Nationally known comic Wally Wang delivers a fun way to learn Photoshop Elements. Learn to digitally enhance and manipulate photographs with help from a highly informative and hilarious writer. Express your deepest secrets and fantasies artistically, clean-up dirty pictures, erase bad memories, make yourself look younger and thinner, and perform other tricks.
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Comedian and author Wally Wang offers a hilarious and helpful look at how to use Photoshop Elements to manipulate your digital photographs or create completely new images. Turn a mediocre picture into a good picture and a good picture into a spectacular one through a series of lessons that take you step-by-step through the many Photoshop Elements tools. With keen observations and deft language, Wang tells you how to select within an image, use the history palette to go back in time, poke out red eye, remove wrinkles and chins, and alter images with such essential tools as Clone, Warp, Bloat, and Pucker.
- Learn the three basic ways to edit a picture
- Decipher the cryptic menus and screens of Photoshop Elements
- Create the illusion of movement
- Grab still pictures from movies or off Web pages
- Modify color, fix lighting, and straighten crooked images
- Add credibility and make your fake photographs look real
- Focus on the best parts of pictures by cropping and enlarging
- Tint, age, or turn color pictures into black and white
- Paint, draw, and create images that never existed before
- Rewrite history or restore the past by working with existing pictures, heirlooms, and other memories
- Print, publish, and share your newly created masterpieces with friends and family
About the Author
Wally Wang was born in Detroit and raised in a family of doctors. "My dad wanted me to become a doctor, but I wanted a job that required more imagination. So we compromised and I become a hypochondriac instead." After receiving a BA in Materials Science, Wally went to work as an engineer for General Dynamics in San Diego. On a challenge from a friend, Wally jumped into stand-up comedy, which he now does for a living through his company Top Bananas Entertainment. Wally also writes humorous computer books and magazine columns as well. He has written Office 2000 for Dummies, Beginning Programming for Dummies, The Print Shop Delux for Dummies (Wiley), and Steal This Computer Book among many others.
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I may be the only computer book author who hates computers. I love what computers can do but I hate the fact that they're so complicated, hard to use, unreliable, and downright troublesome. Besides writing computer books, I also enjoy performing stand-up comedy just to do something creative that involves human beings as opposed to machines.
I've been involved in computers, stand-up comedy, teaching, writing, and game designing for most of my life. In the computer industry, I've written over 50 computer books. Initially I focused primarily on Microsoft products such as Visual Basic and Microsoft Office. Later I switched focus to the Macintosh, iPhone, and iPad as I've watched the trend of computing shift from the PC/Microsoft dominated world to the mobile/Apple-influenced world. I've also shifted my programming focus from Delphi/Pascal and Visual Basic to Objective-C and LiveCode (a HyperCard clone) to create Macintosh and iPhone/iPad programs.
In the stand-up comedy world, I've been performing stand-up comedy for over 20 years, having appeared on A&E's "Evening at the Improv" and SiTV's "Latino Laugh Festival" along with appearing at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas. Currently I'm focusing my comedic writing skills towards occasional comedy performances but mostly towards screenwriting. You can read my screenwriting blog at The 15 Minute Movie Method (www.15minutemoviemethod.com). I've collected the best ideas from my screenwriting blog and condensed them into an e-book also called "The 15-Minute Movie Method," which is available as an e-book.
In 1992, I got my first cat and after reading a basic cat care book, I found that none of the advice offered had any basis in reality for dealing with the quirks and whims of a real cat. Based on that experience, I wrote a parody of a cat care book called "How to Live with a Cat (When You Really Don't Want To)." This book is now available as an e-book.
In the teaching world, I've taught at community colleges around San Diego as well as teaching at the University of Zimbabwe in Africa. Currently I teach an online Microsoft Word course through a company called Ed2Go.
In the writing world, I've written for several magazines including Computer Power User (CPU), Boardwatch Magazine, and Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. I also write a weekly Macintosh column in an online computer magazine called ComputorEdge (www.computoredge.com). In addition, I've ghost written several books for real estate experts, stock day trading specialists, and network marketing millionaires. In 2008, I also helped San Diego State University's film department win their first student Emmy when they filmed my sitcom pilot, "Three of a Kind."
