Product Description

Introducing Photoshop Elements will gently but thoroughly explain all aspects of the software, including

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #992726 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 528 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Introducing Adobe Photoshop Elements is the ideal companion for scanning and digital photography novices who don't yet know their pixels from their plug-ins.

Adobe Photoshop Elements is bundled with digital cameras and flatbed scanners. It's streets ahead of other image-editing applications and much simpler to use than Photoshop LE, which it replaces. Introducing Adobe Photoshop Elements tells you all the things you won't find either in your camera's or scanner's instruction book, or the Photoshop Elements help file. Things such as Installation and setup, finding your way around the work area, customising and personalising settings and the interface are all covered with even the basics looked at in-depth. Rather than simply state the minimum system requirements, you are told how to find out if your Mac or PC meets them. The difference between video memory and system memory, physical and virtual RAM, and other important concepts are also explained in simple non-technical terms.

The second part of the book explains how to scan and acquire images from a digital camera and includes advice on opening, saving and printing. Part four covers colour correcting, retouching and creating basic montages and the final section moves on to more advanced techniques including animation and multiple-image panoramas.

Those with a little experience of other graphics applications may find the level a little too basic. But if digital images are uncharted waters and you've just bought, or are about to buy a digital camera or scanner, you should first make sure it comes with Adobe Photoshop LE then get a copy of Introducing Adobe Photoshop Elements. --Ken McMahon

From the Back Cover

Introducing Photoshop Elements will gently but thoroughly explain all aspects of the software, including

About the Author

Lisa Lee is the author of several best-selling computer books about topics ranging from Macintosh computers to Adobe Photoshop. She also has written more than 1,000 tutorials about all kinds of consumer hardware products, operating systems, and applications.

She is an amateur photographer, cartoonist, painter, musician, and Web designer. Visit her Web site at http://www.flatfishfactory.com to view her latest projects.

Customer Reviews

Somewhat disappointing.
I bought this booking hoping to be guided through the steps of impoving digital images and repairing old photographs. Instead I bought a reference manual. Lisa Lee knows her Photoshop Elements, no doubt about it. But it's a really tedious read. She tells you how to apply a fix, but not when you might want to. Breaking up the text with stepped through examples would have helped.

Another major criticism is that practically all the pictures are black and white. She refers to to an image that has had the contrast increased, but you only get the after image, not the before and it's not in colour so the reader has nothing to judge the improvement by.

All that being said, it is a very good reference book. If that's what you need then this is the book for you. If you want a tutorial look elsewhere.

Comprehensive guide
This is a comprehensive guide to Elements - let down only by its B&W illustrations. Thorough and well written. Heartily recommended - provided you don't mind the lack of colour illustrations - apart from a small insert in the middle of the book.

David