Photoshop Elements lets you edit and enhance your digital photographs and images with professional quality tools. Whether you're a professional photographer or a beginner, Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies gives you the scoop on using this full-featured photo-editing program.
You'll find out how to transform your ordinary photos into visually stunning creations. This book gives you the tools to enhance your images, fix flaws, share pictures online, correct small problems with Quick Fix, keep track of images with the Project Bin, take charge with Shortcuts, present your photos as a slideshow, use Web hosting, animate images, and create movie files. You'll also learn to:
Use the Organizer to move around efficiently in Elements
Correct color, brightness, contrast, and exposure
Use Adobe's free Photoshop.com service
Streamline your work using shortcuts
Work with bitmap, grayscale, and indexed color modes
Create albums and import images
Follow creative applications for filters and effects
Prepare images for printing
Turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo albums
Straighten crooked lines, crop for effect, or fix color, sharpness, red-eye, and contrast
Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies shows you how to use all the Elements of great image editing, management, and photo fun. Whether you're concerned about color profile embedding or just want to put your kid's photo on a calendar, you'll learn how with this book!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Book is a Flop and not on par with other Dummies:
I enjoy the Dummies series of books. This book has NOT helped. I find myself following the directions and then flipping through the pages to see where that final click takes place. There are too many, 'we will cover that on page #' or go to section __ to find out more about it...I would not buy this book.
Not for Dummies, but a good manual:
Unlike other Dummies books I have (Windows XP and Vista for Dummies), this is more like the manual that should have come with Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. It's not for people that have never used a photographic program before. It assumes you have some knowledge of digital enhancements. That being said, it's a very good manual and it's in color. It's a good desk reference. It's not meant to be read from cover to cover. After reading the first few chapters, you can use as a reference to get you over the... more info
Great introduction:
Excellent introduction to Elements 7 and just what I've come to expect from this Dummies series. Just got Elements 7 and wanted/needed to get me going and let's see something now. In one-half hour I had my first photo edited. Not a wiz yet but give me another half-hour. Learned the interface, was able to easily follow the instructions. Good clear English and easy reading.
