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40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques

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This book has a CD with 40 photos, and includes specific instructions on how to edit those photos. Want to edit your own photos? Then this book is of little use to you, except in the unlikely event you want to make the EXACT same edits. When it comes to the edits, it does not instruct you WHAT you are doing or WHY you are doing it - it is just "click this button, enter values 10, 19, and 245" with nothing to help you understand why you are clicking that or using those specific buttons. I have read 6 books on photshop elements, and this is the only one I found that was completely unhelpful. The CD does not add value - it has only the sample photos and a "trial" version of elements 3 that is easily downloaded from adobe's website (if you want a trial version).

A nice attraction of the book is the accompanying CD. It has a bunch of example images that you can try out the book's techniques on. But just as importantly, it has a trial version of Photoshop Elements. To some of you, just getting the latter might be well worth the entire book.

In any event, the book guides you through the most common usages of Elements. Much simpler than the full Photoshop. Which is really for professionals. Elements is more attuned towards the amateur market, where you have a need for easy to learn methods of touching up your digital images, and these are often photos.

The Book is simple, alone it is not enough to learn Elements but as an addition to other books, you will find in it useful hints. You do have to apply them to your own photos by adjusting their instructions since they teach by using their photos and giving exact settings for that photo. Don't buy if it's the only book you will own, good as another source!