Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Maximum Performance: Unleash the hidden performance of Elements | 
 enlarge | Author: Mark Galer
Publisher: Focal Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Dvdr
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Pages: 328
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Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0240520920
EAN: 9780240520926
ASIN: 0240520920
Publication Date: December 17, 2007
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Product Description
Unleash the hidden potential for professional image editing in Adobe Photoshop Elements with this project-based, real-world guide.
Using step-by-step instructions and accompanying movie tutorials, Mark Galer leads you through the less well-known and most powerful post-production editing techniques Adobe Photoshop Elements has to offer. Cunning tricks and clever workarounds help you to create professional images without features from the full Adobe Photoshop package that you need but don't want to pay for - perform tasks you didn't think were possible in Adobe Photoshop Elements!
Whether you're an imaging professional or a photography enthusiast, this book will help you get the maximum performance from your software. Learn how to:
* Create striking effects with no commercial lighting or studio equipment
* Extend the dynamic range of your digital camera by merging multiple exposures
* Optimize, enhance and montage images with stunning results
The accompanying DVD provides extensive support with movie tutorials for all projects, high resolution images, multilayered files of completed projects, a stock library and a keyboard shortcut guide.
Mark Galer is a freelance photographer, accomplished lecturer and best-selling author of number books on photography. He is an official Adobe Ambassador for Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements.
* Save money by unleashing the hidden potential of Elements for professional image editing rather than upgrading to the full Photoshop software
* Practical, step-by-step projects show you how to solve real-world problems and create stunning
images using clever workarounds and powerful, little-known techniques
* Free DVD includes more than 5 hours of tutorials, image files, a stock library and keyboard shortcut guide - worth the cover price alone!
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 If you are serious about photography, you should get one September 21, 2008
This book guides you project by project and step by step to enhance the visual effect of your photos. The way the author use layers is amazing and the results are great.
If you are serious about photography and currently use Elements 6, it will defenitely help you to make a good picture look stunning.
Better yet, it comes with a DVD to show you how the projects are done.
 NOT for "Newbies" August 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are a beginner at Photoshop , this is not
for you . Not detailed enough for anyone who does not know
the controls well enough. Some Projects just end with out showing
or telling the user how to wrap up the rest of it. Most important,
it is written in a format only experienced Photoshop users
can understand. Expect to know terminology and where exactly to find certain controls and tools ON YOUR OWN before trying this.
Not useful to me.
 Maximum Performance indeed July 9, 2008
If Mark Galer's well written three hundred page book isn't enough for you the included five hour DVD will prove to be invaluable.
High end techniques for Adobe's budget imaging app March 15, 2008
22 out of 22 found this review helpful
This is slightly unusual in for a photography book as it's project based. Think of it as an extended set of the sort of tutorials you find in the digital photo magazines.
It's split into 3 sections with overall headings of "Optimize" "Enhance" and "Montage" with individual chapters each covering a particular technique in Elements 6.
A DVD is included with video and image resources covering all the projects (which is unusual) - 5 hours of video and high quality images (including RAW and PSD with all layers). There are also some potentially useful actions (I haven't got round to using these yet, as I'm running the Macintosh beta version, and haven't figured out how to install them!)
As with all the most recent Elements publications I've seen, this is based around the Windows version, but it doesn't seem to be so focussed - I found no problems following the projects on a MacBook, as there is less emphasis on keyboard shortcuts in the text, and the menus and interfaces are pretty much the same for each platform.
Mark Galer writes in a style that I find refreshing - it's witty without detracting from the technical content, and I found that the techniques 'stuck' very quickly without repeated re-reading.
Unusually these days (or so it seems) there's no accompanying website for the book, but I didn't find this detracted from the overall experience, perhaps because the DVD content is so comprehensive.
If you're a newcomer to Elements this isn't the book for you - it's not going to teach you how to navigate the interface - I don't think that there's any one image in the book that shows the whole screen - but if you want to learn some more high end techniques which you may not expect possible from Adobe's budget app then you may want to consider buying it.
 Little Originality January 29, 2008
24 out of 30 found this review helpful
This is an excellent product IF YOU DON'T ALREADY HAVE "ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5 MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE" BY THE SAME AUTHOR. I was so impressed with the author's previous book, that I bought this one. How disappointing to find all the chapters are identical except three. They use the same text, the same photo images, the same tutorials in both books --except that if there is a difference in the way Elements 6 uses a particular tool, it is noted. Either book is an excellent resource, but don't buy both, unless you like identical twins.
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