Book Description
Learn to remove wrinkles, unwanted backgrounds or color casts, image flaws or 10extra pounds so images look better than reality. Photoshop Restoration andRetouching, 2/E has been updated with new techniques, new projects, and new screenshots. It will take you through numerous step-by-step examples that highlight the tools and techniques used by professional digital artists to restore valuable antique images, retouch portraits and enhance glamour photography. This book features dozens of tutorials that will show users of all skill levels how to transform faded, damaged photographs intobeautiful images that are as clear and crisp as the day they were taken.


From the Back Cover
Learn to remove wrinkles, unwanted backgrounds or color casts, image flaws or 10extra pounds so images look better than reality. Photoshop Restoration andRetouching, 2/E has been updated with new techniques, new projects, and new screenshots. It will take you through numerous step-by-step examples that highlight the tools and techniques used by professional digital artists to restore valuable antique images, retouch portraits and enhance glamour photography. This book features dozens of tutorials that will show users of all skill levels how to transform faded, damaged photographs intobeautiful images that are as clear and crisp as the day they were taken.


About the Author
Katrin Eismann is an internationally respected lecturer and teacher on the subject of imaging, restoration, retouching, and the impact of emerging technologies upon professional photographers, artists, and educators. Her clients include Eastman Kodak, Apple, Adobe, American Film Institute, Professional Photography Association, and the University of California Los Angeles. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photographic Illustration with a concentration in electronic still imaging from the Rochester Institute of Technology. In 2002, she completed her Masters of Fine Arts degree in design at the School of VISUAL ARTS in New York City. In the future, Katrin would like to take photographs that do not require any color correction, retouching, cropping, dodging and burning, or enhancement of any kind. To learn more about Katrin and to see her creative work, please visit www.photoshopdiva.com. To learn more about the book, Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, please visit the book's supplemental web site, www.digitalretouch.org.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
For graphics professionals worldwide, one book has become the standard for expert photo restoration and retouching techniques: Katrin Eismann￯﾿ﾽs Photoshop Restoration & Retouching. They￯﾿ﾽll find the new Second Edition even more useful.

It￯﾿ﾽs been thoroughly updated for Photoshop 7; virtually every exercise has been reworked or replaced. It￯﾿ﾽs 90 pages longer, and packed with techniques Eismann￯﾿ﾽs learned since the first edition was released.

She￯﾿ﾽs had plenty of opportunities to learn new stuff. Last year alone, she taught digital photo restoration and retouching from Finland to Peru -- and when not traveling, at New York￯﾿ﾽs respected School for Visual Arts. Few people know more about what graphics professionals need from Photoshop￯﾿ﾽs image editing tools.

Eismann starts with a chapter on moving more quickly through Photoshop -- an essential up-front skill for becoming a more effective Photoshop retoucher. ￯﾿ﾽTo power users, Photoshop is transparent￯﾿ﾽthe interface practically disappears as they work￯﾿ﾽ [they] can concentrate on the image and not the software.￯﾿ﾽ

To that end, she shows how to work more efficiently with keyboard shortcuts (Photoshop￯﾿ﾽs really designed to be used with one hand on the keyboard, one on the mouse.) After you learn the best ways to organize your files and workflow, Eismann turns to layers.

You know layers are critical to retouching; you may not realize how critical. Eismann reviews eight different kinds of Photoshop layers, from Adjustment Layers for tonal, exposure, and color corrections, to Neutral Layers for applying tonal improvements, both subtle and dramatic.

Photoshop 7 lets you incorporate up to 8,000 layers and layer effects in a single image. Fortunately, it also lets you organize your layers into Layer Sets: Eismann shows how to make the most of this feature, too.

Next, she turns to adjusting tone and contrast with Levels and Curves -- often, the first step in bringing an image back to life. Working with grayscale images, you￯﾿ﾽll learn to evaluate image tonality; improve highlights and shadows; adjust contrast; save time with blending modes and shared Adjustment Layers; and selectively adjust tone in portions of your image.

There￯﾿ﾽs a full chapter on correcting exposures (including solutions for both under- and overexposure). Eismann then covers color in detail, from identifying color casts to fixing color temperature problems, as well as selective and interchannel color correction.

Next, she turns to photo restoration, repair, and reconstruction. You￯﾿ﾽll learn how to remove dust, mold, and unwanted textures; repair scratches, tears, cracks, and other damage; and recreate portraits, backgrounds and all. Once you￯﾿ﾽve gotten this far, Eismann shows how to refine and polish your image -- possibly by converting to B&W, or with soft focus or vignette edges.

Finally, Eismann turns to touching up people, in both portrait and ￯﾿ﾽglamour￯﾿ﾽ photography. Hey, nobody has 100 percent blemish-free skin, sparkling eyes, a perfectly balanced face, and cellulite-free thighs in the same body. Fix a portrait with sensitivity and care, and you￯﾿ﾽve got a friend (or client) for life. Bill Camarda

Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000 and Upgrading & Fixing Networks for Dummies, Second Edition.

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