The Hidden Power of PhotoShop Elements 2, Vol. 2 FROM THE PUBLISHER
Until now, Adobe Photoshop Elements hasn't been considered powerful or
full-featured enough for serious image correction. This book changes that
forever. Powerful, advanced tools that lie hidden inside Photoshop Elements
are turned loose as you turn through every section and discover new methods.
All you need are the techniques found in this book and the author's custom
Hidden Power tools included on the CD. These tools are powerful enhancements
that unlock key features like Curves, channel separations (RGB and CMYK), and
masking. Soon you'll be able to do more than you ever thought possible with
your images, including:
Radically upgrade the quality of results using channels, custom
separations, and image luminosity.
Alter reality by creating new photo-realistic objects and adding them to
existing images.
Create dynamic images for the web using animation, slices, and rollovers.
Correct and enhance image tone and color using Curves, Color Balance and
custom layer blending tools.
Make complicated masks and advanced selections to easily target your
corrections
Create original, scalable line art for logos by harnessing the power of
custom vectors
The enclosed CD contains an extraordinary collection of tools that expand
what you can do with Photoshop Elements by unveiling powerful features hidden
under the hood, including: Calculations, Channels, Clipping Paths, Color
Balance, Curves, custom vectors, Masking, Snapshots, Color Separations (RGB,
CMYK, Color and Luminosity, and RGBL), enhanced sharpening, and more! The CD
also contains 70 image and project files to use while working along with the
book's exercises.
SYNOPSIS
There's a lot more to Photoshop Elements than meets the eye. In The Hidden
Power of Photoshop Elements, author and Photoshop expert Richard Lynch lifts the
hood to reveal how Photoshop Elements can be used to do some serious, advanced
image-correction. The book and tools (included on the CD) help turn Elements
into a far more powerful image editor using many tools that are commonly thought
not to be included with the program and many techniques thought to be impossible
using Elements. Work with Curves, Color Balance, CMYK, Channels, custom shapes,
Color Separations, Snapshots, masking, Calculations, Channel Mixing, one-step
digital noise reduction, enhanced sharpening, animation, slices, and more! The
book is filled with examples and step-by-step procedures, and all example images
are included on the CD so you can work along and learn to use the hidden power.
Tools included on the CD provide a simple interface to access incredibly
powerful tools that will simplify and change the way you work with imagesﾽand
consistently improve your final results.
About the
Author Richard Lynch
is the author of two Photoshop books as well as numerous articles on scanning,
digital photography, and imaging. He teaches Digital Rendering at Daemen College
and is the editor of more than 30 books on photography and image editing.
Richard specializes in print reproduction of photographs and artwork. He
continues to develop tools for Elements to give users the functionality and
simplicity they want in working with digital images.
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