Photoshop Elements 7 for Dummies - Softcover

Obermeier, Barbara; Padova, Ted

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470397004 ISBN 13: 9780470397008

Publisher: For Dummies, 2008

Synopsis

Photoshop Elements lets you edit and enhance your digital photographs and images with professional quality tools. Whether you're a professional photographer or a beginner, Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies gives you the scoop on using this full-featured photo-editing program.

You'll find out how to transform your ordinary photos into visually stunning creations. This book gives you the tools to enhance your images, fix flaws, share pictures online, correct small problems with Quick Fix, keep track of images with the Project Bin, take charge with Shortcuts, present your photos as a slideshow, use Web hosting, animate images, and create movie files. You'll also learn to:

• Use the Organizer to move around efficiently in Elements
• Correct color, brightness, contrast, and exposure
• Use Adobe's free Photoshop.com service
• Streamline your work using shortcuts
• Work with bitmap, grayscale, and indexed color modes
• Create albums and import images
• Follow creative applications for filters and effects
• Prepare images for printing
• Turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo albums
• Straighten crooked lines, crop for effect, or fix color, sharpness, red-eye, and contrast

Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies shows you how to use all the Elements of great image editing, management, and photo fun. Whether you're concerned about color profile embedding or just want to put your kid's photo on a calendar, you'll learn how with this book!

About this title

About the Author

Barbara Obermeier is the principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in California specializing in print and Web design. She is currently a Graphic Design faculty member at Brooks Institute. Ted Padova is an internationally recognized authority on Adobe(R) Acrobat(R), PDF, and digital imaging.

From the Back Cover

Whether you're a hobbyist or a pro, look what you can do with Elements!

Photoshop Elements is a full-featured image editing program, and this full-color guide gives you the scoop on all the coolest features. It's easy to enhance your images, fix flaws, and share pictures online. Whether you're concerned about color profile embedding or just want to put your kid's photo on a calendar, Elements can do it, and here's how!

• Get it together -- use the Organizer to easily sort, find, and compare photos and open them for editing

• Make it easy -- correct small problems with Quick Fix, keep track of images with the Project Bin, and take charge with shortcuts

• Be creative -- turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo albums with a few mouse clicks

• Master simple makeovers -- to straighten crooked images, crop for better composition, or fix color, sharpness, red-eye, and contrast

• Share -- present your photos as a slideshow, use Web hosting, animate images, or create movie files

Open the book and find:

• How to get images into Elements from all kinds of sources

• Steps for working with resolution, color modes, and file formats

• Ways to organize and manage your photos

• Tips for performing simple image makeovers

• Secrets for making and modifying selections

• How to combine multiple images into creative collages

• Creative applications for filters, effects, and styles

• How to upload and save images to Photoshop.com

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470397004
• ISBN 13: 9780470397008
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386