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Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows One-on-One | 
 enlarge | Authors: Deke Mcclelland, Galen Fott
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Pages: 415
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Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 7.9 x 1
ISBN: 0596008449
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780596008444
ASIN: 0596008449
Publication Date: April 20, 2005
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"Deke really is a master at taking an application as powerful as Elements 3, and not only making it easy and understandable, he makes learning it an awful lot of fun. Regardless of your level of expertise in Elements, this book needs to be on your shelf!" ---Scott Kelby Executive Editor, Photoshop Elements Techniques Newsletter
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 A fine reality-based program which offers the next best thing to a personal trainer September 5, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Deke McClelland and Galen Fott's Photoshop Elements 3 For Windows One-on-One bundles a 2-hour 'total training' video hosted by author McClelland with a fine reality-based program which offers the next best thing to a personal trainer. Learn how to organize and categorize photos, how to make corrections and edt, and how to solve common color problems using Quick Fix. Want more? Use Photoshop Elements 3 For Windows One-on-One as a classroom text, too: each lesson ends with a test quiz.
 A Real Learning Experience June 3, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Here is a book that can really help you use Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0. The author uses his experience as Photoshop teacher to offer a comprehensive learning tool in the form of a book and a CD. The book contains all color pictures, illustrations, and screen shots with step by step instructions with which one can easily follow along. The CD not only contains the pictures from the book but instructional quick time movies for each chapter which really add to the learning experience.
Sprinkled throughout the book are "Pearls of Wisdom" paragraphs or pages with important facts and tips about the program. And for those who can't be bothered with menus, each chapter lists the lots of speed keys. To insure one has completely grasped a topic, there is a multiple choice quiz after each chapter. You will learn something by reading this book!
Excellent introduction to Elements May 26, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'd give this book 5 stars even if it didn't have the fantastic video lessons on the included CD. I knew nothing about digital photography or image editing before buying this book, and now my pictures look great. Thanks, Deke! I strongly recommend this book.
seems mostly about image editing April 28, 2005
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
McClelland presents a set of 12 tutorials in the form of this book. It may appeal to you if you are the type who gets fidgety and impatient by just reading a book. Most of us can learn a subject better by doing some problems or tasks in it. Some can only learn in this fashion.
Hence the book and its enclosed CD could be handy. Perhaps aided by the CD containing not just the usual data files used in the tutorials, but also a 2 hour video of the author. Most other technical books with CDs don't go to this extent of providing a video.
The tutorials themselves delve rather deeply into many aspects of Elements. Like the way it handles both raster and vector objects, where the latter is often text. So you get true proportional scaling of text.
Elements, as you might know, is a stripped down version of Photoshop, in terms of its image editing abilities. Its forte is cataloging and publishing that catalog on the web. But in going through this book, it seems mostly about the image editing. The most difficult lessons seem to be here. Which may not be a bad thing. Even if your primay goal is to put up photos on your website, being able to enhance them is a good skill to master.
wordy, but great book to learn from April 26, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I've never even heard of Photoshop Elements before this book. I downloaded the trial version, and gave it a whirl. Like many others, I have oodles of unused pictures that have been sitting on my computer for quite some time. As I was going through the book, I managed to learn how to do so many things with those pictures that I now print them out for display. I can't believe it: me, literally a beginner, doing things that I would never imagine, thanks to this book. Although the book was quite wordy, it has plenty of illustrations and screenshots to keep me on track.
A quick recap of what I think of Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows One-on-One
Pros:
Easy to follow
Shows many tricks that I would have never imagined
Plenty of illustrations, screenshots, and before/after photos
Training video of CD
Shows how to use the Organizer, a great plus
Cons:
Alot of reading
Training video uses Quicktime, (but I'm just being picky)
Overall: I definitely would recommend this book
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