Photoshop Elements 4.0 Maximum Performance: Professional Image Editing for Photographers

Online Shopping / Books / Photoshop Elements 4.0 Maximum Performance: Professional Image Editing for Photographers

Editorial Review:

You will learn how to create professional quality digital images with Photoshop Elements 4.0 without the need to upgrade to Photoshop with this unique guide from best-selling author Mark Galer. This complete package of book and DVD walks you through Elements' powerful and less well-known post-production editing techniques showing you how to get maximum results from this low-price program.
A series of creative projects, packed with tips and tricks and illustrated with large, full-color screengrabs, guide you through a wide range of advanced techniques for professional quality editing.
Including coverage of new Elements 4.0 features, the straighten tool and the auto extraction tool, all the main features of Elements are covered - camera RAW, 16 bit editing, Healing Brush, Shadows/ Highlights, Reduce Noise and much more.
The projects are supported by a DVD containing 4 hours of QuickTime movie tutorials, over 200 high-resolution images as well as loadable presets. Completed multi-layered project files are also available on the DVD so that you can compare and analyse these projects against your own.
All the content is suitable for Mac users. Visit the book's webpage on www.focalpress.com for information on how to adapt keyboard modifier keys when using the keyboard shortcuts.
Other Photoshop Elements 4.0 titles published by Focal include Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0: a visual introduction to the program for those starting out in digital imaging; Advanced Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Digital Photographers: an advanced book aimed at photographers; Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 A-Z: an alphabetical listing of the main features of Elements, with shortcut keys and techniques.
* Gain the same professional results with Elements 4.0 as if using full-version Photoshop with fantastic lesser-known techniques and workarounds
* Create superior advanced effects by following jargon-free, step-by-step tutorials with full color screengrabs
* DVD packed with movie tutorials, royalty free high-resolution images, multi-layered project files and loadable presets will boost your learning

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

Photoshop Elements really made easy:

This outstanding book provides many step by step instructions for editing photos with photoshop elements. Along with common instructions such as croping as straightening photos it includes blurring backgrounds and the use of masks for special effects.
Everything is made simple. Have a problem recreating the effects in the book? Simply view one of the included movies and watch the author perform the functions step by step. This included movie feature is GREAT!
Watch to movie and you should be... more info

Photoshop Elements 4.0, Maximum Performance:

Of all the tutorial manuals I have on Photoshop Elements I think this one is the best. While not exactly at a beginner level, it can still be of value to a novice. The great thing is that it pretty much avoids the 'first face the stove' approach that most all books of this nature feel required to do. The lessons on color correction and turning a color photo into black and white are particularly great!

Takes Elements to an advaced level:

This text is written for photographers that want to make their images look there very best. Unlike introductory texts, Mr. Galer's book goes into the very soul of Photoshop Elements (PSE) to find hidden features that give pictures a WOW factor. Here are a few examples. In introductory text, the student is introduced to the unsharp mask filter and given some suggested settings. In Galer's text, the student is introduced to some unique masking techniques created with the high pass, and threshold filters to... more info

Truly Maximum Performance:

I have completed several Photoshop course books and found all of them to be very good and useful. So I had a reasonable knowledge base when I discovered this book. I found that in this book, the author has covered the most useful Photoshop examples yet. The text and video projects complement each other perfectly and are seamless. Not only does the author explain every step of the project, but he also does the most important thing: he tells you why he is doing it. This book has propelled my knowledge of... more info

Similar Products:

Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 (Mac) [OLD VERSION] from Adobe (CD-ROM)

Advanced Photoshop Elements 4.0 for Digital Photographers by Philip Andrews (Paperback)

The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 4 by Richard Lynch (Paperback)

The Unofficial Guide to Photoshop Elements 4 by Donna L. Baker (Paperback)

The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby (Paperback)

Photoshop Elements 4 For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova (Paperback)

Understanding Exposure: How to Shoot Great Photographs with a Film or Digital... by Bryan Peterson (Paperback)

Photoshop Elements 4 One-on-One by Deke McClelland, Galen Fott (Paperback)

Combining Images with Photoshop Elements: Selecting, Layering, Masking, and... by Ted LoCascio (Paperback)

Featuring TOP Sellers in Office Products! ...

Canon CLI-8 4-Color Multipack Ink Tanks from Canon (Accessory) M-edge e-Luminator Booklight for Amazon Kindle--PRE-ORDER, SHIPS ~1/26 from M-edge Canon PGI-5 BK 2-Pack Pigment Black Ink Tanks from Canon Office Products (Accessory) Panasonic Dect 6.0 Series 3 Handset Cordless Phone System with Answering System... from Panasonic (Electronics) Sarah Palin 2009 Calendar from Judy Patrick Photography (Office Product) Fellowes 32057 Powershred P-57Cs Shredder from Fellowes (Electronics) Panasonic Dect 6.0 Series Dual Handset Cordless Phone System with Answering... from Panasonic (Electronics) Canon CanoScan 4400F Color Image Scanner (1306B002) from Canon (Electronics) Canon Pixma MP610 Photo All-In-One Inkjet Printer (2180B002) from Canon Office Products (Electronics)