Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 6 (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)) | 
| Authors: Mike Wooldridge, Linda Wooldridge
Publisher: Visual
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 104728
Media: Paperback
Pages: 352
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0470177446
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.686
EAN: 9780470177440
ASIN: 0470177446
Publication Date: January 3, 2008
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Product Description
If you’re a visual learner, this book is for you. Clear, step-by-step screen shots show you how to tackle more than 150 common tasks using Photoshop Elements 6, in task-based spreads with easy, visual directions. Learn to work with toolboxes and palettes, import and organize images, map photos, create slide shows, enhance contrast and colors, combine images, and much more. Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks, and succinct explanations walk you through step by step.
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 Very Helpful January 16, 2008
Lori J. Hernandez (Grand Rapids, MI)
51 out of 53 found this review helpful
I have been using this book for the last week or so. I've paged through the entire book and read about half of it.
Pros: 1. The book is very easy to read - no complicated jargon I don't understand. 2. There are lots of pictures/sample photos, for us visual learners. 3. The step-by-step instructions are fabulous! Even a total computer idoit like myself can follow these instructions. 4. The chapters are well organized. It's easy for me to find what I need. I keep this right by my computer and refer to it constantly.
Cons: 1. I can find no mention of how to use the "Face/Head Swapping" tool. For me, with small children in the home, that was a big selling point to Elements 6 (we can never seem to get a photo were everyone is smiling). I figured it out on my own, but I find it odd there is no mention of it in the book... or maybe I just missed it, but I've looked several times. 2. Right now, I am trying to create a PhotoBook and it's driving me crazy! There are little to no instructions on the program and the book only has a small blurb about PhotoBooks that is NOT helpful. I also had trouble trying to figure out how to create collage/scrapbook pages... maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it seems like it shouldn't be this hard. The
 Exactly what I was looking for February 8, 2008
G. Schwartz (Green Valley, AZ)
30 out of 30 found this review helpful
Step-by-step, visual ties between text and screen illustrations, no long paragraphs or sentences with several embedded steps. East to return to the book later to refresh understanding of a particular operation.
This is the way all manuals should be written.
Quick and Easy Way to Learn February 8, 2008
John J. Deis (San Diego, CA USA)
29 out of 29 found this review helpful
This is the second Teach Yourself book I have purchased. My first was for Photoshop Elements 4.0. I found that book so well done and easy to use that when I bought Elements 6.0 I waited for the latest Teach Yourself Visually to be published. It covers all of the functions of the program that you are likely to use. I find that pictures and words help me to learn much quicker. If you need to be refreshed in some area of the program you can do it quickly. I find this publication and all of the series of Teach Yourself Visually publications a must to have.
 A bit too superficial for me May 30, 2008
Rebecca Lane (Cedar Rapids, IA USA)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
The screen shots and clip art are great. However, the book is very elementary and doesn't address many techniques in depth. For instance, it touches on albums and keytags, but doesn't talk about categories at all. It says it tells how to add photos to catalogs, but it doesn't. It doesn't discuss how to use catalogs, albums, categories, sub-categories and keytags to really organize photos.
It does a nice job explaining layers, so it is worth the money I spent for that. However, it doesn't talk about how to do some common, basic tasks such as erasing power lines and window air conditioners from photos.
I am searching for a more comprehensive book on Elements 6.0.
simplicity at last April 1, 2008
vitanova (Delanco, NJ USA)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
At last a PhotoShop book that is easy to use and understand. As the old saying goes, One picture is worth a thousand words. Following along with the pictures makes difficult tasks easy. In a few instances, the pictures do need some additional explanation for a complete understanding. However, that is more than offset by the ease of things like layers, gradients, & selections. I am sold on the Visual books.
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