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Overview
Edit, organize, and show off your photos using Photoshop Elements 4.0 and the expert tips in this full-color guide. You’ll learn to customize the program to suit your preferences, and then get started retouching, repairing, and enhancing digital images in no time. Step-by-step examples show you how to crop images, fix color, focus, and exposure problems, eliminate defects, manipulate images, add special effects, and much more. You’ll also get tips for getting high-quality prints and creating a Web gallery.
Synopsis
Edit, organize, and show off your photos using Photoshop Elements 4.0 and the expert tips in this full-color guide. You’ll learn to customize the program to suit your preferences, and then get started retouching, repairing, and enhancing digital images in no time. Step-by-step examples show you how to crop images, fix color, focus, and exposure problems, eliminate defects, manipulate images, add special effects, and much more. You’ll also get tips for getting high-quality prints and creating a Web gallery.
- Import images into Photoshop Elements or create all-new images
- Crop, rotate, and resize images
- Adjust color, contrast, lighting, exposure, and focus
- Touch up photos, hide defects, and remove objects
- Add text and shapes to your images
- Create special effects using layers, masks, gradients, and filters
- Create panoramas, cards, calendars, and photo books
- Prepare images for print or the Web
- Organize and store your images
- Share your photos online or in print
David Plotkin designs computer systems and databases, and maintains Web sites for various nonprofit and charitable organizations. He is an experienced film and digital photographer and has written several books, including How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 and How to Do Everything with Digital Image Pro 9.
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewIf you bought Photoshop Elements 4 to improve, manage, and share your digital photographs, this book will help you master every program feature you care about. You won’t find endless paeans to the digital era here, nor detailed discussions of generic photography technique. Nothing distracts David Plotkin from the task at hand: helping you make the most of Elements in digital photography.
Plotkin’s explanations are simple enough for absolute beginners yet smart enough for those who take their photographs very seriously. You’ll learn newbie techniques like QuickFix, but you won’t stop there; you’ll also master spot repairs, layer masks and styles, perspective, PhotoMerge panoramas, and lots more.
There’s a full section on organizing and sharing your images -- and, with Plotkin’s detailed coverage of everything from photo albums to web viewing, chances are you’ll be doing plenty of sharing. Bill Camarda, from the February 2006 Read Only