ADOBE PHOTO SHOP TITLES FOR DUMMIES BY WILEY PUBLISHING

Photoshop Elements 8 For Dummies Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova ISBN: 978-0-470-52967-6 Paperback 416 pages October 2009 DEALER-$17.99 LIST-$29.95

The perennial bestseller is updated and revised throughout for the latest release of Photoshop Elements 8

Richly illustrated in full color, this friendly, easy-to-understand guide provides all the essentials on the latest version of the affordable and popular image-editing program, Photoshop Elements. Get the scoop on using the latest digital imaging tools and techniques to correct color, brightness, and contrast; create postcards, slideshows, and movie files; apply artistic effects to your photos; fix flaws and even remove unwanted elements from your images; and so much more.

• Use the Organizer on a Windows PC or Adobe Bridge on a Mac to sort, find, tag, and catalog your photos
• Straighten crooked lines, crop for effect, or fix color, sharpness, red-eye, and contrast
• Move people or objects in and out of your pictures, change the background, combine multiple images, or replace one color with another
• Add effects with filters, get creative with type, or play with the drawing and painting tools
• Tag your photos using People Recognition or by geographical location
• Turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo books with a few simple clicks
• Import images into Elements from a variety of sources
• Upload and save images to Photoshop.com

Photoshop Elements 8 For Dummies shows you how to make the most of Elements awesome image editing, organization, and photo sharing tools. Whether you’re concerned about color correction and clarity or just want a cool calendar of your kids for the wall, you’ll learn how to do it with this book!

Photoshop CS4 For Dummies Peter Bauer ISBN: 978-0-470-32725-8 Paperback 416 pages October 2008 DEALER-$17.97 LIST-$29.95 This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and color correction, it’s all here!

You’ll get all of the basics of digital images and master the importing and exporting of images. You’ll find out how to create easy enhancements like adding shadows and highlights and making color natural, in addition to learning how to use the Adobe camera raw plug-in. Before you know it, you’ll be making beautiful “art” with Photoshop by combining images, precision edges, dressing up images, painting in Photoshop, and using filters. You can even streamline your work in Photoshop using advanced techniques. Find out how to:

• Import images and use all the tools and processes
• Reduce digital noise, make colors look natural, add highlights and shadows
• Optimize images for print or the Web
• Edit images
• Explore the Painting function and master the daunting Brushes panel
• Add layer styles
• Create on-screen presentations, contact prints, and more

Photoshop Elements 8 All-in-One For Dummies Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova ISBN: 978-0-470-54302-3 Paperback 656 pages December 2009 DEALER-$23.97 LIST-$39.95

Improve your photos with the exciting new version of Photoshop Elements

Photoshop Elements has come a long way from its early days as Photoshop’s low-end cousin. Now a feature-rich editing program popular with professionals as well as hobbyist photographers, Elements boasts versatile tools and capabilities. With these self-contained minibooks, you’ll learn to make the most of every feature of Photoshop Elements 8.

You’ll get started by setting up your Elements environment and learn how to launch, navigate, and personalize the program. You’ll then gradually progress to working with Camera Raw, resolution, layers, masks, color modes, files formats, and more. This All-in-One guide shows you how to make your photos better with Photoshop Elements 8 and inspires you to share your hard work with photo books, calendars, online albums, galleries, prints, and more.

• Shows you how to set up your environment for Photoshop Elements 8, the newest version of the affordably- priced photo-editing program
• Explains how to import and export image files and offers advice on picking file formats
• Walks you through using the selection tools and shows you what the Pencil and Brush tools can do
• Demonstrates cool things to do with type
• Addresses how and why to create a Photoshop.com account

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