The Photoshop Elements 5 Restoration and Retouching Book

by Matt Kloskowski

Book Overview

Bring out all your old storage boxes of photos, and open up all the images you've shot that were just okay. In his latest book, Matt Kloskowski shows you how to restore old photos and retouch newer... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0321481658
• ISBN13: 9780321481658
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Peachpit Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Throw out your other digital retouching books!

I've taken online classes, read plenty of books, spent many hours tring to interpret instuctions on portrait retouching. I read Matt's book and was like "oh that's how you do it". The light came on and stayed lit through all his tutorials. Best thing... you don't have to read the whole book to learn Elements. Want to retouch eyes - just go to that portion of the book. No need to have read previous chapters/pages. People who have never used Elements can understand his instructions easily. Matt writes with wit and gets right to the point. I love this book and keep it right next to my key board for reference.

Matt's Best Work Yet...

I'm a Photoshop User, I don't use Elements, so I was a bit put off given the focus was on Elements and frankly didn't know if anyone could come close to matching the worthiness of Katrin Eismann's seminal works on the same subject. But on the strength of Scott Kelby's (ostensibly Matt's boss at NAPP) recommendation on his blog, I went ahead and ordered a copy. Suffice to say, I'm glad I did. From beginning to end, this book is SUBSTANTIVE. Matt has wisely decided to adopt Scott's bottom up approach... that is, Matt presents the issue at the beginning of a section and then shows you how to address the problem (so be forewarned, this is NOT an Elements primer) quickly and effectively. And of course, given that Elements is by and large a subset of its big brother, all the techniques described are easily applied in Photoshop. In the end, Matt has done well enough that he too can sit on the same stage as Ms. Katrin Eismann (if you haven't read any of her stuff, you should, she is just flat brilliant). My copy is soon to be dogeared as I will be attempting to script as many of the techniques as I can... for those that I can't, I'm practicing the technique and then creating a spreadsheet with 2 columns; Problems & Solutions as there are just a TON of solutions in this work. So, even if you are a Photoshop bigot like me, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy. It is Matt's best work yet.

BY FAR THE BEST FOR A BEGINNER

Having used various photo editing programs with little effort, I decided to purchase PhotoShop Elements 5.0. Much to my distress, it has proven to be much more complicated than I had anticipated. Viewing the tutorials, and the help topics supplied with Elements did me little good. I am still unfamiliar with most of the Elements tools, but since I mainly use it for editing my photos, this book has been great! The book takes you step by step through the process of a specific project so that you do not have to learn what all the tools do until you need to use them. I would recommend it for anyone who uses Elements to edit their photographs - even the more advanced users. I wish all the manuals I have bought were written like this!

Can't put a good book down !!

Wow !! After reading the first few chapters I was amazed. Every lesson covered questions that I had using Photoshop Elements. I love the way it was written, very straight forward, and not hard to follow. It was also very nice to see the before and after photos at the end of each lesson. Matt did such an awesome job with this book. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to give their pictures an extra edge !!

A book we all have been waiting for!

Matt has hit a home run with this book. The step-by-set techniques and variety of subjects he covers in this book has something for everybody working with Photoshop Elements 3,4 or 5. The book is setup that you can easily find a particular subject and then follow the specific tutorial. This is a must have book if your retouching or restoring photos.