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Summary: Just buy it!
Review: This is my bible for photo restorations. Katrin provides clear easy to follow solutions to your photo restoration needs. Her complimentary website allows for addendums to the book and also downloads of images used in the book for you to practice on.I cannot thank Katrin enough for providing me with such a magnificent resource. If you wish to learn how to restore your photos without pain on Photoshop this book is for you. Be warned though Katrin is not teaching you to use Photoshop so therefore you need to understand the functionality of the program before using it. Good luck!
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: This is the Photoshop book I keep going back to. The title may lead you to think it's only for working with badly damaged photos, but that's not the case. It is for anyone wanting to edit photos. It covers the basics as well as advanced topics. The author does an excellent job of showing the steps needed for a particular task and also keeping it simple. She often shows several different ways to accomplish to same goal. This probably isn't a good first book if you've never worked with Photoshop at all. But once you get some basic familiarity with the software you will get a lot of mileage out of this book.
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Summary: IT SUPERBLY TEACHES THE FUNDMENTALS
Review: Notwithstanding that Photoshop 7 is out, this work is still a supreme tool to teach basic retouching. The examples provided online for practice let the user understand what is really being done to the photograph. I enthusiastically recommend this book to all. The healing tool is not a do it all solution.
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Summary: Awesome Book! Highly Recommended
Review: I have been through dozens of Photoshop books now looking for just one book that could explain how to use the program in an easy-to-follow, professional manner. This is it. Not cluttered with excess information and always getting to the point with great exercises to follow. I finally know how to tackle any digital photographic problem. Pay no attention to, "you don't need this book if you have PS 7". Removing unwanted lines from faces or other marks from a photograph (now easily done with the healing tool) are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to retouching and restoration. This book covers so much more. Katrin also has a website you can visit for updated information about PS7 and other helpful tips. The PS 7 files are in pdf format and written as additional sections for the book. Lastly this book is not for someone who has only just started using PS. You need to be somewhat familiar with the program. The "Photoshop 6 WOW! Book" will solve that problem. These are the only two books you'll ever need.
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Summary: Two thumbs up! A terrific book!
Review: Until now, I have not purchased one single Photoshop book! (Well, I did buy Adobe's Classroom in a Book for PS 5.) Whenever I'd go to a bookstore and start flipping through the pages of the $50+, 2"-3" thick books, I'd see page after page of stuff that I did NOT want to know about. I don't need to know how to make glowing type follow a curved line, for example. Nor do I need to know how to composite multiple images, graphics, and so on (although Eismann does explain some very useful techniques for doing this). This is a book for photographers who want to make their photographs look as good as possible. While much of the information focuses on retouching old, damaged images, the concepts apply equally to working on fresh, new images. Frankly, I thought of myself as being reasonably competent with PS, but I learned an enormous number of useful techniques that I'll use right away. Starting with tone, exposure and color control, the book moves through detailed explanations -- "how-to's" -- of dust and scratch removal, portrait retouching, color to BW conversion, selective focus, multiple sharpening scenarios, etc. While most of the examples are "people pictures," the techniques apply to any subject matter, whether color or BW. In chapter 1, I started putting Post-its on the edge of pages I wanted to come back to. My book looks pretty silly now with over 50 Post-its sticking out all over the place. If one is a Photoshop novice, this is probably not the book to start with. Familiarity with the PS tools, how to make selections, how to use layers and layer masks, adjustment layers and so on should be pretty second-nature before diving in here. While the book does not have a CD, Eismann has a very straightforward Web site from which you can download the images she uses in the book. Her step-by-step explanations are easy to follow on your own computer, using the downloaded images. Eismann's writing style is friendly, with good humor, and is easy to follow. The explanations of technique are clear and to the point. (When the book first arrived from Amazon and I saw that it wasn't 2-3 inches thick, I was worried that it might not contain much "meat." I was wrong -- less is more in this case.) This book will have a permanent place next to my monitor. Thank you, Katrin!
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Summary: It was an excellent book, but that's before Photoshop 7
Review: If you are new to the photo retouching and are not planning to upgrade to the Photoshop 7, you should take a look of this book. The new Healing Tool in the latest version of the Photoshop 7 is so powerful that a few simple clicks will do most of the things better than the author trying to teach in the book.
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Summary: Layer and masked magic.
Review: An excellent book, however it is not for Photoshop beginners. It took me a while to get used to her style. She assumes some Photoshop competence. Read the examples carefully. I would suggest repeating the lessons until you fully grasp the concepts that she is trying to teach. I would have rated this book a "5", but I was a little frustrated because she did not include jpegs of all of her examples. For example, I would be deep into the restoration learning curve, go anxiously to the next example, only to find that the next example was not included for practice. Please Ms. Eisman, include all of the examples. For this book, practice makes perfect-it is the only way to get to Carnegie Hall. Also there is no CD. You must go to a slightly disorganized Website to download the jpegs to work with. Since CD production was not an issue here, list price for this book may be a bit pricey. Nevertheless she is a master of restoration. Learning just half of what she illustrates in this book will make you a better Photoshop operator. Industrial strength Photoshop is what is being taught here. You learn how to use adjustment layers. You learn how to apply masks. Additionally color adjustmens and exposure adjustments are also covered. It will continure to be a reference book for me no matter what version of Photoshop I may in the furture be working with.
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Summary: The best computer book I have ever bought!
Review: OK, so that title sounds a little melodramatic, especially in the light that I have a small bookshelf full of computer-related stuff, but its true! I learned more in a couple of hours of reading THIS BOOK than if I had spent several days fumbling around with the Photoshop program without any guidance. Katrin uses example after example to illustrate how to do very simple technniques that improve your photos by leaps and bounds. Each of these examples has a BEFORE and AFTER photo, and step-by-step instructions on what she did to get from Before to After. Though she's doing these with her husband's photo collection, the techniques are easily applied to your own. As the title suggests, this book is heavy on restoration, and is a must for any person that might be picking up Photoshop to preserve their family photographs. Yet, there is a fair amount of contemporary artsy-fartsy (sorry the only term I could thing of)that she goes over in the latter part of the book. Lastly, the price was VERY reasonable. Considering its a computer book, and that there are tons of color photo examples that had to be included, it could have cost twice as much and still been more valuable than most of the Photoshop books that are out there. If you're planning on getting into Photoshop particularly for restoration, do your self a favor and by this book.
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Summary: Simply Awesome
Review: The best Photoshop Retouching book every written. Clear, insightful and when combined with the sample image files to work with (from website), provides anyone the knowledge to retouch and restore any photograph, even the extreme case. I'll use this as a textbook for digital imaging classes.
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Summary: Awesome book!
Review: This book does an awesome job of detailing the steps of restoration and retouching. I would recommend it to anyone. I learned a lot.
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