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Restore, refresh, and fine-tune your favorite photosTake 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, and more. From portraits to landscapes to architectural masterpieces, fine-tune your favorites with this expert guide.
Harness the tools of the retouching trade: brushes, cloning, and others
Use layers and masks to build a non-destructive workflow
Rescue faded, torn, or stained photographs
Soften wrinkles, brighten eyes, tame hair, and smooth skin
Restore sepia-toned, black-and-white, and full-color photographs
Master resizing, resampling, resolution, and scanning
Companion Web Site
Visit www.wiley.com/go/restoration and download the practice files from the book. You can start with the original images and work through the author's step-by-step instructions in the book.
Synopsis:
The Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible will be a full-color comprehensive reference to retouching and restoring photographs using Adobe Photoshop. Written by an Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop CS & CS2, Mark Fitzgerald, the "Photoshop CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible" will provide training, tips, and techniques for amateur to professional photographers who want to complete expert quality photo restorations and retouchings. The book will cover Photoshop's main Retouching tools including the clone stamp, healing brush, patch tool and blending modes. Readers will also learn to restore sepia toned, black and white, and full-color photographs that have been damaged in a variety of manners.
Synopsis:
Restore, refresh, and fine-tune your favorite photosTake 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, and more. From portraits to landscapes to architectural masterpieces, fine-tune your favorites with this expert guide.
Harness the tools of the retouching trade: brushes, cloning, and others
Use layers and masks to build a non-destructive workflow
Rescue faded, torn, or stained photographs
Soften wrinkles, brighten eyes, tame hair, and smooth skin
Restore sepia-toned, black-and-white, and full-color photographs
Master resizing, resampling, resolution, and scanning
Companion Web Site
Visit www.wiley.com/go/restoration and download the practice files from the book. You can start with the original images and work through the author's step-by-step instructions in the book.
Synopsis:
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 with this expert guide.
Table of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Part I: Digital Image Fundamentals.
Chapter 1: Adjusting Image Brightness and Contrast.
Chapter 2: Working with Color.
Chapter 3: Understanding Raw and High-Bit Files.
Chapter 4: Working with Layers.
Chapter 5: Getting Organized.
Part II: Photoshop Tools and Techniques.
Chapter 6: Using Photoshop’s Main Retouching Tools.
Chapter 7: Working with Selections.
Chapter 8: Creating Flexibility with Layer Masks.
Part III: Restoration—Rescuing Damaged Photos.
Chapter 9: Starting with the Scan.
Chapter 10: Solving Typical Repair Problems.
Chapter 11: Finishing Touches.
Chapter 12: Hands-on Restoration Project: The Complete Workflow.
Part IV: Retouching—Taking Images to the Next Level.
Chapter 13: Using Strategies for Success.
Chapter 14: Solving Special Portrait Retouching Problems.
Chapter 15: Hands-on Portrait Retouching Project: The Complete Workflow.
Chapter 16: Hands-on Architectural Retouching Project.
Index.
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