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"[C]omes with a comprehensive DVD and packs in over seven hours of movie tutorials. [A] 'must' for any serious Photoshop collection."--Midwest Book Review
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Using a unique combination of step by step projects, movie tutorials and sample images, Mark Galer guides the reader through the most powerful photo editing tools that Elements has to offer. Discussing and demonstrating the skills and know-how to create professional-quality results with this budget-priced software. Whether optimizing photographs for printing, enhancing images for maximum impact, or creating impressive, seamless montages, this book will enable any aspiring digital professional to get the maximum performance from the credit crunch approved software.
The package is complted with an astonishingly comprehensive DVD packed with over 7 hours of movie tutorials, 100+ sample images, a stock photo gallery as well as automated actions to get even more out of the software.
* Get Photoshop-quality results with Elements-priced software
* Create stunning images using powerful, little-known techniques
* Contains a comprehensive DVD packed full of far more content than any other Elements title - hours of tutorials, hundreds of images, and automated actions are just the start
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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You will need guidance if you are new to Photoshop Elements. I discovered Mark Galer when searching youtube for tutorials on Photoshop Elements. His clips were especially informative hence I bought the book. I feel I have been handed a solid grounding in post-production methods and now understand the importance of processing the RAW file in Adobe Camera Raw (that comes with Photoshop Elements), the importance of tonal mapping and sharpening. I have learnt to use layer adjustments in ways that perhaps Adobe did not intend and the book is an eye-opener to what can be done. I have gotten to grips with blend modes and now recognise photos that have been similarly manipulated. Out of the many dozens of filters offered by PSE, I have honed down to perhaps a half dozen that Mr Galer used (blur, high pass, liquify); the book has been a great guide to this sophisticated piece of software.
The book also includes the movie clips on the accompanying DVD as per you tube plus many more. These clips are easier to follow than the text. The projects are also included and I found them useful for stepping through each layer to understand what they were doing; it is one thing to follow the steps and another to understand them well enough to play your own tunes. Overall the book has upped the ante on my post production work and I would say a text like this is indespensible for any serious hobbyist digital photographer not yet enlighted as to what post production can do for you.
The book also includes the movie clips on the accompanying DVD as per you tube plus many more. These clips are easier to follow than the text. The projects are also included and I found them useful for stepping through each layer to understand what they were doing; it is one thing to follow the steps and another to understand them well enough to play your own tunes. Overall the book has upped the ante on my post production work and I would say a text like this is indespensible for any serious hobbyist digital photographer not yet enlighted as to what post production can do for you.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this manual because it was project based. That is, via a number of projects, it covers all the possibilities within PSE 8. The value of such an approach is that you understand what is possible if you are relatively new to PSE. For example, I had no idea you could take a straight picture of a flag and make it look like it is blowing in the wind. Compare the with a reference book where you are not really given guidance as to what is possible. So...
The book is generally good. Although some of the instruction sequences are hard to grasp and some are actually incorrect. BUT, each project is accompanied by a video which I found was absolutely invaluable. Use of both book and videos is the way to do this. I used my own photos rather than the ones provided to give me a bit more incentive. And this mostly worked fine although a lack of my own RAW files hindered me in that respect.
I achieved all the objectives but could never remember what I did or, sometimes, why. But the point is I now know what is possible AND I know where to go to remind me how to do certain things. What I now need though is a reference manual that explains every feature of PSE and why I would use it (over apparent alternatives).
Buy this AND get a good reference manual. Then you will be well away.
The book is generally good. Although some of the instruction sequences are hard to grasp and some are actually incorrect. BUT, each project is accompanied by a video which I found was absolutely invaluable. Use of both book and videos is the way to do this. I used my own photos rather than the ones provided to give me a bit more incentive. And this mostly worked fine although a lack of my own RAW files hindered me in that respect.
I achieved all the objectives but could never remember what I did or, sometimes, why. But the point is I now know what is possible AND I know where to go to remind me how to do certain things. What I now need though is a reference manual that explains every feature of PSE and why I would use it (over apparent alternatives).
Buy this AND get a good reference manual. Then you will be well away.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This book and DVD is an absolute must for Elements 7/8 users who want to move from intermediate to the advanced stage of image processing.
Inside is a wealth of easy to understand projects and the accompanying DVD contains video tutorials and most of all very useful layer styles and effects.
Since reading this book my images have taken a leap forward in visual impact.
For the price the amount of information contained in this package is stunning.
100% recommended.
Inside is a wealth of easy to understand projects and the accompanying DVD contains video tutorials and most of all very useful layer styles and effects.
Since reading this book my images have taken a leap forward in visual impact.
For the price the amount of information contained in this package is stunning.
100% recommended.
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