About Ron Wodaski's New Book
The NewAstro Zone System for Astro Imaging will provide detailed tutorials on astronomical image processing, with the
focus on Photoshop CS and CS2 (versions 8 and 9).
The key features of the book include the following:
By popular request, the new book
will make extensive use of color.
This triples the printing costs, but we believe it's critical to have a book
about color processing in color! The "every page in color" decision affects the price
of the book.
The book is based on Ron's Zone System for image processing. The basic idea is
to break the image down into manageable zones, and to apply the appropriate
types of processing to each zone.
The book will be full of image processing exercises, from basic to advanced.
For each exercise, the book provides introductory material that explains in a
detailed way what Photoshop or other tools are used, how those tools work, and
some tips on getting the most out of each tool. Click the Sample pages menu item at left
to view examples.
Each exercise is very detailed, with many illustrations. A landscape page
layout is used (wider than tall) so that screen captures can be shown at a
reasonable size.
The DVD-ROM contains training
videos, exercises, and tutorials with live video of actual image processing sessions.
The DVD also includes numerous
practice images and some free software. The software will
include some of the
most popular image processing utilities currently available from New Astronomy Press, and
will add substantial value to the book. A trial version of
Russ Croman's Gradient XTerminator is also included, with a special upgrade price
for readers. Click the DVD Contents link in the menu at left to learn more.
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