Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 Photographers Guide

Which effects are best achieved with a film or digital camera? Which effects are best applied in an image editor? "Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0: Photographers' Guide" answers these questions and more! It cuts right to the heart of the most misunderstood-but easily applied-tools in Photoshop Elements 3.0, examining each from a photographer's perspective. This unique guide is filled with surprisingly effective examples, simple to follow techniques, and tricks that serve as a jumping-off point to spark your own creativity into action. You don't need to be an ace photographer or image editing expert. This straight-forward book contains everything you need to use Photoshop Elements 3.0 to enhance your images with the kinds of effects you admire.

Which effects are best achieved with a film or digital camera? Which effects are best applied in an image editor? "Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0: Photographers? Guide" answers these questions and more! It cuts right to the heart of the most misunderstood?but easily applied?tools in Photoshop Elements 3.0, examining each from a photographer?s perspective. This unique guide is filled with surprisingly effective examples, simple to follow techniques, and tricks that serve as a jumping-off point to spark your own creativity into action. You don?t need to be an ace photographer or image editing expert. This straight-forward book contains everything you need to use Photoshop Elements 3.0 to enhance your images with the kinds of effects you admire.

On December 30, 2006, David D. Busch had an unprecedented 11 different books ranked in the Top 100 of Amazon.com's Digital Photography Best Seller list. These included four books in the Top 12 (#7: Mastering Digital SLR Photography; #8: Nikon D200 Digital Field Guide; #9: Digital SLR Cameras and Photography for Dummies; #12 Nikon D50 Digital Field Guide.) He had five more books ranked in the Top 50, and two ranked between 50-100. When Michael Carr of About.com named the top five digital photography books for beginners, the #1 and #2 choices were his Course Technology book Mastering Digital Photography, and Digital Photography All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies. Busch has combined writing and photography his entire career. A former newspaper photographer, he was invited to move to Rochester, N.Y. to work on the Eastman Kodak Company account, writing several thousand articles for leading photography magazines such as The Rangefinder, The Professional Photographer, and Petersen's PhotoGraphic. He also operated his own commercial studio and photo lab and was a sports photographer/sports information director for a Rochester college. Four years later, he became a traveling photojournalist, visiting 48 of the 50 states and several foreign countries in a 20-year span, writing articles illustrated with his photographs. For the past 15 years Busch has concentrated on books and magazine articles (for publications like Popular PhotographyandImaging), with a special emphasis on imaging topics. He has reviewed digital cameras for CNet Networks and Computer Shopper, in 1990 wrote one of the first books on scanners and in 1995 authored one of the earliest books on digital photography (Digital Photography, MIS Press, 1995.) Two of the 98 books Busch has written since 1983 earned "Best Book" honors at the Computer Press Awards.

1. Photoshop Elements and Photography from 50,000 Feet 2. Camera and Lens Effects in Photoshop Elements 3. Digital Darkroom Dexterity 4. Secrets of Retouching 5. Combining Images with Compositing 6. Correcting Your Colors 7. Beyond Black and White 8. Stalking the Wild Filter with Lens and Computer 9. Printing Your Images