Adobe Photoshop CS2: The Art of Photographing Women

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 416 pages
• Published by: Wiley September 12, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0470048255
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0470048252
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 2.1 pounds

Book 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.

Back Cover Copy
"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

Reader Reviews
I agree with the previous 2-star review; the typography in this edition is beyond atrocious. I can understand the decision to make the text so large--I'm sure a lot of people will want to set the book down somewhere on their desk while they follow along with the tutorials, and microscopic fonts would make that virtually impossible--but this is really sub-par. There are so many ridiculous flourishes and calligraphic captions that everything on the page is competing for your eye's attention, and unfortunately, the wrong element usually ends up winning (those oversized bluish brackets that adorn every single caption, callout and pull-quote for example). What's worse, whoever laid the thing out absolutely insisted upon using up every single millimeter of available space on the page, resulting in tangents a-plenty and margins of less than 1/16th of an inch in many cases. Have fun reading that. Content-wise, it's OK. The information Mr. Ames provides is not bad by any means, but I wouldn't call it "groundbreaking", either. There should really be a lot more screenshots of the layers palette than there are words in most of the tutorials as it's easy to get lost in the text thanks to all the aforementioned typographical concerns, and his methods of building hair masks will prove difficult to apply to many situations his examples do not cover. I'm not a fan of his method of layer organization, either, but that's one of those deeply personal things everyone evolves on their own. If you're just getting started in the retouching or fashion business, there are plenty of good pointers in here. If you've been using Photoshop for the last 15 years, don't expect to learn much you didn't already know. Mr. Ames is a fine retouch artist, but he's neither the magician nor the pioneer some would make him out to be. All of his methods predate him and he freely admits as much in the text. I would not recommend this to anyone but an absolute beginner, and even then I would feel guilty about it just because it's so darn horribly put together. Comment | | (Report this)