Photoshop Elements 10 For Dummies - Softcover

Obermeier, Barbara; Padova, Ted

Softcover

ISBN 10: 111810742X ISBN 13: 9781118107423

Publisher: For Dummies, 2011

Synopsis

Perfect your photos and images with this "focused" guide to Photoshop Elements 10

For most of us, the professional-level Photoshop is overkill for our needs. Amateur photographers and photo enthusiasts turn to Photoshop Elements for a powerful but simpler way to edit and retouch their snapshots. Photoshop Elements 10 For Dummies helps you navigate Elements to create, edit, fix, share, and organize the high-quality images you desire. Full color pages bring the techniques to life and make taking great photos fun and easy.

• Introduces you to the work area
• Shows you how to upload images to your computer
• 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

Written by veteran digital imaging and print authors Barbara Obermeier and Ted Padova, this handy reference is a highly readable and enjoyable way to learn this powerful image editing application.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Making photos look great is a snap with Photoshop Elements, and this book makes it easy!

These days, we're practically never without a camera at hand — even if it's just a cellphone. Whatever you shoot with, Photoshop Elements can help you make your shots look their best. This handy guide shows you how to use Photoshop Elements to organize and manage your images, fix common problems, tweak color, share photos on Facebook, and more.

• The big picture — explore the basics of Photoshop Elements, from launching a workspace to uploading, importing, and organizing your images

• Bring out the best — crop photos for better composition, correct an over- or underexposed picture, make unwanted objects disappear, straighten crooked images, or remove red-eye

• Display your artistic license — express your vision by creating composite images using layers and masking, add special effects, experiment with type, or play with the drawing and painting tools

• Spread the beauty — create professional-looking prints, photo albums, slide shows, calendars, cards, CD/DVD labels, and more

• Perfect pictures — discover common composing principles so you can frame and capture even better photos from the start

Open the book and find:

• How to bring images into Elements from different sources

• Instructions for both Windows and Mac users

• Steps for adjusting shadows and highlights

• How to correct color, contrast, and clarity

• Tips for making and modifying selections

• Creative and practical projects anyone can do

• Secrets for quickly sharing photos on your favorite social networks

• How to upload and save images to Photoshop.com

Learn to:

• Identify and fix the most common digital photo problems

• Edit and crop images, enhance color, and sharpen photos

• Create the best looking photos for sharing on Facebook®

IN FULL COLOR!

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 Design at Brooks Institute.

Ted Padova is an internationally recognized authority on Adobe Acrobat, PDF, and digital imaging.

About this edition

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 111810742X
• ISBN 13: 9781118107423
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432