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Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook | 
 enlarge | Author: Marie Clec'h
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 8.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 0596008600
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9780596008604
ASIN: 0596008600
Publication Date: December 10, 2004
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Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook is at once eye candy, artistic inspiration, and incomparable technical guidance for intermediate-to-advanced digital imaging professionals, graphic artists, photographers, and just about anyone involved in creating digital images or animations. A visual splendor, this full-color book showcases a one-of-a-kind collection of superb and innovative photo-retouching solutions by well-known French artists. The new English translation of a cutting-edge French work, Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook presents high-quality photo retouching from the unique cultural perspective of the French. Reflecting the very best of French creation in graphic design and digital imaging, this book offers an enlightening and stunning glimpse into a vibrant culture known for pushing the limits of imagination with photography, graphics, and art. Filled with beauty, energy, and creative risks, the images inside will forever change the way you see and perform your own photo manipulation and graphic design. You'll see what other top-notch imaging professionals are able to do to and create with their photographs with Photoshop, and you'll be guided, step-by-step, through the editing process of each project--from original shot to polished print. But most importantly, you'll gain both insight and experience into how each visionary artist imagined, conceptualized, and ultimately created his or her final exquisite image. With the book's inspiration and education, you'll be able to exert precise control over every aspect of your own photo restorations and retouching challenges so you can consistently achieve expert, dramatic results while always preserving the integrity of the photographs. Part coffee-table book, part art inspiration, and part design guide, the lavishly illustrated Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook will redefine what it means to retouch a photograph--taking the procedure from simple, mindless manipulation to elaborate, intentional, highly rewarding art form.
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 Good and bad (and very bad) May 29, 2007
The book is simply comprised of 8 examples of work done by 8 different people working independently. You will quickly come to the conclusion that the only thing that most of the 8 "authors" were trying to do was to impress the reader on how technically proficient they are in using Photoshop, not necessarily showing the reader how to accomplish something. If this wasn't bad enough, the examples used were mostly very lame at best. To make matters worse, whatever they accomplished is now completely out-of-date as all examples were done in Photoshop 6, 7, or CS.
You may ask me "Why in hell did you buy the book?" The answer is simply: one of the 8 examples in the book is Thibault Granier's "Bloody Mallory" - a matte painting of an eerie abandoned church done for a low budget movie.
Although his Bloody Mallory tutorial is available on-line, I wanted a hard copy. The price of the used book was worth it.
 Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook August 14, 2006
This book is not what the cover appears to indicate - although ording online, it was the title more than the cover that attracted me to it. Sure it has some sections on restoration - which to me indidcates retouching, but a lot of it is about photo illustration.
Very well explained and well put together, this small book shows a good representation of some of the ways one can integrate photos that result in something that is nigh impossible in one shot alone.
The book covers restoration, body manipulation, sky and contrast fiddling, montages, photo art and commercial artwork. The problem with this book is each chapter is different from the rest. I see no need to have all of these together, rather split them up into an expanded book for each section. I had no intrest in the artwork of a photo illustration of a woman in the sky, but was interested in the body manipulation and the photo restoration. But each of those chapters were not detailed enough. You will run into many different situations and one photo or example is not enough.
More please - so I can select the titles that pertian to me. Its like putting fine cabinetry and house framing and boat building in the same book because you want to appeal to those with a saw as a tool instead of Photoshop as a tool. Photoshop is used in many different facits and never to the breadth by one that this book would like one to believe.
Limited appeal until its broken out into a series and added with more depth.
 "Photo Retouching with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook" Book Review June 28, 2006
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Title:Photo Retouching with Photoshop - A Designer's Notebook
Author:Demonstrated by Leading French Artists
Translated:Marie-Laure Clec'h,
Publisher:O'Reilly
ISBN:0-596-00860-0
Reviewer:Bruce Frank
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This Designer Notebook is but one in a series, and having experienced this one first, it has piqued my interest in discovering the rest.
My Inner Geek (OK, I admit it, I wear my Geekness like my heart on my sleeve) enjoyed the inclusion of not only the software used to create certain effects and images, but the hardware as well. There's something satisfying in knowing one of the designers profiled probably took great pleasure in revealing the minutiae that they use a Gretagmacbeth Eye-one spectrophotometer to calibrate their display weekly. And I curse them, for now I must have one.
Emphasizing certain aspects of the artists' craft are simulated Post-It notes (do I use the "registered trademark" superscript here? - I think not - this is a local SIG, not the New York Times! - the Post-It attorneys may feel differently), an effective device that not only drives home a point, but enhances the casual yet sophisticated nature of the page layouts.
What sets this book apart from most is the multidisciplinary approach. Some authors are photographers, some retouchers, some designers - all are very talented, and present their methodologies in clear and cogent fashion. An immensely appealing concept, well-executed. I will definitely seek out additional Designer's Notebooks. As soon as my Gretagmacbeth comes in. I just love saying that.
A Different Approach To The Usual June 28, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The title of this book is somewhat misleading. Photo retouching and Adobe Photoshop is not a new idea. Photoshop has been the industry standard for photo editing for years. However, what I liked the most about this book is that it was about more than the basic photo retouching covered in most books on Photoshop.
That being said, Eric Mahe discusses his approach for turning a photo into an artistic statement as opposed to just retouching the original photo. First, he reworks the too-white sky by replacing it with a sky from a second photo. He then isolates and enhances the subject of the photo, a little girl's face, using the Photoshop Calculations command.
Gerard Niemetzky worked on restoring a 100 year old photo. In his workshop, he discusses the scanning technique he uses to maintain the embossed aspect of a photo within a frame when converting it to a digital image. He also discusses the sequence of steps and adjustment layers he uses to make this very faded photo look almost like new.
Starting from a photo of an old church and graveyard, Thibaut Granier worked on a matte painting destined to be a backdrop for a movie scene. To achieve a haunted, eerie effect, he first replaced and then subdued the sky in the photo. Next he used a montage approach to build up the graveyard with individual grave markers. Each marker was added one at a time to the foreground of the picture and then manipulated to blend into the atmosphere of the photo.
As with all books in the O'Reilly Designer's Notebook series, each professional artist shares his or her expertise and artistic approach in a step-by-step workshop with accompanying full color examples that show the progressive steps to the final result.
The nine French artists featured in this book are Gerard Niemetzky, Dominique Legrand and Antony Legrand, Eric Mahe, Vincent Risacher, Francois Quinio, Thibaut Granier, Poisson Rouge and Cyril Bruneau. The book was originally published in French and was translated by Marie-Laure Clech from the original entitled Retouches Photo avec Photoshop - Les cahiers des Designers 05.
From the Alaskan Apple User's Group June 7, 2005
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was drawn to this book by its cover with an antique photo, which was then shown being restored in nicely illustrated and explained steps using Photoshop in the first chapter (called a "studio"). Surrounding each step of restoration are great tips from how to scan the photo, to what to restore, to how to do it including showing how to use various Photoshop tools. This is what I always wanted to have a book do: really illustrate every stage of photo restoration.
The following 7 chapters (also each called "studios") equally demonstrate with wonderful step-by-step illustrations more great things Photoshop can do to improve and enhance images. Each is written by a different French author who is a specialist in some aspect of Photoshop. In all, these additional "studios" are equally well done and help both the beginner and more advanced Photoshop user really gain valuable insights and skills into making Photoshop achieve its great potential.
Cons in a few words:
I really don't have any major cons with this fine 96-page book. My only suggestions for improvement would be to add a glossary and index, so that the definitions of some terms could be found easier, plus topics located faster in the book.
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