by Gerald Everett Jones (Author)
Join the digital photo revolution! In short sessions that can take just a minute, you?ll learn to enhance those pictures you took with your digital camera or picture cell phone?or old snapshots you recapture with your scanner. Remove that red-eyed look from flash photos. Fix contrast and brightness on under- or over-exposed shots. Adjust for vibrant, life-like color. Fix old or damaged family photos. (You can even get rid of the clutter in your closet by storing them conveniently on your hard drive or burning them on CDs!) Learn how to create compact picture files from your photos so you can share them easily with your family and friends via email or post them to your personal website. Create digital albums and shows from your new personal collection of impressive digital photographs, and produce high-quality prints from your color inkjet printer?all without the cost and delay of photofinishing.
Along with the popularity of MP3 music, the fun, convenience, and sheer economy of digital photogrpahy is a great reason to buy a new computer and camera. Adobe has designed Photoshop Elements so you can get great-looking results with just a few clicks, and Easy Photoshop Elements is the perfect book to deliver on that promise of incredible ease of use!
Easy Photoshop Elements can also show you how to create photo albums and slide shows using other popular applications - Photoshop Album, Micro Research 3-D Album, and Microsoft PowerPoint. The book includes a CD with sample files you can use to recreate the book's lessons yourself, template files for building your own albums and shows, and a trial version of 3-D Album.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: 1
Publisher: QUE Easy Photoshop Elements 2 is a steps-with-pictures book for people who are in a hurry to work with the pictures from their new digital cameras. Having conquered the high-end professional photography market several years ago with its Photoshop product, Adobe Systems has aggressively and successfully bundled Photoshop Elements with popular brands of cameras. Users who don't get the program with a camera can buy it from almost any computer store for less than $100. They can even download a time-limited, fully- working version directly from the Adobe website.Remarkably, this entry-level program is every bit as feature-rich and powerful as the professional version for just about every kind of work except prepress graphics. Easy Photoshop Elements 2 also shows users how to create photo albums and slide shows using other readily available applications, such as - Photoshop Album, Micro Research 3-D Album, and Microsoft PowerPoint. The book includes a value-added CD containing photo examples shown in the book, template files for building albums and shows, and a trial version of 3-D Album.
Published: 19 Mar 2004
ISBN 10: 0789731126
ISBN 13: 9780789731128
Book Overview:
Gerald Everett Jones is the author of more than 20 technical and business books, including Real World Digital Video, Excel for Windows Quick&Easy, and How to Lie with Charts. Besides writing technical books for nontechnical readers, he's had experience developing computer graphics software, as well as writing and producing film and video projects. He lives in Santa Monica, California.
Gerald's Web site is http://www.lapuerta.tv.