Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching

Description

• The definitive step-by-step guide to Photoshop restoration and retouching, now updated for the latest versions of Photoshop CC and Photoshop Elements
• Includes clear step-by-step instructions using professional, full-color examples
• Updated and revised throughout to reflect Adobe Photoshop CC’s most powerful new capabilities for restoration and retouching
• Includes all-new chapters on working with RAW files, performing advanced restoration and retouching with Photoshop Elements, and improving still life, product, and real estate photos
• Covers both restoring and retouching

Katrin Eismann specializes in interpretive travel, still life, and portrait photography. She is an internationally respected artist, teacher, and co-author of Photoshop Restoration & Retouching, Photoshop Masking & Compositing, The Creative Digital Darkroom, and Real World Digital Photography–all of which have been translated into numerous languages. In 2005 Katrin was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Her images have been featured in numerous books, magazines, and group and solo exhibitions. Katrin is the founder and chair of the Masters in Digital Photography department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and she has never met a pixel she didn’t want to change. 

Wayne Palmer has had a passion for photography all his life. He started his own business, Palmer Multimedia Imaging, in 1994, offering custom photographic, videographic, and digital photo restoration services. He has worked with Photoshop since version 3. Wayne enjoys sharing his knowledge of photography, digital imaging, and computers. He teaches Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, and digital photography in the continuing education department of the Pennsylvania College of Technology. 

Dennis Dunbar is the Photoshop magic behind countless movie posters and commercial images. Dennis teaches workshops around the world, sharing professional strategies and professional insights into retouching and compositing that are accessible to both beginners and advanced users. 

Using clear, step-by-step instructions and professional examples, authors Katrin Eismann and co-authors Wayne Palmer and Dennis Dunbar, present powerful tools and techniques in Adobe Photoshop CC for photography and design students. With new example images, illustrations, and techniques throughout, students will learn to transform faded, damaged photographs into beautiful images that are as clear and crisp as the day they were taken, and how to turn casual snapshots and studio portraits into the most flattering images possible.

Full-colour, step-by-step examples show you how to:

• Correct extreme exposure errors and improve colour, 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 tonal-correction 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
• Retouch and enhance architectural, product and food shots.

The definitive step-by-step guide to Photoshop restoration and retouching, now updated for the latest versions of Photoshop CC and Photoshop Elements

• Updated and revised throughout to reflect Adobe Photoshop CC’s most powerful new capabilities for restoration and retouching
• Includes all-new chapters on working with RAW files, performing advanced restoration and retouching with Photoshop Elements, and improving still life, product, and real estate photos
• Covers both restoring or retouching (most competitive books address only one or the other)
• Includes clear step-by-step instructions using professional, full-color examples

Part I: Workspace & Workflow

1 Equipment, Input, And Raw Processing

2 Photoshop And Photoshop Elements Essentials

Part II: Tone, Exposure & Color

3 Exposure Correction

4 Working with Color

Part III: Restore, Repair & Rebuild

5 Dust, Mold, And Texture Removal

6 Damage Control and Repair

7 Rebuilding and Re-Creating Images

Part IV: Professional Retouching

8 Portrait Retouching

9 Beauty Retouching

10 Product, Food, and Architectural Retouching

Whether you’re a professional photographer or the family shutterbug, you can’t afford to miss the long-awaited Fourth Edition of the classic Photoshop Restoration and Retouching.

Katrin Eismann and co-authors Wayne Palmer and Dennis Dunbar have reviewed, updated, and revised every single technique to address the most important features in Adobe Photoshop CC. They’ve also added three brand new chapters on how to photograph, scan, and process RAW files; how to apply the techniques taught in the book when using Photoshop Elements; and how to retouch and enhance still life, product, and real estate shots.

Using clear, step-by-step instructions and professional examples, the authors present powerful tools and techniques photographers, designers, restoration studios, and beauty retouchers can use to restore valuable antique images, retouch portraits and product shots, and enhance glamour photography. You’ll master today’s best ways to:

• Correct extreme exposure errors and improve color, contrast, and tone
• Rescue heirloom originals suffering from mold damage, cracks, and torn edges
• Replace missing image information
• Remove dust and scratches quickly and easily
• Transform old photos into beautiful, original works of art by converting them to black-and-white or tinted images
• Use sharpening techniques and tonal correction tools to add life and sparkle to digital photos
• Enhance portraits by removing blemishes, reducing wrinkles, and enhancing eyes, lips, and hair, while maintaining your subject’s essential character
• Apply the secrets of top glamour and beauty industry retouchers to perfect skin, make-up, and hair

With new example images, illustrations, and techniques throughout, Photoshop Restoration and Retouching, Fourth Edition will help you 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.

This new edition focuses on Photoshop CC and the latest versions of Photoshop Elements, updates its visual examples throughout, and contains downloadable videos and asset files helping you practice while you learn.
       Three new chapters explain how to photograph, scan, and process RAW files; how to apply this guides’ techniques with Photoshop Elements; and how to retouch and enhance still life, product, and real estate shots.

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