Photoshop Elements 9 For Dummies
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Photography & Video
Photoshop Elements 9 For Dummies Details
From the Back Cover Find out how to get more fun from your photos with Photoshop Elements! Whether you photograph with a top-of-the-line dSLR or snap your family and friends on your cellphone, Photoshop Elements can help you make your photos look their best. And this book makes it easy! Discover how to organize and manage your images, correct common mistakes, tweak color, and print and share your photos any number of ways. Beginners start here — get familiar with Photoshop Elements — the tools, menus, commands, preferences, and workspaces Give a makeover — crop photos for better composition, correct an over- or underexposed picture, straighten crooked images, or fix red-eye Bring out your inner artist — discover how to add effects with filters, get creative with type, or play with the drawing and painting tools Share your masterpiece — turn your photos into slide shows, calendars, cards, CD/DVD labels, photo books, and even movies Conjure visual magic — make unwanted objects disappear, move people into or out of an image, and merge photos into a magnificent panorama Open the book and find: How to get images into Elements from a variety of sources Instructions for both Windows and Mac users Helpful tips for composing better photos How to correct color, contrast, and clarity Tips for performing simple image makeovers Steps for combining multiple images into creative collages Details about sharing photos on your favorite social networks How to upload and save images to Photoshop.com Learn to: Find your way around the tools, menus, panels, buttons, and options Edit and crop images, enhance color, fix flaws, and apply filters Scan a photo, make a slide show, and create a photo album online IN FULL COLOR! Read more About the Author Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in California. She is currently a faculty member in the School of Design at Brooks Institute. Ted Padova is an internationally recognized authority on Adobe Acrobat, PDF, and digital imaging. Read more
Reviews
For a book about visual editing, this one is woefully lacking in helpful illustrations. The few screenshots reproduced are of such poor quality that the names on the taskbars and menus can hardly be read. The more abundant but still too few photos used to illustrate features of the software are almost useless since they fail to show the element of the feature. For example, in the section on selecting parts of the photo to edit, the lines to mark the section of the photo selected are almost invisible and things like the lasso cursor are about the size of a pinprick. Other reviewers had mentioned these shortcomings but I thought the book would be worthwhile at a discounted price since I had liked the "For Dummies" books purchased in the past. I was wrong wrong wrong. Even the text proved to be too frustrating to be of much help. The instructions were constantly referring the reader to an earlier or later section of the book to explain something or other. If this is where the Dummies series is headed, then they really are for dummies like me who waste their money on poorly illustrated, poorly organized and generally useless manuals.
