Product Description

"Digital Photo Processing" covers not just the standard 'getting rid of dust and scratches' approach to retouching, but also looks closely at removing unwanted elements, adding items, changing positions, distorting images, and many other creative techniques to make great digital photos. It shows you how to take prints of old family photographs, badly shot digital images, and other hopeless cases and turn them into high quality digital images suitable for printing or posting online. Detailed, coherent, and highly illustrated instructions on software tools are included, making this the perfect guide for the amateur. This full color book is aimed at those new to photography who have been enticed by the falling prices of basic, but efficient, digital cameras.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #813523 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-31
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Chris Tarantino is an expert in Adobe® Photoshop® and has worked in the retouching and color correcting field since 1983. He has been described as someone who "breaks" Photoshop to make it work better and is used by Adobe as an Alpha and Beta Tester for Photoshop. In addition to his role as an imaging consultant to digital photography companies, Chris is a high-end retoucher in a boutique retouching studio in New York. Clients in the past have included Victoria's Secret, Polo, Ralph Laurent, Saks 5th Ave, and Glamour magazine. Chris works closely with Beauty and Fashion Photographers helping them make a smooth transition from film to digital. Chris is also the author of Digital Photo Processing (1592001068), a book on color and retouching for beginners.

Customer Reviews

Book on Photoshop Editing
The book is good at looking at a lot of the tools in photoshop, but does not cover all aspects. Many of the examples of the before and afters of the modified images are too subtle. It is difficult to see the change in the image and thus the benefit of using the tool. If the orginal photos were of poorer pictures which needed more work to improve them, the tools would be better showcased.

Otherwise, the book is well written, but the page layout can be confusing on some pages. It is not always clear which photo is associated with which step, and since some of the changes are subtle like mentioned about, it can be confusing.

Met Expectations
This book does exactly as it says. It is meant for Photographers, both new and old, who are new to fixing and enhancing their own images. The book seems to be more about Adobe Photoshop Elements than it does Adobe Photoshop. There is only one exercise in the book that deals directly with Adobe Photoshop. While all the techniques can still be used in Adobe Photoshop, they are meant to get by the limitations of Photoshop Elements. Elements has none of the master controls that Photoshop does. This is a good introductory book for learning how to enhance your digital images and not a book for serious retouching. Color casts, Contrast, Sharpness, Over and Under exposure, some montaging, Black and White, Sepia Tones. They are all covered in an easy to read format. Once you have read this book, it will have gotten you prepared to take the jump from Elements to Photoshop a lot easier.

Not as good as I expected
After getting "Digital Photo Processing" by Chris Tarantino and flipping through the pages, I was somwhat dissapointed. This is definately for an entry level digital photo enhancer. Most of the techniques are pretty obvious, and a few demonstrate an unprofessional technique and result. I was considering other titles in this series, but now, I think I'll invest in a different line of books.