Product Description

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop Elements

Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, helps you learn the features of Adobe software quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book off ers what no other book or training program does—an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Classroom in a Book contains 11 lessons. The book covers the basics of learning Adobe Photoshop Elements and provides countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

GETTING STARTED
1 A QUICK TOUR OF PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
2 BASIC ORGANIZING
3 ADVANCED ORGANIZING
4 CREATING PROJECTS
5 PRINTING, SHARING, AND EXPORTING
6 ADJUSTING COLOR IN IMAGES
7 FIXING EXPOSURE PROBLEMS
8 REPAIRING AND RETOUCHING IMAGES
9 WORKING WITH TEXT
10 COMBINING MULTIPLE IMAGES
11 ADVANCED EDITING TECHNIQUES

“The Classroom in a Book series is by far the best training material on the market. Everything you need to master the software is included: clear explanations of each lesson, step-by-step instructions, and the project files for the students.”

Barbara Binder
Adobe Certified Instructor
Rocky Mountain Training

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34896 in Books
• Published on: 2008-12-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From the Back Cover
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Classroom in a Book is the most thorough and comprehensive way for new users to master all the new features in Adobe's consumer-targeted image editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, project-based guide contains a project that builds on the reader's growing knowledge of the program, while end-of-chapter review questions reinforce each lesson. Readers will learn the basics of editing their images with Photoshop Elements and will learn how best to use the program's many new features. These new features include applying incredible effects to your images with the new Smart Brush tool, fixing photos with one-step shortcuts, removing unwanted elements from your images with Adobe Photomerge Scene Cleaner, enhanced support for raw files, step-by-step assistance, sharing your photos in new rich, interactive Online Albums and more.

Customer Reviews

Good introduction
First of all, it's a very well written book with examples that are easy to follow. Just a point I'd like to make that if you're looking for a book to get lots of insight on advanced editing, this is not it. It's a bit shallow in that department, and focuses (for me me too much) on things like getting pictures on your disk, sharing with other people, making a slideshow yadiya.
After reading the book I had the feeling there were still a lot of things about editing pictures left untold.

PSE7 Classroom in a book
Excellent tutorial and reference book covering organiser as well as editing. 370 pages of detailed info from first time user quickly to much more advanced editing using layers, colour tints, stitching, removing unwanted parts of a scene (or adding them). I think this book will be my bible for PSE7 for some years to come. Print quality of the book is first rate with many many screen shots to show you what the procedures are all about - all in full colour of course.

Introductory Lessons Only
If you plan to use Elements 7 to primarily upload and organise your photos, and maybe do some very basic editing like making Christmas cards and fixing red-eye, then this is the book for you. Three chapters on organising and tagging, a whole chapter on adding text to photos, a chapter on cards and calendars, etc.

If, however, you have bought Elements 7 with the intention of using it as the powerful digital darkroom tool it is, then this book is definitely not for you. It touches on RAW, histograms and layers but in a clunky and frankly dull manner.

By contrast, I bought a magazine called Photoshop Made Easy (produced by the guys at Digital Photo magazine) in WH Smith for £10 and learnt more in half an hour than in days of working with Classroom In A Book