Photoshop Elements 11: The Missing Manual (Missing Manuals) ebook

by Barbara Brundage

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This bestselling book removes the guesswork

This bestselling book removes the guesswork. With candid, jargon-free advice and step-by-step guidance, you'll get the most out of Elements for everything from sharing and touching-up photos to fun print and online projects. The important stuff you need to know: Get to work right away. Import, organize, and make quick fixes with ease. Repair and restore old and damaged photos.

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Our Missing Manual carefully explains every feature (something no other book has done) by putting each one into a clear, easy-to-understand context - all with a bit of wit and good humor. Each new version includes more tools designed specifically for today's consumer digital photo enthusiasts.

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Barbara Brundage has been teaching people how to use Photoshop Elements since it first came out in 2001

Barbara Brundage has been teaching people how to use Photoshop Elements since it first came out in 2001. She's been the author of Photoshop Elements: The Missing Manual since Elements 3, is an Adobe Community Expert, and has been a member of Adobe's prerelease groups since Elements 3. Barbara started using Elements to create graphics for use in her day job as a harpist, music publisher, and arranger. Barbara Brundage offers this assistance in a detailed guide that explores the higher functions of PSE, while respecting the challenges many readers may have in grasping complex technology.

This bestselling book removes the guesswork. With candid, jargon-free advice and step-by-step guidance, you’ll get the most out of Elements for everything from sharing and touching-up photos to fun print and online projects.

Yet, while Photoshop Elements . seems to have everything going in its favor, it is missing one very important element: a manual that explains all of its incredible capabilities. To help consumers truly understand this software, there's now Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual. This comprehensive guide from Barbarba Brundage offers page after page of valuable insight into this popular program, making it the only book readers will need on the topic

Whether you’re a photographer, scrapbooker, or aspiring graphic artist, Photoshop Elements is an ideal image-editing tool—once you know your way around. This bestselling book removes the guesswork. With candid, jargon-free advice and step-by-step guidance, you’ll get the most out of Elements for everything from sharing and touching-up photos to fun print and online projects.

The important stuff you need to know:

Get to work right away. Import, organize, and make quick fixes with ease.Retouch any image. Repair and restore old and damaged photos.Add pizzazz. Use dozens of filters, layer styles, and special effects.Share photos. Create online albums, email-ready slideshows, and web-ready files.Find your artistic flair. Use tools to draw, paint, work with blend modes, and more.Use your words. Make text flow along a curved path or around an object or shape.Unleash your creativity. Design photo books, greeting cards, calendars, and collages.Make yourself comfortable. Customize Elements to fit your working style.

Umsida

I decided to take this along on a recent vacation--that may sound like an odd "beach read" but I have been fully entertained in my downtime. I bring my laptop on the plane anyway and I can't connect to wi-fi then so I thought I'd use my plane time, my airport time, and vacation downtime to also have some Photoshop fun, sharpen my skills, and be productive. I bought this months ago but just have been bad about sitting down and really finding time in my schedule to use it. However, good instruction book is not even close to the cost of taking a class so I feel it's the best way to learn.

Now I can't put it down even after the trip.

Here's the thing. Most books for Photoshop Elements assume you have used the other versions of Photoshop at length and have all the basic skills but need to update them for this version, at least in many I flipped through. This one is different. It is not written in any computer language whatsoever, but instead will take you through every aspect of this program in a very easy but enlightening way. I actually had some self-taught skills going in but I realized I was doing many things the hard way. So actually the basics were equally as incredible for me and they were written such a CLEAR way, showing photos of just what they mean of what to click on, whether use you mac or PC, and really help someone with NO experience all the way up to someone who thinks they are great at it but had no idea all that the program can do.

It even has sharpened how I use the program for graphics, not just photos--so your brochures and websites look like you hired a graphic designer.

I had no idea how much this program can do. Quite frankly, you can start at beginner level and be pro at the end of this book by simply and easily following along. It reads so wonderfully simply and is actually entertaining in the way it teaches, that I prefer it to ANY video or glass. This was done at my pace and allows me to highlight things I want to use and go back to.

