The Bottom Line
- Easy to follow guided tutorials provide outstanding instruction on professional techniques.
- Updated and rewritten with new technques for Photoshop 7.0 and 75 additional pages.
- Companion Web site offers files, updates, help; plus a 45-page addendum for Photoshop CS.
- Assumes some familiarity with Photoshop.
- A CD with files would be nice, but isn't essential.
Description
- 350-page, full-color paperback with appendix and index (75 more pages than first edition).
- Covers basic to advanced techniques, but assumes some familiarity with Photoshop.
- Instruction is easy to follow, thorough, heavily illustrated, and entertaining.
- Part 1: Photoshop Essentials (tips on workspace, layers, file navigation, organization, workflow)
- Part 2: Correcting Tone, Exposure, and Color
- Part 3: Essential Restoration, Repairing, and Rebuilding Techniques
- Part 4: Putting the Best Face Forward (portrait, glamour, and fashion retouching)
- Focuses on Photoshop 7.0 but most of the book is relevant all the way back to version 4.0.
- Readers can download updated information for Photoshop CS at the companion Web site (link below).
- Readers can download images used in the book from the companion Web site at www.digitalretouch.org.
Guide Review - Photoshop Restoration & Retouching Second Edition by Katrin Eismann
A companion Web site allows readers to download the images used in the book for hands-on practice. Readers can also go to the Web site to download a 45-page PDF addendum for Photoshop CS, which was released after the book was published. The 4.1 MB document discusses the Photoshop CS features of most importance to retouchers and photographers. Although the book was not written specifically for Photoshop Elements, the introduction of the book explains which Photoshop features are and aren't available in Elements, making it easier for Elements users to utilize a great deal of the material.
Katrin Eismann is certainly an authority on photo restoration and retouching and her book is essential reading for both beginning and experienced photographers and retouchers.
