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Author: Barbara Obermeier
ISBN : B009F09QII
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Amateur photographers and photo enthusiasts turn to Photoshop Elements for a powerful but simpler way to edit and retouch their snapshots. Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies is the perfect guide for helping every shutterbug add a touch of creativity to their images. Learn how to find your way around the Elements interface and its new features; create, edit, fix, and organize your photos; add type and interesting effects to your images; and share them with the world. Full color pages bring the techniques to life and make taking great photos fun and easy.
- Introduces you to the tools, menus, options, and work area
- Shows you how to import and upload images
- Reviews ways to view, find, organize, and manage your photos
- Details how to modify your photos to your specifications
- Distills working with layers, contrast, color, clarity, filter, effects, styles, and type
- Explains how to print your creations, create a slide show, and optimize images for the web
Whatever you want your images to be, the sky's the limit with Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies close at hand.
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- File Size: 7927 KB
- Print Length: 448 pages
- Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (September 12, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B009F09QII
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies Free Download
I don't have much experience with Photoshop Elements 11 or really any Photoshop product for that matter and I needed a guidebook to get me going. My go to technical manual is usually one of the more comprehensive, although sometimes less user-friendly, guides (think The Missing Manual series). These guides pack absolutely everything you could possibly want to know about a given product into their pages, but since I barely qualify as a beginner here I took a different approach and picked up two MUCH more user friendly books (this one and Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 11 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech))) and I couldn't be happier with my choices.
I won't compare them fully here (I've reviewed the Teach Yourself Visually book on its own page) except to say that the main way they differ is in the graphics that accompany the step-by-step guides and the amount of commentary between guides. This book has much more text between guides that goes into why you might use tools and special tips for using them in different situations. The teach yourself visually guide has very little commentary, but makes up for it by providing fully labeled pictures with each of its guides that SHOW you exactly which buttons to press. That said the two books really balance each other out making a great pair. If you're a true beginner or are just feeling a little intimidated I'd recommend getting both.
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But lets look specifically at this book
Photoshop Elements 11 for Dummies is broken down into 6 parts.
Virtually everyone who has struggled thru Adobe's software will admit that the learning curve is rather steep. To many, it is frustrating to the point of causing them to move to other, easier to use software like Capture NX2 or Paintshop Pro. Others find that it's myriad of features and multiple methods of accessing them is simply overwhelming and give up in despair. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of photographers, make a living demystifying Photoshop by running courses and workshops to help you use the powerful but confusing features of the program.
Now, however, you have a friend in the game. the "DUMMIES" book will help you survive the photoshop experience with a minimum of wounds and much less tearing of hair, weeping and gnashing of teeth (note: it will not reduce those things to zero).
Photoshop Elements 11 editor is a little less worse than previous versions in that it offers quick, guided and expert interfaces right from the get-go. If this is your first intro to the program, by all means, use the quick system and do not let a testosterone fog persuade you to take on the expert interface. You will have to get to page 31 in "DUMMIES" and read the note at the bottom of the page for an intro to this.
"DUMMIES" then takes you thru an explanation of all the tabs, buttons, and options. READ THIS SLOWLY and commit it to memory. Follow the step by step progression in the book. This is what will save you the 'tears' part mentioned above. Page 38 will move you thru the menu bar. This is invaluable since Adobe seems to take pride in making its menus confusing and non-intuitive. Using "DUMMIES" will save you time and make your job of editing easier.