Photoshop(R) Elements: The Complete Reference - Softcover

Milburn, Ken; Hirsch, Gene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072224754 ISBN 13: 9780072224757

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2002

Synopsis

Get comprehensive coverage of all of the features of this popular image-editing software. Suitable for professional users and hobbyists alike, the book contains details about all the key tools and features, and has step-by-step projects to test knowledge and reinforce just-learned skills.

About this title

About the Author

Ken Milburn has been consulting on and writing about personal computer based graphics, design and multimedia since 1981. He is currently working as a contributing editor to the Microsoft MSN-PictureIt! site, where two of his “how-to” articles appear each month. Milburn has written thirteen computer books in the past three and a half years, including Photoshop 5.5 Professional Results, Master Photoshop 5.5 Visually, Visually Master Photoshop 6.0, The Digital Photography Bible, and Cliff’s Notes on Taking Digital Photographs.

From the Back Cover

The Definitive Resource on Photoshop Elements

Expand your creative potential exponentially by learning to maximize the tools and technologies available in Photoshop Elements. This well-written resource is perfectly suited for business professionals or home users who want the power of a digital image editor without wading through the complications of a full-service graphics program such as Photoshop. You'll quickly become familiar with the features, tools, and techniques to work your own digital darkroom magic and create beautiful graphics, illustrations, and artwork. Understand layers, selections, and exposure. Generate text, special effects, and composite images. Plus--Photoshop Elements 2: The Complete Reference will help you prepare your work for presentation in print, slide show projections, or the Web.

• Learn practical applications, design techniques, and more
• Focus the effect of any tool, command or adjustment with Selections
• Access a library of point-and-click shortcuts
• Follow online in-context instructions to perform task-oriented, complex jobs
• Control exposure, tonal range, and color balance
• Abstract a photographic image and create the effect of a painting or illustration
• Create buttons and text effects
• Seamlessly fuse images to create panoramas or high-definition images
• Catalog, collect, and manage your artwork and photography
• Make Web animations, interactive images, and more

Full-color insert features ideas and examples showing the power of Photoshop Elements

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072224754
• ISBN 13: 9780072224757
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 767