Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshop Elements (with CD)

What is more there is an ocean of possibility when it comes to digital image manipulation and Adobe's Photoshop Elements has become an essential tool for photographers.

This full color book provides an approachable introduction to Photoshop Elements, offering tips and insights into the vital aspects of photo manipulation. Illustrated throughout with full color images, the book will offer the clearest possible route to achieving great images with Photoshop Elements.

Practical examples are shown throughout, enabling you to achieve impressive results from the outset. Whether it's just a quick retouch or a 180-degree panorama you're looking to build, Digital Photography with Photoshop Elements equips you with the required knowledge and invaluable advice from two of the most respected Photoshop designers in the business.

The CD accompanying the book contains a full 30-day trial version of the Photoshop Elements software, plus the original artwork source files from the authors. With this complete package, you can work through the examples or branch out with your own Photoshop ideas!

The book is very well organized and extremely well illustrated, which makes following the procedures very clear and easy to follow.

I consider this book a must for anyone who feels intimidated by Photoshop Elements.


The very best book currently available for learning PSE   June 21, 2002
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I carefully looked through 7 books on Photoshop Elements (PSE) and bought two. I read one pretty thoroughly but found it did not give me a good handle on the tools and techniques in PSE. The other book did not really teach the program but showed ways to handle specific problems. Then I came across this book and bought it. What a pleasure. The book is lucid and well organized. Generally, the teaching approach is to take a small project and show you step by step how various tools and techniques are used. The book is full color and the authors show you in color exactly what happens each time a tool or technique is applied. Many other books on the market do not have full color nor do they show all that is being done; they rely instead on descriptive prose. The subject here concerns visual material and to learn it we need to see what happens when we apply a tool or technique. A valuable bonus is the free technical support web site that you can use to ask questions via e-mail for clarifying difficulties. I found their answers to my questions to be clear and thorough. In my opinion, it is by far the very best book currently available for learning PSE. You will not go wrong with this book.