Photoshop Elements 3 For Dummies by Deke McClelland (PDF)

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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 photosCreate, rearrange, blend and manipulate layers to create a composite imageSave 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 GIFTake advantage of the terrific Help Great Help system, including a How To palette with step-by-step tutorials for image editing and featuresCreate a slide show, a picture package, or a Web photo galleryPhotoshopElements 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 brushUsing the healing brush to remove imperfections such as blemishes and the new red eye removal tool to remove that demonic glowAdjusting color with a variety of tools and techniquesApplying filters such as Blur, Gaussian Blur, Colored Pencil, Diffuse Glow, Glass, Glowing Edges and many moreColor correcting quickly with fast color-correctionsUsing 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 moreUsing the brush, pencil, eraser, shape and cookie cutter toolsWorking with the type tools, including formatting options, warping type into unusual shapes, and creating outline typeMaking the most of the effects, including frame, image effects, text effects, and texturesUsing Photomerge to create panoramic picturesPhotoshopElements 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.

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap Loaded with tips on fixing flaws to create great photos Find your way around Elements 3, organize your photos, enhance them, and moreWant 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 toImport photos from digital cameras, CDs, and scannersOrganize and search your digital photo collectionRepair vintage photosCreate slideshows to share with family and friendsFix photos with just a few clicks of the mouse 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 moreWant 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 toImport photos from digital cameras, CDs, and scannersOrganize and search your digital photo collectionRepair vintage photosCreate slideshows to share with family and friendsFix photos with just a few clicks of the mouse About the Author Deke McClelland wrote the Photoshop Bible and Photoshop Bible, Professional Edition (both published by Wiley), bestselling guides on digital imaging. He has written 76 titles in 25 languages with 3 million copies in print, including Photoshop For Dummies (published by Wiley) and the tutorial-based Adobe Photoshop One-on-One (published by O’Reilly/Deke Press). In addition to his books, Deke hosts the video training series Total Training for Adobe Photoshop and Total Training Presents: Adobe Photoshop Elements (published by Total Training). One of the most award-winning writers in the business, Deke has received seven honors from the Computer Press Association. In 2002, he was inducted into the Photoshop Hall of Fame. Galen Fott contributed to two editions of Deke’s Photoshop Bible and to Adobe InDesign CS One-on-One (O’Reilly/Deke Press). He has also written for Macworld and PC Magazine. Galen created and hosted Total Training for Mac OS X, co-hosted Total Training for Adobe Premiere 6, and presented more than two hours of Photoshop training for the Apple Web site (all published by Total Training). In his theoretical spare time, Galen is involved in a number of other pursuits. As an animator, he has worked for AT&T and Paramount. As a performer, he has played leading roles in musicals across the country. As a puppeteer, he has performed with the Jim Henson Company. Those with piqued interest can visit his Web site at www.grundoon.com. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Well written. Easy to learn from. Thanks.

⭐I got rid of both the full-fledged Photoshop and PhotoShop Elements from my hard drives, so I’m a biased reviewer. The programs are needlessly complex and counterintuitive, but this book is helpful. I tried PhotoShop Elements 5 and got rid of it, too. Too slow, too stupid. But the “Dummies” series is helpful if you want to invest in the learning curve.

⭐I have six books for Photoshop Elements 3. This one is the best of the lot. Written so I can understand it. Unlike the others, this one does not assume that I am already an expert on the program. If I knew what the others assume I know, I wouldn’t need their books.Let’s hear it for the Dummies.

⭐Very satisfied

⭐I must need elements 3 for total idiots. This was just not that helpful.

⭐Well written, clear, easy to follow instructions for learning Photoshop Elements 3. Deke McClelland, as usual, is an excellent teacher.

⭐Photoshop is one of those software packages that can be used at many levels. There are many books that take Photoshop to the “guru” level.This is, of course, a For Dummies book. It starts at the very beginning and gets you started. You’ll learn how to get started and to get your digital photographs organized, repaired, and shared for print, e-mail and the web.The part I liked best is the way it shows the results of different Photoshop tools on the same picture. This made a lot more sense to me than just the names, which I suspect has some historical meaning to the pros.It’s a For Dummies book. It is well written, well illustrated and not so dreadfully dull as most computer book.

⭐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.

⭐Still a steep learning curve not getting any smoother – but probably as good as it gets.

⭐Bought on impulse when I got my new laptop and have never opened it. Will probably put it on ebay or in a car boot sale!!

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