Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 6 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) (Paperback)

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Product Description

If you’re a visual learner, this book is for you. Clear, step-by-step screen shots show you how to tackle more than 150 common tasks using Photoshop Elements 6, in task-based spreads with easy, visual directions. Learn to work with toolboxes and palettes, import and organize images, map photos, create slide shows, enhance contrast and colors, combine images, and much more. Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks, and succinct explanations walk you through step by step.

From the Back Cover

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 150 Photoshop Elements tasks. Each task-based spread includes easy, visual directions for performing necessary operations, including:

• Working with toolboxes and palettes

• Importing and organizing images

• Mapping photos

• Creating slide shows

• Enhancing contrast and colors

• Combining images

• Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

• Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task

• Succinct explanations walk you through step by step

• Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Visual (January 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470177446
• ISBN-13: 978-0470177440
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #280,203 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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58 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful, January 16, 2008

By	Lori J. Hernandez (Grand Rapids, MI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I have been using this book for the last week or so. I've paged through the entire book and read about half of it.

Pros: 1. The book is very easy to read - no complicated jargon I don't understand. 2. There are lots of pictures/sample photos, for us visual learners. 3. The step-by-step instructions are fabulous! Even a total computer idoit like myself can follow these instructions. 4. The chapters are well organized. It's easy for me to find what I need. I keep this right by my computer and refer to it constantly.

Cons: 1. I can find no mention of how to use the "Face/Head Swapping" tool. For me, with small children in the home, that was a big selling point to Elements 6 (we can never seem to get a photo were everyone is smiling). I figured it out on my own, but I find it odd there is no mention of it in the book... or maybe I just missed it, but I've looked several times. 2. Right now, I am trying to create a PhotoBook and it's driving me crazy! There are little to no instructions on the program and the book only has a small blurb about PhotoBooks that is NOT helpful. I also had trouble trying to figure out how to create collage/scrapbook pages... maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems like it shouldn't be this hard. The

32 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I was looking for, February 8, 2008

By	G. Schwartz (Green Valley, AZ) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Step-by-step, visual ties between text and screen illustrations, no long paragraphs or sentences with several embedded steps. East to return to the book later to refresh understanding of a particular operation.

This is the way all manuals should be written.

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick and Easy Way to Learn , February 8, 2008

By	John J. Deis "Aspiring photog" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is the second Teach Yourself book I have purchased. My first was for Photoshop Elements 4.0. I found that book so well done and easy to use that when I bought Elements 6.0 I waited for the latest Teach Yourself Visually to be published. It covers all of the functions of the program that you are likely to use. I find that pictures and words help me to learn much quicker. If you need to be refreshed in some area of the program you can do it quickly. I find this publication and all of the series of Teach Yourself Visually publications a must to have.