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Photoshop Elements 4.0 Maximum Performance: Professional Image Editing for Photographers | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Galer
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 280581
Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/DVD
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0240520122
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780240520124
ASIN: 0240520122
Publication Date: January 31, 2006
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Product Description
You will learn how to create professional quality digital images with Photoshop Elements 4.0 without the need to upgrade to Photoshop with this unique guide from best-selling author Mark Galer. This complete package of book and DVD walks you through Elements' powerful and less well-known post-production editing techniques showing you how to get maximum results from this low-price program.
A series of creative projects, packed with tips and tricks and illustrated with large, full-color screengrabs, guide you through a wide range of advanced techniques for professional quality editing.
Including coverage of new Elements 4.0 features, the straighten tool and the auto extraction tool, all the main features of Elements are covered - camera RAW, 16 bit editing, Healing Brush, Shadows/ Highlights, Reduce Noise and much more.
The projects are supported by a DVD containing 4 hours of QuickTime movie tutorials, over 200 high-resolution images as well as loadable presets. Completed multi-layered project files are also available on the DVD so that you can compare and analyse these projects against your own.
All the content is suitable for Mac users. Visit the book's webpage on www.focalpress.com for information on how to adapt keyboard modifier keys when using the keyboard shortcuts.
Other Photoshop Elements 4.0 titles published by Focal include Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0: a visual introduction to the program for those starting out in digital imaging; Advanced Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Digital Photographers: an advanced book aimed at photographers; Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 A-Z: an alphabetical listing of the main features of Elements, with shortcut keys and techniques.
* Gain the same professional results with Elements 4.0 as if using full-version Photoshop with fantastic lesser-known techniques and workarounds
* Create superior advanced effects by following jargon-free, step-by-step tutorials with full color screengrabs
* DVD packed with movie tutorials, royalty free high-resolution images, multi-layered project files and loadable presets will boost your learning
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Photoshop Elements really made easy January 14, 2007
This outstanding book provides many step by step instructions for editing photos with photoshop elements. Along with common instructions such as croping as straightening photos it includes blurring backgrounds and the use of masks for special effects.
Everything is made simple. Have a problem recreating the effects in the book? Simply view one of the included movies and watch the author perform the functions step by step. This included movie feature is GREAT!
Watch to movie and you should be able to find a step that you omitted when using the book. Useful content, well written, included DVD for chapter movies. The complete book for anyone wishing to enhance their photos.
Photoshop Elements 4.0, Maximum Performance January 13, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Of all the tutorial manuals I have on Photoshop Elements I think this one is the best. While not exactly at a beginner level, it can still be of value to a novice. The great thing is that it pretty much avoids the 'first face the stove' approach that most all books of this nature feel required to do. The lessons on color correction and turning a color photo into black and white are particularly great!
Takes Elements to an advaced level August 7, 2006
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
This text is written for photographers that want to make their images look there very best. Unlike introductory texts, Mr. Galer's book goes into the very soul of Photoshop Elements (PSE) to find hidden features that give pictures a WOW factor. Here are a few examples. In introductory text, the student is introduced to the unsharp mask filter and given some suggested settings. In Galer's text, the student is introduced to some unique masking techniques created with the high pass, and threshold filters to locate edges. He then combines that technique with paint masks and the magic erasure tool to isolate just those areas that will benefit from edge crispness. The results are stunning. Galer also has a technique for making high dynamic range (HDR) photos using some add-on layer styles that are available in the companion DVD.
A number of introductory texts concentrate on color correction and marginalize the importance of luminosity and tone. In Galer's text, there are a number of advanced techniques on levels, contrast and preserving shadow that are used to allow photos to look their best.
Speaking of the DVD, it not only contains all the images used in the lessons but many additional background photos of sky and sea and other landscapes that the user may access to enhance their own projects. Unlike many introductory books on PSE the photos are of high quality (lots of pixels) and all the lessons on the DVD are also included in the text. The lessons are quite good and Galer's English accent lends credibility and authority to his narrative.
What you won't find in the book is any serious mention of the Organizer, quick fix or photo creations (with the exception of a lesson on panoramas). In summary, this is an important book on the advanced features available in PSE that every serious student should own.
Truly Maximum Performance July 26, 2006
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I have completed several Photoshop course books and found all of them to be very good and useful. So I had a reasonable knowledge base when I discovered this book. I found that in this book, the author has covered the most useful Photoshop examples yet. The text and video projects complement each other perfectly and are seamless. Not only does the author explain every step of the project, but he also does the most important thing: he tells you why he is doing it. This book has propelled my knowledge of Photoshop Elements 4.0 to a very high competent professional level. I cannot express my absolute delight with my new skills.
Photoshop Elements 4.0 Maximum Performance July 9, 2006
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
One of the best books out in the market about using Photoshop Elements 4.0 (PSE4) to edit pictures. Comes with a DVD containing pictures to practice on, and some movies to watch while the author explains a specific technique. There are some techniques included in this book that I've not seen included in any other book. Examples are clear and concise, and with accompanying pictures at each stage. Stress is on using techniques to work on pictures that will not harm the pictures or the pixels themselves. These techniques include learning all about gradients and making some for yourself that increase contrast, or using adjustment layers, and making masks to affect the contrast, learning how to get the most efficient use out of the levels settings, among other things. Take part of a gradient sample in PSE4 and use it to create beams of light coming out of a storm cloud! Great book. This book teaches you how to work on pictures with many different techniques--techniques that do the least harm to the original working photo--techniques that allow you to take care of small subtle details that are usually ignored, but that make your work more believable. Highly recommended.
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