Digital Restoration from Start to Finish, Second Edition: How to repair old and damaged photographs Overview
Digital Restoration: Start to Finish 2nd edition guides you step-by-step through the entire process of restoring old photographs and repairing new ones using Adobe Photoshop, Picture Window, and now Elements. 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.
LEARN HOW TO:
Scan faded and damaged prints or films
Improve snapshots with Shadow/Highlight adjustment
Correct uneven exposure
Fix color and skin tones quickly with Curves, plug-ins, and Hue/Saturation adjustment layers
Correct uneven exposure and do dodging and burning-in with adjustment layers
Hand-tint your photographs easily
Correct skin tones with airbrush layers
Clean up dust and scratches speedily and effectively
Repair small and large cracks with masks and filters
Eliminate tarnish and silvered-out spots from a photograph in just a few steps
Minimize unwanted print surface textures
Erase mildew spots
Eliminate dots from newspaper photographs
Increase sharpness and fine detailand
Maximize print quality
* NEW Photoshop Elements included for those that don't own Photoshop
* NEW layout to make it easier for you to understand the step-by-steps
* MORE solutions for you to solve the restoration problems you are facing
Customer Reviews
I've been reading this book for the past couple of weeks and am very nearly finished. It presents a lot of helpful tips and tricks laid out in an easy-to-follow format, and the writing is straightforward but not dry - I have found it to be quite entertaining reading for being a how-to manual, and it has re-energized my enthusiasm for photo restoration. I think it will be a much-used go-to book on my desk.
However, if you are new to Photoshop (like me: I've been using Jasc/Corel's programs forever, and have always found Adobe products off-puttingly daunting and clunky, but am now biting the bullet) or just getting used to CS4, there will be a little bit of frustration due to figuring out where some of the controls are. Often, Ctein tells how to do something, but not where to find the tools to do it. This isn't bad since it makes you have to figure it out (which is better than being spoon-fed), but it's something to be aware of if you're not wholly familiar with PS.
That is a minor downside, though, since most of the information presented would easily translate to other photo-editing programs.
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