Adobe Photoshop CS2: The Art of Photographing Women (Paperback)

by Kevin Ames (Author)
Key Phrases: shadow edge transition, commit check box, retouch layer, Gaussian Blur, Step Click, Camera Raw (more...)

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Product Description
"Very few books have the power to change the way you work, impact your career, and suddenly change everything. This is one of them."
-- From the Foreword by Scott Kelby, Editor, Photoshop User magazine

Renowned photographer and digital magician Kevin Ames shared his secrets for making photographs of women look better than their best in the previous edition of this book. In this fully updated new edition, he:

• guides you through the latest CS2 tools, including Camera Raw 3, Adobe Bridge, RAW files in layers, and Smart Objects.
• shows you how to solve the greatest challenge of all -- being your own photo lab.
• puts your skills into practice with specific projects.

Whether you're shooting high fashion, portraits, lingerie, or swimsuits, in the studio or on location, your "secret assistant" is fully updated for Photoshop CS2 and illustrated with the Ames's own photographs. Order your copy today and master photographic and retouching techniques, learn efficient archiving and distribution workflows, and much more.

From the Back Cover
"Very few books have the power to change the way you work, impact your career, and suddenly change everything. This is one of them."
—From the Foreword by Scott Kelby, Editor, Photoshop User magazine

Master photographic and retouching techniques

Learn efficient archiving and distribution workflows

In Photoshop CS: The Art of Photographing Women, renowned photographer and digital magician Kevin Ames shared his secrets for making photographs of women look better than their best. The first part of this updated edition explores the latest CS2 tools including Camera Raw 3, Adobe Bridge, RAW files in layers, Smart Objects, and how to solve the greatest challenge of all—being your own photo lab. Part 2 puts these skills into practice with specific projects. Whether you're shooting high fashion, portraits, lingerie, or swimsuits, in the studio or on location, Photoshop CS2: The Art of Photographing Women is your secret assistant.

Fully updated for Photoshop CS2 AND ILLUSTRATED WITH THE AUTHOR'S OWN PHOTOGRAPHS

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Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (September 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470048255
• ISBN-13: 978-0470048252
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #408,204 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Book!!!, April 10, 2007

By	Krib Sitathani - See all my reviews

This books is based on the old saying, "Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach him to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime." It teaches you how you can make changes to your 'raw' pictures into works of art. It emphasized the concept that can actually be applied to any type of photography. Personally, I like to take Portrait, Street Life, and Candid. This book really hope me to think more of how and what I want to have as my final result from the pictures I take. I used to think that postproduction of a picture is pointless but the more I learned from this book. It became more evident that that is not the case. It is an essential part of digital photography. Now, I can make the pictures I take to come out exactly the way I intended it to be.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, January 3, 2007

By	Chris (Florida) - See all my reviews

It's Great! Kevin is a first class author and the information is invaluable. Many many topics, methods and real life situations. This is a color rich, thick and useful book while the price is surprisingly low. I have both CS and CS2 versions.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not just for the Glamour Photographer!, January 9, 2007

By	Ricardo (Denver, CO USa) - See all my reviews

When I first got Photoshop a year ago, my reaction was "now what?". I purchsed "The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers" by Scott Kelby (also a great book) and started learning. While it helped me start understanding Camera RAW and how to use Photoshop, the term "workflow" was still a mystery to me. Then I found Kevin's CS book. I finally got it!

This book was a valuable resource in esablishing what have now become my workflow processes. Not only the processes, but Kevin teaches you how to put them into actions, and how to establish an archiving process. Huge time savings!

Since the book is about photographing women, there is a lot of information on Photoshop features that lend themselves to retouching glamour photos.

I have also attended Kevin's one-day seminar on Photoshop workflow, and while much of the information I already knew from his book, there was a lot of valuable information that I picked up, and many times "seeing" drives a point home better than "reading" ever could.

I highly recommend this book!