How to Do Everything with Photoshop Elements

Design professionals may want something slicker, but for all the rest of us, this book is exactly the help we need. Clear, step-by-step directions and real-life examples.

This book assumes the reader has a background in the graphic arts. If you're a graphic artist who owns Photoshop, you'll want this book! As someone who learns best by doing, I particularly like the fact that the book includes projects you can do. Doing those projects is a great way to learn to use Photoshop features.

Adobe's Photoshop is one of the most important graphics products introduced since the "desktop revolution" began. Its capabilities give a single user/operator the ability to do things that not too long ago required the services of a couple of different trade shops and the expenditure of weeks of time and large amounts of money. It gives graphic artists, both designers and photographers, a degree of control over their work they have never had before.Unfortunately, the fact that the natural users of Photoshop are graphic artists--not computer experts--is often overlooked. If nontechnical users can't understand and access its capabilities, they might as well not be there. By providing these lucid and easy-to-follow explanations of Photoshop Elements, Molly Joss has done a real service to graphic artists, photographers, and anyone else who wants to maximize the effect of digital images. Her book belongs in the library of every serious Photoshop user.