Adobe Photoshop Elements 8: Maximum Performance
Unleash the hidden performance of Elements
- 1st Edition - January 28, 2010
- Imprint: Focal Press
- Author: Mark Galer
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 2 4 0 - 5 2 1 8 4 - 8
Using a unique combination of step by step projects, movie tutorials and sample images, Mark Galer guides the reader through the most powerful photo editing tools that Elements ha… Read more
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Using a unique combination of step by step projects, movie tutorials and sample images, Mark Galer guides the reader through the most powerful photo editing tools that Elements has to offer. Discussing and demonstrating the skills and know-how to create professional-quality results with this budget-priced software. Whether optimizing photographs for printing, enhancing images for maximum impact, or creating impressive, seamless montages, this book will enable any aspiring digital professional to get the maximum performance from the credit crunch approved software.
The package is complted with an astonishingly comprehensive DVD packed with over 7 hours of movie tutorials, 100+ sample images, a stock photo gallery as well as automated actions to get even more out of the software.
* Get Photoshop-quality results with Elements-priced software
* Create stunning images using powerful, little-known techniques
* Contains a comprehensive DVD packed full of far more content than any other Elements title – hours of tutorials, hundreds of images, and automated actions are just the start
Photography and digital imaging enthusiasts using Photoshop Elements who want to push the capabilities of the programme for advanced image editing without Photoshop.
Part 1: Optimize Projects: Crop and Correct; Levels; Camera RAW; Target Tones; Contrast; Hue and Saturation; Sharpening; Printing
Part 2: Enhance Projects: Depth of Field; Shafts of Light; Black and White; Toning; Character Portrait; Glamour Portrait; Motion Blur; Low Key; Channels
Part 3: Montage Projects: Creative Montage; Replacing a Sky; High Dynamic Range; Layer Blending; Displacement; Preserving Shadows; Photomerge; Hair Transplant
Jargon Buster; Keyboard Shortcuts
DVD: 7+ hours of movie tutorials; High resolution images; Camera RAW and 16 Bits/Channel files; Adobe presets; Maximum Performance Action files
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 28, 2010
- Imprint: Focal Press
- Language: English
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Mark Galer
Mark Galer is the Program Director and Senior lecturer at RMIT University in the School of Media and Communication, Australia. He is also co-writer of their popular online photography courses. He has lectured in photography in the UK and Australia and has worked commercially as a freelance photographer on corporate and editorial assignments. He has written numerous top-selling photography books, including Photography Foundations for Art & Design, the Popular Photoshop Elements; Maximum Performance and Photoshop; Essential Skills series. He is an Official Adobe Ambassador for Photoshop and Photoshop Elements.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior lecturer at RMIT University, Australia; Official Adobe AmbassadorRead Adobe Photoshop Elements 8: Maximum Performance on ScienceDirect