Photoshop Elements 2.0: 50 Ways to Create Cool Pictures
New Riders, November, 2002.
Trade Paperback, 276 pages.
ISBN: 0735713235
This books helps readers learn to work with
photographs in Photoshop Elements 2.0. The tips
in this book cover common procedures like cropping
photographs, red-eye removal and retouching photographs,
but also include more advanced tips such as rearranging
and replacing objects in photos and using multiple photos
to create panoramas. 50 Ways begins
with a Quick Start section which covers the very basics
such as simply getting your photographs
on your computer and resizing and saving photos.
The second part of the covers concepts in making
photographs look more professional such as correcting
color, distortion and lighting problems. The third part of
the book, called "Getting Fancy", covers more advanced topics
like adding cool text effects and removing objects and people
from photographs, such as an ex-girlfriend who is no longer
welcome.
The final sections in the book include useful advice on retouching
and repairing photographs, and a helpful section on
using photos on the Web and printing your photographs.
Author Dave Huss, a photographer and photo editing instructor, has done a superb job of making the book easy to read and understand. The book includes full-color photographs that illustrate each step of the process to the reader. As Dave Huss suggests the book acts very much like a cookbook, and "it shows the steps necessary to cook up some great photos and other things using Photoshop Elements 2.0." This instruction in 50 Ways to Create Cool Pictures is very straight-forward and beginners will have no trouble learning how to alter and edit their photographs. Readers will be amazed at all they can do with their favorite photographs, both old and new. Highly recommended.
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This review was published in the December - January, 2003 of The Internet Writing Journal.
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