| There’s a reason why digital camera icons abound in the splash screens and introductory views of the brand new Photoshop Elements 3.0. Digital photography and Elements were made for each other. However, whether you’re using a digital pixel-grabber or a conventional film camera, Adobe’s revamped easy-to-use image editor has the tools you need to fine-tune your photos, correct errors in exposure, lighting, or color balance, and go beyond your basic picture to create triumphant prize-winning photographs from shoebox rejects.
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0: Photographers’ Guide is aimed squarely at those who want to use photography creatively to produce compelling images and want to master all the tools available to them. The emphasis here is on both traditional and leading-edge photographic techniques and how to reproduce or enhance them in Photoshop.
You don’t need to be an ace photographer or image-editing expert to create these eye-catching effects. All you need is this straight-forward, “all meat” book that shows you how to use Elements to enhance your images with the kinds of effects you admire. Did you know that with using easy-to-master Photoshop Elements tools you could:
■ Work with Photoshop Elements’ new Panorama stitching features? ■ Match colors between shots taken under wildly different lighting conditions? ■ Fix perspective in architectural photos even if you don’t own an expensive perspective control lens? ■ Add zoom lens blur effects without using a zoom lens? ■ Move a storm-ravaged seashore 500 miles inland to the foothills of a mountain range? ■ Excise your obnoxious ex-relative from a family reunion photo without resorting to violence? ■ Change daylight scenes into moody dusk or ruddy dawn pictures? ■ Morph images to blend or distort them? ■ Seamlessly extract images from their backgrounds?
This book cuts right to the heart of all of the most misunderstood—but easily applied—tools in the latest version of Elements, examined from a photographer’s perspective. It bristles with surprisingly effective examples, simple to follow techniques, and tricks that serve as a jumpingoff point to spark your own creativity into action.
While other Elements-oriented “photography” books give lip service to true photography, this book examines each topic from every photographic angle. Which effects are best achieved with a film or digital camera? Which effects are best applied in Elements? How can in-camera techniques and Photoshop Elements augment and enhance each other? |
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