The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2 Pap/Cdr Edition

by Richard Lynch (Author)

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Adobe's 'kid brother' to Photoshop has earned rave reviews for user friendliness, one-click features, and affordability. But there's more to Elements than meets the eye - after all, it's based on the Photoshop engine. Now, Richard Lynch extends the power of Elements, teaching readers powerful image correction techniques and bringing them much of Photoshop's functionality through a series of original "actions" included on the CD. Topics covered include: professional-quality colour correction, complex image alterations, and sharing images on the web and in print.

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Paperback: 292 pages
Publisher: Sybex; Pap/Cdr edition (January 21, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0782141781
ISBN-13: 978-0782141788
Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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148 of 150 people found the following review helpful

The essential working and learning tool for photoshop

By A Customer on January 28, 2003

Format: Paperback

If you're upgrading from one of the ... beginners' image processing programs, and if you're serious about photography you should, "Photoshop 7.0" always comes out on top: the most power, the most sophistication, the best. But few of us can justify a purchase that great for a hobby. So "Photoshop Elements" looks tempting until you try it. Too many of the major tools of the full PS have been stripped out; you can't work with curves, make separations, look at individual color channels, etc., and that hurts.
Well, it turns out you can do all that! Richard Lynch's outstanding "Hidden Power" provides a CD with plug-in tools for "Photoshop Elements" that virtually turns the simpler program into the full package -- at about a quarter of the price.
If that were all Lynch's book did, I would give it 5 stars. But it isn't the whole story or even most of the story. The fact is that "Hidden Power" is just about the best explanation of what those tools do, how color imaging works, and how to use powerful tools to good advantage that I've ever seen. And I've read a lot in 10+ years of manipulating digital images.
Finally, "Hidden Power" includes the most useful tool I've owned for getting past the hardest part: making your printed output look right without spending hundreds of dollars on expensive 'profiling' gear and software. It's a simple file, with the colors recorded in CMYK format, and it's the perfect calibration tool. In one evening it solved completely the difficult problem of getting predictable, neutral-color black and white prints.
Kudos to Lynch. If you go for Photoshop Elements, you have to have "Hidden Power" to go along with it. Accept no substitutes. Give the book a sixth star.

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81 of 81 people found the following review helpful

The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements

By SteveG on February 3, 2003

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This book is well worth the money for the "Hidden Tools" alone. I consider myself an intermediate user of Photoshop Elements. I have been tempted lately to buy the full-blown Photoshop to gain the additional capabilities. This book and CD gave me most of the additional tools that I thought I was missing.
The book is not written for beginners. You should have a good understanding of how to use Photoshop Elements before diving into this book. Given the scope of this book, I found the first chapter to be a little too basic. I initially found parts of chapter 2 a little confusing. I never use gradient maps and found the explanation in the book to be somewhat confusing. I went back to my "Photoshop for Dummies" book and re-read the portion on gradient maps. This made the light go on for me on what the author was saying in Chapter 2. I found chapters 3, 4 and 5 the most useful. These chapters dealt with the type of image clean-up I encounter most often. These chapters dealt with curves, which I knew was a feature I missed in Photoshop Elements. Chapter 5 showed some great uses of the History Brush, another missing tool from Photoshop Elements that you get on the CD in the Hidden Tools. The remainder of the book gave some good hints on how to improve your images as well.
I read the whole book, but I am sure that not all was absorbed. I will keep this book close to my computer to use as a reference as I try to fix those difficult to correct images.
The author of the book has made himself available to answer questions on several Photoshop Elements and retouching forums. I highly recommend this book to anyone that wants to go beyond the basics of what is available in Photoshop Elements.

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79 of 83 people found the following review helpful

Mixed: Good tools, Poor editing

By Darwin's Bulldog VINE VOICE on October 30, 2003

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If you scan through the previous reviews, you will find that those folks who are familiar with the full version of Photoshop are raving about the tools provided and explained in this book. The beginning Photoshop Elements users are having a great deal of trouble. The reason: experienced users are not following along with the examples and the newbies are.
Fact is, there are a large number of mistakes remaining in the book, even if you were able to find the errata on the author's book site. For example, the first big project leads you through creating color separations. There are two errors in the step-by-step instructions. One step for each is a +120 hue adjustment and the next should be -120 but the minus sign is missing. Users will find that they repeated the previous step and do not get the desired result. Additionally, the step changing one of the layer blend modes to 'screen' is omitted for each primary. The user will never get the greyscale result.
There are numerous other editing problems as well. Stuff listed as appearing in the appendix is actually in the tools, and at least one of the practice files is named incorrectly. There are numerous small linguistic errors, such as using the word 'effect' when the word 'affect' is correct. Clearly this book was rushed into print before many aspects were finalized.
That said, the tools are in fact very valuable, and the book goes well beyong simple follow-the-instructions explanation of Photoshop Elements. This sets this book apart from most others; you will know not only 'How' but 'Why'. I would recommend this as a second book to anyone who has some experience with Elements and can recognize why some of the practice instructions are not working correctly. They will also better appreciate the value of the tools.Read more ›

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The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2

As great as advertised. Delivered on time. Delivered in excellent condition. Very satisfied. Will order more hard to find manuals in the future. FBliven.

Published on January 17, 2010 by F. Bliven

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The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2
After 7 years of struggling with Elements 2 and various books, I bought this, used, and discovered the way to think about images and... Read more

Published on April 5, 2009 by Bill H

The best book I've bought all year

The tools were why I bought the book -- having access to Curves and Color Balance alone would have been worth it, but there are a lot more -- masking tools, color separations, -- I... Read more

Published on November 10, 2006 by C. Ahn

Maybe Later

After five nights of really trying so hard to get through this book...and I did try, I finally decided I was so lost it was time to quit and try some other book. Read more

Published on August 4, 2005 by Amazon Customer

Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2

First must say all the raves you see are from professionals that have used other systems and maybe good friends of the author, as some of the reviews said, mistakes, no clear... Read more

Published on May 23, 2005 by Stan Kwasniowski

Full of info but definitely a "college level" course

When I first read this book I was overwhelmed by the information and have had to struggle through all of the technical work. There is so much to learn, and much of it is technical. Read more

Published on March 27, 2005 by HappyInSeattle

Praise

I have nothing but praise for this densely-packed book. Seek and ye shall find! The information level is as comprehensive as one could wish: Beware though, very few empty words,... Read more

Published on September 26, 2004 by Anita Macaleavey

The BEST Book on Photoshop Elements 2

I checked this book out of my library as I frequently use Photoshop 7 and Photoshop Elements 2. At first, I thought Elements is very inferior to Photoshop, but I have found ways to... Read more

Published on September 24, 2004 by P. Olivier

Richard Lynch

I had some problems with Elements 2 with missing the frame option in the effects palette. Adobe advised me to un-install and re-install the program. Read more

Published on September 19, 2004 by George A. Albright

Now You Can Use Curves

The best thing about the book and the CD that accompanies it,

is that now you are able to use the CURVES feature with Elements 2. Read more

Published on August 15, 2004 by S. Ash