Amateur photographers and photo enthusiasts turn to Photoshop
Elements for a powerful but simpler way to edit and retouch their
snapshots. Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies is the perfect
guide for helping every shutterbug add a touch of creativity to
their images. Learn how to find your way around the Elements
interface and its new features; create, edit, fix, and organize
your photos; add type and interesting effects to your images; and
share them with the world. Full color pages bring the techniques to
life and make taking great photos fun and easy.

Introduces you to the tools, menus, options, and work area
Shows you how to import and upload images
Reviews ways to view, find, organize, and manage your
photos
Details how to modify your photos to your specifications
Distills working with layers, contrast, color, clarity, filter,
effects, styles, and type
Explains how to print your creations, create a slide show, and
optimize images for the web

Whatever you want your images to be, the sky's the limit with
Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies close at hand.

Autorentext

Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in California. She is currently a faculty member in the School of Graphic Design at Brooks Institute. Ted Padova is an internationally recognized authority on Adobe Acrobat, PDF, and digital imaging.

Zusammenfassung

Better photos are a breeze with the latest version of Photoshop Elements and Dummies

Amateur photographers and photo enthusiasts turn to Photoshop Elements for a powerful but simpler way to edit and retouch their snapshots. Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies is the perfect guide for helping every shutterbug add a touch of creativity to their images. Learn how to find your way around the Elements interface and its new features; create, edit, fix, and organize your photos; add type and interesting effects to your images; and share them with the world. Full color pages bring the techniques to life and make taking great photos fun and easy.

Introduces you to the tools, menus, options, and work area
Shows you how to import and upload images
Reviews ways to view, find, organize, and manage your photos
Details how to modify your photos to your specifications
Distills working with layers, contrast, color, clarity, filter, effects, styles, and type
Explains how to print your creations, create a slide show, and optimize images for the web
Whatever you want your images to be, the sky's the limit with Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies close at hand.

Inhalt

Introduction 1

Part I: Organizing and Editing Images 7

Chapter 1: Getting Your Images 9

Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Editing Work Areas 29

Chapter 3: Getting Ready to Edit 59

Chapter 4: Working with Resolutions, Color Modes, and File
Formats 71

Part II: Managing Media 97

Chapter 5: Tagging Photos and Creating Albums 99

Chapter 6: Viewing and Finding Your Images 117

Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos 141

Chapter 7: Making and Modifying Selections 143