The Photoshop Retouching Handbook Book

By concentrating on the art of retouching photos, Carol Braverman presents a highly valuable guide to some of the greatest strengths of--and toughest features in--Adobe Photoshop. The book is organized into three sections, all designed to take you from looking at a picture critically to changing it just enough to make it look exactly the way you want. Braverman targets readers who frequently alter photos within strict artistic and/or corporate constraints, as opposed to those who just want to create funky-looking images. From the beginning, you explore such core considerations as making selections, using color-correction techniques, fine-tuning gamma settings, and creating good output. But the projects, which build upon one another, do become more complex as you move along. They range from fixing up simple blemishes and correcting color to removing entire elements and creating composite images. You gradually learn how to assess the elements of a photograph for artistic understanding and, in some of the toughest projects, you learn to keep such elements as texture, focus, color, and value in mind. The full-color book has plenty of helpful pictures as well as technical tips and hands-on advice. You work through the book's projects by using files on the included CD-ROM, which also has trial versions of Photoshop 5 for Windows and Macintosh. --Kathleen CasterRead More