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Summary: not for biginners like me
Review: if you don't know where the show/hide button is don't get this book (just one example). not meant to be for biginners. sorry
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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Katrin Eisman's book is a goldmine for aspiring restorers of old photographs. I thought I was fairly well versed in using Photoshop, but I found invaluable information, tips and tricks on almost every page.The book is well structured, profusely illustrated and thoroughly professional. I consider it one of the best investments in literature that I've ever made.
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Summary: For Elements Users Too!
Review: I'm an Elements user, as I can't afford Photoshop. I'd had Katrin's book for a while, hoping I'd be able to use it to glean technique for Elements. Per a recommendation on a post in the Adobe forums for Elements, I picked up The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements (that adds Curves and such other tools to Elements) to get into some serious image editing. These books together make quite a team, and work together to give you great images, and professional techniques in Elements. Maybe that's not the way it's supposed to be, but I find I can do all these techniques in Elements now that I have the Hidden Power tools. I give both books the highest rating, and am glad I can finally put these great techniques to work!
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Summary: Putting on a new face... Excellent Book for digital surgery.
Review: This book is a resource that I love to grab off the shelf and review a lesson or polish a technique to accomplish a specific result. Worth more than its cover price... you should send Katrin a check to encourage her to write more. : )
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Summary: Below par
Review: I am a graphic design professional and I own quite a few of the recent Photoshop guides. This one is below par in quality, although it is rather pretty both on the outside and on the inside. After having read classics like Margulis's and Evening's PS guides, this book looks rather unprofessional. Many of the techniques the author presents result in plastic faces. Dozens of the "after" images look MUCH worse than the "before" images; some are even ruined. Some of the examples are almost ridiculous, like the excessive wrinkle removing around the eyes but not elsewhere in the face, making the man in the photo look like he has had massive plastic surgery. And another one where the author added contrast to the background but not in the people in the foreground, making them look like ghosts. And the repeated lack of knowledge of human anatomy, bad colors... etc. etc. It seems to me that the author does not have the necessary skills or she doesn't mind if the retouched images look retouched and unnatural. If your goal is to produce life-like work, this book is not a good purchase. And most of the images in the pages are of thumbnail size, which is irritating. But on the positive side, this book covers a wide area on photo retouching, although on a superficial level.
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Summary: The best book on photo retouching.
Review: I've seen them all and this is the best. Check out her website for useful stuff to and a great detailed article on scanning. She has two useful sections on the website too for some Version 7 features.
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Summary: A truly wonderful book
Review: ...I've owned several hobby level photo manipulation programs in the past, but couldn't get past the learning curve on Photoshop. This is the book that gave me the reason to work on learning Photoshop again. Ms. Eismann provides copies of most of the sample photos on her Web site, so you can practice on the same files that she used in her book. I'm about a third through the book and I've just finished a large annual photo project that involved correcting about 75 pictures, mostly taken in very low light. This was the fastest I've ever done the project and the quality of the finished files is so much better than anything I've ever done before that I'm amazed. And yes, I did it in Photoshop.
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Summary: Best photoshop training book so far!
Review: I sat down and read it from cover to cover in one sitting.
I have read many Photoshop books over the years, having trained hundreds of people to use Photoshop.
With no exception this is the best I have ever come across.
Although Ms. Eisman has a particular skill set she is addressing, this book manages to cover all the neccessary basics for a good ground-work in Photoshop skills.
The illustrations are extremely clear and instructive and the printing and design is really nice.
What a wonderful book.
Before I read it I though that I would be disapointed by a book that does not cover all the latest Photoshop doodads, but the integration with the Web is wonderful. Ms. Eisman has a winner.
A must read for all aspiring Photoshop users.
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Summary: WONDERFUL
Review: IF you start using this book as a guide - eventually you will make up the cost of the book itself in photos and preservation - a great way to make some extra cash!!!
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Summary: Wonderful book!
Review: This is the best book on photo retouching I have ever found --- in fact, the best Photoshop book, for that matter. If your interests are photo restoration and retouching, do yourself a huge favor and get this book.
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