How to Wow with Photoshop Elements 5

Gives tips and techniques on tasks ranging from sorting your digital photos to creating a digital scrapbook. This book begins with an introduction to the Elements 5 workspace, and then moves on to workflow (including file organizing, color settings, and Camera Raw), and then explores photo optimizing and retouching and repairing.

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could have three of the world’s top digital imaging experts sitting next to you at your computer, helping you navigate through the infinite possibilities available to you in Photoshop Elements 5?

How to Wow with Photoshop Elements 5 is the next best thing. It combines the skills and techniques of Jack Davis and Mike McHugh along with the inspiring designs and creative projects of Wayne Rankin. All three are renowned authors, designers, and educators.

Jack, Mike, and Wayne guide you step by step through real-world projects, with an emphasis on uncompromising quality, last-minute flexibility, and phenomenal speed. You’ll learn tips and techniques on everything from sorting your digital photos to creating a digital scrapbook. Whether it’s optimizing the color and tone of your image, ...and turn your digital photographs into creative masterpieces!retouching cosmetic undesirables, reconstructing priceless heirlooms, or creating customized wrapping paper, you’ll be given the tools at every stage of the process in order to learn How to Wow!

The book begins with an introduction to the Elements 5 workspace, and then moves on to workflow (including file organizing, color settings, and Camera Raw), and then explores photo optimizing and retouching and repairing. Next comes the fun stuff with enhancing all aspects of your photography for maximum impact. You will produce stunning creative projects, including a digital watercolor and a multimedia VCD or DVD that you can watch on your home TV. You’ll also create engaging presentations, and using the How to Wow presets, available on the CD accompanying this book, you can’t go wrong.