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Date: Thursday, 08 January, 2009 :: 12:16
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Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual
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Manufacturer: Pogue Press
Format: Illustrated
Studio: Pogue Press
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The recent boom in digital camera sales has created a tremendous demand for simple yet powerful photo-editing software. This is because experienced users, as well as amateurs, are quickly outgrowing the program that was originally bundled with their cameras. Fortunately, Photoshop Elements 3, the latest photo-editing software from Adobe, is filling this void. It allows users to achieve high-quality results without the overwhelming complexity of professional-level software. And it's also affordable. As a result, it is the best-selling photo-editing software on the market today. Yet, while Photoshop Elements 3.0 seems to have everything going in its favor, it is missing one very important element: a manual that explains all of its incredible capabilities. To help consumers truly understand this software, there's now Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual. This comprehensive guide from Barbarba Brundage offers page after page of valuable insight into this popular program, making it the only book readers will need on the topic. Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual does a whole lot more than just point out how to straighten photos, crop, and adjust the color and focus. It's a collection of wonderful tips and tricks, from how to make basic selections to advanced color correction strategies, and from classic darkroom techniques to stylized digital effects. Each feature is carefully explained in easy-to-understand language, so that everyone from professional shooters to hobbyists can benefit. Among other lessons, readers will learn how to: - Instantly fix flaws using Elements' Quick Fix mode
- Gain control with sliders, zoom tools, and before and after views
- Easily organize photos by calendar or keyword label
- Make dynamic slide shows with transitions, captions, music, and narration
- Create themed photo email
Whether you're a hobbyist or a professional photographer, Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual will help you become a more efficient, sophisticated digital camera user.
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Average Customer Review: 
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual
Date: 2007-06-20 - 
Comment: Most of the reviews I've read were very positive. Unfortunately I did not find the book all that useful. It talks a lot about what Photoshop can do, but very little about how to do it. As far as a user's manual is concerned, it is still missing.
Summary: Great Book
Date: 2006-11-11 - 
Comment: This book outlined Photoshop Elements 3 very well. The writing was very understandable. If you want to do more with Elements 3, this book will definitely help.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: The Missing Manual. It really is!
Date: 2006-06-04 -
Comment: Since Adobe abandoned providing a written manual following Version 2, Brundage's book not only fills the missing manual need but also, provides an expanded guide with a wealth of helpful hints not found in most manuals. Adobe should use Brundage's style for any future manual they might provide, if they change their mind. Elements is too extensive and complicated an application to learn how to use it from the 'How-To' palette or Help button.
Brundage begins by showing the reader around Elements, and then covers the setup, use and features of the Organizer. Recognizing that some Elements users don't like to use the Organizer or its associated Photo Downloader, she provides details of how to eliminate these features of the application.
Moving on, the next sections cover the Tool Box, the art of Quick Fix, Selections, and Layers (the jack of the many trades in Elements). Other sections cover Retouching, RAW image adjustments, Filters and Artistic touches. The final segment of the book exposes the best procedures of Printing, Web authoring and Web Galleries and Slideshows. In addition, three appendices provide menu guides for the Organizer and the Editor menus and installation/troubleshooting this application. The author provides an insight in to how to stretch Elements towards the capabilities of its much more expensive parent, Photoshop.
I consider my self a knowledgeable Elements and Photoshop editing user but have to admit I picked up some interesting tricks going through this book. It should be a must for any serious user of Elements. (Reviewed by MiltK)
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: great starter program
Date: 2006-02-24 - 
Comment: I am not a total newcomer to photo programs so a book that goes beyond basics was what I was looking for. This book fills the bill. It is well written and fairly easy to understand. The book discusses most of the capabilities of Elements 3 and has great photos as examples for the text. I had a lot of fun applying the lessons to my photos. The only 'con' I have is that I would have liked greater explanation and detail for use of some of the features, for example historigram and gradients, but as a primer to a more advanced book it can't be beat.
Adefinite "buy".
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
Summary: Buy this is you've never used Photoshop
Date: 2005-12-27 -
Comment: I'm quite computer literate and have learned to use many computer programs, some of them quite complicated, just by exploring the program. Photoshop Elements isn't like that. You will barely scratch the surface of this powerful program if you don't get this book.
Elements comes with very basic tutorials. If you want to unleash some of the power of this excellent software, you need to get this book. To really did deep, you'll probably need to do some digging yourself, but this book gets you started and shows you what direction to dig in.
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