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Do you want to rearm Venus de Milo, shave Uncle Harry’s beard, or turn gray skies to blue? Have at it with PhotoshopElements 3 For Dummies, your guide to enhancing the effect, fixing the flaws, or adding artistic effects to your photos. You’ll discover how to:
- Import and organize your photos
- Create, rearrange, blend and manipulate layers to create a composite image
- Save photos using the correct file format— TIFF (Tagged Image File Format, PDF (Portable Document Format), or BMP (for PC users)
- Save for the Web with JPEG and GIF
- Take advantage of the terrific Help Great Help system, including a How To palette with step–by–step tutorials for image editing and features
- Create a slide show, a picture package, or a Web photo gallery
PhotoshopElements 3 For Dummies was written by Dele McClelland, award–winning author of more than 75 titles, including Photoshop for Dummies and Photoshop CS Bible, and Galen Fott, writer and reviewer for Macworld and PC Magazine. It includes 16 pages of full–color examples that demonstrate capabilities and show you “before” and “after” photos. You’ll get step–by–step specifics on techniques that can transform your photos, including:
- Selecting the area you want to work with using the lasso, marquee, or magic wand tools or the selection brush
- Using the healing brush to remove imperfections such as blemishes and the new red eye removal tool to remove that demonic glow
- Adjusting color with a variety of tools and techniques
- Applying filters such as Blur, Gaussian Blur, Colored Pencil, Diffuse Glow, Glass, Glowing Edges and many more
- Color correcting quickly with fast color–corrections
- Using the layer styles in the Styles and Effects palette to let your imagination go wild with painting, drawing, applying drop shadows and bevels, adding text, and more
- Using the brush, pencil, eraser, shape and cookie cutter tools
- Working with the type tools, including formatting options, warping type into unusual shapes, and creating outline type
- Making the most of the effects, including frame, image effects, text effects, and textures
- Using Photomerge to create panoramic pictures
PhotoshopElements 3 For Dummies doesn’t just give you instructions—it gives you ideas. You’ll be inspired to capitalize on the capabilities and explore different techniques to enhance and share your photos.
From the Back Cover
Loaded with tips on fixing flaws to create great photos
Find your way around Elements 3, organize your photos, enhance them, and more
Want to do cool things with your photos but uneasy about braving the Elements? Never fear — this handy guide makes it easy to use all the hot new features for both Mac® and Windows®. Improve your pictures or distort them for artistic effect, correct shading, add highlights, change color, create slideshows or online galleries, and much more!
Discover how to
- Import photos from digital cameras, CDs, and scanners
- Organize and search your digital photo collection
- Repair vintage photos
- Create slideshows to share with family and friends
- Fix photos with just a few clicks of the mouse
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To discover the benevolent Dr. Jekyll side of Photoshop Elements, you need look no further than the standard painting and editing tools. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was disappointed with this book as I found it confusing because of all the attempts at humour . I wish they would just get on with it and stop trying to be funny . I am still not much clearer on how to use layers which is why I bought it .
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Photoshop Elements 3 for Dummies
2 Jan 2005
Format:Paperback
This book goes into great detail explaining the features of all the photo editing tools available in Elements 3. It starts out simple but quickly advances with page after page of procedures and commands that cover the program from every angle. It is well written and indexed and provides a lot of useful information but is a bit comprehensive and technical. Although it thoroughly covers all aspects of photo editing, it is not a step-by-step how to book but rather a good reference book.
Although I prefer books written specifically for the Mac user, this book does a good job of identifying features that pertain only to Windows or only to Macintosh through the use of separate icons in the margins. This book also uses an icon for identifying new features in Elements 3, an icon for explaining technical stuff, an icon for providing tips obtained through experience, and an icon for pinpointing particularly important points you should remember. It is written with a good sense of humor but is densely packed into 397 pages that are void of color except for 16 pages of examples placed in the middle.
I read this book from cover to cover while on a trip and away from my computer and I found it hard to grasp the many concepts without being able to follow along on the computer. The examples used are not what you would expect to see on your monitor and they are not in color. Since most of us novice get our photos from a digital camera, in color, it would have been helpful to get step by step instructions on how to correct and improve these photos. Since this book is for dummies, I guess I need to find one for dumber dummies.
Although I prefer books written specifically for the Mac user, this book does a good job of identifying features that pertain only to Windows or only to Macintosh through the use of separate icons in the margins. This book also uses an icon for identifying new features in Elements 3, an icon for explaining technical stuff, an icon for providing tips obtained through experience, and an icon for pinpointing particularly important points you should remember. It is written with a good sense of humor but is densely packed into 397 pages that are void of color except for 16 pages of examples placed in the middle.
I read this book from cover to cover while on a trip and away from my computer and I found it hard to grasp the many concepts without being able to follow along on the computer. The examples used are not what you would expect to see on your monitor and they are not in color. Since most of us novice get our photos from a digital camera, in color, it would have been helpful to get step by step instructions on how to correct and improve these photos. Since this book is for dummies, I guess I need to find one for dumber dummies.
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Photoshop Elements 3 For Dummies
17 Oct 2005
Format:Paperback
I do a lot of scrapbooking and was quite disappointed when I purchased Photoshop Elements because I could not seem to get around in the program. Now that I have the Dummies book I'm navigating the program with the greatest of ease. The book has talked me through step by step in easy to understand language. My pictures are looking much better and I'm able to print the sizes I want and recently I've started creating accessories for my pages. So I highly recommend this book.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Best yet
14 Feb 2005
Format:Paperback
I've had all three versions of Photoshop Elements, and I always get this book to go with the new version. As usual the authors have done an excellent job of updating the book covering all the new features. If you want an inexpensive friendly book about Photoshop Elements 3, this it it.
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