Photoshop How-to: Oo la la! Retouch Photos Like the French
Marie Laure Clec’h
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In its ads, Yves Rocher demands high-quality imagery that combines esthetics with instantly readable text. In this story, photo retoucher Cyril Bruneau describes how the photographer arranged and shot a still-life of semi-transparent and opaque containers, and how Cyril himself then retouched the image so it would meet Yves Rocher’s exacting standards.
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Excerpted from “Photo Retouching with Photoshop” by Marie Laure Clec’h. Copyright © 2004 O’Reilly. All rights reserved. Reproduced here by permission of the publisher.
This article was last modified on January 3, 2023
This article was first published on March 16, 2005
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