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How to do Everything with Photoshop Elements | 
 enlarge | Author: Molly Joss
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Category: Book
List Price: $24.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1484147
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 333
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0072191848
Dewey Decimal Number: 778.3
UPC: 783254037410
EAN: 9780072191844
ASIN: 0072191848
Publication Date: September 13, 2001
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Product Description
This work shows how to use the product's state-of-the-art tools to retouch and manipulate images captured with digital cameras and scanners. The hand-on projects show you how - instead of feature-based discussions, author Molly Joss uses realistic projects and a 16-page colour insert to show consumers how to make the most of the power of Photoshop Elements. The book also offers the following valuable learning tools: learn to make a personal or business Web site more appealing; retouch, repair, enhance, and publish digital photos; create eye-catching motion with GIF animation tools - add custom 3D effects (like drop shadows, bevels, and glows) to text-optimize your images so they look their best in print or on the Web.
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 Could have been better December 23, 2004
Her writing reminds me of mom, but I didn't plunk in $24.00 to
read some cookbook style of conversational writing, and It's
suppose to be a photo editing book, then why the black and white
examples and a sorry lot at that, the few colored ones are about
texture examples, they're important, but not that important to
waste color on them, better to have used color on the real
examples. I wasted my money, save yours.
Learning Digital Imaging August 24, 2002
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book misses a lot of details and "How to"..
Many examples are difficult to complete and results are not easy to achieve..And does not answer the questions.
Not good for beginners in Photoshop Elements.
disappointing imaging March 26, 2002
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book the day I bought elements. I don't believe the author spent quality time on those issues which were important to me. I'm terribly confused on layers,filters etc. and her examples not only being in b&w were hard to discern, the examples didn't seem apporpriate. I thought I would learn how to maximize the use of an 8 by 11 piece of photo paper by bringing as many different images as I could to that one sheet, but nothing was written to help me. Confused and disappointed.
 Great book for the beginner January 27, 2002
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
As a magazine editor, I've worked with the author on a number of articles in graphic arts. She always presents information in a to-the-point, easy-to-read manner, and "How to do Everything with Photoshop Elements" is no exception.
There's a targeted audience here -- the consumer and the business user who's not a graphic artist -- and the book does an excellent job of teaching photo-editing basics using Photoshop Elements. Instead of the command-by-command approach of two-inch-thick guides, this book focuses on the most-common jobs of occasional users: simple color correction, sharpening, cropping, etc.
The book also deaks with some non-photo work, such as drawing and text effects. For the graphics pro, these are tasks better suited for a program such as Adobe Illustrator; however, for the general audience Joss aims for, the details show a great way to get the most power and value from Photoshop Elements.
This isn't a book for power users, but Photoshop Elements isn't a software for intense graphics work, either. "How to do Everything with Photoshop Elements" provides some friendly, non-technie instruction that provides basic skills.
So why three stars? The writing and instruction are easily four to four and one-half on the rating scale; however, the book could've used more color illustrations of commands and techniques. The book's layout and art quality (including the missing chapter-title art) shows some slap-dash work and inattention by the publishing company; Joss' clear writing and good instruction deserves better.
 A Helpful Resource January 9, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Design professionals may want something slicker, but for all the rest of us, this book is exactly the help we need. Clear, step-by-step directions and real-life examples.
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