By Glenn Honiball
First Edition
August 2005
Pages: 270
ISBN 10: 0-596-00849-X |
ISBN 13: 9780596008499
Written by 20-year photo retouching veteran Glenn Honiball, Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio delivers advice for the photographer and artist working with Photoshop CS2 in a real world commercial environment. It's the ideal resource for any digital artist who wants to develop and perfect professional-level retouching using Photoshop CS2.
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Written by 20-year photo retouching veteran Glenn Honiball, Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the only book to deliver advice for the photographer and artist working with Photoshop CS 2 in a real world commercial environment. Honiball offers incomparable technical and artistic guidance for professionals, graphic artists, photographers, and just about anyone involved in creating and manipulating digital images.
Production artists face unrealistically tight deadlines and heavy workloads that leave little time for trial and error. Photo retouchers need practical, immediate Photoshop solutions to help them produce quality images with minimal effort and in a short amount of time. All the tools, techniques, and skills you need to achieve consistent, professional results with Photoshop CS2 can be found in Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio.
Anyone with intermediate-to-advanced Photoshop skills--whether you want to explore photo retouching personally or as an imaging professional or student--can use Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio to produce sharp, expert, extraordinary photos that don't look retouched.
Under Honibell's seasoned direction, you'll be able to tackle your greatest photo-retouching challenges with ease, precision and efficiency. He guides you through Photoshop CS2's new and innovative features; explains advanced capabilities; shows you how to adapt and custom-fit the software to meet your needs; offers time-saving tips for accelerating your workflow; and delivers advice and inspiration for exercising your own creative genius.
Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In the Studio is the ideal resource for any digital artist who wants to develop and perfect professional-level retouching using Photoshop CS 2. With this book, you will bring photo correction and manipulation to a whole new level.
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"Whether you're a seasoned Photoshop pro or a casual user attempting to revitalize the family photo album (or somewhere in between), this book will be an invaluable resource...If you need to know how to prepare artwork for a printer, retouch photos like a pro, or create photo-illustrations for the commercial marketplace, you can't do better than Glenn Honiball's book."
-- Bruce Frank, Amazon.com
"Though I found most of the techniques and samples presented very practical, the real power is the underlying ability the reader picks up along the way. I particularly enjoyed the coverage on shadowing, including both the theory and application for different perspectives. A few of the pre-press techniques would be used by a fairly limited audience, but again this title brings to light some advanced and practical tools for business professionals. If I were to summarize what you pick up from this title, it would be how to take original photos, then enhance and combine them into a stunning production. I highly recommend adding this book to your library if you fall in the intended audience. Though not a reference book you would pull out for how to use specific tools, this is a title I plan to re-read once a year or so as a great reminder on some great techniques."
-- Jeremy Hall, Amazon.com
"Regardless of whether you are a production artist facing unrealistically tight deadlines or a studio photographer trying to get the right look, or even a student of photography with intermediate skills with Photoshop, Commercial Photoshop Retouching: In The Studio will give you the fundamentals you will need for success."
-- T. Michael Testi, Blogcritics Magazine
The current edition of the Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter features a great review of Commercial Photoshop Retouching.
"In fact, Glenn's 20 years in professional retouching inform every page with a perspective your ordinary Photoshop tome just doesn't have. The aspiring pro will learn how to set up a studio, deal with clients, read spec sheets and deal with a fan-splattered wall of jobs. The amateur will learn how to make realistic changes to their images, whether it's adding blush to a cheek or compositing two images. In both cases, the real thrill is seeing a pro at work."
"...the image problems he solves as he deals with the major issues in retouching beset us all. His solutions are speedy, sound (did we say realistic) and forgiving (hey, you can do them with a mouse). Spend a few hours with this book and your friends will wonder where you learned to make such realistic edits to your images. If they can even tell you made them!"
