Synopses & Reviews
Discover all the exciting ways you can edit your photos and get amazing results!There's no end to what you and Photoshop Elements can do with your photos. This friendly guide will show you how to use Photoshop Elements to turn everyday memories into magnificent photos. Learn to organize and manage your photos, fix common flaws, crop images, enhance color, share your photos on your favorite social networks, and more.
- Basic Elements examine the Elements environment, get to know the tools and menus, view and navigate images, and set your preferences
- Behind the mask discover all you can do with masks, layers, and filters
- Just your type add words to your pictures with the type tools and creative touches with the Brush and Pencil tools
- Turn good to great crop photos for better composition, straighten crooked images, correct color, remove red-eye, and sharpen or smooth areas
- Creative sharing show off your images in photo books, calendars, greeting cards, flipbooks, slide shows, or create an online album
Open the book and find:
- Details about resolution, color modes, and the Camera Raw format
- Easy ways to sort and find photos
- Tips for making and modifying selections
- Advice on sharing photos with iHardware and Android devices
- Techniques for retouching and enhancing photos
- Secrets for creating composite images
- How to share photos on Facebook® and other social networks
- Instructions for both Windows® and Mac® users
9 BOOKS IN 1
- Introducing Elements
- Elements Fundamentals
- Image Essentials
- Selections
- Painting, Drawing, and Typing
- Working with Layers and Masks
- Filters, Effects, Styles, and Distortions
- Retouching and Enhancing
- Creating and Sharing with Elements
IN FULL COLOR!
Synopsis
- What the book covers: the key features of Photoshop Elements including checking out the Elements workspace, exploring the toolbox, options, and other essential menus, getting images on your computer, working with iOS and Android devices, specifying resolution and changing image sizing, choosing color modes and file formats, working with Camera Raw, managing and improving color, making selections, modifying and transforming selections, getting a selection onto a layer, changing layer properties, exploring layer blending modes, fixing photo defects, working with the healing brush, using filters, working with type tools, applying special type effects, moving subjects to a different background image, removing anything from your image, sharing photos on your favorite social networks and mobile devices, painting and drawing with Elements, creating special-effects images, getting your images on the web, and much more.
- Nine minibooks included are: (1) Introducing Elements (2) Elements Fundamentals (3) Image Essentials (4) Selections (5) Painting, Drawing, and Typing (6) Working with Layers and Masks (7) Filters, Effects, Styles, and Distortions (8) Retouching and Enhancing (9) Creating and Sharing with Elements.
- Series features: Information presented in the straightforward but fun language that has defined the Dummies series for more than twenty years.
Synopsis
Bring out the best in your images with the latest version of Photoshop ElementsPhotoshop Elements is the top selling consumer photo editing software and Adobe continues to add innovative features that allow digital photo enthusiasts to do it all. This value-packed reference combines nine content-rich minibooks in one complete package. User-friendly and detailed, it covers the key features and tools that beginner and experienced users need to create high-quality images for print, e-mail, and the web using the latest release of Photoshop Elements: Photoshop Elements 11. Presented in full color, this resource goes beyond the basics of the application and is undoubtedly the most comprehensive Elements book on the market.
- Explores filters, effects, styles, and distortions
- Shows you how to enhance your images by painting, drawing, and typing
- Walks you through working with layers and masks
- Details ways to retouch and enhance your photos
- Checks out the toolbox, options, and other essential menus
Fantastic photos and interesting images are just a click away with Photoshop Elements 11 All-in-One For Dummies!
Synopsis
Better photos are a breeze with the latest version of Photoshop Elements and Dummies 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.
Synopsis
Bring out the best in your images with the latest version of Photoshop ElementsPhotoshop Elements is the top selling consumer photo editing software and Adobe continues to add innovative features that allow digital photo enthusiasts to do it all. This value-packed reference combines nine content-rich minibooks in one complete package. User-friendly and detailed, it covers the key features and tools that beginner and experienced users need to create high-quality images for print, e-mail, and the web using the latest release of Photoshop Elements: Photoshop Elements 11. Presented in full color, this resource goes beyond the basics of the application and is undoubtedly the most comprehensive Elements book on the market.
- Explores filters, effects, styles, and distortions
- Shows you how to enhance your images by painting, drawing, and typing
- Walks you through working with layers and masks
- Details ways to retouch and enhance your photos
- Checks out the toolbox, options, and other essential menus
Fantastic photos and interesting images are just a click away with Photoshop Elements 11 All-in-One For Dummies!
About the Author
Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in California. She is currently a faculty member in the School of Graphic Design at Brooks Institute. Ted Padova is an internationally recognized authority on Adobe Acrobat, PDF, and digital imaging.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Book I: Introducing Elements 7
Chapter 1: Examining the Elements Environment 9
Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Tools 35
Chapter 3: Viewing and Navigating Images 57
Chapter 4: Setting Your Preferences 71
Book II: Elements Fundamentals 91
Chapter 1: Acquiring, Saving, and Exporting Images 93
Chapter 2: Working in the Organizer 119
Chapter 3: Sorting and Organizing Files 137
Chapter 4: Working with iHardware 171
Book III: Image Essentials 183
Chapter 1: Specifying Resolution and Changing Image Sizing 185
Chapter 2: Choosing Color Modes and File Formats 203
Chapter 3: Working with Camera Raw 223
Chapter 4: Using and Managing Color 239
Chapter 5: Time Travel — Undoing in Elements 257
Book IV: Selections 263
Chapter 1: Making Selections 265
Chapter 2: Modifying and Transforming Selections 287
Book V: Painting, Drawing, and Typing 307
Chapter 1: Painting and Drawing with Elements 309
Chapter 2: Filling and Stroking 327
Chapter 3: Working with Type 345
Book VI: Working with Layers and Masks 367
Chapter 1: Creating Layers 369
Chapter 2: Managing Layers 395
Chapter 3: Playing with Opacity and Blend Modes 411
Chapter 4: Cutting, Extracting, and Masking 425
Book VII: Filters, Effects, Styles, and Distortions 439
Chapter 1: Making Corrections and Having Fun with Filters 441
Chapter 2: Distorting with the Liquify Command 465