How to Do Everything with Photoshop Elements 4.0

by David Plotkin

Overview

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Edit, organize, and show off your photos using Photoshop Elements 4.0 and the expert tips in this full-color guide. You’ll learn to customize the program to suit your preferences, and then get started retouching, repairing, and enhancing digital images in no time. Step-by-step examples show you how to crop images, fix color, focus, and exposure problems, eliminate defects, manipulate images, add special effects, and much more. You’ll also get tips for getting high-quality prints and creating a Web gallery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780072262674
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/21/2005
Series:	How to Do Everything Series
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

David Plotkin designs computer systems and databases, and maintains Web sites for various nonprofit and charitable organizations. He is an experienced film and digital photographer and has written several books, including How to Do Everything with Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 and How to Do Everything with Digital Image Pro 9.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Get to Know Photoshop Elements

Chapter 1: Navigate in Photoshop Elements

Chapter 2: Configure Photoshop Elements

Chapter 3: Get Your Images Into Photoshop Elements

Chapter 4: View Your Images in Photoshop Elements
Part 2: Make Simple Adjustments to Your Images

Chapter 5: Crop and Orient Your Images

Chapter 6: Correct the Color, Lighting, and Focus of an Image

Chapter 7: Choose and Customize Paint and Brush Tools

Chapter 8: Touch Up Your Photo with Brushes and Shapes

Chapter 9: Clean Up Areas with Darkroom-like Tools
Part 3: Apply Changes to Specific Parts of Your Photos

Chapter 10: Make Selections

Chapter 11: Apply Corrections to Selected Areas

Chapter 12: Create and Manage Layers

Chapter 13: Work with Layer Masks

Chapter 14: Customize Layers with Layer Styles

Chapter 15: Transform and Rotate Part of an Image

Chapter 16: Add Objects to Photographs

Chapter 17: Add Simple Shapes to Your Image
Part 4: Use Effects, Filters, and Text to Go Beyond the Darkroom

Chapter 18: Use Filters to Change the Look of Your Images

Chapter 19: Add Type to Your Images

Chapter 20: Build Panoramics From Your Images
Part 5: Share and Organize Your Images

Chapter 21: Organize Your Photos with Organizer

Chapter 22: Use Tags and Collections in Organizer

Chapter 23: Prepare Your Images for the Web and Viewing

Chapter 24: Print and Modify Batches of Images

Chapter 16:

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
If you bought Photoshop Elements 4 to improve, manage, and share your digital photographs, this book will help you master every program feature you care about. You won’t find endless paeans to the digital era here, nor detailed discussions of generic photography technique. Nothing distracts David Plotkin from the task at hand: helping you make the most of Elements in digital photography.

Plotkin’s explanations are simple enough for absolute beginners yet smart enough for those who take their photographs very seriously. You’ll learn newbie techniques like QuickFix, but you won’t stop there; you’ll also master spot repairs, layer masks and styles, perspective, PhotoMerge panoramas, and lots more.

There’s a full section on organizing and sharing your images -- and, with Plotkin’s detailed coverage of everything from photo albums to web viewing, chances are you’ll be doing plenty of sharing. Bill Camarda, from the February 2006 Read Only

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