second column - last 3 lines |
On a PC (don't know about Mac) pressing Tab in the Curves dialog does NOT switch between Input and Output |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 257 Vibrance vs. Saturation |
The statement that using the saturation controls in the Hue/Saturation (in Photoshop) dialog box affects |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 258 1st paragraph |
The text refers to figures 7-83 and 7-84 as depicting a toy microscope. The actual figures show a man with a parrot. |
Ronald Ohlander | Feb 16, 2010 |
Printed | Page 267 1st para |
The sentence 'Selective Color can be useful for subtle tweaks to images where there are distinct |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 324 Diffuse Glow |
This example does not work as illustrated unless the foreground is set to black and background to white. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 370 Number 2 |
'(circled in Figure 10-19)' It isn't. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 372 ch10_model-village.jpg |
This file - ch10_model-village.jpg - is not included in the downloads for the book. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 375 ch10_sheep.jpg |
SHOULD BE - |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 375 5th paragraph: point2 |
Point 2 indicates: Choose Filter: Blur: Smart Blur. But then this point talkes about "shapes", so it should be "shape blur" |
Anonymous | Feb 28, 2010 |
Printed | Page 391 Focusing on History |
The relevant picture is called ch10_wedding.jpg NOT ch10_Bride.jpg |
Anonymous |