"Deke really is a master at taking an application as powerful as Elements 3, and not only making it easy and understandable, he makes learning it an awful lot of fun. Regardless of your level of expertise in Elements, this book needs to be on your shelf!"
---Scott Kelby Executive Editor, Photoshop Elements Techniques Newsletter
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
A fine reality-based program which offers the next best thing to a personal trainer:
Deke McClelland and Galen Fott's Photoshop Elements 3 For Windows One-on-One bundles a 2-hour 'total training' video hosted by author McClelland with a fine reality-based program which offers the next best thing to a personal trainer. Learn how to organize and categorize photos, how to make corrections and edt, and how to solve common color problems using Quick Fix. Want more? Use Photoshop Elements 3 For Windows One-on-One as a classroom text, too: each lesson ends with a test quiz.
A Real Learning Experience:
Here is a book that can really help you use Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0. The author uses his experience as Photoshop teacher to offer a comprehensive learning tool in the form of a book and a CD. The book contains all color pictures, illustrations, and screen shots with step by step instructions with which one can easily follow along. The CD not only contains the pictures from the book but instructional quick time movies for each chapter which really add to the learning experience. Sprinkled... more info
Excellent introduction to Elements:
I'd give this book 5 stars even if it didn't have the fantastic video lessons on the included CD. I knew nothing about digital photography or image editing before buying this book, and now my pictures look great. Thanks, Deke! I strongly recommend this book.
seems mostly about image editing:
McClelland presents a set of 12 tutorials in the form of this book. It may appeal to you if you are the type who gets fidgety and impatient by just reading a book. Most of us can learn a subject better by doing some problems or tasks in it. Some can only learn in this fashion. Hence the book and its enclosed CD could be handy. Perhaps aided by the CD containing not just the usual data files used in the tutorials, but also a 2 hour video of the author. Most other technical books with CDs don't go to... more info
