The Digital Zone System

The Digital Zone System (DZS) is an innovative methodology for editing digital images that mimics the Zone System created by Ansel Adams. With this book, author Robert Fisher presents a practical guide for editing digital images with a level of control previously unattainable without significant manual work.

Geared toward those who are already familiar with Photoshop and Lightroom, this book will teach you how to use these tools in a new way. By using luminance masks you can separate an image into "one-stop" zones of brightness that can be worked on individually or in groups. In this way, you gain tremendous control over edition your images by isolating and adjusting colors and luminance values in specific targeted areas.

The DZS approach is quicker and simpler than the tedious work of using global adjustments and painting in layer masks to isolate the effects of an adjustment layer. Once mastered, the DZS allows you to produce a higher level of quality in your images more quickly and with greater ease than ever before.

Fisher also covers exposure, converting color images to black-and-white, tone mapping HDR images, color management, Photoshop setup, and printing.