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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Whether you’re a professional photographer or the family shutterbug, you can’t afford to miss the third edition of the now classic Photoshop Restoration & Retouching. Katrin Eismann and co-author Wayne Palmer have reviewed, updated, and revised every single technique to address the most important features in Adobe Photoshop CS2. Clear step-by-step instructions using professional examples highlight the tools and techniques photographers, designers, restoration studios, and beauty retouchers use to restore valuable antique images, retouch portraits, and enhance glamour photography. With new example images illustrating the tutorials, Photoshop Restoration & Retouching,
Third Edition will show you how to transform faded, damaged photographs into beautiful images that are as clear and crisp
as the day they were taken—maybe even better—and how to turn casual snapshots and studio portraits into the most flattering
images possible. Full-color, step-by-step examples show you how to:
• Correct extreme exposure errors and improve color, contrast, and tone
• Rescue heirloom originals suffering from mold damage, cracks, and torn edges—even replace missing image
information
• Remove dust and scratches quickly and easily
• Transform your photos into beautiful, original works of art by converting them to black-and-white or tinted images
• Use a variety of sharpening techniques and tonalcorrection tools to add life and sparkle to digital photos
• Enhance portraits by removing blemishes, reducing wrinkles, and enhancing eyes, lips, and hair, while maintaining the subject’s essential character
• Apply the secrets that the top retouchers in the glamour and beauty industry use to perfect skin, make-up, and hair | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Katrin Eismann | | Paperback: | 472 pages | | Publisher: | New Riders Press | | Publication Date: | November 17, 2006 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0321316274 | | Product Width: | 2.0 centimeters | | Product Height: | 2.5 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 0.02 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.92 inches | | Package Width: | 7.95 inches | | Package Height: | 0.94 inches | | Package Weight: | 2.38 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 95 reviews |
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81 of 82 found the following review helpful:
One of the Few Books Covering Restpration Jan 07, 2006
By John Matlock
"Gunny"
Photograph retouching has long been a process where a picture has been improved to remove the background, clean up a bad light reflection or other faults with the picture. And this book does an excellent job of telling you how to retouch such pictures.
More important, though is the sections in this book on photo restoration. How do you take the old picture of that Civil War ancestor, or that snapshot of Grandmother when she was a young girl and make it look like a portrait that just came out of the camera today.
Although the book is very good on retouching, there simply aren't that many books on restoration. And Ms. Eisman is a master at restoring old images. In this book there are full-color, step-by-step examples of rescuing heirloom originals suffering from mold, cracks, torn edges, scratches. There is even a section on restoring missing parts of an image. Such as using a person's right arm to replace the left that had been torn off.
Besides the coverage of areas not usually seen, this book further has a writing style that clearly and succinctly explains each step in the process. This book is highly recommended.
58 of 58 found the following review helpful:
This is a must-have in your Photoshop library Jan 12, 2007
By Jerry Saperstein
Whether you plan to do any retouching or restoration of photos in Photoshop is immaterial: you still should have this book in your Photoshop library.
Why?
Because Katrin Eismann is not only a true master of Photoshop, but she is that rarity of rarities: a teacher who can teach through the written word - and in this case, a ton of illustrations.
This is truly a Photoshop master's class between covers. It is not for the beginner - Eismann wisely leaves that for others. You should definitely know the basics of Photoshop for cracking this book open.
But once you begin, you are in for a treat: ten chapters that cover everything you need to know about retouching and restoration in detail. Best of all, every technique Eismann teaches in this book will make you a more proficient Photoshop user, no matter what you use the program for.
Unlike other authors, Eismann doesn't simply get you going and then leave you hanging. Her lessons are complete. And Eismann - happily - doesn't try to be a comedian like Scott Kelby, Deke McClelland and Russell Brown. Her writing style is clear, concise and natural and a delight to read.
Buy this and her book on masking and compositing along with Lee Varis's book called "Skin" and Steve Caplain's book on photo montage and you'll have the basis for a truly fine education in the art of Photoshop.
