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|  | Author: Barbara Brundage
Publisher: Pogue Press
List Price: $44.99
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 13496
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 575
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 1.5
ISBN: 0596521332
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9780596521332
ASIN: 0596521332
Publication Date: October 10, 2008
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 Photoshop Element 7 the missing manual September 12, 2009
Caleb L. Page
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The manual was not very helpful in learning how to use Photoshop element 7. I had difficulty making a slide and I found the steps in manual not definitive enough. You can get the same information on the help which comes with the software. I felt my money was not well spent. The only benifit is that having a hard copy is useful as it prevent you going to the help section of the software each time. Dont was your money.
 Great manual! September 11, 2009
Terri Hallman (Alabama USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great purchase to go along with Adobe photoshop 7 elements! I've learned so much from this book. The only thing I could think of that would make it better would be if it included a quick reference card with all the short cuts listed in one place!
Not for Sequential Learners August 5, 2009
David Snowbeck (Illinois)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am a very sequential thinker that moves from specific to general. I like step-by-step instructions that allow me to complete specific tasks and thereby over time gain a general understanding. This book moves from the general to the specific. It presents a series of overviews explaining what the program can do and covers all the options before diving into specifics. Even the specific step-by-step instructions are disjointed and seldom run from start to finish. The reader must jump about the book in order to patch together a complete process.
If you learn by moving sequentially through examples, I think you will prefer a book like Scott Kelby's Photoshop Elements 7 Book.
Missing Manual is Still Missing August 5, 2009
fkess
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual
1-It's full of interesting information about all the capabilities and functions.
2-Does it instruct about how to go step by step to perform functions?
3-Can you go to an index of "how do I do this"?
Interesting book but it's very little help to the first time user. No real screenshots.
No display list of the drop down menus and " where you must be" to NOT have them grayed-out.
Answer to 2 and 3 is NO!
I'm going to have to read the WHOLE book first to be able to really run the software. Ridiculous!I may look for a Photoshop 7 Elements for Dummies if one is available.
Sorry to say but it's the least useful software manual since I began PC computing in 1982!
Guess I'm too dumb to use computers.
Unclear, poor writing. Many omissions and mistakes. Instead of step by step instructions, unnecessary gossiping style. July 6, 2009
James Y. Kimson (Eureka, Ca, USA)
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
The main reason for buying this book - The Missing Manual - is to obtain the step by step instructions on how to use this very complex and intricate software, not to be entertained with cute gossiping language. For example, p.154.,Figure 6-2, Understanding layers,instead of simply showing what to do, step by step, on how to change the background image of the photos, the author wrote: "You may not be able to afford to send your grandparents .... you can give them a virtual vacation." This example is one of the many annoying and unnecessary language style in this manual. I was still left searching pages of the book for this specifc editing tools. No wonder why it requires 550 pages to cover.
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Another frustrating omission by this author : page 88, Topic, The Hand Tool:" It's very easy to use, just clidk the little hand in the Toolbox ...Drag with the hand to move your photo around in the window ..." IT DOESN'T WORK !! Nothing moves ... Until after much searching, I stumble upon Window/Images/Maximize mode/Tile/Cascade ... then I found out that only Tile and Cascade modes allowed the Hand tool to work. How can you omit such a simple thing if you're writing a Manual to teach people (novice or advanced users alike) how to use the PhotoshopElement?
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