Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac: The Missing Manual |  | Author: Barbara Brundage
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Ideal for scrapbookers, serious and casual photographers, and budding graphic artists alike, Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac is more powerful and easier to use than previous versions. But figuring out how and when to use the program's tools is still tricky. With this book, you'll learn not only what each tool does, but also when it makes the most sense to use it and why. You get easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions for everything from importing photos to organizing, editing, sharing, and storing your images. You'll also find a tour of Bridge, the ultra-deluxe file browser that comes with Photoshop CS4 --and Elements 8.
How do you use the Photomerge Exposure? How do Quick Fix previews work? With a gentle introduction to get you started quickly, and advanced tips to help you produce really creative work, this Missing Manual provides the answers you need.
- Get crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations of every feature
- Learn to import, organize, back up, and fix photos quickly and easily
- Repair and restore old and damaged photos, and retouch any image
- Jazz up your pictures with dozens of filters, frames, and special effects
- Remove unwanted objects from images with the new Recompose tool
- Learn advanced techniques like working with layers and applying blend modes
- Download practice images and try new tricks right away
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 Photoshop Elements 8 for Mac; Barbara Brundage December 10, 2009
Avid Book Reader (Walnut Creek, CA USA)
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
Mac users have patiently waited a long time for Adobe's latest release of Photoshop Elements. They won't be disappointed. The program has been vastly improved with several inspiring new features.
But alas, with no written documentation readily readable-- just online help; it's hard to understand how to work the new improvements without doing extensive trial and error.
Enter Brundage's treatise on how the program works. She makes it simple and you seem to can't wait to try the new features on your own. She explains in detail and gives you many examples.
You may find yourself nodding as read the book as she simplifies many of the tasks of editing digital photos. She just explains things simply and so well. This is the mission of The Missing Manual Series.
Early she begins with Finding Your Way Around Elements-- the new stuff that's been added is explained and there are plenty of pictures and snapshots of the program to fully explain what's new and what has been retained and what's been enhanced.
I especially liked The Quick Fix chapter: Many of my fellow amateur photographers will pay great attention to this chapter since it is the simple fix that fellow photographers are typically after. Adjusting skin tones really works well and makes our subject look real human.
Another chapter of interest is Basic Image Retouching. This is the heart of the program and where it shines. The topics are simple and very far reaching in digital imaging. For me when I use my point and shoot camera I find that I have exposure problems. Not sure why- but I do. The book explains how to use simple tools to greatly enhance my photos.
Many of you who use iPhoto will want to have the Photoshop Elements 8 on board on your Mac. iPhoto and Elements 8 work together and you can move within both programs fairly simply. Your photos will be the beneficiary of how both programs can works almost seamlessly. Brundage shows you how to do this with aplomb.
The book has wonderful examples of problem photos and how Elements 8 can fix them. The before and after examples are truly striking. The detailed explanations are really helpful. Soon thereafter you're anxious to attack your own flawed pics with the program's help.
Worthy of its Title January 31, 2010
Joe from Beverly Hills
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book justifiably claims to be the manual that should have come with Photoshop Elements 8. It explains how to use the program in a step-by-step, understandable, logical manner. Having worked my way through the first third of the book, I can hardly believe that I originally tried to use Elements 8 without it or some other explanatory text. The on-line tutorials provided by the Adobe web site are useful, but they do not provide the detailed explanation that the new user really needs. Plus, the book does a great job of tying together the disparate parts of Elements 8. While this book is enormously useful, the reader will be required to work hard to understand and apply what is being taught. Elements 8 is a powerful but complex program, and there will be a long learning curve. But, this book will give the new user the tool he/she needs to move up that learning curve.
first time photoshop user opinion April 2, 2010
O. Awad
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm a first time photoshop user, I was really against the idea of ever changing or enhancing your photos, I always thought you need to get them right in the Camera or it will be cheating, I'm not here to tell you why I changed my mind or how come I got to know how wrong I am. I want to share with you what I think about the book. I ordered both photoshop elements and this guide from Amazon the same day (I had downloaded the trial from Adobe website a couple of months back and then deleted it as I thought photoshop elements was complex and it is). I started reading the book and going over elements step by step and page by page. I am getting there and I'm loving it. It is a great way to teach you photoshop and it's working for me as a first time user. I'm having a wild time either simply enhancing my photos are just completely changing them. the possibilities are endless and the sky is the limit. This book as a great tool to teach you photoshop and get you where you'll be comfortable with a complex yet powerful software.
Excellent manual! February 4, 2010
Gabriel Ross (Montreal, Canada)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I agree with the other reviews, this book does bear its name: clear explanations and an honest approach that tells you what parts are worth using, and when (or if at all!) Photoshop, even the "Elements" version, is fairly complicated as far as software goes. This book goes a long way toward breaking it down for you, I really enjoyed it.
There is a learning curve to this program: you have to wrap your mind around certain concepts. I use it for making web graphics for web design jobs. Like a lot of people, I was using GRSites for a long time, but Photoshop is really essential in the long run, and this book really took me a long way towards mastering it. Get this book, you can't lose. Great job, Barbara!
(I am also posting this review, slightly modified, to the author's "Photoshop Elements 8 for Windows", I've read both as I sometimes use the Windows version of Photoshop.)
Great Book July 4, 2010
A gamer
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Never having used Photoshop Elements this book was a great reference tool. The program itself is fairly user friendly but it was always a relief to have this book by my side when any questions came up, and helped me find some hidden tools that have made my photos look great! Not only does the book cover Elements it also covers Bridge which is included with the program and importing photos into it. Like all the books I have bought from the Missing Manual series this was great!
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