The Unofficial Guide to Photoshop Elements 4, Wiley Publishing, 2006
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The inside scoop...for when you want more than the official line! Photoshop Elements has the power to transform your digital images, but to use it with confidence you'll need to know its quirks and shortcuts. Find out what the manual doesn't always tell you in this insider's guide to using Elements in the real world.
"In my collection of more than 30 PS books this is one of the best and Donna Baker joins for me the level of the great 'gurus' in Photoshop. Well done; beginners and intermediate users run to buy it!!!" (read the review)
There are no practice or project files available for this book.
Highlights
There's no end to the kinds of work you can do with your images in Photoshop Elements 4.
In the book you'll learn about:
Time-saving techniques and practical guidance to repair flaws and problems in images, such as removing stray telephone lines in the left image, or brightening the view as in the right image.
Adding text and customizing its appearance to help tell your image's story.
Using multiple layers to apply effects and objects available in Photoshop Elements
Turning any image or part of an image into a brush or a stamp you can apply in different ways. Save and reuse the custom brush or stamp as you never know when you'll need a tiled eyeball!
Setting up photo albums or slideshows with effects, using RAW images, or composing a panorama from a number of images like the scene below.
Tips and hacks for applying multiple transformations or even changing the geometry of an image by using lighting, as in the left image, or making a 3D shape from a flat image as in the right example.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I First You Find Some Images
1 All Together Now
2 Your Digital Shoebox: The Organizer
3 Tidying Up Your Files
Part II Image Editing
4 Seeing What You Have
5 Shaping Up Your Images
6 Color Inside the Lines
7 Hands-Off Image Correcting
8 All in the Details
9 In Living Color
Part III Pick What You Want to Work With
10 Choosing Parts
11 It's Like a Layer Cake
12 Fun with Layers
Part IV Not-So-Basic Image Editing
13 Manually Correcting Images
14 Retouching Magic
Part V From an Image to a Work of Art
15 Getting to Know Filters
16 Finessing with Filters
17 Say It with Words and a Picture
18 Are Your the Next Picasso?
Part VI Now That the Images Look Great....
19 I'll Take a Dozen Copies
20 Creating Fun Stuff Chapter
21 On With the Show
22 Managing Image Distribution
23 Cooking with Raw Images
Glossary
Appendix A: Resource Guide
Appendix B: Useful Real-World Worksheets
Fan Mail!
Here's a recent review of the book on Amazon. The review is courtesy of Pierre Willemsens, written May 24, 2006.
Cheap,practical,all
you need to develop your skills! ,
If you never used Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 before,
this book is THE reference to get on the program
in a couple of hours.
Donna Baker's writing style is very clear;all the technical terms are explained for the novice & intermediate user, the book is full of time saving techniques-hacks-bright ideas-inside scoops and watch out graphic icons,the expert sits next to you on the table!
In 761 pages, you'll learn it all from chapter 1 First you find some images(page 1-88)then image editing 101(page 89-238);pick what you work with(page 239-358)all about selecting & layers;not so basic image editing (page 359-421)manually correcting images & retouching magic;from an image to work art (page 423-574),filters,text,brushes & patterns;now that the images look great(page 575-710)printing,creations,slide shows ,panoramic images,managing image distribution,cooking with raw images.
The fact that all the photos & pictures in the book are in black & white isn't an handicap and explains the cheap price of the book.
In my collection of more than 30 PS books this is one of the best and Donna Baker joins for me the level of the great 'gurus' in Photoshop.Well done;beginners and intermediate users run to buy it!!!
Errata
No errata have been filed for this book. If you find an error, please email the details to donna baker.