Iconic Photographs

I use this “Teach Yourself Visually” book all the time.  I have taken one or two short courses on Elements and have learned a few things, but without this book I would not be able to do more than the usual basic adjustments!  Sometimes, with a good photograph, that is all the knowledge that is needed, but for the rest – give me this book!  And what a great book it is.  Another excellent publication from the “Visually” series and this one is all you would expect and more.

From the first chapter “Getting Started” to the last one “Saving and Sharing Your Work”, every function of Adobe Elements 6 is explained in detail and the reader is led through each process with numbered actions to be taken and accompanying similarly numbered screenshots.  So you can see exactly what needs to be done and how to do it.  Descriptions clarify the whole procedure as well, and the result is that it is almost impossible to fail to make any adjustment, improvement or feature successfully.  Useful and clearly presented tips appear throughout the book, too, and they add enormously to the knowledge available.

The book has a detailed Table of Contents with page references as well as a comprehensive Subject Index, both of which make it very easy to locate the function you want to use.

Of the authors, Mike and Linda Wooldridge, Mike is a user-interface designer who has written nineteen books in the Visual series and Linda is a former senior editor at Macworld whose fifth book this is.  Teach Yourself Visually Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is a full colour book which I can enthusiastically recommend as indispensable to everybody using Elements 6. And to have such an indispensible source to refer to for less than $30.00 is nothing short of a bargain in my mind!

You can get this book by just clicking on the image of it.

Teach Yourself Visually Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, Mike Wooldridge and Linda Wooldridge, Wiley Publishing, Inc. 340 pages.

There are so many titles in the “Visually” series that it is not possible to list them all here. The best thing to do is to go to the publisher’s website and search for what you want.

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