Jerry
39 of 41 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Start.... Embarassing finish Dec 27, 2005
By J. Smith
I've been using Pshop for years now for photo restoration, and was impressed with this book. This book starts out with some great methods for retouching images, some of which I had never thought of using. I can't wait to try some of them out on some images I wasn't able to fix.
I would have really liked to see a table with some "start here" type ideas, like if your picture is high key, start with a levels adjustment layer, or if your image is badly faded, start with a curves adjustment. As it is, you basically have to flip through the pages until to you see a picture that resembles yours to find ideas for restoring it.
Step by step instructions are provided for Mac and PC versions of Pshop CS2, but all the screen captures are Mac. Keyboard shortcuts are always provided, but the instructions on how to traverse through the dialog boxes are not, making this book inappropriate for the beginning Photoshop user.
I use Photoshop CS instead of CS2 and the instructions and screen captures were not so significantly different that I couldn't find my way around. When a feature is new to CS2, the author states so in the text, which also makes it easier for those of us using older versions of Pshop.
Because the book assumes a intermediate or better knowledge of Photoshop, I would not recommend it for a beginner or a person who just wants to fix one faded photo of Great Grandma.
I do have one complaint tho -- after the brilliant beginning, the back half of the book features the work of "Art" who does some of the worst photoshopping I've ever seen. It seriously looks like a Woot contest. The height of awfulness is reached when a deceased woman's arm is cloned and Transformed (Rotated/Scaled) onto her opposite side making her look like a hunchback. The correct method would have been to rotate and use Free Transform, Skew, or Perspective, and then heal or smudge some of the wrinkles in the blouse so the arm didn't look so obviously copied. And worse, the cloned arm, which is farther away from the camera is placed in front of the original arm, resulting in an Escher-esque mind bender.
Other than the bad Art art :) at the end, I'm satisfied with the purchase.
48 of 52 found the following review helpful:
Even Better Than Before Jan 02, 2006
By Stella Nemeth
I own the first version of this book. It was the first Photoshop book that I bought and was simply amazing.
I bought the third version because there have been several upgrades to Photoshop since the first version was written. It is hard to believe that this version could be even better than the earlier one, but it is. It has been totally rewritten. All of the photos that are used as samples are different from those used before. The book is longer. The quality of information available in the book is stronger and deeper. It is worth every penny.
23 of 23 found the following review helpful:
Excellent choice for anyone wanting to enhance and preserve images. May 27, 2006
By Diane George
Almost everyone in the world has a digital camera now and lots of photos--not all of which are perfect, no matter how hard you tried to when you took the photo. Then there are those boxes and boxes of old photos, loose or in albums that constitute our family histories. Old photos fade, get scratched, bent and generally lose quality over time. This book is for those who want to preserve and enhance those photos.
The book is also a tutorial for users of Photoshop, beginning with a section called Photoshop Essentials. In this section, the author reviews Photoshop tools, keyboard shortcuts, how to navigate and use Photoshop efficiently, with the focus on the tools needed for restoration and retouching. It is not a primer for Photoshop. My Photoshop skills are not very high level and this section was a great help.
Not only does the author show you how to use Photoshop, but she also discusses how to set up your work area, what kind of lighting you should have, the workflow, equipment needed, with tips on how to proceed in a manner that allows you (or someone else) to come back and know what you have done.
One of the things that impressed me when I first glanced through the book is the large number of photos used to illustrate the principles being explained. In addition, the
explanations not only focus on the mechanics, but also on the reasons for making the needed changes. Learning the principles behind the changes will help you assess what needs to be done to your own photos.
The book is organized so that each section is almost independent of the other sections--at least once you have some basics down. This makes it possible to focus on areas that are of more interest to you or necessary for the work you want to do. This is especially true if you are already very familiar with Photoshop and able to identify the problems that need solving in your photos.
If you are not familiar with Photoshop, your time would be well spent to work through the exercises. I find that I can read about stuff forever, but when I actually use my hands and my brain together, I retain more information. You will be able better to identify what needs to be improved in your own photos by reviewing the samples and making the corrections.
I highly recommend the book to anyone who wants to seriously undertake the preservation of photographs that are important for whatever reason--family history or historical significance or just to create better photos.
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