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A visual guide to innovative techniques with Photoshop Elements 9

Photographers who are familiar with the basics of using Photoshop Elements 9 will love this collection of 100 tips and tricks to getting more from the software. Highly visual two-page tutorials and step-by-step screen shots make it easy to see and follow the directions, enabling you to coax even more functionality from this top-selling image-editing software. This guide ventures into the bells and whistles of Photoshop Elements, showing you all the cool effects you can achieve.

Photoshop Elements is the leading and most affordable image-editing software on the market; the latest version offers new opportunities to enhance your photos and develop your own individual style
Full-color, step-by-step instructions make learning each of the cool techniques faster and easier
Features secrets from the author, a well-known professional photographer, and uses his own stunning images to illustrate the tips and techniques

Photoshop Elements 9: Top 100 Simplified Tips & Tricks helps you take your Photoshop Elements skills to the next level.

Customer Reviews & Comments
I work daily with the full Photoshop program, and have used it for over ten years, but I recently bought Elements 9 so I could provide phone help to clients and friends who have taken my advice to buy the less expensive version of the software. While some aspects Elements and the full-blown program are similar, there's enough of a difference to bog down the process of editing photos if you don't know your way around the interface. The Top 100 Simplified Tips and Tricks book is an ideal solution for learning the Elements 9 interface, as well as features and limitations of the program. For anyone who's impatient to get started, who likes to jump right in play with a program (and ask questions later), or who simply needs a refresher on Elements, this is your book. It's the perfect first book if you're new to image editing and don't want to trod through chapter-long tutorials. Each topic is split into a bite-sized two-page explanation, with excellent photos and illustrations, and well-written text. It's easy to hop around the book from subject to subject, skipping the parts that don't apply to you, and finding the answers you're looking for. After you've read a tip, you're armed with the terminology that you need to search online for more in-depth articles if you so desire. This is immensely helpful, because Google can prove to be worthless if you don't know the exact terms that you need to solve your problem. If you haven't purchased the software yet (or if you're debating between Elements and Photoshop CS-whatever, or any other image editing programs), I'd highly recommend Elements. Although it may be missing some excellent features of the full program, I could do 90 percent of my most important image editing, graphic design, and artwork with nothing more than Elements. It doesn't offer the CMYK color space needed for professional print industry jobs, but conversion to CMYK is almost always the final step in a project; that step can easily be accomplished using free software found at reliable download sites such as CNet. I find that most of the features in the full version of Photoshop are fluff added to make the program seem like a good deal. Once you've installed Elements 9, this book will help you learn how to manage and edit your images like a pro.

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