Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide |  | Author: Jeff Carlson
Publisher: Peachpit Press
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ISBN: 0321565967
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
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Publication Date: October 26, 2008
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Photoshop Elements is geared for business users, students, educators, and home users who want professional-looking images for their print and Web projects, but don't want or need the advanced power of Adobe Photoshop. With Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, readers can start with a tour of the interface and image-editing basics, or they can look up specific tasks to learn just what they need to know. This task-based, visual reference guide uses step-by-step instructions and plenty of screenshots to show readers how to capture and import photos, reduce red eye, enhance color, work with layers, and much more. New features coverage includes: applying direct effects with the Adobe Smart Brush, softening surfaces and keeping edges crisp with a new filter, and finding photos easily with keywords. Both beginning and intermediate users will find everything they need here--in straightforward language and with readily accessible examples.
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 Photoshop Elements 7 November 1, 2009
Slimstyle (Columbus, OH)
I needed this as a textbook for a class I am taking. I found the illustrations and instructions in this book to be easy to follow and helpful in doing my assignments step by step.
 Great book for the beginner June 22, 2009
P. Callaway (St. Louis, Mo)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This instructional book on PSE7 does a great job of explaining the features and giving instruction on how to use the tools and features. Though there are books on how to get near fullscale Photoshop results using Elements, this books purpose is geared more towards just getting the average user familiar with it's functions. I mainly use Elements7 to edit photos and wanted to become more comfortable using the organizer feature and this book helped quite a bit in that regards. There's nothing fancy here but it's pretty straight forward and easy to follow.
From Rad to Retro March 30, 2009
Alexandra Bailee (Tucson, AZ)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Photoshop Elements 7 by Jeff Carlson is a fabulous, full-color book with a treasure trove of information. Elements just keeps getting better and better, and this version is a winner. This excellent book helps you take full advantage of everything Elements can do.
This book is a beauty. It's packed with easy-to-read, understandable directions and there are helpful color illustrations on almost every page,. Everywhere you look, there is a "Tip"-the icing on the cake--and step-by-step instructions. And, the pages are tabbed so it's fast and easy to thumb though and look up a subject.
This soft-cover 384-page book flows through 14 chapters and ends with Editor and Organizer Keyboard Shortcuts. Although a dedicated beginner could use the book, I think an intermediate to advanced user would get the most out of it.
The book covers all the usual subjects like the work areas in the Organizer and the Editor and progresses logically through the features. I picked up lots of interesting information. For instance, you can place your photos on the map, literally. With the map and pushpin feature, you can associate your files with a specific geographical location in the Organizer. I've seen this feature for a few years but it somehow flew under the radar.
In the editor, there are limitless possibilities for editing, enhancing and generally wrecking havoc with your photos. Every action you take has all sorts of exciting ways of combing tools for creative control and a wider a palette of effects. You can erase backgrounds, change tones, remove objects, composite images, and enhance perspective. Once you start working with layers, a whole new world of digital editing opens up. After that, you can explore painting and drawing, working with type and distort your images in crazy ways. You'll be the new digital Dali.
Finally you can review all the ways to share your photos that Elements 7.0 offers. Create slide shows, lively PDF files, web galleries, interactive albums, and much more. And, if you want to do something really retro, you could print your photos. This book will give you lots on info on all of these subjects.
Packed with black and white and color examples throughout January 16, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows is an outstanding 'quickstart' visual guide to Photoshop Elements which covers easy steps and explanations. Jeff Carlson works for a design company and writes for top-level computer magazines, and is a technology columnist for the Seattle Times: his backgrounds lends well to a guide packed with black and white and color examples throughout, reinforcing instructions on the basics for Photoshop Elements 7 for Windows.
Excellent reference manual for all levels of users! December 12, 2008
Tracy Marks (Arlington, MA USA)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
I'm a photoshop and photoshop elements instructor, and always upgrading my learning of the tools in these programs, as well as looking at books to recommend to students. I have five photoshop elements books, although only one on elements 7, and find this one (as well as Scott Kelby's Elements for Digital Photographers, but the Elements 7 edition isn't out yet) to be the most useful over-all reference and teaching tool for learning the program. Although the McLelland's One-on-One series is more thorough and comprehensive, some of McClelland's exercises are much too advanced for beginners, who are likely to be confused if too much is thrown at them at once.
Carlson's Visual Quickstart Guide breaks down the program tool by tool and technique by technique, with clear instructions and illustrations for each. All that is lacking is a cd or dvd with practice files --- but you will generally pay considerably more for photoshop and photoshop elements books which have them.
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