A Short Course in Photoshop Elements 3.0: The Organizer (Book/eBook)

This book is designed to help Windows users master those aspects of Photoshop Elements 3.0 that are most useful to digital photographers. Elements 3.0 is now really two programs--the old Photoshop Elements, now called the Editor, and Photoshop Album, now called the Organizer. This book introduces the new Organizer, an extremely well-done program that catalogs all of the photos (as well as video and audio files) already on your computer, and those you transfer to it in the future. (The Editor is covered in a companion book.) It makes it easy to browse through these images or organize them in ways that make them instantly accessible. No longer will you have to remember where your images are on your system, or even try to recall what images you have. The Organizer puts them at your fingertips. It even keeps your original image and every edited version of it together in what it calls a version stack. This prevents the original image from being overwritten and you can instantly see it and all versions of it. The Organizer is so useful it should be your starting point for every photo and every project because it will track your photos and other media files through their entire life-cycle from the time you transfer them from your camera to when you archive them on CD/DVD discs and even then it knows where they are. It will even tell you which items you have shared, and you'll find that sharing has been made much easier because of the way the Organizer helps you print, e-mail, and burn your photos to CD/DVDs, send them to mobile phones, post them on Web sites including your own gallery, and organize them into slide shows with background music. It also has a wizard that guides you step-by-step when creating photo greeting cards, postcards, calendars, and photo book and album pages. Included are chapters on Getting Started & Getting Photos, Viewing & Editing Your Images, Organizing & Finding Photos, Sharing Your Photos, and Managing the Organizer. The book features an expensive spiral binding so it lies flat next to the computer, and when folded back on itself takes up have the desk space of books with cheaper bindings.