Product Description

This updated manual teaches the specialized techniques needed for correcting photos using the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. With Photoshop, the skilled photographer's ability to retouch photos has become almost limitless. Included are professional techniques aimed specifically at photographers and photo-imaging enthusiasts. Photographers will learn how to restore damaged photographs, correct blemishes, change backgrounds, and add or subtract people from an image. Important advanced techniques are also covered, including vignettes, important hardware requirements, and managing files. Filled with practical examples, this book teaches everything from input via scanning or digital photography, to image manipulation, to final printed output.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1816024 in Books
• Published on: 1999-12
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 109 pages

From Library Journal
These three attractive, informative books form an excellent basis for a small library on digital photography. In recent years, digital photography has had a tremendous influence, and as equipment costsDnotably for camerasDcontinue to drop, digital imagery will soon completely revolutionize photography. Each of these books will be very helpful for professional and amateur photographers making the transition to digital photography. Illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, Lute's Photo Retouching with Adobe Photoshop specifically addresses retouching methods. Moreover, the book thoroughly covers equipment, including scanners, and many other aspects of working with digital images. A small-format handbook with many color illustrations, Johnson's The Digital Photography Handbook defines the new technology and offers helpful information on selecting equipment. It emphasizes the making of photographs, referred to as "gathering digital images," and creative computer projects. Ang's Silver Pixels presents digital photography as a new art form along with a useful discussion of equipment and materials. Accompanied by many striking illustrations, the book explains a number of sophisticated creative techniques in digital photography. If you are forced to choose from the three titles, be sure to acquire Photo Retouching because of its clear, straightforward approach to the subject, closely followed by Silver Pixels, which readers will find valuable for its intricate creative projects. However, because these books complement one another so well, all three are highly recommended for public and academic libraries.DRaymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, IL
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Info
Defines the new technology and offers helpful information on selecting equipment. Updated manual teaches the specialized techniques needed for correcting photos using the latest version of Adobe Photoshop. Softcover.

About the Author
Gwen Lute is a professional photographer and photo retoucher. She lives in Moreno Valley, California.

Customer Reviews

Adobe Photoshop retouching photos
Very good step-by-step instructions with pictures and illustrations of tools make this an easy but effective how to reference book. I reccommend it.

Not the best at all!
I have had photoshop for about a year now and I seen this book and thought that it would help me a lot more with understanding the different aspects of the program. When I recieved it I was extremely dissapointed! It was all stuff I already teached myself and the different ways they pictured what they done after they worked with the photo was poorly done! If I would have known that this is what it was going to consist of them I would have never wasted the time and money in trying to get it!

Very Nice Book Helped Me immensly.
I've read the other reviews and quiet frankly I feel that they are not only unfair, but seem a bit one sided. Most of the ones that gave the first edition a bad rating and then blasted the book don't even have the decency to try the second edition which was a complete re-write and much better than the first edition.
As I understand it Adobe has asked Mrs. Lute to provide an insert for the next version of Photoshop Express. Do you think Adobe would ask Mrs. lute if she was as bad as the lame reviews seen here?
I really enjoyed the book, and it helped me figure out a big problem with Layers and Masking, which has helped to quadruple my referrals.
The big question here is why has Amazon failed to have a different set of reviews for the second edition? I don't feel that Amazon is providing proper customer service by showing reviews for the wrong book.
I'm a professional photographer specializing in Virtual Tours for Real Estate, Bed and Breakfast Inns, Hotels, and Private Clubs. And Gwen Lute's second edition of Photo Retouching with Adobe Photoshop was one of the best Photoshop books I've read.