Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers tells you everything you need to know to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 to adjust, correct, retouch, and manipulate your photographs-without making you first learn everything there is to know about the application. These straightforward, easy-to-follow recipes give you specific directions so you can quickly and easily:

• Fix exposure, focus, and color problems
• Add special effects like motion blurs, lens effects, and surface textures
• Improve portraits by removing red eye, wrinkles, and blemishes
• Add and remove objects from photos seamlessly
• Use lighting effects to create more dramatic images
• Restore faded and damaged photos
• Give new shots a vintage, old-fashioned look
• Create posterized and hand-tinted images
• Assemble and fine-tune composite photos
• Correct perspectives

The book tackles each real-life project in full color, with a hands-on approach. The fully illustrated recipes produce reliable and immediate results, and include "at a glance" panels and tip boxes that cover key techniques in detail.

Barry Huggins, the author of Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers, has created the only recipe-format manual on photographic retouching targeted specifically to digital photographers. Founder of a highly successful multimedia training and consulting company, Huggins is uniquely qualified to deliver step-by-step instruction in digital retouching methodology, with easy-to-follow recipes that address specific problems and teach "best practices" techniques. This is his fifth book on digital imaging and graphics software.