Want to get more fun from your photos? To edit and enhance your pictures, fix flaws, and create greeting cards or cool photo projects to share? What about turning out some really professional prints with simply stunning color? Photoshop Elements can handle it, and Photoshop Elements 6 For Dummies gets you up and running on Elements in a hurry. Photoshop Elements 6 is a reasonably priced, full-featured, powerful image-editing program for Windows (Adobe stopped supporting Elements for Mac with version 4.) This colorful guide helps you make the most of all its coolest features. You'll quickly get familiar with the work area and all the tools; be able to find, organize, and manage your images; correct common mistakes; and explore fun ways to share your photos. You’ll discover how to: Acquire images from your camera or scanner Organize your files and photos you so can quickly find what you’re looking for Crop and straighten pictures, fix exposure, and clean up dust and scratches Create sharp and colorful images for printing Correct color, contrast, and clarity Combine multiple images into creative collages Use filters to create different effects Turn your photos into slide shows, movie files, or Web-hosted images Elements has something for everyone, from beginning dabblers to serious photo hobbyists to professionals. With plenty of full-color illustrations that show what you can achieve, this friendly guide will help you use Elements to make the most of your digital photos.

With Photoshop Elements 6, the most popular photo-editing program on Earth just keeps getting better. It's perfect for scrapbooking, email-ready slideshows, Web galleries, you name it. But knowing what to do and when is tricky. That's why our Missing Manual is the bestselling book on the topic. This fully revised guide explains not only how the tools and commands work, but when to use them. Photoshop Elements 6 is packed with new features. You get a new Quick Edit function, Windows Vista compatibility, improved RAW conversion, a handy Quick Selection Tool, and more. In fact, there's so much to the latest version that it can be quite confusing at times. Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual carefully explains every feature the program has to offer by putting each one into a clear, easy-to-understand context --something no other book does! Learn to import, organize, 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. Learn which tools the pros use -- you'll finally understand how layers work! Create collages and photo layout pages for greeting cards and other projects. Get downloadable practice images and try new tricks right away. This guide progresses from simple to complex features, but if you're ready for the more sophisticated tools, you can easily jump around to learn specific techniques. As always, author Barbara Brundage lets you know which Elements features work well, which don't, and why -- all with a bit of wit and good humor. Don't hesitate. Dive into Adobe's outstanding photo editor with Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual right away.

After more than two years, Adobe has finally released a new version of Photoshop Elements for the Mac. Version 6 packs a lot more editing firepower than iPhoto, and this Missing Manual puts every feature into a clear, easy-to-understand context -- something that no other book on Elements does! Photoshop Elements 6 is perfect for scrapbooking, making fancy photo collages, and creating Web galleries. It has lots of new features such as Guided Edit for performing basic editing tasks, an improved Photomerge feature, a handy Quick Selection Tool, and much more. But knowing what to do and when is tricky. Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual explains not only how the tools and commands work, but when to use them. With it, you will: Learn to import, organize, 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. Learn which tools the pros use -- you'll finally understand how layers work! Create collages and photo layout pages for greeting cards and other projects. Get downloadable practice images and try new tricks right away. This full-color guide starts with the simplest functions and progresses to increasingly complex features of Elements. If you're ready for the more sophisticated tools, you can easily jump around to learn specific techniques. As always, author Barbara Brundage lets you know which Elements features work well, which don't, and why -- all with a bit of wit and humor. Don't hesitate: Now that Adobe's outstanding photo editor has been updated for the Mac, dive in with Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual right away.

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"Learn about the three easy-to-use editing modes and determine which one best fits your needs. Fix pet eye discolorations in your favorite photos with the new Correct pet eye feature. Learn how to automatically fill in the background when you move objects in your photos. Use a variety of one-touch Frames, Effects, and Textures to add depth to your photos. Easily view and share your photos virtually everywhere, including Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, and on smartphones and tablets." -- Amazon.com viewed October 28, 2020.

Boost your performance with Photoshop Elements For Dummies. This is the perfect companion for discovering how to easily create professional quality digital images for print and the Web with Adobe's recently introduced Photoshop Elements software. This friendly guide covers all of the major features and functions of Adobe's new Photoshop Elements software including: the Quick Start Screen, Hints Palette, Recipes Palette, File Browser, Filter Browser, Photomerge, Lighting and Color Cast Adjustments, Automatic Straightening and Cropping of scanned images, GIF Animations, and On line Print Services. Filled with to-the-point tips and easy-to-follow instructions, this book will provide real-world examples to show you how to put concepts to use immediately for stunning results. Includes both Windows and Mac coverage.

Contains tasks on the new features of Elements; covering new topics and reinforcing foundational tasks that cover topics to help build a solid skill set for better editing and stunning images. Photoshop Elements features the sophisticated tools and functionality of Photoshop but at a much more affordable price for home and hobbyists.

An 816-page All-in-One guide designed for both beginning and experienced digital photographers, offering seven minibooks on everything from buying a camera and choosing the right equipment to editing with high-end tools and restoring photos digitally Includes chapters on basics such as point-and-shoot photography, with later chapters exploring editing, printing, and shooting portraits or high-speed action This new edition covers the latest technology changes in digital photography, including Photoshop 7, new low-priced SLR cameras, updated storage and output options with DVD technology, and how each of these changes affects photography techniques David Busch is the author of more than fifty technology books, most covering digital photography, image editing, and digital restoration

Shows how to do a variety of things with the software Photoshop Elements through thirty-one example projects, covering such skills as cropping, removing unwanted elements, tinting, sketching, painting, aging, glamorizing, making posters, using 3-D, swapping heads, and adding logos.