Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 12 [Paperback] Author: Mike Wooldridge | Language: English | ISBN:
1118729218 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 160 Photoshop Elements tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on Photoshop Elements 12 in no time.
You'll learn to:
- Use both the Organizer and Editor
- Import photos from various sources
- Enhance lighting and color
- Restore old photos and add effects
- Save, back up, and share photos
Designed for visual learners
- Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules
- Succinct explanations walk you through step by step
- Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task
- Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks
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- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Visual; 1 edition (October 21, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1118729218
- ISBN-13: 978-1118729212
- Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I have both Photoshop Elements 12 "the Missing Manual" and Photoshop Elements 12 "Learn Visually". Both are handsomely printed in full color on shiny paper but a picture is worth a thousand words applies to the two volumes as "Missing" consists of 618 pages, "Visually" of 371. "Missing" retails for $28.20, "Visually" for $16.79. I can't recommend one volume over the other in efficacy of teaching you the mechanics of a complicated art form but "Visually" perhaps has the edge in getting you started as the the first pages are devoted to introducing you to the tools and their uses with screenshots of the whole Elements workspace including the top and bottom right and left areas. You have to study the diagrams very closely but you will learn the identity of each tool by mousing it over and when you click on it the parameters and manipulations of that particular tool appear in the lower task area. Color, thickness, aliasing and other methods of adjusting what the tool will do are right at your fingertips. Elements crams something useful into every possible space on and around you canvas and it's up to you to ferret them out. The tools can be just plain fun: with the sponge tool saturate or desaturate an area. The Smart Brush lets you turn a grey sky to blue and the exact shade of blue is your decision. Want to turn a pallid rose into a luscious red? Piece of cake!
The visual approach (but there is still a lot to read) came to my rescue in "refining the edge of a selection." I work a lot in digital collage, putting a zebra, say, in the middle of Fifth Avenue. In isolating the zebra by removing him from whatever background he is on -using the eraser tool- results in an edge, a whitish area around the image, as the eraser tool cannot cut it absolutely cleanly.
Teach Yourself Visually - Photoshop Elements 12
Authors: Mike Wooldridge and Brianna Stuart
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date: 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-72921-2
MSRP: $29.99
I've been a Photoshop Elements user since the beginning. I'm also a fan. With Adobe moving to a subscription model for their Creative Suite, which includes the expensive Photoshop CS, many people are looking at Photoshop Elements as a substitute. I'd wager that many of those will be very happy with Elements. It does something like 80% of what Photoshop can do. Basically, what it doesn't do is professional prep for CMYK printing. The vast majority of Elements users will never have reason to use or care about this.
The Teach Yourself Visually series of books has a good track record. For me, there is always a nice balance between explaining things for the beginner and for those relatively familiar with the processes. For instance, if you are fairly comfortable with the basics of Elements but are a little shaky when it comes to Layers or Masks, these are covered in a way that won't overwhelm you.
The Photoshop Elements 12 book is 370 pages but if you know some of the basics, you can easily skip to the features you need to learn. Since this book refers to the 12th version of a best-selling software, I would have liked to have seen a section titled, What's New in Version 12. But I had no particular trouble skimming the parts with which I was already familiar.
The book has sixteen chapters that cover everything from opening your first image and using the Organizer to a whole chapter dealing with the intricacies of Layers. All the examples and screenshots are in color and both the Mac and Windows commands are clearly shown.
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