Epson is the company at the cutting edge of quality digital photo printing and their superb equipment makes it possible for everyone to print sparkling photographs at home. With the help of Rob Sheppard, editor of Outdoor Photographer and PCPhoto magazines, amateurs can enter Epsons brave new world with all the latest information. This latest edition of the Epson guide reflects the increasing sophistication of ink jet printing, with its faster speed and better tonal and colour reproduction. It helps todays photographers select a model that has the right features, choose from the new options of quality papers and inks and succeed in creating excellent prints - and have fun while doing it. Sheppard passes on valuable knowledge on developing a consistent workflow, sizing and sharpening images properly, making black-and-white and panoramic prints and much more. To complete the picture: the guide includes gallery sections from well-known photographers who are all Epson spokespeople and users.
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Rob Sheppard is the former editor of PCPhoto (now Digital Photo) and Outdoor Photographer magazines and the author of numerous Lark Photography books, including The Magic of Digital Landscape Photography and How to Take Great Photos with the Canon D-SLR System. He is a regular contributor to Pixiq.com.
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
By Bob Margolis
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Very good for specific things.
I bought this because I have an Epson printer and wanted to prepare images in the best way possible for printing on it. This is my final stage after raw capture and editing in Photoshop.
The basic information about the inkjet printing process is very good and applies whatever printer you own. It explains the difference between pixels per inch and dots per inch very well and everyone who prints their own images needs to understand this (some don't). Colour management is also discussed well.
The general chapters are useful and are well covered, with fewer plugs for Epson products, in other books. If you don't have other books, there is lots of solid advice about taking and editing pictures.
The core of the book (for me) is the part on sizing and sharpening for printing. Here, the detailed advice applies to Epson printers (with their multiples of 360 dots per inch) but the principles apply to all inkjet printers. If you don't use an Epson printer, you would have to read this information together with your printer manual.
Sheppard offers one controversial piece of advice, which I summarise as "print early, print often". (He denies that he is trying to boost Epson paper sales.) He has a point. It is very difficult (not impossible) to judge correct print sharpening on screen.
If you use a good quality proofing paper (Permajet's Matt Proofing is just one example) proof prints are not too expensive and could save an expensive mistake on a high price art paper.
The Epson plugging will put some readers off. This is a shame, they should look past the plugs to the sound advice.
The samples of work from four professional photographers are illuminating too.
I bought this because I have an Epson printer and wanted to prepare images in the best way possible for printing on it. This is my final stage after raw capture and editing in Photoshop.
The basic information about the inkjet printing process is very good and applies whatever printer you own. It explains the difference between pixels per inch and dots per inch very well and everyone who prints their own images needs to understand this (some don't). Colour management is also discussed well.
The general chapters are useful and are well covered, with fewer plugs for Epson products, in other books. If you don't have other books, there is lots of solid advice about taking and editing pictures.
The core of the book (for me) is the part on sizing and sharpening for printing. Here, the detailed advice applies to Epson printers (with their multiples of 360 dots per inch) but the principles apply to all inkjet printers. If you don't use an Epson printer, you would have to read this information together with your printer manual.
Sheppard offers one controversial piece of advice, which I summarise as "print early, print often". (He denies that he is trying to boost Epson paper sales.) He has a point. It is very difficult (not impossible) to judge correct print sharpening on screen.
If you use a good quality proofing paper (Permajet's Matt Proofing is just one example) proof prints are not too expensive and could save an expensive mistake on a high price art paper.
The Epson plugging will put some readers off. This is a shame, they should look past the plugs to the sound advice.
The samples of work from four professional photographers are illuminating too.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Like many people these days, I am a keen amateur photographer with a DSLR capable of many megapixels. I have learnt a lot in the last few years about taking a good photo and how to process that raw photo using Photoshop CS3 and more recently Lightroom 2. I needed to find out more about 'known unknowns' such as sharpening and why a print looks different to the image on a monitor; and have subsequently found 'unknown unknowns' such as edge burning. This book has provided key information about making optimal images and prints which I have not found in any other books and RS explains things very clearly with specific settings to try out in PS and LR2.
I agree with most of the points made by previous reviewers, but I will add a few observations of my own.
- I think it is perfectly justified that RS includes what makes a good photo as this is integral to achieving a good print at the end of your workflow.
- I already knew about monitor calibration and many of the suggestions for how to take a good picture. However, RS includes lots of print specific hints to illustrate many of the suggestions which are worth knowing in a print context
- RS really knows his stuff and explains some high end concepts (for me anyway) such as sharpening and masks in a lot of detail. - For those of us brought up on the 'doing' though photo magazines and using the software this is an ideal level of explanation and explains the 'why' of techniques I have been using but not knowing why...
- The book that I bought is the 'New' guide, which follows three previous editions. Therefore it not only includes information that has always been relevant to good prints, but it is also fully up-to-date with DSLR lore and examples for Raw photos and Lightroom 2.... Read more ›
I agree with most of the points made by previous reviewers, but I will add a few observations of my own.
- I think it is perfectly justified that RS includes what makes a good photo as this is integral to achieving a good print at the end of your workflow.
- I already knew about monitor calibration and many of the suggestions for how to take a good picture. However, RS includes lots of print specific hints to illustrate many of the suggestions which are worth knowing in a print context
- RS really knows his stuff and explains some high end concepts (for me anyway) such as sharpening and masks in a lot of detail. - For those of us brought up on the 'doing' though photo magazines and using the software this is an ideal level of explanation and explains the 'why' of techniques I have been using but not knowing why...
