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It's hard to see how anyone would think this was NOT an Epson marketing book, with every chapter followed by a biography of some professional printer who gives a glowing testimonial about the place of Epson in his life! Yet, the book was very useful to me in an area of digital photography in which it seems difficult to find readable information. This book took me from being completely frustrated with printing, ready to give it up completely, to feeling comfortable, in control, and excited about making prints. For me, at least, it was the right book at the right time.

It is refreshing to find a book about digital photography that doesn't expect you to be a long-time expert in Photoshop or computers. The author seems to really care about helping photographers learn to make great prints with an inkjet printer. He does give tips that make it easier to use Photoshop to get a print you really like. He includes stuff that I have never seen in any other book, such as dealing with digital grain, how to selectively sharpen a photo for better prints, how to make your own test image for a test print and much more. I highly recommend it.

I recently attended the Epson seminar in Kansas City and bought this book afterwards because they raffled it at the seminar--I didn't win! It has helped me to apply all the information I got from the seminar. Up till this point I was getting a lot of confusing advice about things like resolution and color adjustments. Rob Shepard makes it easy to understand. Thanks to the seminar (which I recommend) and this book,it has started to make sense to me and is not so difficult.