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Summary: best of many books
Review: Finally a book that makes the most of what photoshop is good at, making the most of photos. This has none of the usual 50 ways to make exotic type and special effects that almost all photoshop books dwell on(being totally selftaught I have bought many of the top books and this is the most useful of all so far). It also covers glamour photo retouching which gives techniques useful for even family photos,I have not seen this covered in any other book. It is not a beginners book but is written very clearly and concisely so you don't need to be an expert to understand.
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Summary: Retouching at its best.
Review: Katrin Eismann book on retouching and restoration. When I bought the book. Reading the first 4 chapters (chapters 1-4) I was not too impressed with it. Being a deciple of high end color books and using only curves for color correction and contrast moves for color and b&w. Nevertheless the book (chapters 1-4 ) has some good tips in it and those chapters are geared towards the beginner as well as the intermediate retoucher. She explains the color balance sliders,variations, as well as (explains lightly on the use) levels and curves. And I can understand. The book is on retouching and restoration, not geared towards high end color correction. Depending on who (company) you work for as a retoucher and restorer. Your workflow might not be having you do color correction as a retoucher. Retouchers in the field will know what I mean by that. But the book kicks into high gear from chapters 5-10. The experiences she and others (other methods professionals are doing. Example: Eddie Tapp, who is a photographer as well) bring to the book. One method is as good, if not, better than the other. Katrin Eismann is a very open minded retoucher,author and educator. She brings the best(methods) to the book. She explains not only about retouching methods for the picture(portrait). But also to have a feeling for the portrait,as well as for retouching. Which is important for retouching. Example: don't make a 80 year old man into a 20 year old. Holding back on the retouching is better than over doing it. Overall, I'm impressed with Katrin Eismanns' book "Photoshop Restoration & Retouching" The book is not only for the intermediate/advanced (as it states in the back of the book). But for the beginner as well. Anyone who wants to learn about retouching and the advanced retoucher who wants to learn about other (and better) methods are candidates for this book.
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Summary: Buy this book!
Review: Eisman's Photoshop Restoration and Retouching is, hands-down, simply the best and most practical image manipulation and editing book available. I bought this book, sight-unseen, and have been very, very pleased with it. The techniques she teaches and problems she solves are so universally applicable and so commonly encountered, that everyone who needs to retouch a photo will find something of use. And with more and more people taking up amateur digital photography, the need for digital image retouching should definitely explode. She targets a wide audience with her solutions: from the person who wants to restore precious family archival photos to the vacationer with an errantly exposed travel picture to the high-end digital fashion retoucher. I only hope she hasn't written herself out of a job, she makes it seem so easy!
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Summary: The Best Book on Photo Retouching & Restoration
Review: I am so impressed, not only with the instructionally sound methods, Katrin employs to execute restoration and retouch but with the quality of the color reproductions in her book. The printers did a fine job. It is such a pleasure, not to have to "squint" to dicern between the before and after representations, as has been my experience with a few other books on the same subject. I can easily see the improvements and commend her topical choices for the tutorials. I also appreciate that the most of the images used for the easy-to-follow tutorials, are readily available and downloadable from her website. Although the book is a little pricey...it is worth it. In fact, it will make my job, as an instructor of Photoshop much easier this fall. After pouring over several other books Katrin Eismann's was "hands down" or should I say "hands on," the WINNER and will be used for the text in my fall class of "Advanced Photoshop for Photographers." Shan Canfield/ACE Nashville State Technical Institute
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Summary: Superb!
Review: You can stop looking now. This is the book to buy. You must have this book if you do digital photo retouching or restoring. (Are all these 5 star ratings from experienced users starting to convince you?)Katrin has raised the bar to a new level. I've never seen a book so complete and useful for digital photo retouching and restoring. The tutorials are straight forward and the subject matter extensive. I've spent hundreds of dollars on books, video tapes and seminars and this book beats all of them, period.
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Summary: A Photoshop book that will help me make money
Review: I must confess to a long-standing love affair with Photoshop diva Katrin Eismann. Oh, she doesn't even know who I am, and my own wife is very tolerant about it...but there it is. It started the first time I attended one of her seminars at a Photo Marketing Association convention. The presentation answered so many of my own questions about using Photoshop that I wanted to go home with the excellent handout material, study and work for a week, and go back to take the session all over again. Unlike some teachers, Eismann makes the complexities of Photoshop understandable - and fun! Her enthusiasm for the subject is infectious. Adobe Photoshop is an extraordinarily powerful image manipulation tool, but the learning curve is long and steep. Eismann brings it all into focus. Most Photoshop books don't address my own major concern, the repair and restoration of customers' treasured ancestor portraits. Photoshop Restoration & Retouching is entirely about that. No fancy special effects or creative expression techniques, just step-by-step recipes for making pictures better quickly. In just the first 10 minutes of reading her book I found one tip that will probably save me three minutes on every photo I scan and manipulate for the rest of my life. At minimum wage, that one alone probably adds up to thousands of dollars. (I have a camera store and a web site for people in the industry) Eismann's writing style is comfortable and colloquial. She'll guide you, step-by-step, through the restoration or improvement of specific projects that are exactly the sort of projects your customers have been bringing you. There's a supplemental website... from which you can download approximately 60% of the images used in the book. That way you cam work along and learn by doing. The book's not absolutely perfect as your only guide to using Photoshop. Eismann assumes you already know all the fundamentals, and I'd like to see more about using selection tools. Even so it's a tremendously valuable production tool for anyone specializing in improving photos.
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Summary: The Best!!!
Review: I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of this book since hearing of it at the annual Thunder Lizard Photoshop Conference in San Francisco in early January. Early previews had set some high levels of expectation regarding the content and application. My book arrived and I sat up all night reading it and trying the various tutorial exercises. My expectations were more than met. They were exceeded! I am a professional photographer and educator. I have been teaching and employing Photoshop since version 2.5. In the years that have passed, I have probably purchased every major instructional book on Photoshop that has appeared. Many have had outstanding sections, but this book surpasses all of them. Its graphic design, its instructional methodology and its practical, straigtforward application of Photoshop to the commercial portrait photograper's craft is unique. Every chapter brings a new insight to bear on the daily work of the photo-retoucher. This is a MUST for any serious Photoshop user. It will be a required text for all of my future college Photoshop classes.
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Summary: Finally, a Photoshop book about photo restoration
Review: The first 2/3 of this book are about photo restoration, while the final 1/3 discusses retouching such as you would need to do for a portrait or commercial photography studio. After a quick brushup on basic Photoshop usage, she dives right into the deep end of hardcore restoration. I've been doing restorations (both digital and traditional) for many years, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much new information I was able to pick up from this book.
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Summary: Excellent job writing this book.
Review: I will admit it. Many of my photos have flaws. Many have not been preserved properly. They represent memories, however, so I am reluctant to toss them in the trash. Katrin Eisman's book equipped me with the skills to restore them to a state to which I can be proud. This book has helped me take my well-intentioned, yet poorly executed photos, correct the color, contrast and tone. Mold, cracks and torn edges mystically disappear. The moments I attempted to preserve were precious to me. The beautiful images that result from her easy to find, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions are a gift.
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Summary: Great book of Photoshop Knowlege
Review: I've been thru this book, was not able to put it down. After going throught the tutorials and reading through the chapters I feel very confident that I will be able to really bring poor pictures back to justice. Katrin really knows how to explain the subject along with showing very good examples of work done, this is a must have for anyone wanting to step their feet into photo restoration and retouching, and not just switching a monkey head for a real one. I have actually read through this book twice since I've had it.
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