I'm looking for a good book that can teach more intermediate and advanced techniques on RAW processing. I'm an amateur in post-processing and would love to learn how to manipulate RAW images more.
What software are you using? Many of the techniques are software specific. For example, if you are using Photoshop CS3 or the lastest version of Lightroom, a good book right now is Real World Camera Raw by Bruce Fraser and Jeff Schewe .
Lynda.com probably has some good video tutorials and you also can find a ton of stuff on the web with a Google search.
Part of the book will work for CS, but it's really geared toward the much improved features found in ACR of CS3.
If you're going to do RAW, you will really benefit from upgrading to CS3 for that reason alone.
If you still don't want to upgrade, you might want to consider a month subscription to www.lynda.com ... $25 for 30 days and you should be able to get all the answers you need for RAW with CS
Real World Camera Raw with Photoshop CS2 might be better unless you are thinking of upgrading. The latest version of ACR is different to some extent. Still a good choice though.
I have Real World with Photoshop CS2. It was really valuable to my understanding of the fundamentals of ACR and RAW. That's the one for you if you don't upgrade to CS3. But CS3 has so many valuable ACR tools that-sooner or later-you will want to upgrade. That's and easy move since you only have to learn the enhancements some of which are: ACR will also process TIFFs and JPEGs! Clarity: a local contrast sharpening control, Recovery; a peak/overload tweak, etc.
