Photoshop Elements 3 For Dummies (Paperback)

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Product Description

• What the book covers: the key features including: creating amazing panoramas, performing single click color adjustments, correcting image shadow and highlight problems, attaching edited photos to your E-mail, creating Adobe PDF slideshows, creating Web photo galleries of your images, discovering creative tips and techniques, automating repetitive tasks, and more. Includes both Windows and Mac coverage.
• Updated coverage of the new version: updated and revised throughout for the latest Photoshop Elements release.
• Series features: Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for over ten years.

From the Back Cover

Loaded with tips on fixing flaws to create great photos

Find your way around Elements 3, organize your photos, enhance them, and more

Want to do cool things with your photos but uneasy about braving the Elements? Never fear — this handy guide makes it easy to use all the hot new features for both Mac® and Windows®. Improve your pictures or distort them for artistic effect, correct shading, add highlights, change color, create slideshows or online galleries, and much more!

Discover how to

• Import photos from digital cameras, CDs, and scanners
• Organize and search your digital photo collection
• Repair vintage photos
• Create slideshows to share with family and friends
• Fix photos with just a few clicks of the mouse

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Product Details

• Paperback: 422 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies (November 19, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764570625
• ISBN-13: 978-0764570629
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #292,001 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Photoshop Elements 3 for Dummies, January 2, 2005

By	A. Arnold "AAUG Member" (Anchorage, Alaska) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book goes into great detail explaining the features of all the photo editing tools available in Elements 3. It starts out simple but quickly advances with page after page of procedures and commands that cover the program from every angle. It is well written and indexed and provides a lot of useful information but is a bit comprehensive and technical. Although it thoroughly covers all aspects of photo editing, it is not a step-by-step how to book but rather a good reference book.
Although I prefer books written specifically for the Mac user, this book does a good job of identifying features that pertain only to Windows or only to Macintosh through the use of separate icons in the margins. This book also uses an icon for identifying new features in Elements 3, an icon for explaining technical stuff, an icon for providing tips obtained through experience, and an icon for pinpointing particularly important points you should remember. It is written with a good sense of humor but is densely packed into 397 pages that are void of color except for 16 pages of examples placed in the middle.
I read this book from cover to cover while on a trip and away from my computer and I found it hard to grasp the many concepts without being able to follow along on the computer. The examples used are not what you would expect to see on your monitor and they are not in color. Since most of us novice get our photos from a digital camera, in color, it would have been helpful to get step by step instructions on how to correct and improve these photos. Since this book is for dummies, I guess I need to find one for dumber dummies.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Photoshop Elements 3 For Dummies, October 17, 2005

By	Mrs. Patricia A. Gehrman (Nebraska) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I do a lot of scrapbooking and was quite disappointed when I purchased Photoshop Elements because I could not seem to get around in the program. Now that I have the Dummies book I'm navigating the program with the greatest of ease. The book has talked me through step by step in easy to understand language. My pictures are looking much better and I'm able to print the sizes I want and recently I've started creating accessories for my pages. So I highly recommend this book.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best yet, February 14, 2005

By	Alexandria May - See all my reviews

I've had all three versions of Photoshop Elements, and I always get this book to go with the new version. As usual the authors have done an excellent job of updating the book covering all the new features. If you want an inexpensive friendly book about Photoshop Elements 3, this it it.