Ebook: Art of RAW Conversion: How to Produce Art-Quality Photos with Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Leading RAW Converters

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.