Adobe Photoshop CS
The Art of Photographing Women

Shows you step by step how to use Photoshop to digitally refine beauty and fashion photos, from correcting color and smoothing skin to sculpting bodies and removing blemishes, and much more. This book is suitable for those shooting high fashion, portraits, lingerie, or swimsuits, in the studio or on location.

Make your photographs of women look better than their best. As every professional photographer knows, there is work to be done after the shoot wraps. Photographer and digital magician Kevin Ames takes you behind the scenes of his fashion work to reveal his thinking behind the camera as well as in front of the computer. Using full-color examples, he shows you step by step how to use Photoshop to digitally refine beauty and fashion photos, from correcting color and smoothing skin to sculpting bodies and removing blemishes, and much more. Whether you're shooting high fashion, portraits, lingerie, or swimsuits, in the studio or on location, "Photoshop CS: The Art of Photographing Women" is your secret assistant.

Foreword.Preface.Acknowledgments.About the Author.Part I: Workflow: From Capture to Digital Postproduction.Chapter 1: Bit Depth: The Key to Quality Files and Photographs.Chapter 2: Color Correction: Color by Numbers.Chapter 3: Illuminating Light: How Light Works in Photography.Chapter 4: Archiving: Creating Bulletproof Digital Negatives.Chapter 5: Proofing and Reviewing Digital Photography.Chapter 6: Non-Destructive Photoshop: "The Way of the Fast Retreat".Part II: Projects: Behind the Camera and In Front of the Computer.Chapter 7: Barbie: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime.Chapter 8: Pinups: Modern Girls in a Digital World.Chapter 9: From Many, One: A Digital Portrait.Chapter 10: Retouching Beauty.Chapter 11: Sixteen Million Shades of Gray.Chapter 12: Lingerie: A Day Being a Girl.Chapter 13: Indoors, Outdoors.Chapter 14: On the Beach: Swimwear.Appendix A: Resources.Appendix B: Photoshop CS Shortcuts and Tools.Index.File Download Information.