A Short Course in Photoshop Elements 3.0: The Editor (Book/eBook) [Spiral-bound]

Dennis Curtin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2, 2005

This book is designed to help you master those aspects of Photoshop Elements 3.0 that are most useful to digital photographers. Elements 3.0 is now really two programs--the old Photoshop Elements, now called the Editor, and Photoshop Album, now called the Organizer. This book introduces you to the Editor, the part of Elements used to edit and improve your images. (The Organizer is covered in a companion book.) It shows you how to evaluate tones, colors, sharpness, and other characteristics of your images and to select the tools you use to fix or improve them. The book is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the program and lays the foundation you'll need to master selections, layers, and painting and drawing tools used to dramatically improve or change your images.

We recognize that digital images can be edited in a wide variety of ways. In some cases you're a photographer trying to improve an image by eliminating or reducing its flaws. In other cases you are a graphic artist taking an image to a new place, making it something it never was, or incorporating it as one element in a larger project. In this book we focus on the photographic aspects, but along the way you'll master the tools you need to do graphic arts. Included are chapters on Getting Started, Working with Image Files, Fixing Your Images, Working with Selections, Working with Layers, Painting & Drawing, and Color Management. The book features an expensive spiral binding so it lies flat next to the computer, and when folded back on itself takes up have the desk space of books with cheaper bindings. Although written from a Windows point of view, the book is usable by Mac users experienced enough to cope with the few differences between the versions of the program.

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About the Author

For the past three decades Dennis Curtin has been an editor, author, and publisher in photography and computing. His latest books on digital cameras and Photoshop have been widely praised for their quality and simplicity. On the publishing side, Dennis was editor-in-chief of one of Little Brown's educational divisions and also held similar positions in Prentice-Hall's technology and engineering program and Prentice-Hall International. In those roles, he has worked extensively with Ansel Adams and other leading photographers of our generation. In his roles as publisher, editor, and author Dennis has been fortunate to publish or write many best-selling books in photography and computing. He is well-known for the clarity and simplicity of his writing style. Readers who find many published materials incomprehensible, find Dennis' books a joy to read and learn from.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 160 pages
• Publisher: ShortCourses.com (March 2, 2005)
• ISBN-10: 1928873561
• ISBN-13: 978-1928873563
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,022,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)