Photograph Restoration and Enhancement (Edition 3‪)‬

Updated in this third edition for Photoshop CC 2021, this full-color book provides users of Photoshop: CC with comprehensive hands-on learning projects using a building block teaching style. Whether you are new to Photoshop or an experienced user, this book is packed with inventive, easy to apply photograph restoration and tonal correction techniques. Learn to repair all types of photograph damage, various ways to improve discolored photographs, colorize black and white photographs, multiple ways to digitize photographs too large to scan, and how to add and remove content from your photographs so that every photograph will be “the perfect shot.” With many new tips, notes, figures, and projects to guide you from start to finish, learn to create professional restorations and enhancements you will be proud to call your own.


Features:


Updated for Photoshop CC 2021
Includes seven demonstration videos on how to perform key restoration and enhancement techniques
Features hands on projects provided with each chapter specifically tailored to reinforce the tools and techniques introduced in the chapter
With enhanced full-color figures and more trade secrets, this new edition makes learning photograph restoration and enhancement easier yet more comprehensive than ever.



Companion Files (included with this text and also available for downloading by writing to the publisher at info@merclearning.com):

Photographs to complete all projects covered in the text
Extra Try It Yourself Projects for each chapter
Copies of all figures used in the text
7 Demonstration videos



Part One: Preparing Your Photographs for Restoration and Enhancement

1: Readying an Image for Adobe Photoshop

2: An Introduction to Working in Photoshop

3: Selection

4: Working in Layers

5: Transformation Essentials

6: Painting and Printing

Part Two: Restoring and Enhancing Your Photographs

7: Repairing Tears, Folds, and Holes

8: Repairing Minor Surface Flaws

9: Correcting Lighting, Contrast, and Discoloration

10: Enhancing Photographs by Adding, Deleting, Replacing, and Blurring Content

11: Tricks and Trade Secrets

12: Conquering Special Challenges

13: Putting It All Together: Applying Your Skills to Complex Restoration and Enhancement Projects

Index