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Photoshop Face to Face: Facial Image Retouching, Manipulation and Makeovers with Photoshop 7 or Earlier [Illustrated] [Paperback]

Gavin Cromhout (Author), Josh Fallon (Author), Nathan Flood (Author), Douglas Mullen (Author), Francine Spiegel (Author), James Widegren (Author), Katy Freer (Author), Jim Hannah (Author)
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Book Description

Photoshop 7 June 2002
What’s in a face?

Everything! And with the incredible power of Photoshop you can retouch and manipulate facial images using an infinite variety of styles.

Want to hide a blemish? Paint a friend’s face? Animate it and watch it morph into someone else? Mimic the Masters and transform a photo into a Lichtenstein or Warhol? Improve the composition or alter the context of a photograph?

This book brings together some of the most exciting designers around to show you how.

You’ll learn the tricks behind the following techniques:

* Facial retouching with Photoshop 7

* Combining features to make hybrid faces

* Slapping on realistic face paint

* Recreating artistic styles

* Producing incredible morphing sequences

* Creating a realistic fantasy figure

* Creating Photoshop faces from scratch

...and more!

This book provides inspiration and clear, concise guidance towards achieving fantastic facial effects for all Photoshop users from beginning to advanced, leading you through even the most powerful Photoshop techniques.

Some of the most exciting designers around have gathered to work their magic on this tightly focused canvas, working from a number of different starting points. Whether it's a perfect gloss you're after, or an abstract form of iconography, Photoshop has a collection of subtle and powerful tricks up its sleeve, and this book coaxes them into the open.

The authors have even suppled original files for readers to work on, downloadable from the friends of ED website!



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This is a full color inspirations title from friends of ED, aimed showing professionals and home users alike how to access the multiplicity of techniques available in Adobe Photoshop. By using such a familiar model as the human face, the effectiveness and originality of these techniques is thrown into sharp relief.

The book employs versions of Photoshop up to the brand new release Version 7, although the techniques shown will be compatible with previous releases of the software.

Each chapter contains multiple examples of how to treat a face in Photoshop, and an in-depth explanation of technique from the designer.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Friends of ed; illustrated edition edition (June 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1903450845
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903450840
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,189,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Good for more than faces!, September 19, 2002
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Simon "si-w" (Cheltenham, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Photoshop Face to Face: Facial Image Retouching, Manipulation and Makeovers with Photoshop 7 or Earlier (Paperback)
I picked up this book a couple of weeks ago, and have'nt put it down. I've been spending the whole time making works of art (if I say so myself) out of my own pictures. This book just cuts right to the chase, and tells you straightaway how to do some really cool stuff. What surprised me was how easy it is to do some of the best looking effects.

You even get to make that lush cover image (plus wings!), and a bunch of others in there that are even better. I took about two days just doing a bunch of different variations making "realistic" fairy wings, so this book's more than just about faces. There's paint techniques (how to get proper thick-looking oil paint), and some freaky stuff about making babies faces scary. There's loads of little variations and hints and tips about stuff I never even thought about doing. This has got to be the best book I've bought for just making you get down and DO IT. A real recommendation.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not for the beginner or faint of heart..., March 20, 2003
This review is from: Photoshop Face to Face: Facial Image Retouching, Manipulation and Makeovers with Photoshop 7 or Earlier (Paperback)
As you may be able to tell by a couple of the unfortunate reviews of this book, you will not want to purchase ' Photoshop Face to Face' if you are new to Photoshop. It is a book for the experienced user, kind of a treat to those who have spent hours of training in a program no one would call simple to use.

So, if you consider yourself an intermediate or above user and would like to learn some skills which will benefit anyone's resume (while having a blast doing it), buy this book. On the other hand, if you are a new user to Photoshop and get frustrated without very specific open-this, close-that type of instructions, you may want to pass on this one and choose one of the hundreds of books dedicated to beginners (after all, we all had to start somewhere).

Just my two and a half cents,
Leslie

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Poor writing and poor retouching, April 22, 2003
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Kevin Connery "kevinconnery" (Fullerton, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Photoshop Face to Face: Facial Image Retouching, Manipulation and Makeovers with Photoshop 7 or Earlier (Paperback)
I bought this book hoping it would provides ways to improve my retouching skills/techniques. That turned out not to be the case.

The sample images are largely poor starting points, but the work done takes many more steps than other, widely known, techniques, AND result in images that are worse than the originals: the retouching is obvious and intrusive, and the reason for that is the technique as much as the execution of it.

If you're a Photoshop novice, the missing steps will confuse you. If you're an advanced user, you'll realize that the recommended approaches are harder than they need to be, and give results worse than easier methods.

Some interesting concepts from the authors, but it's not a Photoshop book I could recommend to anyone.

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