Digital retouching Book Reviews

If you're a novice who's just stepping into the world of digital editing then Mike Wooldridge's next instalment of Simply Photoshop Elements should be picked up along the way. It continues with the no complicated jargon approach seen in the last book and the tutorials are still short, straight to the point and easy to follow. This book isn't for someone who knows their way around Elements but if you enjoyed the last book and are looking to learn more ways on how you can use Elements to creat...

If you're a novice who's just stepping into the world of digital editing then this book is for you. The writer doesn't presume the reader will have any prior knowledge on using digital editing software and really does start right from the beginning. The tutorials are short and for the most part easy to follow. However, some of the diagrams are a little small which can make them hard to read and you don't get to see a final image with the effect the tutorial's creating applied which is a sha...

This book, written by an expert in RAW photography, covers all aspects of shooting in RAW and processing the files to ensure you get the very best out of your camera. It takes you through a journey of image capture first explaining the difference between Jpeg and RAW through into colour theory, calibration, colour space and profiling techniques. Then it explains how to calibrate your camera and set up a workflow. Then follows chapters on various RAW converters, from the likes of Adobe, Phase ...

It does what it says on the tin so to speak, but so have many books that came before it. A standard guide that's been written so many times already means this would have to be different to make it worth publishing sadly there's nothing new. It does the job competently but I prefer the Michael Freeman's Complete Guide.

Book 4 in the Ilex step by step series and the weakest of the set. The book offers a series of fixes for digital images, using pictures that are not that visually exciting. You can get most of the info covered here in each of the other three books but buying one of those will give you a great deal more on your chosen subject. Alternatively check out any of the Photoshop tutorial books that are reviewed here and are much better. Overall visually well designed but dull from an illustration point ...

The design of this "Digital Photographer's Handbook" series is brilliant and really makes you want to pick up and read the content at every occasion. This one is about restoration and guides you through many techniques to improve faded, damaged and badly shot pictures. Tim writes with an authoritative but friendly style making it really easy to grasp. Well worth a look.

A compact sized book and low cost make it a handy reference guide for beginners. The information enclosed in the 196 page paperback is based around Photoshop Elements. The pictures are generally snapshot quality so the illustrations don't exactly get you enthused to create masterpieces, but it will be a good starting book for someone who's just got a digital camera with a free bundled Photoshop Elements CD.

: Heres one of those books that makes you realise theres always more to Photoshop than you think. Based around the popular area of retouching photographs, the author, an Alpha tester for Photoshop and well-respected US lecturer, takes you way beyond the basics of using a selection tool and clone tool. You will learn how to make advanced corrections using alpha channels, masks and adjustment layers. Its the most in-depth and knowledgeable book Ive seen on the subject, yet its still easy to follow...

The second in a small series of books for digital photographers written by Joe Farace who has 20 books under his belt and has written around 900 articles. We didn not like the first book in the series and unfortunately this has many of the same traits - lack of variety of pictures, limited information and occasionally out of date. This has more useful captions with pictures that illustrate the point and some good advice on making a test file but sadly without an illustration, there is also a goo...