- The book that I bought is the 'New' guide, which follows three previous editions. Therefore it not only includes information that has always been relevant to good prints, but it is also fully up-to-date with DSLR lore and examples for Raw photos and Lightroom 2.... Read more ›
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Whilst this book is not the best structured, and the initial parts cover much of what you would find in a photography book - it is common sense that you can't make a good quality print out of a poor photograph. However, when you have waded half way through the book you get to the real meat. A work flow of the things to consider in producing a quality print. And then some extrmely useful stuff about how to enhance your photos by darkening/lightening selected areas of the photo using photoshop. The concepts are based on the old dark room techniques, albeit they do not use the dodge and burn tools in photoshop. Using curves/levels/hue and saturation adjustment layer masks, the improvement in my prints has been distintly noticable.
I did have to spend much more time working on one photo, but with time I spend less and less, as now I know what I am doing.
I did have to spend much more time working on one photo, but with time I spend less and less, as now I know what I am doing.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Despite no longer being an Epson officianado (too many clogged printer heads and wasted cartridges), this is a useful book even if your choice of printer manufacturer is not Epson. Admittedly some recommendations will need to ne translated to those of your own printer, but I found that I could do that quite easily.
Before this book I thought my prints were good, but after reading this book my prints have improved several fold.
Recommended especially for Epson users, but for others my suggestion is to buy it until (if ever) someone writes an equivalent for HP, Canon, Lexmark etc users.
Before this book I thought my prints were good, but after reading this book my prints have improved several fold.
Recommended especially for Epson users, but for others my suggestion is to buy it until (if ever) someone writes an equivalent for HP, Canon, Lexmark etc users.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having had problems getting my printed output to match the screen image, I bought this book because it had Epson in the title and I was struggling with two Epson Printers, the R800 and the R1900. I thought that as it was written by someone who actually uses Epson machines himself, that I could use it to get the best results from mine. I was not disappointed.
I had used the X-Rite Colour Munki Photo device to calibrate the screen first, and then also the printer, but the there was a distinct difference between the two. The printed pictures were darker than the screen. Even a second sequence of printer profile recalibration failed to cure the difference.
There was a suggestion in the book to try using the Epson printer driver to control the colour instead of using the photo editing program, in my case Photoshop, in desperation I tried this and by selecting the same ICM as my camera and computer along with a glossy paper and a couple of small adjustments to the colour controls in the driver, I got much better results than with the ICM profile calculated by the X-Rite Colour Monki Photo device!
The device does a very good job of calibrating the screen however so I will not be disposing of it any time soon! (The pictures on the screen are true to the subjects photographed)
I will be going back to the ICM profiles and hope to get an even better result over time.
This book gives advice on not only printing but also the whole sequence of getting a good print from the best way to get a great picture from the camera in the first place, using RAW and / or .jpeg files and ICM profiles such as Adobe RGB 1998 in the camera and the computer work space, using Adobe Camera Raw, through to sizing, editing and sharpening of the final file.... Read more ›
I had used the X-Rite Colour Munki Photo device to calibrate the screen first, and then also the printer, but the there was a distinct difference between the two. The printed pictures were darker than the screen. Even a second sequence of printer profile recalibration failed to cure the difference.
There was a suggestion in the book to try using the Epson printer driver to control the colour instead of using the photo editing program, in my case Photoshop, in desperation I tried this and by selecting the same ICM as my camera and computer along with a glossy paper and a couple of small adjustments to the colour controls in the driver, I got much better results than with the ICM profile calculated by the X-Rite Colour Monki Photo device!
The device does a very good job of calibrating the screen however so I will not be disposing of it any time soon! (The pictures on the screen are true to the subjects photographed)
I will be going back to the ICM profiles and hope to get an even better result over time.
This book gives advice on not only printing but also the whole sequence of getting a good print from the best way to get a great picture from the camera in the first place, using RAW and / or .jpeg files and ICM profiles such as Adobe RGB 1998 in the camera and the computer work space, using Adobe Camera Raw, through to sizing, editing and sharpening of the final file.... Read more ›
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More detail please.
It's good if you are starting from scratch but fails to move you on a great deal if you have a reasonable amount of knowledge. That means it is not therefore great value for money.
Published 2 months ago by ChrisD
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Not Bad
Like a lot of the how to do it books this one contains a fair amount of waffle. Unlike many it explodes a few myths and marketing twaddle about the requirements for producing... Read more
Published 9 months ago by I. Jamieson
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This book is a collection of chapters, by a number of authors, that set out to cover the business of transferring digital prints to paper. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Mr. G. Cusick
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epson printer book
in a nutshell not very good at all ,most of the book covers print prep in photoshop ,which any person interestd would surely know. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Barri Elford
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Waste of time
What a load of waffle. And half of it is not even about printing e.g "Chapter 3: A Good Print Starts When You Take the Picture" - well I'd never have guessed. Read more
Published 19 months ago by GeorgeGammer
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book on Epson printers
Excellent book for those of us who have an Epson printer. Lots of detail on the machine, software plus editing and preparing images prior to printing.
Published 19 months ago by Jamone
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Having had Epron printers for a number of years and having just bought a 3880 I wanted to find out what Epson themselves recommended for printing settings. Read more
Published on 28 April 2010 by D. Stubbs
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A lot of text but very little about the actual printing
When I bought this book, I was expecting to find a book that would go into a lot of detail about the specifics on printing on EPSON printers. Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2010 by Bart Wybouw
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Very good all-round guide to digital printing, particularly the...
This book is an excellent practical guide to the "state of the art" of digital printing. It begins by discussing steps to take before beginning the print process - e.g. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2010 by Mike M
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A useful read for the keen printer.
This book is a very useful guide to digital printing,it contains some very good advice to prepare your pictures for printing and adjusting the printer to obtain good results.
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