There are photos on pretty much every page showing you not only the steps but before and afters so you really get what it means...it is a very thick book.

It teaches you artistic effects, retouching,sharing photos, using tools for artistic flair in drawing, painting, etc in the program.

It teaches you how to make your text look like you are a graphic designer: make it curve over an object, become a shape, look like wood, etc.

It teaches you how to design photo books, collages, montages, calendars, cards, etc.

It teaches you how to customize Elements to make it easier for you to use if you desire.

It teaches you how to use filters and layers

It teaches you how to restore old photos or damaged photos

It teaches you how to make everyone look better in your images or how to make things more interesting in your photos or remove backgrounds...

Really, it teaches you how to use this more condensed version of Photoshop in the way you'd use the full version that costs far more--once you know the shortcuts and where to find anything, honestly Photoshop Elements is all you need.

This to me is priceless...make yourself an expert. Quickly. Better than a design class or computer class. Fantastic.

Arcanefist

O'Reilly's "Missing Manual" series claims each of their titles is "The book that should have been in the box". While I can't speak for the entire series, I have purchased and used several of them, including the missing manuals for three different versions of Photoshop Elements (PSE).

PSE 11 is generally similar at the user interface level to versions going back to PSE 8, and it is --like its predecessor versions-- extremely feature dense. This makes it both a powerful digital image editor, and a potential well of frustration for users. While PSE 11 includes some enhanced automated and guided image editing functions, users hoping to harness its full power will achieve this sooner if they grab some help. Barbara Brundage offers this assistance in a detailed guide that explores the higher functions of PSE, while respecting the challenges many readers may have in grasping complex technology.

Brundage offers both conceptual overviews and tutorials of PSE 11's interface and functions. She effectively breaks down the the concepts of file management, basic editing, image manipulation and sharing of the results of these digital editing techniques.

This book is particularly effective in addressing the two areas that can lead to delight --or despair-- among would-be photo editors: selection and layering in PSE.

The conceptual discussions and tutorials in this book are intelligently discussed and laid out in good detail. The companion materials to this book are online ("the missing CD"), and include links to sample images used for demonstrations in the book, and to other online resources to assist with PSE mastery. The author and creative team both have links to their own websites and email addresses listed in the introduction. You will also see that I have responded directly to other reviewers' comments. This indicates strong ownership and a high level of accessibility. In addition, the author readily --and correctly-- points out that many high quality step-by-step guides to most things you might want to do are readily found on popular video sites.

Two things to note before diving into this book and your PSE 11 experience:
the appendix to the book is found at the rear, and addresses installation issues. This would be better placed at the front and combined with the "what's new" portion, since install issues are the first pitfall area that users could encounter. Finally, sometimes the book gushes just a bit about the overall capabilities of PSE ("while it's doing wonderful things to your picture..."). These are minor points, and in no way diminish from the overall usefulness of this must have reference for users of PSE 11.

Gagas

Photoshop Elements 11 does not come with a manual. It does not even have a standard Windows Help file. Instead, when you click on Help your default web browser is launched and you are taken to Adobe's web site, assuming you are connected to the internet while using PSE. At the Adobe web site you will immediately realize that the instructions at the web site do not describe the menu layouts in PSE11, apparently having been written for previous versions of Elements and never updated for PSE11.

So this book becomes essential, even for experienced users of older versions of Elements, because version 11 made many changes to the user interface. Theoretically an experienced user could figure things out for himself given enough time and patience. But this book saves lots of time and frustration. My only complaint about the book is the strange, perky mannerisms of the author's writing, which add a lot of unnecessary remarks when something simple is being said.

Note that if you do a lot of photo retouching you will need yet another book devoted to retouching techniques. This book tells you how PSE11 works, advises on the best procedures for adjusting the user interface, and gives advice on using alternative tools in particular situations. But even a book as hefty as this one cannot provide the detailed instructions necessary for choosing tools and sequencing operations to make particular corrections and create effects on your photos.