Retouching Photos in Photoshop Elements 4 : Visual QuickProject Guide

If you want to get great-looking photos fast but don’t want to get bogged down with the details, then you need a Visual QuickProject Guide!

You took some photos and they could use a little finessing. All you want to do is correct an image's lighting, fix a little red eye, or even out the tones in a photograph–without learning the ins and outs of Photoshop Elements. For just $12.99, this compact guide shows you how! Using big, bold full-color pictures and streamlined instructions, it covers just the need-to-know essentials that will have you perfecting your photos in a matter of minutes. You'll learn how to easily fix common problems such as flash-induced red eye, blown-out highlights and murky shadows, inaccurate skin tones, distracting background objects, and more. End-of-chapter tips  point out other useful Photoshop Elements retouching tricks. You’ll also learn key new features and how to share your newly polished photos with friends and family through email, the Web, via online print labs, and more!

This book is for Windows users only.

Nolan Hester has written more than a dozen books for Peachpit, including the best-selling previous edition to this Visual QuickProject, and Creating a Web Page in Dreamweaver: Visual QuickProject Guide. A photographer since he was 16, his beloved trove of 35mm Nikons has been gathering dust since he switched to a digital camera.