Repair Images in Photoshop

This excerpt is from Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: The Ultimate Workshop. Used by permission of Focal Press. Copyright © 2009. Part of the Creative Edge Photoshop Resources Page.
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In this book excerpt, two experts share their favorite retouching techniques, some of which have never before been demonstrated or published. Some of these techniques are quite involved, while others are quite simple.
Here are some of the techniques you’ll learn:
– Healing brush strategies
– Adding lens ?are
– Simulating ?lm grain
– Removing foreground objects
– Layer blending to remove tourists
– Merging objects with displace distortion
– Creating a spotlight effect
– Adding lightness and contrast to the eyes
– Repair work using a copied selection
– Removing stray hairs
– Tidying hair against a busy backdrop
– Coloring hair roots
– Beauty skin retouching
– Retouching portraits
– Removing re?ections from glasses
– Vanishing Point correction
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