Photoshop Cosmetic Surgery: A Comprehensive Guide to Portrait Retouching and Body Transforming (A Lark Photography Book) (Paperback)

by Barry Jackson (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Lark Books (April 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579908004
• ISBN-13: 978-1579908003
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #268,636 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Basic retouching techniques, February 12, 2007

By	D. Junden "Jgraph Designs" (Sweden) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Well, as a photo retoucher with some experience on a more advanced intermediate level, there was very little in this book to actaully learn something new or groundbreaking.
How it is layed out and how the examples work is already described by Michal Stukow and I have nothing more to add to that.
In my opinion it seems a bit too "gimmicy" to use for more serious retouching work and some of the operation results are far too exaggerated and obvious to pass as is.
Never the less, as a basic book for starting out with retouching it quickly introduce some of the useful techniques one can refine and take many steps further, but if you are looking for a more comprehensive volume on the subject there are far more better ones.

12 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Some nice examples for beginers, August 17, 2006

By	Michal Stukow (Poland) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book contains several examples of basic correction techniques. The examples are well documented, each example consists of before/after and some itermidiate photos. Apart from the photos the book consits of instruction lines like 'set the brush to ...' etc. The week point is that there is hardly any deeper explenation of what is going on.

So this is a nice book if you are learning Photoshop and want to see some baisic Photoshop tools in action. But if you are more serious Photoshop user, I recomend Katrin Eismann 'Adobe Photoshop Restoration & Retouching' which is far more interesting and complete.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to Be a Cosmetic Surgeon the Easy Way - , January 18, 2007

By	Edward Gold (Long Island) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I first came across this book while browsing in a book store, and decided that I had to own it. Since much of my photography centers around people and portraits, this book really concentrates on the many things that you can do to to enhance (or, for some fun do the opposite to) these photos. The explanations are clear and the illustrations make the steps easy to follow. I definitely recommend this book.