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Title: Photoshop Elements 2 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography by Mikkel Aaland ISBN: 0-7821-4140-4 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: 22 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: AWESOME! but it's not for novice PSE2 users
Comment: This handsomely produced tutorial, with color photo's and screen shots on just about every page of quality paper, is THE way to progress from mid-beginner level to skilled user - with the option to become an advanced professional given enough time. As one can tell from the mixed reviews, this is NOT a newbie's introduction to PSE2. Some basic comfort (but not necessarily expertise) with Tools, Selections, Help system, Palette Well and Layers is essential. Sybex marketing includes beginners in its blurb - you'd be disappointed and very frustratred. Once you have the basics under your belt, however, and realize the need to go beyond PSE2's nice (but limited) QuickFix command choices, this book will get you there. The accompanying CD has every technique covered with a work-along image; so you don't waste time downloading (often incomplete) chapter images from a website. Clearly, the author has spent a great deal of time and thought on effectively communicating his vast experience. After presenting general principles of 'cleaning up' that will benefit most any digital image, come well-organized chapters arranged by topics so you can concentrate on specifics: portraits, landscapes, buildings (including real estate photography), objects, composites, panoramas, etc. With the wealth of approaches to solving particular problems, you'd better plan on spending some time - but it's time well spent. The many uses of layers are explored so thoroughly (including workarounds) that the difference between professional Photoshop and Elements virtually vanishes. PC and Mac users are served equally well by this book. There are literally hundreds of tips and techniques buried in this book - but, to repeat, it will take patience and determination on the reader's part to get all you can out of this book. Coupled with a good introductory text (and I haven't found one yet), the program's excellent tutorials, and Adobe's top-notch help system, this book will take you all the way to the top. Of the several dozen PSE2 books I have read, Mikkel Aaland's book is my top recommendation. Other authors seem more interested in quantity than in quality, and few have taken that extra step to combine high-quality production with a complete image gallery on CD in an inexpensive yet most attractive and readable package.
Addendum: Now that I've made the first runthrough of the book (took me some 6 weeks!) I am all the more impressed with this author's presentation, and the publisher's production. This is a veritable storehouse of literally hundreds (not just 40 or 50 or 99 or 106) techniques, alternative approaches, hints, tricks, insider secrets and pearls of wisdom I haven't found anywhere else. I'm going back for seconds in special areas such as portrait retouching and web optimization and am astounded by the new things I hadn't absorbed the first time around. Aaland's "PSE2 Solutions", combined with Lynch's "Hidden Power of PSE2" (and the Power-User Tools on that CD) will elevate you to PSE2 expert in far less time than it took these authors to learn the long hard way. My original caption of AWESOME probably doesn't do Mikkel Aaland full justice for the hard work and enormous effort expended to pass on his knowledge; I, for one, truly appreciate finding a lifetime's experience condensed in compactly readable (and viewable) form.
Rating: 1
Summary: Does not explain things fully
Comment: After working through, or should I say trying to work through, the first 4 chapters I am returning this book to Amazon. The author of this book in many of the exercises has left critcal steps out of the process. I am brand new to Photoshop and digital photography. About half of the exercises in this book were easy to follow with great instruction as to where to click and where to find everything etc. The other half of the exercises were as if the author assumed that I knew how to do alot of these things. It would leave critcal steps out of the instructions. I was left fumbling and guessing and reading the Adobe manual and the help section trying to figure out how to do some of these things. For example the section on layers I worked through about 3 times and only partially "got it". I would follow exactly the steps that the author described and I just could not get some of the results he did.
Maybe if you have some working knowledge of Photoshop this book would be fine but for a beginner I would not recommend this book. I'm going to try a couple of other ones.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Informative Book!
Comment: This is a very informative book! It gives the reader the latest step by step information, and great tips. If you use digital photography or scanning images of photography, weather on a professional level or a hobby, this is truly the book for you.
It gives great info on cropping, resizing changing colors, straightening and fixing photos. Adding motion blur, swapping images, moving items and how to make better backgrounds. For both the PC and MAC user.
Lots of visual aids, and has plenty of sidebar notes. This book lets you make the most out of software for the minimal cost to get this job done. A penny well spent!
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Title:Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ASIN: B00006ANW9 Publisher: Adobe Pub. Date: 02 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $99.00 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $89.99 |
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Title: The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2 by Richard Lynch ISBN: 0782141781 Publisher: Sybex Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Idea Kit by Lisa Matthews ISBN: 032113009X Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 05 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0: A Visual Introduction to Digital Imaging by Philip Andrews ISBN: 0240519183 Publisher: Focal Press Pub. Date: 17 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: The Photoshop Elements Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby ISBN: 0735713928 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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