Photo Retouching - - Guy Gowan

DigiCore · #1 01-05-2008, 01:52 PM

Does anybody have Guy Gowan's DVD on beauty retouching? Any thoughts?
Here is the link to the DVD,
http://www.etipsntricks.com/

DigiCore · #2 01-06-2008, 08:51 AM

Wow, 77 views and not one response to my thread. Doesn't anybody know of his work? He seems to be a big deal in Europe. A photographer I met through Model Mayhem says it's the best retouching DVD he has ever seen. Someone out there has to know of him.

zogdart · #3 01-06-2008, 11:34 AM

It's hard to tell. the page you posted is nothing special. His portrait is not so good,(look at his skin tone feet, face, arms). i don't see any exemple of his work. and i don't know him. so for me it's a big NO.

v.bampton · #4 01-06-2008, 03:05 PM

Yep, I've met him a few times over the last few years, been to a few of his seminars, and seen his cosmetic retouching and workflow dvd's. He's been employed by Adobe doing short seminars on the Adobe stand at big photographic shows like Focus on Imaging, and he's fairly well known in the UK. Depends on your existing knowledge as to how much you'll learn. I've incorporated a few of his cosmetic retouching techniques, or variations of them, into work I do on a daily basis. Didn't pick up much from the workflow dvd, but that doesn't mean you won't.

DJSoulglo · #5 01-07-2008, 03:57 AM

Guy Gowan is a very skilled and I like his way of retouching, where you basically do lots of stuff with Channels and calculations and less with selection tools. Sadly the website address you posted didn't work for me.

DigiCore · #6 01-07-2008, 06:15 AM

Yeah, that' the thing. I keep on hearing about how great this guy is but can't seem to find anything he has done. I googled him and came up with some different sites but they seem to be all just selling his DVD's, no work.

CaptainHook · #7 01-07-2008, 05:17 PM

Why not send him an email and ask to see some?
Or give him a call?

http://www.swpp.co.uk/members/Gowan5140.htm