The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 [Paperback]

Greg Holden (Author), Joli Ballew (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Complete Idiot's Guide | Publication Date: October 16, 2002

Photoshop Elements, a pared down version of the standard Photoshop 6, offers surprisingly powerful image editing tools with an affordable price tag ($99 new/$69 upgrade) for budding digital photographers and computer graphics enthusiasts. As Adobe's first digital imaging package to target the mid-range market, it will appeal to anyone wanting to enhance their digital images or those who wish to create illustrations to go with exiting digital images. The essential steps to enhancing a digitally captured or scanned photograph are not the only areas covered in this book. Many more intermediate to advanced features in Elements will be reviewed: merging multiple photos, liquefying and blending pixels, cool ways to thumbnail images and preview filters, and handy instructions how to upload GIF and JPEG images onto the Web with Shutterbug. Plentiful screenshots in the book will walk readers through Elements highly intuitive interface. Step-by-step demonstration will be liberally used. A trial version of Elements will also be bundled.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Erica Sadun is an experienced author and programmer, holding a Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech's Graphics, Visualization and Usability Center. A digital imaging expert, she began working with capture techniques in 1984. She has authored and co-authored several books and articles on digital photography and digital imaging, Digital Photography! I Didn't Know You Could Do That... (Sybex/078212965X) and Photoshop 6.0 Quick Reference (Sybex/0782129250) are but a few.

Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Alpha (October 16, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028643550
• ISBN-13: 978-0028643557
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,084,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #64 in Books > Computers & Technology > Digital Photography & Video > Adobe Photoshop Elements

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Warning Don't buy, October 11, 2003

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Roger Fink (Las Vegas, NV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 (Paperback)

Book refers to non-existent files on the included CD. Without these files the explanations are fairly worthless.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Clsoe to being grreat but . . ., January 27, 2003

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M. Inglis (Palos Verdes Estates, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 (Paperback)

The premise of this book is that you will learn by doing. The only problem is that you can't do that because the examples/ aren't on the CD. As an addtional problem, the software that is supposed to calibrate your monitor is also among the missing. Maybe the CD is for an earlier orlater edition but it makes the process very frustrating. Frustrating because the book is very well written and quite comrehensive. And you must have a book if you are to learn this very involved convuluted, if very useful, application.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Missing files in book CD, January 11, 2003

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Eric M. Cole (Reston, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 (Paperback)

Although the book has good intentions ... well written and to the point,I can hardly recommend it on account of the fact that a number of the files that are referred to in the book are missing on the CD. In particular,a crucial chapter 7 on layering refers to a file in the Chapter 7 folder part of the CD. The folder is not present on my CD and neither is the file. Without it this particular section of the book is valueless.