Photoshop Elements 8 All-in-One For Dummies

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Photoshop Elements 8 All-in-One For Dummies Details

From the Back Cover Here's how to do it all with Elements — more versatile than you ever imagined Whether you're new to Photoshop Elements, want to take your skills up a notch, or want to quickly take advantage of the new features and enhancements in Photoshop Elements 8, you've come to the right place. Nine easy-to-follow minibooks cover everything you need to know about organizing, editing, sharing, and creating projects with your photos. The groundwork — Books I and II cover setting up your work environment, using tools and shortcuts, and managing your files Make them pretty — learn to work with resolution, manage color, use appropriate file formats, and handle selections in Books III and IV Take it up a notch — in Books V, VI, and VII, learn to use the Brush and Pencil tools, work with layers, and create artistic effects Fix the flaws — Book VIII helps you erase imperfections, fine-tune color, and more Be creative — with slide shows, calendars, greeting cards, flip books, and other projects in Book IX Open the book and find: Help in setting up the Elements work environment Steps for acquiring, saving, and exporting images How to correct contrast, color, and clarity Tips for making and transforming selections Advice on creating layers and working with masks Cool things to do with type Creative applications for filters, effects, styles, and distortions ? Instructions for retouching and enhancing images Read more About the Author Barbara Obermeier is the principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in California specializing in print and Web design. She is currently a Graphic Design faculty member at Brooks Institute. Ted Padova is an internationally recognized authority on Adobe® Acrobat®, PDF, and digital imaging. Read more

Reviews

This is the only book I have read on the subject so don't have much to compare it to. That being said it is a really hard book to read and the layout of books and chapters is very annoying. It is constantly mentioning a new subject an then says "refer to book 2 chapter 3 for more on this". There is a lot of useful information in this book, but not very many examples of how to do things step by step. There are about 7 little projects that it has you do step by step with the book that I found very useful but think there should be more of these.I found myself having to reread pages multiple times to comprehend what they are talking about. It is a pretty difficult subject when you are new to photoshop so I'm not sure how other books compare to this one, however this book will put you to sleep!!!Almost forgot, the most annoying thing about this book is it refers to how to do things on PC and on Mac, so every time you are told to hold the CTRL key on PC it is followed by hold the COMMAND key on MAC, doesn't sound too annoying but I promise you it is after 600 pages of getting instructions on 2 different computers. Would have been much better if they just wrote a separate book for each. I would not buy this book for that reason alone. All of this being said I have not read any other books on the subject so they may all do this but I would look for a book that has more step by step project examples in it.

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