Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)

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Would make a good textbook [Posted on 2008-03-05]
This book would be excellent for those wanting to learn photo/document restoration or photo/portrait retouching. It's very instructional & includes downloadable photos to practice on. It usually provides several different ways to approach the same problem and covers a lot.

A Cream of the Top [Posted on 2008-04-26]
I could never say enough about this book. I was looking through reviews to find anything negative to dispute. There was nothing reasonable. The reviews say it all. Katrin does everything she possibly can to teach Photoshop outside of taking her classes and even then I doubt she has left anything out.

I thought I knew Photoshop fairly well until I read this book. I realized I definitely was a beginner. I don't believe you have to have allot of working knowledge of Photoshop in order to use this book except for the simplist of basics but I don't want to mislead anyone. But I think If you use Photoshop at all you probably already know all you need.

I 've read the book several times while working on photos and without. Each time I read it I learn more. After a while the tools, adjustments,techniques and etc. start to become second nature. I've learn and am still learning how to really expand my use of Photoshop in multidimensional directions. I'm able to discover many ways to solve the same problem, even solutions that aren't in the book because she teaches it that well. You can learn much more then step by step procedures that seem to come from nowhere like in other books. Their are some advanced filters she doesn't get into and less important stuff like making contact sheets, etc that you can find in simpler beginner books like Deke McClelland's One on One, a good book for beginners. And there are even more techniques covered in her other book Masking and Compositing a book just as good. I wonder what kind of more advanced books she will come out with next but I look forward to getting all of them.

Katrin has a great personality which is reflected throughout this book. She even emails you back if you have any kind of photo question and she uses the feedback to refine her updated editions. How does she have time to do so much? She travels all over the world taking photographs which are exceptional, teaches classes, lectures, writes books that require allot of research, works with the biggest companies in the industry and still has time to be personable. It definitely shows her passion for photography and shows how much of a true teacher she really is.

I have other books on Photoshop but Katrin Eismann's books are by far the easiest to learn and develop from.

Clear, concise, essential... [Posted on 2008-05-09]
I just picked this book up through Amazon, I'm about 3/4 through it and it's been extremely helpful already. I've read other photoshop books, some I've liked more than others, but this one is tops for me. Scott Kelby's books are helpful, but they are more recipe driven and you don't always gain an understanding of why you are doing something. I've read one by Frasier and for me that was all but useless, since it was unreadable, and I found it difficult to 'find' what I wanted to know in it. Too many circular references. Katrin Eismann's book is different -it is readable, and easy to use as a reference. All her tips for setting up your work space/area/tools in CS2 were helpful, and designed for efficiency. The book is well organized, and the material is presented logically and in an easy to understand way, with good examples and clear goals and solutions presented. There is a web site provided where you can download all the images presented in the book, to work along with. Even if you aren't doing digital 'restoration' work per se, the lessons and examples provided can be applied to a variety of issues and problems to new digital images, straight from your camera, not just to scans of old photographs and slides. Lots of tips and tricks, and Katrin provides solid examples, and easy to follow lessons. More of her lessons will stick with me and I'll incorporate many of them into my workflow (I believe), because they aren't merely recipes, but good explanations of problems and solutions to common flaws in digital images.

Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching [Posted on 2008-07-01]
The Adobe Photoshop Restoration and Retouching offers a hands-on approach in which every assignment takes you step by step is a very clear presentation by the author, Ms. Eisman. The simplicity in her explanations takes into consideration the inordinate amount of planning that has gone to keep this book interesting and non-threatening. It can be used by beginners as well as Photoshop professionals. Great book!

Secrets of Digital Retouching [Posted on 2008-07-03]
Well, maybe they aren't secrets but this book has a LOT of good information. In Eismann's usual thorough style she guides the reader through typical retouching problems from global corrections of density and color, through details of glamour makeovers. The book is detailed, excruciatingly so at times, but one is seldom left wondering how the author got from this step to that one.

The book is illustrated with a plethora of teeny tiny images and there lies my major problem with this work. If you are not blessed with 20 year old eyes the value of these images is largely lost without the use of a loupe. In fact, I read much of the book with a loupe in hand so I could see selections and read the screen shots. Eismann has a companion website with large jpg images to accompany the text so you can work along with her using your own computer. That's very nice but unfortunately, if you can't read the screen shots, you're in trouble. Only a few screen shots seem to be included on the website, at least, that I have found. There is a section on the website for errata including text errors, of which there are quite a few.

That being said, and taking into account the above caveat, it's a great book. When you read it, bring along your loupe.

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