Editorial Reviews:
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 photos
- Create, rearrange, blend and manipulate layers to create a composite image
- Save 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 GIF
- Take advantage of the terrific Help Great Help system, including a How To palette with step-by-step tutorials for image editing and features
- Create a slide show, a picture package, or a Web photo gallery
PhotoshopElements 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 brush
- Using the healing brush to remove imperfections such as blemishes and the new red eye removal tool to remove that demonic glow
- Adjusting color with a variety of tools and techniques
- Applying filters such as Blur, Gaussian Blur, Colored Pencil, Diffuse Glow, Glass, Glowing Edges and many more
- Color correcting quickly with fast color-corrections
- Using 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 more
- Using the brush, pencil, eraser, shape and cookie cutter tools
- Working with the type tools, including formatting options, warping type into unusual shapes, and creating outline type
- Making the most of the effects, including frame, image effects, text effects, and textures
- Using Photomerge to create panoramic pictures
PhotoshopElements 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.
Customer Reviews:
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 Very good learning experience
Well written, clear, easy to follow instructions for learning Photoshop Elements 3. Deke McClelland, as usual, is an excellent teacher. editing photos
I am excited to learn how to edit photos. I am just a beginner, so this book is good as it is at my level.  Makes a complex software program a bit easier
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.  A Dummy on Photoshop for Dummies
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. Buy the book to learn more.
I've had Photoshop Elements for some time but was only scratching the surface on what it could do. This easy to read book has shown many, many functions to me that has made the money spent on the software much more of a value to me. I've jumped around chapters to focus on what was most important to me. Don't feel you need to sit and read cover to cover - start with what you want to learn. At times a boring subject the authors fit in humor. More Customer Reviews:
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