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Being new to digital imaging one of the areas I have found most confusing is using imaging software and whilst I realise Photoshop CS2 is probably the daddy I felt it would have too much functionality for what I required as a beginner so to that end I bought Elements 3. Even with this 'simpler' software I have been struggling to learn what it does until this week when I bought a book called "The Photoshop Elements 3 Book for Digital Photographers" by Scott Kelby published by New Riders.
If you are just starting out using Elements I can highly recommend this book, it full of useful and practical tips and tutorials but the author has figured out workarounds and cheats to replicate some of the features found in CS2. He gives many examples of simple ways to edit images to bring out their best and explains things clearly, if sometimes a bit cheesily.
To give you one example this pale image would have taken me ages to get right using Levels, Saturation, contrast etc etc and I did try it but was struggling to get what I wanted in my minds eye and what I recalled from the actual scene
In his book Kelby deals with washed out images and by following the step-by-step instructions which only involved making Duplicate Layers and Multiplying them (something I didn't know about prior to reading this book) I ended up with this image in about 45 seconds and it gives me the punch that I was looking for:
I realise a lot of this will already be known by some of you experienced Photoshoppers but if, like me, you are still at the early learning stages I can highly recommend this book. He has also written other books for Photoshop and if they are anything like this they will be worth a read.
Colin.
If you are just starting out using Elements I can highly recommend this book, it full of useful and practical tips and tutorials but the author has figured out workarounds and cheats to replicate some of the features found in CS2. He gives many examples of simple ways to edit images to bring out their best and explains things clearly, if sometimes a bit cheesily.
To give you one example this pale image would have taken me ages to get right using Levels, Saturation, contrast etc etc and I did try it but was struggling to get what I wanted in my minds eye and what I recalled from the actual scene
In his book Kelby deals with washed out images and by following the step-by-step instructions which only involved making Duplicate Layers and Multiplying them (something I didn't know about prior to reading this book) I ended up with this image in about 45 seconds and it gives me the punch that I was looking for:
I realise a lot of this will already be known by some of you experienced Photoshoppers but if, like me, you are still at the early learning stages I can highly recommend this book. He has also written other books for Photoshop and if they are anything like this they will be worth a read.
Colin.
