Photoshop Elements 6 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Pages: 400
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0470192380
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780470192382
ASIN: 0470192380
Publication Date: December 17, 2007
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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.
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 One of the worst Dummies books July 25, 2008
Having used the Dummies books before, with great success, I was very disappointed in this book. There are several instances where what the book states does not mesh with what is actually happening with the software. I bought this book about a week after I'd bought Photoshop Elements 6, after realizing the online help was next to no help. I don't know if it's the authors' fault, or perhaps the software itself - it is certainly not intuitive, when taken with other programs I've worked in (both PC and Mac - programs like MS Word, MS Publisher, QuarkExpress, etc.). Whatever the cause - maybe a combination of both? - the whole process of using the book and the software has been a very frustrating experience. I would not buy another book by either of these authors again, given my experience with this one.
 It is very halpful. June 25, 2008
I have used this book to help me edit my pics and it is really helpful.
A book worth reading June 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just recently bought this book and hemmed and hawed around as to whether to get this book or the Missing Manual.
I'm glad I went with this book. It is simple and easy to use and it seems to go into detail on some areas, yet missing something on other areas.
By playing around with the program once I've read how to do something, I find I can go further.
I picked up on some helpful hints immediately when I first started reading this book and am keeping my side notes to refer back to.
Photo Elements June 20, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This gets right to the point in learning Elements 6 and is truly easy reading and right to the point. Very good.
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 6 FOR DUMMIES June 13, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great REFERENCE book for Photoshop Elements 6. For me, it's pointless to thoroughly "read" such books from start to finish. Who can effectively recall the tons of accumulated facts in just the opening chapters? I can't, so I just breeze through it, to become famaliar with the contents (without trying to fully understanding how to apply everything I've "scanned"). The real value of this book is it's reference value. Having scanned the book, I found many new techiques I had never imagined. NOW I can turn directly to a particular procedure and the step-by-step procedures walk me through it.
Photography is a great hobby, and digital has opened new ways of creating better photographs. The magic of the darkroom is now available to amatures who have limited time or money to invest. I simply can't (won't) devote the time necessary to equal the accumulated experience of the experts I admire. But I DO pay attention to their expertise via popular magazines and books.
Photoshop Elements 6 is a great tool, and the book, "Photoshop Elements 6 for Dummies," helps me to understand how I may want to manipulate a similar scene, and explains how I can do it.
One more example. A few months ago I also ordered "Understanding Exposure" (revised edition) by Bryan Peterson. This is yet another noteworthy example of a highly respected photographer offering his expertise: Explanations of how he captured stunning photographs are accompanied by his OWN GREAT examples. My point is simple, amatures can capture great photographs if you are willing to arm ourselves with the advice of the masters. Owning the best equipment in the world is meaningless if you don't know how to use it.
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