Product DescriptionDigital Restoration: Start to Finish guides you step-by-step through the entire process of restoring old photographs and repairing new ones using Adobe Photoshop, plug-ins, and Picture Window. Nothing is left out, from choosing the right hardware and software and getting the photographs into the computer, to getting the finished photo out of the computer and preserving it for posterity.
With this book you will learn how to:
. scan faded and damaged prints and films . improve snapshots with the Shadow/Highlight adjustment . correct uneven exposure and do dodging and burning-in with Curves adjustment layers . scan and recover nearly blank photograph . fix color with Curves and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers . fix skin tones with airbrush layers . hand-tint a photograph easily with masked layers . fix color with plug-ins . clean up dust and scratches . repair small and large cracks with masks and filter . eliminate tarnish and silvered-out spots from a photograph . minimize unwanted print surface textures . erase mildew spots . eliminate the dots from newspaper photographs . increase sharpness and fine detail in a photograph
* Clear and easy to understand with over 500 illustrations and step-by-step instruction * Explains what inexpensive alternatives to Photoshop are available for you to use * Highlights Photoshop plug-ins that can do restoration work quickly
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Great BooK!
This is a great book for beginners and professionals. Although, if you are a beginner, you will need some basic knowledge of Adobe Photoshop CS2 or CS3.
Ctein does a great job of walking the reader through the individual photo restorations. He also lets the reader know about different types of software that will help with the restorations and how the software works. I found this to be very helpful.
I wish I had this book when I did my first restorations.
Rating: - Digital Photo Restoration explained
This is an excellent guide to restoration of old photos and negatives. Everything you'd want to have explained, laid out in step by step detail. This covers most all of the situations you're likely to be confronted with. Highly recommended.
Rating: - We need this book.
Although I am most heavily involved today in taking new photographs, I have an interest in restoring and repairing many old photographs that I have digitized with my scanner. This book is the best guide I have found for everything from minor fixes to full-blown reconstructions. It is highly recommended.
Rating: - Interesting book
Once I started reading this book I had difficulty putting it down until I had finished it. It was so interesting to read how it would be possible to transform sometimes hopeless looking photos into beautiful photographs. It explains a lot about masking & curves adjustments & I feel that this book will be my restoration bible. Since I've had a computer less than a year & Photoshop for a few months, I didn't understand a lot of what I was reading, so I don't know if this should be a beginners ... Read More
Rating: - Great Photo-Editing Resource
This book is thoughtfully written with many good photo editing techniques that I haven't seen in other books. Worth the money. The author explains multiple methods for accomplishing similar results. A good book.
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- Great Photo-Editing Resource