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It also dives into enhancing or even replacing hair color fixing gaps fixing part lines & roots and more. I now realize I didn’t know Jack, as this chapter goes WAY beyond the obvious healing brush and stamp hair removal techniques found in other books.

Chapter 4 – Hair – Now when I first saw this chapter title I thought – I know what I’m doing with hair, so I wondered if I needed to read it.

This is fun stuff, and for those who haven’t seen these techniques before you’ll be shouting “oh wow” as you follow along and see what you can do. He also shows the lesser known trick (to those who don’t come from the film days) of dodging and burning to make a great face look like pure perfection.

Chapter 3 – Face to Face – Here’s where Scott goes wild showing the cool things you can do with the liquify tool.

Where these techniques will come in most handy are photos of family members and ordinary people who you want to make them look their best without making them look unreal.

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What I really like about this chapter is that Scott teaches some great techniques that don’t require you to purchase any third party products and he shows how to apply his recommendations in a subtle way (especially for men) that keeps your subjects from looking like plastic corpses.

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Chapter 2 – Under My Skin – After you have your subjects eyes looking glamorous, the next step to portrait perfection is to retouch the skin.

Some important and fresh concepts covered in this chapter include reducing dark circles, enhancing eyelashes (very cool), creating amazing eyebrows, and adding a little sparkle to the eyes.

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In this chapter, Scott gives you a ton of fantastic techniques to make the eyes look their best so that your photos will have that top notch pro photographer look.

If you only did the techniques described in this chapter and used the healing brush on obvious skin flaws (i.e., acne) you’d probably have a great photo by most people’s standards. A shot with great eyes is mesmerizing but one with poorly lit and dull eyes is easily ignored.

Chapter 1 – Naked Eyes – The eyes are said to be the doorway to the soul, so when we look at a photo of a person our eyes are drawn to the subjects eyes.

You only need to flip through this book at your local bookstore to know it’s worth every penny of the cover price, but here’s my 2 cents on the chapters of this book: This article has more info about that process as well as a video of me using the liquify tool on this photo. I also used the used the liquify adjustments discussed in this book on the photo above. In my mind this shot takes my work to a new level and it’s all thanks to Kelby Media Group related education I’ve received in 2011. You can scan my portfolio at and compare the results of this photo to others in my collection. The photo above was made entirely using a lighting setup suggested by Scott Kelby, followed by video tutorials on Kelby Training by Scott Kelby and Frank Doorhof and finally the processing techniques featured in this book along with Imagenomic Portraiture (for speed). Proof That It Worksĭo the techniques in this book help? Oh heck yeah! For some, just the eyelash brushes included with the book might be justification enough for the reasonable purchase price of this book.

Even if you are like me and you think you have a solid portrait retouching workflow, I’m confident that you will still pick up lots of new tricks in this book. If you are a photographer who does portrait retouching then you need this book – period. I am very pleased to say that Scott Kelby, once again, has hit a home run with this book. In fact, I recently attended the Scott Kelby's Photoshop for Digital Photographers Kelby Training Seminar taught by Matt Kloskowski in Seattle and learned a lot, but I wished the hand out materials had more visual step by step instructions, so this book was exactly what I was looking for. This book covers the highly popular topic of portrait retouching at the depth in which resources do, and way better than any of his other books.

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I was pretty surprised a few weeks ago when I noticed that Scott was releasing a new book called Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers using Photoshop. What’s more is that his books are filled with color images and they just get to the point, so they really are the best resources possible for getting started with Photoshop and Digital Photography. Nobody does a better job of taking complex subjects and breaking it down into easy to understand steps that anyone can follow. You only need to look at my Which Books Should I Read? article (for Digital Photography) and What Photoshop Books Should I Read? articles to see that I’m a huge fan of Scott Kelby books.