Book description
Whether you’re a photographer, scrapbooker, or aspiring graphic artist, Photoshop Elements 12 is an ideal image-editing tool—once you know how to use it. This bestselling book removes the guesswork. With candid, jargon-free advice and step-by-step guidance, you’ll get the most out of Elements for everything from sharing and touching-up photos to fun print and online projects.
The important stuff you need to know:
- Get to work right away. Import, organize, edit, crop, and color-correct your photos with ease.
- Retouch any image. Repair and restore old and damaged photos.
- Add pizzazz. Dress up your photos with dozens of filters, layer styles, and special effects.
- Share photos. Create online albums, email-ready slideshows, and web-ready files.
- Use your words. Make greeting cards, calendars, and flyers by adding text to images.
- Unleash your creativity. Design photo books, scrapbooks, collages, and other projects.
- Find your artistic flair. Create digital artwork from scratch, using tools to draw, paint, and blend.
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Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- The Missing Credits
- Introduction
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1. Introduction to Elements
- 1. Finding Your Way Around Elements
- 2. Importing, Managing, and Saving Photos
- 3. Rotating and Resizing Photos
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2. Elemental Elements
- 4. The Quick Fix
- 5. Making Selections
- 6. Layers: The Heart of Elements
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3. Retouching
- 7. Basic Image Retouching
- 8. Elements for Digital Photographers
- 9. Retouching: Fine-Tuning Images
- 10. Removing and Adding Color
- 11. Photomerge: Creating Panoramas, Group Shots, and More
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4. Artistic Elements
- 12. Drawing with Brushes, Shapes, and Other Tools
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13. Filters, Actions, Layer Styles, and Gradients
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Using Filters
- Applying Filters
- Filter Categories
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Practical Uses for Filters
- Removing Noise: Getting Rid of Graininess
- Adding Noise: Smoothing Out Repair Jobs
- Gaussian Blur: Drawing Attention to an Object
- Lens Blur: Creating Depth of Field
- Radial Blur: Producing a Sense of Motion
- Color Correcting with the Average Blur Filter
- Improving Skin Texture with the Surface Blur Filter
- Applying Actions and Effects
- Adding Layer Styles
- Applying Gradients
- Gradient Maps
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Using Filters
- 14. Text in Elements
- 5. Sharing Images
- 6. Additional Elements
- 7. Appendixes
- Index
- About the Author
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Photoshop Elements 12: The Missing Manual
- Author(s):
- Release date: September 2013
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449341657
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