Bodyshop: The Photoshop Retouching Guide for the Face and Body

Preface

Image editing programs – above all Photoshop – have now become so powerful that almost any conceivable picture optimization and motif manipulation is possible. But we need to ask ourselves if something that is "possible" is also the right choice for the picture we want to edit. Or does the art lie rather in sifting through the multitude of possible choices to select exactly those methods that are most appropriate and best suited to the purpose of the final product?

The more perfect the picture, the better the conditions for digital optimization. However, not every portrait photo is taken after a four-week wellness holiday, and not every production budget allows booking a makeup artist. This book therefore aims to indicate where it is rewarding to invest time into taking a picture, and where it is quicker and more cost-effective to perfect a picture using the computer.

This book is not a theoretical reference work about Photoshop, but a practical handbook allowing the advanced Photoshop-user immediate access to portrait retouching in form of detailed practical exercises. The unusual approach of structuring the exercises "from head to toe" is intended to facilitate orientation and purposeful application for the user. Each chapter can be used independently, as both the basic overviews and the practical exercises are stand-alone and do not follow on from one another.

Bodyshop: The Photoshop Retouching Guide for the Face and Body contains a wealth of different retouching tutorials ...