With the introduction of affordable and easy-to use digital cameras, people
are taking photographs like never before. While the digital medium greatly
simplifies the photographic process, it also offers photographers unprecedented
opportunities to manipulate their images on their personal computers.

Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers tells you everything
you need to know to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 to adjust, correct, retouch, and
manipulate your photographs-without making you first learn everything there
is to know about the application. These straightforward, easy-to-follow recipes
give you specific directions so you can quickly and easily:

* Fix exposure, focus, and colour problems
* Add special effects like motion blurs, lens effects, and surface textures
* Improve portraits by removing red eye, wrinkles, and blemishes
* Add and remove objects from photos seamlessly
* Use lighting effects to create more dramatic images
* Restore faded and damaged photos
* Give new shots a vintage, old-fashioned look
* Create posterized and hand-tinted images
* Assemble and fine-tune composite photos
* Correct perspectives

The book tackles each real-life project in full color, with a hands-on
approach. The fully illustrated recipes produce reliable and immediate
results, and include "at a glance" panels and tip boxes that cover key
techniques in detail.

Barry Huggins, the author of Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital
Photographers, has created the only recipe-format manual on photographic
retouching targeted specifically to digital photographers. Founder of
a highly successful multimedia training and consulting company, Huggins
is uniquely qualified to deliver step-by-step instruction in digital
retouching methodology, with easy-to-follow recipes that address specific
problems and teach "best practices" techniques. This is his fifth book on
digital imaging and graphics software.

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