He's back! Adobe's already-powerful imaging editing software has just grown a whole lot more powerful, and
best-selling author Scott Kelby (editor of Photoshop User magazine) has returned to unlock even more of its secrets.
Using step-by-step instructions and nearly 700 full-color images, Scott reveals precisely how to achieve some of Photoshop Element 3's most closely guarded special effects secrets. By the end of the volume you'll have learned more than 300 new techniques for using Adobe's affordable consumer-level software.
Packed with creative ideas, layouts, and design techniques, this guide does more than rehash masking, pixels, and file formats and resolution: It provides you with the Elements chops you need to unleash your own creativity.
Chapter 1 One hour photo : portrait and studio effects
Chapter 2 Maximum exposure : photographic effects
Chapter 3 Dirty dancing : focusing attention
Chapter 4 In living color : color effects
Chapter 5 Ad-libbing : advertising effects
Chapter 6 Jealous type : cool type effects
Chapter 7 Saturday night special : special effects
Chapter 8 Shadows of the night : glints, reflections,
and shadows
Chapter 9 Show me the money : 3D and packaging effects
Chapter 10 Photo finish : edge effects
Chapter 11 Different strokes : artistic effects
Author Description
Scott Kelby si Editor-in-Chief of Photoshop User
magazine, President of the National Association of
Photoshop Professionals, Editor of Nikon’s Capture
User magazine, Executive Editor of Photoshop Elements Techniques newsletter, and Training Director for the
Adobe Photoshop Seminar Tour. Scott is author of
The Photoshop Elements 3 Book For Digital Photographers, and created the Photoshop Killer Tips Series of books.
His easy-going,plain-English style of teaching makes
Learning Photoshop Elements easy and fun.