Photoshop: Photo Restoration in Detail with Adobe Photoshop cc (Photo Recovery, Repairing Old Photos, black and white photos, photoshop cc, photoshop cc 2015 Book 1)

If you are relatively new to PhotoShop and are looking for a quick, relatively easy intro to B&W photo restoration, this isn't a bad little book. I wanted to love it, but I can't.Pros: Deals with the basic tools and walks you through the process of using them to fix some problems. Easy to refer to the examples and apply to your scans. Short and easy to use. Inexpensive.Cons: The printing is on uncoated paper so the example photos aren't always clear. The writing is sub par. No editing was done. The instructions were a little muddled in a couple of the examples. Doesn't address facial restoration if there is a lot of damage. One of his examples shows a family photo, with a big area of damage and he completely ignores how to repair that. Instead he focuses on blurring the background. It cries for information about how he repaired the faces and clothing of the damaged people, but he says not a word except that it will require a lot of work. (See photo of page from book.)As a quick intro to see if you want to take on the task of repairing family heirlooms, this is a decent place to start. You won't be overwhelmed by all of the tools and choices PhotoShop provides. It's a painless beginning.I recommend: Photo Restoration—From Snapshots to Great Shots by Robert Correll as the next step to increasing your skills.Well written (even funny in places), easy to follow, addresses color as well as B&W. Yet not intimidating or overwhelming if you follow along the steps and examples of what he did to repair & improve the photos.The Bible of photo restoration is: CTEIN's Digital Restoration From Start to Finish. Though it's getting a bit dated. It's an excellent advanced book.

I have a lot of photos to restore and The this book is really helping.

What I disliked all the pages are in black and white, paper quality is poor and cheap, the overall instructions are barely Adequate, and print quality contributes to a poor rating. I DO NOT recommend the book

I wouldn't describe it as a book. More like black and white copies that you couldget as a handout

Type readability accompanying illustrations!That said the book has useful elements!

Detailed tutorials that are easy to follow. well satisfied with it.

This was a bit disappointing. As an "In detail" book, it is indeed a little more detailed than some other books, but it is a bit of a mixture of basic information and tricks that might work sometimes but that aren't reliable. The advice for removing dust and scratches is just the standard basic advice to use the Spot Healing Tool, but provides little advice of what to do when it doesn't work. Hint: It's a tool, not a magic wand and often leaves artefacts worse than the dust or scratch. There are probably several opportunities for improvement for Adobe for the next version of Photoshop. The example using the clone stamp to restore frames omitted the difficult bit of what to at the corners. The chatty style works well for a chapter or two, but becomes irritating. It is possible that the text is a draft for a video or for a live classroom.

very satisfact

good info