Unlock Photoshop Elements'
Awesome Power with Sophisticated Techniques and Original
Power Tools
Until now, Adobe's
Photoshop Elements hasn't been
considered powerful or full-featured enough for serious
image correction. This is the book that changes that
forever, revealing advanced features locked inside
Photoshop Elements, ready to be turned loose.
All you need are the techniques found in this book and the
author's custom Hidden Power Tools included on the
CD-powerful enhancements that unlock key Photoshop
features, like curves, channel separations in RGB and CMYK,
and masking. Soon you'll do more with Photoshop Elements
than you ever thought possible, including:
- Radically upgrade the quality of your color 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 and
rollovers
- Correct and enhance image tone and color with 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 customized vectors
- Featured on the CD
The 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
- Custom vectors
- Curves
- Masking
- Color separations (RGB, CMYK and Lab)
- Snapshots
- Enhanced sharpening
- This CD also contains more than 70 images and project files
to use while working along with the book's exercises.
Contents
PART I: Preparation and Concepts for Serious Image Editing
- Chapter 1: Essentials of Images and Image Editing
PART II: Wrestling with Image Tone and Contrast
- Chapter 2: Separating Color and Tone
- Chapter 3: Manipulating Image Tones
PART III: Serious Color Correction
- Chapter 4: Applying Tonal Manipulations to Color
- Chapter 5: Color-Specific Correction Tools
PART IV: Rebuilding Images
- Chapter 6: Altering Composition
- Chapter 7: Shaping and Replacing Objects
PART V: Images in Print
- Chapter 8: Vectors
- Chapter 9: Options for Printing
PART VI: Images on the Web
- Chapter 10: Creating and Using Web Graphics
Appendix: Other Concepts and References