Product Description

Want to get more fun from your photos?   To edit and enhance your pictures, fix flaws, and create greeting cards or cool photo projects to share? What about turning out some really professional prints with simply stunning color? Photoshop Elements can handle it, and Photoshop Elements 6 For Dummies gets you up and running on Elements in a hurry.

Photoshop Elements 6 is a reasonably priced, full–featured, powerful image–editing program for Windows (Adobe stopped supporting Elements for Mac with version 4.) This colorful guide helps you make the most of all its coolest features. You′ll quickly get familiar with the work area and all the tools; be able to find, organize, and manage your images; correct common mistakes; and explore fun ways to share your photos. You’ll discover how to:

• Acquire images from your camera or scanner
• Organize your files and photos you so can quickly find what you’re looking for
• Crop and straighten pictures, fix exposure, and clean up dust and scratches
• Create sharp and colorful images for printing
• Correct color, contrast, and clarity
• Combine multiple images into creative collages
• Use filters to create different effects
• Turn your photos into slide shows, movie files, or Web–hosted images

Elements has something for everyone, from beginning dabblers to serious photo hobbyists to professionals. With plenty of full–color illustrations that show what you can achieve, this friendly guide will help you use Elements to make the most of your digital photos.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8547 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 2.10 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

From the Back Cover
Find out how to get more fun from your photos

Edit and enhance your pictures, fix flaws, create greeting cards or photo books, and more

Photoshop Elements is a full–featured, powerful image–editing program, and this colorful guide helps you make the most of all its coolest features. You′ll quickly get familiar with the work area; be able to find, organize, and manage your images; correct common mistakes; and explore fun ways to share your photos.

Discover how to:

• Acquire images from your camera or scanner

• Organize and find photos fast

• Crop and straighten pictures

• Create sharp and colorful images for printing

• Correct color, contrast, and clarity

• Combine multiple images into creative collages

About the Author
Barbara Obermeier: Barbara Obermeier is the principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. She is the author of Photoshop CS3 All–in–One Desk Reference For Dummies (Wiley) and has contributed as author or coauthor on numerous books on Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, and PowerPoint. She is currently a faculty member in the Graphic Design Department at Brooks Institute.

Ted Padova: In addition to writing several books on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, Ted is the world’s leading author of books on Adobe Acrobat. He is also a co–author of Adobe Acrobat 8 PDF Bible, Adobe Creative Suite Bible, Color Correction For Digital Photographers Only, and Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies (all from Wiley). Ted spends most of his time writing and speaking at conferences and expos nationally and internationally.

Customer Reviews

User Friendly
What makes this book easy to use? Its user friendly, with clear easy to follow instructions. The colour pictures are of a good quality for each task in Elements. What you see in the book, you see on the monitor screen. Page layouts are consistent and the print clear. Getting started with Elements 6 couldn't be smoother. The book is basic and more advanced. For anyone new to Elements 6 or upgrading from older versions, this is the book to buy.

Elements 6 is no longer the cut down version of Photoshop that it once was. Adobe have included more of the best features from their new Photoshop, without compromising the enjoyment of using Elements. Photoshop Elements for Dummies, successfully addresses the changes in this new Elements version.

Photoshop Elements 6 for Dummies
I was a bit concerned about some previous comments on this book but I needn't have worried. It's very well structured and comprehensive in dealing with all that Elements 6 have to offer. Lots of examples and pictures with tips, warnings and new feature flags.
I previously had Elements 2 on my computer and hardly recognised the new software. I needed guidence on how to handle the new layout and how to use all the features. The content fitted the bill perfectly.
The quality of the print and paper is excellent too. My only gripe is that the book won't lay open on the desk on its own. It's glue bound. This means that if you are following a particular chapter, you have to lay something heavy across the open pages.

So-so...
Quality book? Very much so.

Easy to read? Well, yeah, but seems more formal than other Dummies somehow.

Cover all the right stuff? Yeah, suppose, but spends a huge amount of the book going on about the Organiser (not interesting!!!!).

Best book on Elements? No... though I don't know what is, but this isn't it.