In the game designing world, I've created and published a game in 1983 called "Orbit War," which was published by Steve Jackson Games (the game is now out of print). The game simulated low orbital combat between satellites. I'm currently designing educational games for teaching various college level topics such as organic chemistry, calculus, and geometry.
I'm interested in always learning something new and combining my various skills and experience to stay ahead of changing technology and I enjoy writing about complex topics and making them easy to understand.
I've been involved in computers, stand-up comedy, teaching, writing, and game designing for most of my life. In the computer industry, I've written over 50 computer books. Initially I focused primarily on Microsoft products such as Visual Basic and Microsoft Office. Later I switched focus to the Macintosh, iPhone, and iPad as I've watched the trend of computing shift from the PC/Microsoft dominated world to the mobile/Apple-influenced world. I've also shifted my programming focus from Delphi/Pascal and Visual Basic to Objective-C and LiveCode (a HyperCard clone) to create Macintosh and iPhone/iPad programs.
In the stand-up comedy world, I've been performing stand-up comedy for over 20 years, having appeared on A&E's "Evening at the Improv" and SiTV's "Latino Laugh Festival" along with appearing at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas. Currently I'm focusing my comedic writing skills towards occasional comedy performances but mostly towards screenwriting. You can read my screenwriting blog at The 15 Minute Movie Method (www.15minutemoviemethod.com). I've collected the best ideas from my screenwriting blog and condensed them into an e-book also called "The 15-Minute Movie Method," which is available as an e-book.
In 1992, I got my first cat and after reading a basic cat care book, I found that none of the advice offered had any basis in reality for dealing with the quirks and whims of a real cat. Based on that experience, I wrote a parody of a cat care book called "How to Live with a Cat (When You Really Don't Want To)." This book is now available as an e-book.
In the teaching world, I've taught at community colleges around San Diego as well as teaching at the University of Zimbabwe in Africa. Currently I teach an online Microsoft Word course through a company called Ed2Go.
In the writing world, I've written for several magazines including Computer Power User (CPU), Boardwatch Magazine, and Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities. I also write a weekly Macintosh column in an online computer magazine called ComputorEdge (www.computoredge.com). In addition, I've ghost written several books for real estate experts, stock day trading specialists, and network marketing millionaires. In 2008, I also helped San Diego State University's film department win their first student Emmy when they filmed my sitcom pilot, "Three of a Kind."
In the game designing world, I've created and published a game in 1983 called "Orbit War," which was published by Steve Jackson Games (the game is now out of print). The game simulated low orbital combat between satellites. I'm currently designing educational games for teaching various college level topics such as organic chemistry, calculus, and geometry.
I'm interested in always learning something new and combining my various skills and experience to stay ahead of changing technology and I enjoy writing about complex topics and making them easy to understand.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Funny Book For Being Instructive,
By David (Billings, MT) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements (Paperback)
Knowing next to nothing about Photoshop Elements, this book really helped. The humor throughout the book was great because it wasn't just another mind-numbing technical manual that goes from introductory to a Ph.D. level of understanding by the third chapter.The use of humor throughout the book made it fun to read. It's one of the few "computer/software" books I've read front to back. But along with the humor, is a lot of good instruction and information about using Photoshop Elements.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great how-to guide....,
By A Customer
This review is from: Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements (Paperback)
Don't let the title fool you - first and foremost this is the best step-by-step guide to Photoshop Elements out there (I've looked at too many of them). I found the explanations clear and concise and my frustrations with trying to learn the program on my own were solved. It is an excellent how-to book....The bonus is that it is also funny and I've often stopped reading in my tracks and thought - "I can't believe he just said that!" Overall it is the best of both worlds - very useful and damn amusing....
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Totally hillarious and usefull!,
By "cheesenub" (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements (Paperback)
After reading tons and tons of technical books for Photoshop, this has got to be the most entertaining one yet. Being a designer for a newspaper, this book has opened up a whole new world of satire for me. My associate who teaches a design class in Portland read it once and decided to use it for his Photoshop class.The instructions are easy and maintainable, unlike all those other dry humorless books. The illustrations are pretty damn funny also (I love the gorilla/strip dancer photo!). I hope to see more from Wally Wong in the future.
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