I picked up a copy of The Art of RAW Conversion, by Uwe Steinmueller

and Jürgen Gulbins because I wanted to learn about the benefits of

shooting RAW photography and how to setup a good post processing

workflow. I was not disappointed by this book in the slightest. The

authors have done an excellent job at giving a basic overview of why

you should shoot in RAW mode along with presenting a fairly generic

workflow for processing your images. They then go on to spend the

majority of the book discussing how to adapt that workflow to various

pieces of software such as Adobe Camera RAW, Apple's Aperture, Adobe

Lightroom, and several others. I found that the book did an adequate

job of comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the applications,

although there did seem to be a bit of favoritism towards Adobe Camera

RAW. They then close out the remainder of the book by looking at a

variety of topics such as advanced post-processing techniques, the

.DNG format, batch processing, and B&W conversions.



Overall, I felt that this book was at the perfect level for someone

who is looking to just step up from taking photos and posting them

online to actually perfecting your images in the post processing

stages. I think they do a great job of presenting you with the basic

approach and then showing different tools that can be used to

accomplish this. They also give a few tips throughout on how to

improve your composition skills as well. I would definitely recommend

this book to anyone that is looking to take this step.

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