Best Photography Retouching Books
Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching
Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible
Digital Photo Art: Transform Your Images with Traditional & Contemporary Art Techniques
Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers : 49 Easy-to-Follow Recipes to Fix Problem Photos and Create Amazing Effects
Beyond Digital Photography: Transforming Photos into Fine Art with Photoshop and Painter
Photoshop Cosmetic Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide to Portrait Retouching and Body Transforming
Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers: 113 Easy-to-Follow Recipes to Improve Your Photos and Create Special Effects
40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques with Photoshop Elements 5
Adobe Photoshop CS: The Art of Photographing Women
Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio
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1. Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching
Whether youâÄôre a professional photographer or the family shutterbug, you canâÄôt 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,…»
2. Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible
Take years off your keepsake photos or enhance the current ones with Photoshop CS3's powerful tools and the expert techniques and tips you'll find in this comprehensive guide. Using step-by-step instructions and over 500 pages of full-color examples, this book shows you how to clone, blend layers, add contrast, reduce glare, soften wrinkles, rescue torn photos, and more. From portraits to landscapes to architectural masterpieces, fine-tune your favorites…»
3. Digital Photo Art: Transform Your Images with Traditional & Contemporary Art Techniques
With its inventive blend of classic art and contemporary digital techniques, this fresh, exciting guide offers photographers and visual artists an array of creative concepts and projects found nowhere else. Go beyond the boundaries of the simple digital photograph with these exciting mixed-media art techniques that employ both computer software and traditional hands-on materials. This unique blend of the classic and the new results in eye-catching images…»
4. Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers : 49 Easy-to-Follow Recipes to Fix Problem Photos and Create Amazing Effects
Layer blending modes have been part of Photoshop for years, but because they're not easy to understand at first glance, this immensely useful feature tends to get overlooked. Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers is the only recipe-format book that covers blending modes specifically for digital photographers. The book covers: Changing hue, saturation, luminosity, and color Correcting basic color shifts Repairing highlights Sharpening…»
5. Beyond Digital Photography: Transforming Photos into Fine Art with Photoshop and Painter
Digital cameras, advances in color printing, and software tools have changed the landscape of photography forever. The challenge now is to go beyond the basic digital photograph and print, and move toward the next level of expression. For many, this means pushing the technologies available and combining the artistic tools found in both photography and painting.Geared for intermediate to advanced users, Beyond Digital Photography: Transforming Photos into…»
7. Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers: 113 Easy-to-Follow Recipes to Improve Your Photos and Create Special Effects
With the introduction of affordable and easy-to use digital cameras, people are taking photographs like never before. While the digital medium greatly simplifies the photographic process, it also offers photographers unprecedented opportunities to manipulate their images on their personal computers. Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers tells you everything you need to know to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 to adjust, correct, retouch, and…»
8. 40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques with Photoshop Elements 5
With digital camera usage now established, the demand for easy, affordable photo editing tools has increased. Adobe's Photoshop Elements leads the way as an affordable image editing tool. This easy-to-follow, full-color guide shows all digital photographers how to make their photos look their best with dozens of well-organized, hands-on techniques. Readers learn how to change or replace a color, enhance faces, fix burred images, correct poor exposures,…»
9. Adobe Photoshop CS: The Art of Photographing Women
make your photographs of women look better than their best As every professional photographer knows, there is work to be done after the shoot wraps. Photographer and digital magician Kevin Ames takes you behind the scenes of his fashion work to reveal his thinking behind the camera as well as in front of the computer. Using full-color examples, he shows you step by step how to use Photoshop to digitally refine beauty and fashion photos, from correcting…»
10. Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio
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Artistic Techniques with Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter: A Guide for Photographers
Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook
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11. Artistic Techniques with Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter: A Guide for Photographers
Photographers will be able to magically transform photographic images in myriad ways using the digital counterpart of traditional artists' tools and this guide to Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter. Covering hardware and software requirements, printing actions that will simplify the output process, instructions for adjusting a digital image's canvas size, and other essentials, this manual explains all the skills needed to rev up one's creative arsenal and…»
12. Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook
Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook is at once eye candy, artistic inspiration, and incomparable technical guidance for intermediate-to-advanced digital imaging professionals, graphic artists, photographers, and just about anyone involved in creating digital images or animations. A visual splendor, this full-color book showcases a one-of-a-kind collection of superb and innovative photo-retouching solutions by well-known French artists.…»