Now that support for digital RAW capture is built into so many cameras and both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, more photographers are using RAW to seize creative control of their digital images. If you're ready to explore RAW capture, or if you've tried it and bumped into obstacles, this book will show you how to optimize RAW files to achieve optimal results. The first introductory book on using Adobe Camera Raw, RAW 101 covers all practical aspects of RAW in Photoshop Elements 3 and Photoshop CS2. Just follow the heavily illustrated, step-by-step examples and you'll quickly figure out how to attain the greatest accuracy from your RAW files, whether it's correcting shadow and highlight detail, fixing white balance, or eliminating noise. Once you see the startling results, you'll no longer want to rely on your camera to make critical decisions for you.

These days, nobody really wants to learn everything there is about a software product like Photoshop Elements. And even if you did, who has the time to endlessly tinker and play with it until you figure everything out? You just want a book that will quickly show you how to do things with Photoshop Elements - things that aren't already covered in the docs, and things you can't just figure out on your own.

These days, nobody really wants to learn everything there is about a software product like Photoshop Elements. And even if you did, who has the time to endlessly tinker and play with it until you figure everything out? You just want a book that will quickly show you how to do things with Photoshop Elements - things that aren't already covered in the docs, and things you can't just figure out on your own.
Adobe Photoshop Elements in a Snap is designed specifically for today's computer user.

Don't let your pictures sit inside your digital camera! Show them off, with the help of Easy Adobe Photoshop Elements 4. This steps-with-pictures, task-oriented book leverages the built-in ease of Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 by showing you how to get the impressive results you want most, with no fuss and bother. You'll learn how to create photo album and slide shows using other readily available applications, such as Photoshop Album, Micro Research 3-D Album, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Full-color pictures will illustrate for you essential steps, captivating photos, and exactly how to perform each task. You will be quickly and easily be able to edit and share your photos with the visual, learn-by-doing approach taken in Easy Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Version 7 of Adobe Photoshop Elements has now arrived. Elements 7 has a new Quick Fix tool to soften surfaces while keeping the edge and detail sharp. Plus there's a new Scene Cleaner tool that can brush away undesirable objects from a photo [so you can ditch that car or tourists from the view] And there's now a Smart Brush which lets you instantly apply effects to a selected area of the image.

This best-selling reference's visual format and step-by-step, task-based instructions will have you up and running with Adobe's popular consumer image editing software in no time. In this completely; updated edition of our best-selling guide to Adobe Elements, leading graphic designer and Photoshop expert Craig Hoeschen uses crystal-clear instructions and friendly prose to introduce you to everything that's new in Adobe Photoshop Elements 4. Filled with step-by-step, task-based instructions and loads of visual aids, this book explains how to capture photos from traditional or digital cameras, reduce red eye, correct color, work with layers, erase backgrounds, create photo-illustrations and Web graphics, simulate painting and drawing techniques, apply artistic effects, and more.

"Adobe Photoshop Elements X: Photographers' Guide" is a unique guide that offers an in-depth look into the combination of Photoshop Elements and photography. If you are looking for a guide that shows you how to creatively use photography to produce compelling images and how to master all the tools Photoshop has to offer, then search no more! You'll get coverage of both traditional as well as leading-edge photographic techniques, and will learn how to reproduce or enhance them in Photoshop Elements. You don't need to be an ace photographer or image editing expert to create these eye-catching effects. Everything you need is contained in the pages of "Adobe Photoshop Elements X: Photographers' Guide."

If you're like many users, you may have a digital camera, plenty of snapshots, and a copy of Photoshop Elements, Adobe's wildly popular consumer-level image editing software. But you may not want--or need--a comprehensive book just to learn the basic photo retouching and organizing tasks that you want to accomplish.

Like the best-selling former edition, The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers breaks new ground by doing something for digital photographers that’s rarely done–it cuts through the bull and shows you exactly "how to do it." It’s not a bunch of theory; it doesn’t challenge you to come up with your own settings or figure things out on your own. Instead, it does something that virtually no other Elements book has ever done–it tells you flat-out which settings to use, when to use them, and why.

Once you have mastered the basics, this is the book to further develop your skills to get professional results with this affordable software. Under Philips expert guidance you will be taken to the next level, far beyond Elements basic concepts and skills so you can achieve the optimum results from this powerful package.

Photoshop Elements 4 is the fast, easy, and inexpensive way to get studio-quality results from your digital images. You can
* Correct color, exposure, and lighting
* Fix red-eye and other flaws
* Use image layers to alter the look of a photo
* Change the background
* Make albums, display photos online, or print your pictures
* Do almost everything you can do with Photoshop CS

It's not taking pictures that scares you; it's what to do with them afterwards that you find daunting when you consider making the move from traditional photography to digital photography. With Photoshop Elements and this friendly guide, it doesn't have to be. Eschewing a raft of technical details and advanced editing techniques for need-to-know basics, this volume provides everything you require to begin managing your photo life with the Windows version of Photoshop Elements 3 (which has Photoshop Album built in). After providing a quick introduction to the world of digital photography, veteran author Michael Slater--who's also one of Album's creators--shows you how to get and store photos, organize and find them

Using field-tested methods and practical instruction in both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, this book reveals eye-opening techniques, terrific workflow ideas, and timesaving ways to apply a broad array of Photoshop tools to optimize digital images of nature. You’ll encounter spectacular photographs from exotic places around the world shot by the authors, as well as tips and examples from some of the most esteemed professional nature photographers. In addition, the CD-ROM includes more than 60 minutes of video training as well as sample images to help you practice the techniques featured in the book.

video2brain: Photoshop Elements 8 - principles and practical workshops. 3 in 1 - three video courses in one: Get to know the basis for the extensive sub-step by step all the important tools and features of Photoshop Elements and start getting the most out of your pictures! You will learn how to sort and manage your images, correct and add effects and present them in web galleries, slideshows or photobooks. So your best photos are shown to advantage! In two extensive specialized workshops Uli Staiger shows the best tips and techniques, not to edit Portraetfotos and landscape images in Photoshop Elements only optimal, but to make real eye-catchers too!