Product Description

Ideal for scrapbookers, serious and casual photographers, and budding graphic artists alike, Photoshop Elements 8 is more powerful and easier to use than previous versions. But figuring out how and when to use the program's tools is still tricky. With this book, you'll learn not only what each tool does, but also when it makes the most sense to use it and why. You get easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for everything from importing photos to organizing, editing, sharing, and storing your images. And if a feature isn't all that it's cracked up to be, we'll tell you.

How do you use the Photomerge Exposure? How do Quick Fix previews work? With a gentle introduction to get you started quickly, and advanced tips to help you produce really creative work, this Missing Manual provides the answers you need.

• Get crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations of every feature
• Learn to import, organize, back up, and fix photos quickly and easily
• Repair and restore old and damaged photos, and retouch any image
• Jazz up your pictures with dozens of filters, frames, and special effects
• Remove unwanted objects from images with the new Recompose tool
• Learn advanced techniques like working with layers and applying blend modes
• Download practice images and try new tricks right away

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1603 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 639 pages

About the Author
Barbara Brundage is the author of Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual, and Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual, an Adobe Community Expert, and a member of Adobe's prerelease groups for Elements 3, 4, 5, and 6. She's been teaching people how to use Photoshop Elements since it first came out in 2001. Barbara first started using Elements to create graphics for use in her day job as a harpist, music publisher, and arranger. Along the way, she joined the large group of people finding a renewed interest in photography thanks to digital cameras. If she can learn to use Elements, you can, too!

Customer Reviews

An excellent manual
For many years I've used a competing (unnamed but probably fairly obvious) product to restore and retouch photographs. I also do a lot of work using Adobe Flash and Dreamweaver for presentation material and web site design.

The original photo editing package was never entirely stable and, a few weeks ago, I bought (from Amazon of course) both Photoshop Elements 8 and Premier Elements 8, the companion video editing package.

As expected, the help content - as with most moderately complex software packages - proved to be less than adequate and I therefore added the two companion manuals from The Missing Manual series to my shopping basket. I've used the Dreamweaver Missing Manual for a long time and have been highly impressed by it.

I've been using Photoshop 8 and the MM Photoshop 8 manual for a couple of weeks now and can thoroughly recommend both. Whether you need to clean up photos for personal use, for inclusion on web pages or (although it's not my area of application) to produce various forms of art work, the manual is an excellent complement to an excellent product.

I'm about to open the Premier Elements manual and start to find my way around that package and the companion Missing Manual. So, perhaps, there'll be another review!

WHAT CAN I SAY?
Barbara has done it again. If you need it it is this book and if it is not in the book you don't need it!

Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows: The Missing Manual
IF YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO DO MORE IN ELEMENTS 8 THIS IS A GOOD BOOK TO LOOK AT, BUT IT DEALS WITH SUBJECTS BY TITLE E.G FILTERS ETC.

I DONT WORK LIKE THAT AND WOULD FIND MINI PROJECT BASED TUTORIALS MUCH EASIER TO LEARN FROM. OTHERWISE COMPREHENSIVELY COVERS ALL SUBJECTS..JUST BE PREPEARED TO HUNT FOR WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW.