Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 in 24 Hours [Paperback]

Kate Binder (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0672330172 | ISBN-13: 978-0672330179 | Publication Date: May 26, 2008 | Edition: 1

In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, you will be editing and organizing your photos with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds upon a real-world foundation in both the creative process and techniques, allowing you to learn the essentials of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 from the ground up.

 

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common Photoshop Elements tasks.

 

Quizzes and Exercises at the end of each chapter help you test your knowledge.

 

By the Way notes present interesting information related to the discussion.

 

Did You Know? tips offer advice or show you easier ways to do something.

 

Watch Out! cautions alert you to possible problems and give you advice on how to avoid them.

 

Color section includes a full-color collection of images found throughout the book.

 

Learn how to…

• Import photos from your digital camera and cell phone
• Get the best scans of your old prints
• Post your pictures on the Web in galleries and slideshows
• Order prints directly within Photoshop Elements
• Create printable scrapbook pages on your computer
• Improve and repair your old photos
• Remove unwanted objects (or people) from photos
• Get the perfect group shot using the PhotoMerge features
• Fix red eye, lighten dark pictures,  smooth wrinkles, and sharpen blurry images
• Create stunning artistic effects with the more than 100 filters available in Photoshop Elements

 

In addition to writing books like this one, Kate Binder does freelance magazine and book production and creates e-books for major publishers. Books written or cowritten by Kate include Easy Mac OS X Leopard, Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours, Easy Adobe Photoshop Elements 4, Get Creative! The Digital Photo Idea Book, SVG for Designers, Photoshop 6 Cookbook, and PhotoImpact Solutions.

 

Register your book at informit.com/sams/title/9780672330179 for convenient access to updates and corrections as they become available.

 

Category: Graphics

Covers: Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 6

User Level: Beginning—Intermediate

 

$24.99 USA / $26.99 CAN / £17.99 Net UKÇ

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About the Author

Kate Binder has mastered Photoshop and several other graphics programs over the past 20 years, and is starting to feel quite old. She still enjoys tinkering with photos and does so at every opportunity. (It’s much more entertaining than doing actual work.) When she can be found working, Kate is most likely to be doing magazine or book production, creating ebooks for major publishers, or writing books like this one. Books Kate has written or cowritten include Easy Mac OS X Leopard (Que, 2007, ISBN 9780789737717), Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3 in 24 Hours (Sams, 2007, ISBN 9780672329357), Easy Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 (Que, 2005, ISBN 9780789734679), Get Creative!: The Digital Photo Idea Book (McGraw-Hill, 2003, ISBN 9780072227215), SVG for Designers (McGraw-Hill, 2002, ISBN 9780072225297), Microsoft Office v. X for Mac Inside Out (Microsoft Press, 2002, ISBN 9780735616288), The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Mac OS X (Alpha, 2001, ISBN 9780789725288), Photoshop 6 Cookbook (Silver Pixel Press, 2001, ISBN 9781883403836), PhotoImpact Solutions (Muska and Lipman Publishing, 2000, ISBN 9781929685127), and Sams Teach Yourself QuarkXPress 4 in 14 Days (Hayden Books, 1997, ISBN 9780756302771). Kate lives in an old house in New Hampshire with her husband, journalist Don Fluckinger, accompanied by assorted children, greyhounds, cats, and (she’s pretty sure) a mouse under the dryer.

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Introduction

I love Photoshop Elements, I really do. Now, I'm a graphics geek, so I'm a Photoshop user from way back—version 2. When I got my first good look at Photoshop Elements 1, I was thrilled that Adobe had managed to roll much of the power of Photoshop into such a simple, clean package. Now that we're up to version 6, I like the program even better.

Photoshop Elements is easy to use, but it still has a lot of great features brought over from Big Mama Photoshop, such as batch processing and my favorite Photoshop command, Shadow/Highlights. To sweeten the pot, there's a built-in photo catalog, called the Organizer, and easy ways to create fun projects using your photos, from hardbound books to slideshows that will really wow the boss or the grandparents.

You can get Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac OS X or for Windows, and it works almost identically on the two platforms. You'll find a few differences—for example, on the Mac, the Organizer is called Bridge—but for the most part, you can use either version with this book (which was written using the Windows version). If you are using a Mac, you'll need to translate keyboard shortcuts a bit; instead of using Ctrl, use the Command key, and instead of using Alt, use the Option key.

You've probably noticed that Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 in 24 Hours is divided into hours rather than chapters. Not surprisingly, there are 24 hours in the book. Don't view this as a challenge, however; I don't expect you to work through the book in 24 consecutive hours. Instead, complete each hour at your own pace. Feel free to skip around. If you're already familiar with Photoshop or with older versions of Photoshop Elements, don't skip the Workshop sections. I know they look like homework (and they are!), but I've tried to keep them fun, useful, and short—and even experienced users will find them valuable.

I've posted a bunch of the photos used in this book on the Sams website. You can find them by going to http://www.informit.com/title/0672330172. Now, you won't see all the book's photos in this downloadable collection; I've indicated in the text when a photo is included so that you can work along with me on the Try It Yourself sections. But the real point of all this is for you to learn to work with your photos, those special images of your family, the things you're interested in, the places you travel, and whatever else you snap pictures of. So jump on in using your own photos, and—whatever else you do—have fun!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 504 pages
• Publisher: Sams; 1 edition (May 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672330172
• ISBN-13: 978-0672330179
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,312,211 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #44 in Books > Computers & Technology > Digital Photography & Video > Adobe Photoshop Elements

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not MacCentric, June 28, 2008

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This book is written for the Windows version, but nowhere in the description is this specifically mentioned. For Mac users the first five hours (chapters), which discuss the Organizer (not in the Mac version of PSE6), are useless. Once you get used to converting Windows key strokes to Mac, the remaining hours are helpful but, for Mac users, Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac (The Missing Manuel) by Barbara Brundage is the better deal. If you can afford both books, fine, otherwise get the Missing Manual.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements in 24 Hrs, June 29, 2008

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Of the several Elements 6 books I've read this is by far the most concise and easily referenced.A must have for beginners like myself.

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3.0 out of 5 stars photo element is great, June 20, 2008

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it was good transaction and the book is fine just that i am a visual learner and thought it would show more but it helpful