Photoshop Elements Drop Dead Photography Techniques

by Steve Luck

A brand-new companion to the bestselling Digital Photographer's Guide to Photoshop Elements provides photographers with the practical, technical information they need to take full advantage of the most popular image-processing software on the market. Photoshop Elements is a powerful image-processing package that enables users to produce sophisticated enhancements to their digital image files and photographs. With this comprehensive, practical, and illustrated handbook, newcomers to the technology can quickly learn the most effective, efficient ways to avail themselves of all its creative possibilities. Page by page, the guide bursts with authoritative tips and techniques for performing specific edits and adjustments to original digital photos. All the fundamental enhancements receive extensive explanation, including exposure correction, contrast adjustment, tonal alteration, and color balance modification. Go further, and use the software to mimic traditional photographic processes such as hand-tinting, create lighting effects, or build complex multilayered montages. The many easy-to-follow explanations and well-chosen examples make every step of the process wonderfully clear.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1579906699
• ISBN13: 9781579906696
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.9" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Very helpful manual!

I don't understand the issue with 'not having the pictures' mentioned in the other reviews. Why wouldn't you USE YOUR OWN PHOTOS?! Isn't that the point of LEARNING? I have used my own images while following along with the book and have learned 100% more than I would have by simply reading the book and looking at the authors photographs. Also, each section does go through the processes step by step. Open your photos, chose the one you want to work with and follow along with each step in the book. It's pretty damn easy! This is an excellent book for those who comprehend that one learns through doing.

Out of the box

This will get your mind moving..your creativity will start happening. I am please with this book..I think you will to.