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

This book is designed to help you 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 you to the Editor, the part of Elements used to edit and improve your images. (The Organizer is covered in a companion book.) It shows you how to evaluate tones, colors, sharpness, and other characteristics of your images and to select the tools you use to fix or improve them. The book is a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of the program and lays the foundation you'll need to master selections, layers, and painting and drawing tools used to dramatically improve or change your images.

We recognize that digital images can be edited in a wide variety of ways. In some cases you're a photographer trying to improve an image by eliminating or reducing its flaws. In other cases you are a graphic artist taking an image to a new place, making it something it never was, or incorporating it as one element in a larger project. In this book we focus on the photographic aspects, but along the way you'll master the tools you need to do graphic arts. Included are chapters on Getting Started, Working with Image Files, Fixing Your Images, Working with Selections, Working with Layers, Painting & Drawing, and Color Management. 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. Although written from a Windows point of view, the book is usable by Mac users experienced enough to cope with the few differences between the versions of the program.