Photo Retouching & Restoration for Dummies

by Julie Adair King

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Editorial Reviews

Photo Retouching & Restoration For Dummies shows readers how to take prints of old family photographs, badly shot digital images, and other hopeless cases and turn them into high quality digital images suitable for printing or posting online. Includes coverage of scanning existing prints, correcting color problems, correcting lighting problems, hiding dust and scratches, repairing holes in the image, improving focus, enhancing images for sharing, and printing and posting your final results. The Dummies series has been a favorite among digital imaging users thanks to its easy to follow instruction and expert advice. Dummies books on digital photography and Photoshop have combined to sell over 475,000 copies. ABOUT THE CD-ROM The CD-ROM of this book contains an assortment of images included in the book so readers can work through the steps with the same material presented in the text. The CD also includes a trial of Photoshop Elements (the software primarily used in the examples) as well as catalog programs like ThumbsPlus and ACDSee, scanning software like VueScan and SilverFast, FlipAlbum photo viewing software, and other image editing trials including PaintShop Pro.(All CD concontent tentative)

Customer Reviews

User from Arkansas, 2002-09-16

I just finished my first photo restoring project and am really impressed with the final result. I just followed the directions step by step and felt that if a klutz like me could do it, anyone should be able to.

I'm anxiously looking forward to doing some more pictures when time allows. As a matter of fact, others have asked me to do some of their personal family photos.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in photo restoring.

Very helpful to me..., 2002-09-06

When I pointed to this site to recommend this book to a friend, I was stunned to see a review of 1 star. Even though I definitely consider myself a novice as well, especially in regard to digital photography, I had no problem learning from this book and following the examples.

This book was very helpful in doing what it set out to do - teach photo retouching and restoration. I was very confident in recommending it. Kudos!

Not enough help for a novice, 2002-09-03
by Elva W. Bonnin (Gastonia, North Carolina USA)

I bought this book thinking that it would be a good guide and on first reading it it seem to be just that--however when I started to try out some of the examples on my computer, they didn't work. Steps were omitted and since I am a novice I need every step outlined which is what I expect from a "dummies" book. Very disappointing.