Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 4 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) [Paperback]

Mike Wooldridge (Author), Linda Wooldridge (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471777978 | ISBN-13: 978-0471777977 | Publication Date: December 5, 2005 | Edition: 1

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 4 tasks. Each task-based spread includes these great features to get you up and running on Photoshop Elements 4 in no time:
* Helpful sidebars that offer practical tips and tricks
* Succinct explanations that walk you through step by step
* Full-color screen shots that demonstrate each task
* Two-page lessons that break big topics into bite-sized modules

Learn How To:
* Import images from different sources
* Remove red-eye, dust, and scratches
* Adjust shadows and highlights
* Turn an image into a sketch
* Change print size, canvas size, and resolution
* Create a Web photo gallery

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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 4 tasks. Each task-based spread includes these great features to get you up and running on Photoshop Elements 4 in no time:

• Helpful sidebars that offer practical tips and tricks
• Succinct explanations that walk you through step by step
• Full-color screen shots that demonstrate each task
• Two-page lessons that break big topics into bite-sized modules

Learn How To:

• Import images from different sources
• Remove red-eye, dust, and scratches
• Adjust shadows and highlights
• Turn an image into a sketch
• Change print size, canvas size, and resolution
• Create a Web photo gallery

About the Author

Mike Wooldridge is a technology writer and Web developer in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has written more than a dozen books in the Visual series.

Linda Wooldridge is a former senior editor at Macworld and author of Teach Yourself Visually Adobe Photoshop CS2.
For access to some of the example images used in this book, visit: www.mediacosm.com/elements

Product Details

• Paperback: 324 pages
• Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (December 5, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471777978
• ISBN-13: 978-0471777977
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.8 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,114,025 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mike Wooldridge is a user-interface designer and Web developer. He has authored more than 20 books for Wiley's Visual series.

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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Illustrations than Three Other Books., March 25, 2006

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John Matlock "Gunny" (Winnemucca, NV) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 4 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) (Paperback)

The 'Visual' books are probably the most heavily illustrated books available on ny subject. This one, like the others has literally hundreds of color images the illustrate what they are tying to teach far batter than endless lines of text. This is particularly true of something like Photoshop which is basically a software packages that works with images. The images are a mix of color screen shots directly off of the computer's monitor and drawings specially made for this book that illustate some particular point.

This book is aimed at the beginner level. But by using it, a complete beginner could move up to fairly competent in a surprisingly short period of time. The experienced user might use this book as a way to rapidly, very rapidly, catch up on the most significant changes in version 4. This book won't make you a top of the line full bore guru, only a lot of time and practice will do that, but this book will get you started quickly, more quickly than most.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good for brushing up on imgage editing Photoshop style, January 10, 2006

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B. J. Barney III "Wheelzup" (Swanton, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 4 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) (Paperback)

I'm about half way through this book and like all of the other Teach Yourself Visually books this one is just as good. I did find several new things I had no idea Elements had in it such as tagging images to group similar photos and making my images easier to find on my computer. It may seem like a book for beginners but even the veteran users of Photoshop Elements will find some useful reminders for simple image editing that we take for granted by not trying to be fancier then we really need to be at times. For many actually seeing in color what is being explained makes doing the task much easier. This series of books do that very well even for new software such as Photoshop Elements 4.0.....

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars makes it very easy to learn a confusing program, June 5, 2007

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This review is from: Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 4 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) (Paperback)

I really like the "Teach Yourself Visually" computer books. I have a collection which includes a selection of all the popular "For Dummies" and similar computer guides, and the "Teach Yourself Visually" is by far the easiest for me to understand. The digital photography programs are very hard for me to learn, and this book helped a lot.