Make "Real" B&W Images in PhotoShop, Restoring & Retouching Book, and a How-To for Web Graphics Video

The folks over at Digital Outback Photo have just posted an article called "REALISTIC, FILM-LIKE B&W IN PHOTOSHOP" that tells you how to convert your color images into the equivalent of pictures shot on real B&W film. The author of the article has also made the necessary channel mixer files available for download.

QUE Publishing is releasing "Photoshop Restoration & Retouching," by Katrin Eismann. The 276-page book deals with exposure and color correction, dust and mold removal, damage repair, and portrait retouching. A supplemental website for the book is available at www.digitalretouch.org, where readers can download images used in the book for practice.

Total Training Inc., Encinitas, Calif., USA, released a new training series Creating Web Graphics with Adobe Photoshop 6. The supplement to the series Total Training for Photoshop 6 provides information specific to creating images for Intranet and Internet sites. Photoshop expert Deke McClelland collaborated on the project. The series is available in NTSC, PAL and DVD (available soon) video formats, and an accompanying CD-ROM contains all the graphic files used by the instructor in each lesson. It supports both Windows and Mac.