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Photoshop Effects for Portrait Photographers

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The author is quite a good photographer. His other book, "Master Lighting for the Portrait Photographer" is a great book. This book, on the other hand is not only superficial in its instruction of processing (in that it is all step by step without any real explanation of the tools) but many of the methods covered are subpar.

The problem is that over 1/3rd of the book covers extremely gimmicky techniques that no self-respecting photographer would want to use. Examples of such horrendous methods include making your picture look like a lithograph, a linoleum block, a scratchboard, a pencil sketch, a photocopy sketch, a grain sketch, and an impressionist painting. Of the last 54 pages, only 17 of those pages went over worthwhile techniques.

If this book were cheaper, say $10.00 I could easily recommend it. But for $20.00 or so there are much better books available.

I base my ratings based on how many times a book makes me say "ahhhh" unfortunately this wasn't much in this book.

Although the book is a nice read, it does skip details here & there. For experience Photoshop users this is not really a problem though.
The techniques don't go too far, so it's easy enough to blast through the book and read it within a couple of hours.
A few nice techniques though, so if you're really looking for some new effects, there might be something in there.