books on digital photography ?

I am intersted to find a book on digital photography, workflow with
RAW, post-processing etc. Among other questions, I am interetsed to
learn rreplies to these:

1. How to work with Curves and Levels ? If I want a particular effect
(increase brightness/contrast/etc), what part of the curve I should
move and where ?

2. How to set the right value of gamma and other parameters when doing
RAW conversion. Profiles for my camera. sRGB and other gamut spaces.

3. How to stitch the panorama from several images.

4. How to overlay several images of the same object with the purpose to
receive the higher dyamic range.

5. How to set up a digital workflow and end up printing the
righ-quality images. And many other questions...

Recently I read someone's advice on this newsgroup to get the book by
Bruce Fraser "Real World camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2". Today I
went to the book shop and paged through it and through other books. I
liked this particular book because the author gave a physical
explanation of why this or that should be done with the comprehensive
diagrams. I wish I could have a similar-styled book with a wider
coverage and with the deeper description.

Can you recommend a must-have book for an intermediate-level
photographer ? Thanks.

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minnesotti wrote:
>
> I am intersted to find a book on digital photography, workflow with
> RAW, post-processing etc. Among other questions, I am interetsed to
> learn rreplies to these:
>
> 1. How to work with Curves and Levels ? If I want a particular effect
> (increase brightness/contrast/etc), what part of the curve I should
> move and where ?
>
> 2. How to set the right value of gamma and other parameters when doing
> RAW conversion. Profiles for my camera. sRGB and other gamut spaces.
>
> 3. How to stitch the panorama from several images.
>
> 4. How to overlay several images of the same object with the purpose to
> receive the higher dyamic range.
>
> 5. How to set up a digital workflow and end up printing the
> righ-quality images. And many other questions...
>
> Recently I read someone's advice on this newsgroup to get the book by
> Bruce Fraser "Real World camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS2". Today I
> went to the book shop and paged through it and through other books. I
> liked this particular book because the author gave a physical
> explanation of why this or that should be done with the comprehensive
> diagrams. I wish I could have a similar-styled book with a wider
> coverage and with the deeper description.
>
> Can you recommend a must-have book for an intermediate-level
> photographer ? Thanks.
>
> ..

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look at what they have, see if anything fits the bill before you buy.
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