Book description
Take years off your keepsake photos or enhance the current ones with Photoshop CS3's powerful tools and the expert techniques and tips you'll find in this comprehensive guide. Using step-by-step instructions and over 500 pages of full-color examples, this book shows you how to clone, blend layers, add contrast, reduce glare, soften wrinkles, rescue torn photos, and more. From portraits to landscapes to architectural masterpieces, fine-tune your favorites with this expert guide.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Credits
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
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I. Digital Image Fundamentals
- 1. Adjusting Image Brightness and Contrast
- 2. Working with Color
- 3. Understanding Raw and High-Bit Files
- 4. Working with Layers
- 5. Getting Organized
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II. Photoshop Tools and Techniques
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6. Using Photoshop's Main Retouching Tools
- 6.1. Working with Brushes
- 6.2. Using the Clone Stamp Tool
- 6.3. Working with Tool Blending Modes
- 6.4. Using the Healing Brush
- 6.5. Busting Dust with the Spot Healing Brush
- 6.6. Using the Patch Tool
- 6.7. Fixing Red Eye
- 6.8. Retouching with Layers
- 6.9. Body Sculpting with the Liquify Command
- 6.10. Summary
- 7. Working with Selections
- 8. Creating Flexibility with Layer Masks
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6. Using Photoshop's Main Retouching Tools
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III. Restoration—Rescuing Damaged Photos
- 9. Starting with the Scan
- 10. Solving Typical Repair Problems
- 11. Finishing Touches
- 12. Hands-on Restoration Project: The Complete Workflow
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IV. Retouching—Taking Images to the Next Level
- 13. Using Strategies for Success
- 14. Solving Special Portrait Retouching Problems
- 15. Hands-on Portrait Retouching Project: The Complete Workflow
- 16. Hands-on Architectural Retouching Project
Product information
- Title: Photoshop® CS3 Restoration and Retouching Bible
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2008
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470223673
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