The Photoshop Elements 3 Book for Digital Photographers DVD
You may be new to the world of digital photography, but you’re no stranger to the aesthetics driving it! What you need is a “grip it and rip it” guide to getting the most of the new digital medium with the most affordable imaging editing tool on the market-Photoshop Elements 3. This action-pack DVD delivers! In this DVD, veteran author Scott Kelby offering graphically rich tutorial–and project-based examples of every key step in the digital photography process. From experimenting with camera se
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October 18th, 2010 on 3:54 am
Review by SVCS Member for The Photoshop Elements 3 Book for Digital Photographers DVD
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If you have ever read one of Scott Kelby’s books, you know that they aren’t a dissertation of all the possible menu items and tools from the tool and shortcut bar. They instead are practical tips and techniques to enhance or correct typical digital photos that you might take. This training CD is no different! This CD starts out with the basic workflow that one might use when using Photoshop Elements of loading pictures to the organizer, Backing them up, and Printing them on a Contact Sheet.
It continues with a short description of how to get the Editor Interface to be like Elements 2.0 and a rather complete description of the File Browser which was removed in Elements 4.0. With these basics out of the way the CD continues with photo demonstrations of how to fix and enhance photos using Levels, Unsharp Mask filter, Crop tool, Shadows/Highlights, Blending Modes (for under and over exposed images), and Photo Filters (for color casts).
The next section was titled Advanced Editing and starts with a demonstration of processing camera raw images and even bracketing for multiple images. Unfortunately I don’t have a camera that records in raw. But the CD did show bracketing and making corrections without raw. There is also a section on retouching to whiten teeth, add sparkle to eyes, fixing blemishes, removing hot spots, smoothing skin, adding a smile, and slimming.
One thing that I found by accident is that all the photos are available so you can edit them and follow along with the CD. It is a great product to learn Elements. (Reviewed by ScottM)
October 18th, 2010 on 4:09 am
Review by W Boudville for The Photoshop Elements 3 Book for Digital Photographers DVD
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The DVD focuses on showing you many nifty effects you can do with the Photoshop Elements. The ideal reader might be one who has never done any digital retouching. If that describes you, then you might get the maximum benefit from the DVD. It will reveal powerful techniques that are simple to understand and apply to your photos.
The DVD naturally contains example images for you to experiment on. Tweak the methods generously. This will help you assimilate the ideas and possibly suggest combinations of the methods that will look good on your photos. The thing to remember is that the methods explained here can usually be applied in any combination to an image. And the DVD cannot possibly enumerate all these combinations. It’s up to you to find the most appropriate.