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The Digital Photographer's Guide to Photoshop Elements 4: Improve Your Photographs and Create Fantastic Special Effects (Lark Photography Book)

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Here is one of those books that provide you with some creative ideas using Photoshop Elements but does not provide the sample files to follow along. Instead the author gives you a website where the files can be purchased. Although the book has some good ideas this fact alone gives it a low rating.
My suggestion is to make sure sample fiels are included in any book that gives tutorials on how to create new creations.. A Thing I overlooked.

A wonderful book! I've had trouble learning Photoshop Elements, but in just a few days, I feel comfortable making adjustments I couldn't figure out before. No dreary pages on the theory of layers or colors, etc., just instructions on how to make improvements to your photos. Also, Beckham goes a little beyond the basics and shows how to do some neat special effects, like cloning, combining images from different photos, and restoring old, damaged photos. A great beginner's book.

There is no question that Photoshop is the professional's choice when it comes to digital photograph manipulation. But along the way it has gotten very big, very expensive. Each new edition has hundreds of new features. But when you look at the new features, there aren't very many that you're likely to find useful.

So Adobe decides to made a de-featured version of the software. They call it Photoshop Elements. Time goes on, and with each new edition of the Elements it gets more and more features. It's almost the equivalent of the Photoshop of just a few years ago. And at Amazon Elements is $79.99 full Photoshop is $579.99, a flat $500 more.

Look pretty carefully at Photoshop Elements if you're thinking of this kind of software. It just might do everything you need to do.

How to look at what Elements does, this book will tell you. It's a complete guide to using Elements. So learn Elements to use, or study it just to see if it will do your job requires, here's the place to start.