Photoshop: Retouching & Restoration Essentials

Explore some of the essential skills and techniques for retouching images and restoring damaged photographs. Topics include correcting extreme exposure errors; fixing blown-out skies; object removal; repair and restoration of antique images, including fixing cracks, torn areas, and missing portions; and portrait retouching, including reducing wrinkles, removing blemishes, and enhancing eyes and lips.

Sean Duggan is a photographer, digital artist, and educator with extensive digital imaging experience grounded in a traditional fine art photographic background. He is the co-author of The Creative Digital Darkroom (O'Reilly Media, 2008), Photoshop Artistry (New Riders, 2006), and Real World Digital Photography (Peach Pit, 2004). An Adobe Certified Photoshop expert, his Photoshop for Photographers tutorial column can be seen regularly in Layers magazine. In addition to teaching online Photoshop for Photographers classes at San Francisco's Academy of Art University, Duggan also leads workshops at venues across the country. His web site is www.seanduggan.com.