Photoshop Face to Face: Facial Image Retouching, Manipulation and Makeovers with Photoshop 7 or Earlier

Everything! And with the incredible power of Photoshop you can retouch and manipulate facial images using an infinite variety of styles.

Want to hide a blemish? Paint a friends face? Animate it and watch it morph into someone else? Mimic the Masters and transform a photo into a Lichtenstein or Warhol? Improve the composition or alter the context of a photograph?

This book brings together some of the most exciting designers around to show you how.

Youll learn the tricks behind the following techniques:

* Facial retouching with Photoshop 7

* Combining features to make hybrid faces

* Slapping on realistic face paint

* Recreating artistic styles

* Producing incredible morphing sequences

* Creating a realistic fantasy figure

* Creating Photoshop faces from scratch

...and more!

This book provides inspiration and clear, concise guidance towards achieving fantastic facial effects for all Photoshop users from beginning to advanced, leading you through even the most powerful Photoshop techniques.

Some of the most exciting designers around have gathered to work their magic on this tightly focused canvas, working from a number of different starting points. Whether it's a perfect gloss you're after, or an abstract form of iconography, Photoshop has a collection of subtle and powerful tricks up its sleeve, and this book coaxes them into the open.

The authors have even suppled original files for readers to work on, downloadable from the friends of ED website!

The sample images are largely poor starting points, but the work done takes many more steps than other, widely known, techniques, AND result in images that are worse than the originals: the retouching is obvious and intrusive, and the reason for that is the technique as much as the execution of it.

If you're a Photoshop novice, the missing steps will confuse you. If you're an advanced user, you'll realize that the recommended approaches are harder than they need to be, and give results worse than easier methods.

Some interesting concepts from the authors, but it's not a Photoshop book I could recommend to anyone.


Not for the beginner or faint of heart...   March 21, 2003
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

As you may be able to tell by a couple of the unfortunate reviews of this book, you will not want to purchase ' Photoshop Face to Face' if you are new to Photoshop. It is a book for the experienced user, kind of a treat to those who have spent hours of training in a program no one would call simple to use.

So, if you consider yourself an intermediate or above user and would like to learn some skills which will benefit anyone's resume (while having a blast doing it), buy this book. On the other hand, if you are a new user to Photoshop and get frustrated without very specific open-this, close-that type of instructions, you may want to pass on this one and choose one of the hundreds of books dedicated to beginners (after all, we all had to start somewhere).

Just my two and a half cents,
Leslie