Photoshop® Retouching Handbook

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Summary: Thanks Carol
Review: I found the Photoshop Retouching Handbook to be exciting, innovative and a pleasure to follow. I have done allthe exercises and have learned a great deal. I am not a commercial artist and have been teaching myself Photoshop. I now feel that I am much more in control when using the Photoshop program. The book is highly advanced and I feel I have advanced with it. Although I am not an expert I enjoyed the Photoshop Retouching Handbook. I am looking forward to Carol Braverman's next book.

Thanks Carol

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Summary: Not "Retouching Handbook", but "retouching for beginner"
Review: The auther should rename the book title as "Retouching for beginner" to prevent confused to the readers. It is just a book for beginning level, not a retouching handbook.I did not find any advanced skill in this book.

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Summary: Photoshop for photographers! Just what I'd been looking for!
Review: The reviews I read on this page before buying it left me wondering: was it too basic to justify the purchase or was it exactly what I needed - a book to take me from printing my own slides in the darkroom (something I started with Cibachrome years ago) to printing my own slides with computer and printer instead (I've been 'computer literate' for some years)? Having taken the plunge, I believe it's fair to say that this book will be really helpful to someone moving from traditional into digital photography and enjoying the possibilities for 'retouching' in ways that can't be achieved in the darkroom. Having suffered the frustration of looking at Photoshop books in bookshops and tutorials on the Web dealing with fancy text effects etc, I was beginning to despair of finding something to help me just with photographs. (I'm not knocking special effects - they're class - but not what I was after!) This is exactly what I was after! To take only one example: the number of worked exercises (decent resolution files provided) involving the Rubber Stamp tool, looking at the various parameters of size and softness in relation to retouching many different types of images so as to retain or increase image texture and quality, is an example of the author's thorough and informative approach. The book is elegantly written and there is one (often more) full colour photograph or Photoshop dialog box related to the exercise on nearly every page of the book! Excellent!