Bodyshop: The Photoshop Retouching Guide for the Face and Body

by Birgit Nitzsche, Karsten Rose

Overview

This is what Photoshop users have been waiting for

Retouching portrait and fashion photos using Photoshop continues to grow in popularity. In this book, highly respected photographic and image-editing experts Birgit Nitzsche and Karsten Rose share their know-how with a collection of the most successful tips and tricks for portrait and beauty retouching. They demonstrate how to cleverly correct skin blemishes, divulge tricks to get a body into shape, and show how to cunningly adjust clothing. Each chapter contains a basic overview with additional information, expanding the practical workshops. Every photographer, advertiser, and photo enthusiast can learn from this guide!

• Create harmonious body contours and use different techniques to get a body into shape

• Improve facial structures and emphasize eyes and mouth with make-up effects

• Make a face look younger and achieve a flawless complexion

• Tint and style hair

• Refine hands and create beautiful fingernails

Bonus DVD Includes

• Before-and-after views of all pictures from the book

• Additional setting files for individual workshops

• Trial versions of several Nik Multimedia filters

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118081907
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/20/2011
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	15 MB
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About the Author

Birgit Nitzsche has worked in photography for 20 years, focused primarily on business and lifestyle work. Her experience comes from international photo projects as well as her own studio in Munich, Germany. For 15 years she has worked with Karsten Rose, composer and Photoshop lecturer, Macromedia Academy of Media, Photoshop-Convention, who is well known from his seminars and workshops. Together they have perfected the interplay between photo-shooting and digital image-editing.

Table of Contents

Retouching Tutorials.

Chapter 1: Body contours.

Slim legs against plain background.

Reduce buttocks and create symmetry.

Change body size.

Reduce belly.

Achieve perfect leg contours.

Slimmer legs against detailed background.

Replace missing body parts.

Improve posture.

Body modulation.

Stretch legs.

Change body shape with light and shadow.

Style upper body.

Refine upper body contours.

Paint with light and emphasize contours.

Basic Overview: Workflow.

Chapter 2: Facial contours.

Change facial proportions.

Change head shape and create symmetry.

Reduce laugh lines.

Remove double chin.

Refine nose and chin contours.

Create witch nose.

Reduce nose.

Apply lens correction.

Basic Overview: Layers.

Chapter 3: Eyes.

Emphasize eyes with make-up effects.

Open blinkingeyes.

Adapt eye size and hooded eyelid.

Sharpen in case of shallow depth of field.

Neutralize and brighten whites of eyes.

Sharpen in case of motion blur.

Remove reflections for glasses.

Make eyes look clear.

Remove red eye.

Basic Overview: Paths.

Chapter 4: Mouth.

Apply Lip gloss.

Full lips.

Mouth correction.

Smile, please!

Correct teeth.

Emphasize lips.

Basic Overview: Blend modes.

Chapter 5: Skin.

Improve skin texture and skin tone.

Porcelain skin.

Correct color cast on skin

Brighten and smooth skin indentations.

Reduce skin glare.

Even skin tone.

Adapt tone and decolorize skin.

Tint skin.

Various blur effects using channels and filters.

Reduce overexposure.

Blur skin and increase contrast.

White skin.

Adapt skin contrast.

Rejuvenate man.

Basic Overview: Special layer techniques.

Chapter 6: Hair.

Isolate hair from uniform background.

Isolate model from structured background for composition.

Bring out hair texture.

Remove hair clips.

Color hair.

Remove three-day stubble.

Change hairstyle.

Basic Overview: Sharpening.

Chapter 7: Hands and feet.

Change foot contours.

Emphasize age.

Expressive hands.

Get fingernails into shape.

Beautiful hands in a few quick steps.

Basic Overview: Paths.

Online Workshops.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

"An essential read for anyone who is into retouching, with not too much text and plenty of screenshots to follow". (Digital Camera Essentials, June 2011)

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