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"I love the way this book is laid out. There are numerous pictures, screen shots displaying command functions, and two page lessons on a wide variety of Photoshop Elements 8 techniques. If you're skilled in Photoshop Elements 8, but want some quick and direct shortcuts to improve your skills, then get this book."--School Tech Talk Blog & MacDirectory.com
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Photoshop Elements is the cut-down, lower-price version of Adobe's powerful Photoshop software, and, like Photoshop, it's not just intended for tweaking and retouching those less than perfect photographs-it has huge creative potential, too.
How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 8 is the Elements equivalent to Steve Caplin's How to Cheat in Photoshop-a fun, quirky and inspiring guide, packed with tips, tricks and effects that reveal the power of Elements for design-oriented image manipulation and photomontage. With more than 80 step-by-step projects on page spreads showing the before and after, and all stages in between, this is a practical guide to stir the imagination.
QuickTime movie tutorials and images for all projects in the book are included on the accompanying CD-ROM, with additional support and an active reader forum on the website for the book: www.howtocheatinphotoshopelements.com.
* Fun and creative, with more than 80 full colour, step-by-step projects, supported by QuickTime movie tutorials and image files
* In-depth coverage of photomontage and image manipulation not seen elsewhere-most Elements books focus on the essentials for photography post-capture editing
* Part of the successful Focal Press How to Cheat in. series, featuring Steve Caplin's best-selling How to Cheat in Photoshop titles
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* Some things to know about Photoshop and its various third-party publications.
** HOW TO CHEAT IN PE8: To Buy or Not To Buy?
*** Highlights
**** Conclusion
* There are several publishers that specialize in fine art, graphic art and visual arts- related instruction books. I own almost a dozen books on various subjects and, in my opinion, Focal Press is the best, by far. Furthermore, their "How To Cheat" series is the best of the subject-based series it publishes.
The first thing you should know about any of the "How To Cheat" titles is that its primary purpose is to teach lessons based on shortcuts and secrets (or, rarely used tools!)
HOW TO CHEAT IN PE8 is a must-have ONLY if you don't have an earlier version or have a comparable book that teaches Photoshop tips. And, although the book is geared toward the release of PE8, it is backwards compatible all the way back to PE3. Herein lies the problem.
Photoshop, the program, for the most part hasn't changed so dramatically that it would necessitate owning every release nor for the corresponding instruction book. I first started out with Photoshop 5.5 now with CS3; PE2 to PE5. I've seen many of the lessons presented here before, of course, not with the same pictures and layouts but the essentials.
** Why should I buy HOW TO CHEAT IN PE8?
There are a couple of very attractive reasons why, at least, you may want to consider this amongst the books you keep for inspiration and reference.
Enticing lessons--the authors chose very enticing subjects to explore. Almost every chapter is so visually appealing; I immediately want to try to see if I can emulate it. I was often left wondering how might I use some of a design or how to manipulate a particular step.
Lesson Layout--the layout throughout the book makes learning a subject very quick. Each section is separated in a few short paragraphs. The length of the paragraph is the same as the image. No more reading several pages and flipping back to see what the writer was referring to.
Mastering techniques--mastering the techniques within the book enables one to have a considerable amount of Photoshop expertise. Why? Because, with the exception of specialized tools, PE has the same basic foundation as the full version of Photoshop.
*** Highlights
"Keep Your Composure" (in Transformation and Distortion)
"Changing Skies" (in Image and Adjustments)
"Three Dimensional" (in Working With Text)
"Carving In Stone" (in Working With Text)
"Age and Youth" (in The People and Animals)
"Complex Reflections" (in The Shiny Surface)
"Out of Bounds" (in The Third Dimension)
**** How To Cheat, the series, is the best self-directed series for any kind for an artist entering the graphic or visual arts-field. And although Adobe updates their suites every 2 years, there are dozens of titles from different publishers and all of the available information on how to use any Adobe software (Photoshop included) is abundant and I might even go as far to say, redundant.
However, if you can only have one instruction book on Photoshop instruction or for Photoshop Elements, in particular, then HOW TO CHEAT IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8 should be it.
** HOW TO CHEAT IN PE8: To Buy or Not To Buy?
*** Highlights
**** Conclusion
* There are several publishers that specialize in fine art, graphic art and visual arts- related instruction books. I own almost a dozen books on various subjects and, in my opinion, Focal Press is the best, by far. Furthermore, their "How To Cheat" series is the best of the subject-based series it publishes.
The first thing you should know about any of the "How To Cheat" titles is that its primary purpose is to teach lessons based on shortcuts and secrets (or, rarely used tools!)
HOW TO CHEAT IN PE8 is a must-have ONLY if you don't have an earlier version or have a comparable book that teaches Photoshop tips. And, although the book is geared toward the release of PE8, it is backwards compatible all the way back to PE3. Herein lies the problem.
Photoshop, the program, for the most part hasn't changed so dramatically that it would necessitate owning every release nor for the corresponding instruction book. I first started out with Photoshop 5.5 now with CS3; PE2 to PE5. I've seen many of the lessons presented here before, of course, not with the same pictures and layouts but the essentials.
** Why should I buy HOW TO CHEAT IN PE8?
There are a couple of very attractive reasons why, at least, you may want to consider this amongst the books you keep for inspiration and reference.
Enticing lessons--the authors chose very enticing subjects to explore. Almost every chapter is so visually appealing; I immediately want to try to see if I can emulate it. I was often left wondering how might I use some of a design or how to manipulate a particular step.
Lesson Layout--the layout throughout the book makes learning a subject very quick. Each section is separated in a few short paragraphs. The length of the paragraph is the same as the image. No more reading several pages and flipping back to see what the writer was referring to.
Mastering techniques--mastering the techniques within the book enables one to have a considerable amount of Photoshop expertise. Why? Because, with the exception of specialized tools, PE has the same basic foundation as the full version of Photoshop.
*** Highlights
"Keep Your Composure" (in Transformation and Distortion)
"Changing Skies" (in Image and Adjustments)
"Three Dimensional" (in Working With Text)
"Carving In Stone" (in Working With Text)
"Age and Youth" (in The People and Animals)
"Complex Reflections" (in The Shiny Surface)
"Out of Bounds" (in The Third Dimension)
**** How To Cheat, the series, is the best self-directed series for any kind for an artist entering the graphic or visual arts-field. And although Adobe updates their suites every 2 years, there are dozens of titles from different publishers and all of the available information on how to use any Adobe software (Photoshop included) is abundant and I might even go as far to say, redundant.
However, if you can only have one instruction book on Photoshop instruction or for Photoshop Elements, in particular, then HOW TO CHEAT IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8 should be it.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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For the money, this has got to be the best, most educational book on Elements 8 i`ve read. Great tutorials, easy to follow and understand, although a lot of the lessons need to be repeated many times before doing one off the top of your head.
Highly recommended to anyone who wants to see exactly what elements is capable of.
Highly recommended to anyone who wants to see exactly what elements is capable of.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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How to Cheat In Photoshop Elements. An excellent publication enabling me to rescue and enhance some of my photograph. Will keep this by me whilst making further edits.
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Very good Book
Finding the book very good. Would reccomend it to everyone who has elements.Could be retitled the Missing Manual if someone else hadnt beaten them to it.
Published 20 months ago by Mr. I. Scott
Lots to learn from it!
I have used Photoshop Elements for long time, but this book opened new possibilites, gave me new secrets, not how to "cheat" but how to improve my images and working with Photoshop... Read more
Published on 19 Jan 2010 by J. Kertesz
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