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The Creative Digital Darkroom

Errata for The Creative Digital Darkroom

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
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   
PDF 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.
This happens in Preview as well as in Acrobat Reader, so I'll assume it is set incorrectly in the PDF.

External links seem to work fine as far as I can tell.

As an addendum:
It would be nice to have internal references linked, too, e.g., "Please see Chapter 4 " on page 53 (second to last paragraph). This could also apply to the chapter intro pages ...

 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
reads currently "The Preferences area ..." I suggest that it read "The Performance area..."

 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.
Specifically the "Enable Large Document Format (.psb) is in CS2 but not CS3. This caused a bit of
confusion until I brought up the preferences on another computer that is only running CS2 and then I
realized the proble.

 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.

4-15 should be 'Sharpen Details'.
4-16 should be 'Working in Advanced Mode'.
4-17 should be 'Save Settings feature'.
4-18 should be 'Remove JPEG artifacts' and is the wrong picture.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 100
Number 4

Instead of 'click the A channel' should be 'click the Lightness channel' as shown in figure 4-22.

Also, all refereces to 'A' and 'B' channels should, for consistency with Photoshop, refer to 'a' and 'b'
channels.

 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

 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”.

I think there is an error on that description! It should be " ...click the Lighteness channel..." and “ ...we used a low Threshold setting...”. Because that is what is shown in Figure 4-22, and also because this is what makes sense.

I send may questions to Mrs Eismann, I waiting her answer!

 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

see figure 4-30.

 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
not relate to this section).

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 113
Third Party Optical Correction - 2nd column - line 5

'once processed via Adobe Camera Raw and once with DxO Optics Pro ...'

Should be 'one processed via Adobe Camera Raw and one 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
fields. It just cycles through all the field on the dialog i.e. normal Windows behaviour.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 257
Vibrance vs. Saturation

The statement that using the saturation controls in the Hue/Saturation (in Photoshop) dialog box affects
all colors is, I don't believe, correct. This only applies to the Saturation controls in Lightroom and
ACR.

 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
differences between colors, but where you need to increase or decrease a specific color that may be
shared by more than one color.' doesn't make any sense. Possibly should be '.. but NOT where you need to
increase ...'?

 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 -
2. Choose Filter>Blur>Shape Blur

NOT Choose Filter>Blur>Smart Blur

 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"

thx

 Anonymous  Feb 28, 2010 
Printed Page 391
Focusing on History

The relevant picture is called ch10_wedding.jpg NOT ch10_Bride.jpg

 Anonymous