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Photoshop Elements 9: Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks Paperback – November 23, 2010
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Photographers who are familiar with the basics of using Photoshop Elements 9 will love this collection of 100 tips and tricks to getting more from the software. Highly visual two-page tutorials and step-by-step screen shots make it easy to see and follow the directions, enabling you to coax even more functionality from this top-selling image-editing software. This guide ventures into the bells and whistles of Photoshop Elements, showing you all the cool effects you can achieve.
- Photoshop Elements is the leading and most affordable image-editing software on the market; the latest version offers new opportunities to enhance your photos and develop your own individual style
- Full-color, step-by-step instructions make learning each of the cool techniques faster and easier
- Features secrets from the author, a well-known professional photographer, and uses his own stunning images to illustrate the tips and techniques
Photoshop Elements 9: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks helps you take your Photoshop Elements skills to the next level.
- Print length272 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherVisual
- Publication dateNovember 23, 2010
- Dimensions8.5 x 0.6 x 10 inches
- ISBN-100470919604
- ISBN-13978-0470919606
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You already know Photoshop Elements basics. Now you'd like to go beyond with shortcuts, tricks, and tips that let you work smarter and faster. And because you learn more easily when someone shows you how, this is the book for you. Inside, you'll find clear, illustrated instructions for 100 tasks that reveal cool secrets, teach timesaving tricks, and explain great tips guaranteed to make you more productive with Photoshop Elements 9.
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- Publisher : Visual; 1st edition (November 23, 2010)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 272 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0470919604
- ISBN-13 : 978-0470919606
- Item Weight : 1.76 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.5 x 0.6 x 10 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #6,031,121 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,051 in Adobe Photoshop
- #1,293 in Design & Graphics Software Books
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I am proud of the work I have done as a photographer, author, naturalist and nature photographer, editor and videographer. I love the natural world, and that can be a native bee in my native plants garden as much as a visit to a national park. I am a husband of a beautiful and smart wife, a father to my outstanding son and daughter, and one who lived in Minnesota most of my life, but now loves the variety and very long growing season of Southern California.
I have written and photographed a lot of books and magazine articles but what is most important to me about them is knowing that I have helped people become better photographers and gain a better connection to nature. I work to help people connect with photography and nature through speaking and as a workshop leader, too. All of this has gained me a Fellow award with the North American Nature Photography Association. Many people knew me as the long-time, previous editor of Outdoor Photographer magazine.
A short list of some of the books I have done: Landscape Photography: From Snapshot to Great Shot, Magic of Digital Landscape Photography, The Magic of Digital Nature Photography, National Geographic Field Guide to Digital Photography, The Power of Black-and-White in Nature Photography and Reports from the Field (an iBook).
My website is at www.robsheppardphoto.com; my blogs are at www.natureandphotography.com and www.mirrorlessnature.com.
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The Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks book is an ideal solution for learning the Elements 9 interface, as well as features and limitations of the program. For anyone who's impatient to get started, who likes to jump right in play with a program (and ask questions later), or who simply needs a refresher on Elements, this is your book. It's the perfect first book if you're new to image editing and don't want to trod through chapter-long tutorials. Each topic is split into a bite-sized two-page explanation, with excellent photos and illustrations, and well-written text.
It's easy to hop around the book from subject to subject, skipping the parts that don't apply to you, and finding the answers you're looking for. After you've read a tip, you're armed with the terminology that you need to search online for more in-depth articles if you so desire. This is immensely helpful, because Google can prove to be worthless if you don't know the exact terms that you need to solve your problem.
If you haven't purchased the software yet (or if you're debating between Elements and Photoshop CS-whatever, or any other image editing programs), I'd highly recommend Elements. Although it may be missing some excellent features of the full program, I could do 90 percent of my most important image editing, graphic design, and artwork with nothing more than Elements. It doesn't offer the CMYK color space needed for professional print industry jobs, but conversion to CMYK is almost always the final step in a project; that step can easily be accomplished using free software found at reliable download sites such as CNet. I find that most of the features in the full version of Photoshop are fluff added to make the program seem like a good deal.
Once you've installed Elements 9, this book will help you learn how to manage and edit your images like a pro.
Rob has gone through and identified the most important features of PSE9 and what the prosumer needs and gives you steps on how to accomplish those tasks. Upon getting the trial version, I hated the organizer as I could not figure it out. After reading Rob's tips on how to use it, I am lovin' it and it is because I know how to use the Organizer. Now it is time to enhance and perfect my photographs and by categorizing them, I will only work on the ones that are worth it (5 star rating).
If you are going to buy 1 book on PSE9, this is the one. I don't have time to go through tutorial after tutorial to learn what I need to do (am a dad, a software engineer learning boatloads of new technologies, an avid cyclist with a number of events coming up) so this book is the ideal book for me. If you have lots of time to sit around and do tutorials, then one of the classroom in a book series might be nice (had that for CS2 and never had time for it).
Bottom line, this gives you the steps to perform the most essential tasks of PSE9 that will benefit your photography the most.
The book guides you through using the software. It is more of a lesson book, explaining the interface and commands available in the software. There are instructions for some of the advanced commands found in the software, but I wouldn't call them "tricks". The book is helpful, though a bit dry. It would be best to read this book while using the software at the same time because the pics in the book are small and sometimes "crowded". That may also help break up the dryness of the book.
I am going to try to find a book at the library to preview before I spend the $$ on another how to for Photoshop.
I would be helpful if someone would also design a book that stayed open to your page. Can't type and hold the book open so I can see the instructions.







