Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements - Softcover

Wang, Wally

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072228849 ISBN 13: 9780072228847

Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media, 2003

Synopsis

Using step-by-step tutorials, this book shows the amatuer photographer and hobbyist how to express his or her deepest secrets by using Photoshop Elements to digitally enhance and manipulate photographs.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Comedian and author Wally Wang offers a hilarious and helpful look at how to use Photoshop Elements to manipulate your digital photographs or create completely new images. Turn a mediocre picture into a good picture and a good picture into a spectacular one through a series of lessons that take you step-by-step through the many Photoshop Elements tools. With keen observations and deft language, Wang tells you how to select within an image, use the history palette to go back in time, poke out red eye, remove wrinkles and chins, and alter images with such essential tools as Clone, Warp, Bloat, and Pucker.Learn the three basic ways to edit a picture Decipher the cryptic menus and screens of Photoshop Elements Create the illusion of movement Grab still pictures from movies or off Web pages Modify color, fix lighting, and straighten crooked images Add credibility and make your fake photographs look real Focus on the best parts of pictures by cropping and enlarging Tint, age, or turn color pictures into black and white Paint, draw, and create images that never existed before Rewrite history or restore the past by working with existing pictures, heirlooms, and other memories Print, publish, and share your newly created masterpieces with friends and family

About the Author:

Wally Wang was born in Detroit and raised in a family of doctors. "My dad wanted me to become a doctor, but I wanted a job that required more imagination. So we compromised and I become a hypochondriac instead." After receiving a BA in Materials Science, Wally went to work as an engineer for General Dynamics in San Diego. On a challenge from a friend, Wally jumped into stand-up comedy, which he now does for a living through his company Top Bananas Entertainment. Wally also writes humorous computer books and magazine columns as well. He has written Office 2000 for Dummies, Beginning Programming for Dummies, The Print Shop Delux for Dummies (Wiley), and Steal This Computer Book among many others.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0072228849
• ISBN 13: 9780072228847
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312