Product Description

Essential inspiration and practical reference for anyone who wants to take their portrait photography to a new level. Go beyond the users manual and create compelling portraits with fun, innovative projects and easily followed step-by-step tutorials. Learn the basics of lighting and equipment - then unleash the power of Adobe Photoshops latest update. Fully updated to include new features found in Photoshop CS4, with new tutorials and revised step by step instructions throughout. Transform your subject into a screen goddess from Hollywoods Golden Age, a dramatically lit sculpture, or a Warhol-esque pop icon - or simply clean up their complexion.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #305656 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-19
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive post-processing portraits in Photoshop guide
This book is refreshingly different from any other that I have seen, and shows you how to post-process portraits in Photoshop to maximum advantage, using a series of effective tutorials.

It's very thorough, well illustrated, and relatively easy to follow. It includes sections on the following:

- Color Correction and Lighting (some standard stuff, but some interesting approaches to extreme colouring, sepia, isolating colour, distortion, etc.)
- Creative Lighting (low-key, high-key, candlelight, multicoloured lighting, dramatic lighting, etc.)
- Improving blemishes, hair, etc. (Katrin Eismann is the best for this though)
- Lens and background effects
- Monochrome
- Coming up with classical styles (Hollywood, Bailey, 1980s, etc.)
- Artistic effects (not so interesting to me - watercolours, oils, etc.)
- Frames and trick effects (can find this by looking in multiple places, but it's a good primer in one place)

It's a very good book - different, and full of useful ideas for all but the most competent Photoshop user.