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If you are an amateur or professional photographer who works with digital images and wants great results fast, this essential, easy-to-follow guide from world-renowned Adobe Photoshop Elements expert Philip Andrews is for you! There are countless ways to use Adobe's powerful Elements 6 software, and Andrews helps you with the skills to conquer them all; from turning ordinary photos into extraordinary scrapbooks, calendars, and albums to making business cards, flyers, and other promotional materials for your organization quickly and economically. Real-life examples and precise, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions will help you get up to speed with Elements 6 fast for the results you want in no time, whether your photographs are from your digital camera or scanned images from film and slides. If it's in Elements, it's in this book. Andrews covers tried and true tools which have been revamped to better suit photographers' needs, such as the Adjust Color Curves and Convert to Black and White features, the Brightness/Contrast feature, and a smoother workflow for the creation of photo projects such as Photo Books, Photo Collage, Online Galleries, CD/DVD Jackets, and CD/DVD Labels. He also dives into the exciting, all-new features of Elements 6 such as: *The Quick Selection Tool *Fantastic Photomerge technology for group shots and faces, which lets you combine the best pieces from multiple images *Direct copy to CD/DVD to speed up your workflow when you need to copy several images to disc quickly *The Guided Edit Workshop with interactive technique tutorials *Smart Albums, to automatically add photos that match certain criteria to your Album *The Refine Edge feature, which allows you to control how smooth or feathered the edges of your images appear *A Task Pane with five different Task Modes (Organize, Fix, Create, Share and Edit) to help you manage the processing of your images .and much, much more. Whatever your organizing, editing, creating, and sharing needs are, you'll find clear-cut, no-nonsense answers in this introductory book/CD/website learning package. If you find yourself getting stuck, Philip is just a click away with over two hours of superb video tutorials on the included CD. Or, visit the book's website, www.guide2elements.com, for updates and more images that you can use to practice your new skills. Written by a photographer for photographers, this book is for those who want to know the techniques that get results and can be put into practice immediately.

Table of Contents:
The Buzz of Digital Photography; Introducing Photoshop Elements 6; First Steps; Simple Image Changes; Hands on Techniques; Using Selections and Layers; Combining Text with Your Images; Using Elements' Painting and Drawing Tools; Creating Albums and Scrapbooks; Photomerge Stitching; Preparing Images for the Web or E-mail; Preparing Images for Printing; Photo Projects; Managing Your Files; Theory into Practice:

About the Author :
Philip Andrews is Adobe Australia's official Photoshop and Elements Ambassador. He is an experienced photographer, author, magazine editor and online course creator. He was previously a lecturer at the Queensland School of Printing and Graphic Arts, Australia and Nescot, England. He is a beta tester for Photoshop, an alpha tester for Photoshop Elements and a Photoshop specialist demonstrator for Adobe Australia. Contributing numerous articles and videos to AdobeTV and the inspirational browser, Philip is a leading source in adobe information and instruction. Philip is also co-founder of photo-college.com an online photography training college. He's a regular contributor to several magazines including Shutterbug, Amateur Photographer, Australian Photography and Better Photography, he is senior contributing editor for Better Digital, columnist for What Digital Camera and Co-editor and publisher of Better Photoshop Techniques magazine.

Review :
Praise for previous editions of this title: "With Philip providing you with such a good street index to our Photoshop Elements 3.0 software you will be creating fantastic digital images in next to no time at all." Judith Salonga, Adobe Systems "If you need to manipulate digital images this is the book that will not only show you what can be achieved but inspire you to develop your skills even further." Computer Arts Special "Whether you are into manipulating photographs, wishing to build better websites or produce better looking prints, this book will help you to master all the necessary tools contained in the program. The learning curve just got shallower!" Martin Evening "Philip Andrews' knowledge and enthusiasm shines through." Royal Photographic Society Journal "If you need to manipulate digital images this is the book that will not only show you what can be achieved but inspire you to develop your skills even further." Computer Arts Special "Whether you are into manipulating photographs, wishing to build better websites or produce better looking prints, this book will help you to master all the necessary tools contained in the program. The learning curve just got shallower!" Martin Evening "Philip Andrews' knowledge and enthusiasm shines through." Royal Photographic Society Journal


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781136101588
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 424
  • Sub Title: A Visual Introduction to Digital Photography
  • ISBN-10: 1136101586
  • Publisher Date: 26 Oct 2009
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 424


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