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Find out how to get more fun from your photosEdit and enhance your pictures, fix flaws, create greeting cards or photo books, and more
Photoshop Elements is a full-featured, powerful image-editing program, and this colorful guide helps you make the most of all its coolest features. You'll quickly get familiar with the work area; be able to find, organize, and manage your images; correct common mistakes; and explore fun ways to share your photos.
Discover how to:
Acquire images from your camera or scanner
Organize and find photos fast
Crop and straighten pictures
Create sharp and colorful images for printing
Correct color, contrast, and clarity
Combine multiple images into creative collages
Synopsis:
Find out how to get more fun from your photos
Edit and enhance your pictures, fix flaws, create greeting cards or photo books, and more
Photoshop Elements is a full-featured, powerful image-editing program, and this colorful guide helps you make the most of all its coolest features. You'll quickly get familiar with the work area; be able to find, organize, and manage your images; correct common mistakes; and explore fun ways to share your photos.
Discover how to:
Acquire images from your camera or scanner
Organize and find photos fast
Crop and straighten pictures
Create sharp and colorful images for printing
Correct color, contrast, and clarity
Combine multiple images into creative collages
About the Author
Barbara Obermeier:Barbara Obermeier is the principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. She is the author of
Photoshop CS3 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies(Wiley) and has contributed as author or coauthor on numerous books on Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, and PowerPoint. She is currently a faculty member in the Graphic Design Department at Brooks Institute.
Ted Padova:In addition to writing several books on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, Ted is the world’s leading author of books on Adobe Acrobat. He is also a co-author of Adobe Acrobat 8 PDF Bible, Adobe Creative Suite Bible, Color Correction For Digital Photographers Only, and Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies(all from Wiley). Ted spends most of his time writing and speaking at conferences and expos nationally and internationally.
Table of Contents
Introduction.
Part I: Getting Started.
Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Work Area.
Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Edit.
Chapter 3: Working with Resolutions, Color Modes, and File Formats.
Part II: Getting Organized.
Chapter 4: Getting Your Images.
Chapter 5: Viewing and Finding Your Images.
Chapter 6: Organizing and Managing Your Photos.
Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos.
Chapter 7: Making and Modifying Selections.
Chapter 8: Working with Layers.
Chapter 9: Simple Image Makeovers.
Chapter 10: Correcting Contrast, Color, and Clarity.
Part IV: Exploring Your Inner Artist.
Chapter 11: Playing with Filters, Effects, Styles, and More.
Chapter 12: Drawing and Painting.
Chapter 13: Working with Type.
Part V: Printing, Creating, and Sharing.
Chapter 14: Getting It on Paper.
Chapter 15: Showing It Onscreen.
Chapter 16: Making Creations and Sharing.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Composing Better Photos.
Chapter 18: Ten More Project Ideas.
Index.
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