Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements

Name: Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements
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ISBN: 9780072228847

ISBN-10: 0072228849

ISBN-13: 9780072228847

Edition: 2003

Authors: Wallace Wang

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This text teaches the amateur photographer and hobbyist how to express his or her deepest secrets and fantasies by using Photoshop Elements to digitally enhance and manipulate photographs, step-by-step. The book is fun, irreverent, and a sensational approach to learning how to use Photoshop Elements.

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne
Publication date: 6/17/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Wallace Wang is the author of several best-selling computer books, including My New Mac, My New iPhone, and Steal This Computer Book (all No Starch Press). He is also a successful standup comic who has appeared on A&E's "Evening at the Improv" and appears regularly at the Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas.

Introduction	p. xii
Getting Pictures into Photoshop Elements	p. 1
What You Can Do with Photoshop Elements	p. 3
Alter the Appearance	p. 4
Add New Details	p. 8
Delete Details	p. 12
Before You Get Started	p. 13
Where to Go from Here	p. 15
Load, Align, and Save Images	p. 19
Get Pictures on to Your Computer	p. 19
Find and Open a File	p. 23
Magnify a Picture	p. 27
Fix Crooked Images	p. 28
Save a Picture	p. 33
Where to Go from Here	p. 35
Getting a Picture from the Movies and Other Sources	p. 37
Freeze Frame	p. 39
Picking Pictures off a Web Page	p. 42
Using Stock Photography	p. 44
Grabbing Pictures from PDF Files	p. 45
Where to Go from Here	p. 46
The Basics	p. 49
Quick Fixes for Improving a Picture	p. 51
How Quick Fix Works	p. 52
Correct Color	p. 53
Adjust Brightness	p. 57
Change the Focus	p. 64
Rotate an Image	p. 67
Where to Go from Here	p. 67
Selecting Stuff in a Picture	p. 69
Use the Toolbox	p. 70
Select by Shape	p. 72
Select by Boundaries	p. 74
Select by Color	p. 78
After You Select Something	p. 80
Where to Go from Here	p. 88
Copy and Paste	p. 91
Copy and Paste: The Fast and Easy Way	p. 92
Copy and Paste for Special Effects	p. 95
Copy and Paste for a Natural Look	p. 97
Smudge the Edges	p. 103
Where to Go from Here	p. 106
How to Keep from Screwing Up	p. 109
How to Use the Undo and Redo Commands	p. 110
How to Use Layers	p. 114
Where to Go from Here	p. 120
Fixing Flawed Pictures	p. 123
Trim a Picture	p. 124
Change the Size of a Picture	p. 126
How to Use Adjustment Layers	p. 130
Make the Dark Look Lighter and the Light Look Darker	p. 133
Where to Go from Here	p. 137
Playing with Colors	p. 139
Turn Color into Black and White	p. 140
Tint and Age a Picture	p. 141
Play with the Color Cast	p. 142
Color Large Areas	p. 144
Where to Go from Here	p. 152
Painting and Drawing	p. 155
How to Paint and Draw	p. 156
How to Use the Gradient Tool	p. 161
How to Modify a Painting or Drawing	p. 165
Where to Go from Here	p. 166
Digital Editing Techniques	p. 169
Fixing Flawed Faces and Other Parts of a Picture	p. 171
How to Change Colors with the Red Eye Tool	p. 172
Coloring with the Sponge Tool	p. 178
Smoothing Wrinkles and Other Flaws with the Blur Tool	p. 179
Where to Go from Here	p. 183
Rearranging Faces, Body Parts, and Other Objects	p. 185
Use the Liquify Filter	p. 186
Reshape Objects with the Warp Tool	p. 188
Shrink Items with the Pucker Tool	p. 188
Enlarge Items with the Bloat Tool	p. 190
Have Fun with the Turbulence and Twirl Tools	p. 191
Fix Mistakes with the Reconstruction Tool	p. 192
Alter Images with the Shift Pixels and Reflection Tool	p. 192
View Details with the Zoom Tool	p. 194
Move Pictures with the Hand Tool	p. 195
Where to Go from Here	p. 195
Making People, Places, and Things Disappear	p. 197
How the Clone Stamp Tool Works	p. 198
Use the Clone Stamp Tool	p. 200
Put the Clone Stamp Tool to Work	p. 204
Where to Go from Here	p. 209
Playing with Skies, Lights, and Motion	p. 211
How to Change the Sky	p. 212
Play with Lighting Effects	p. 216
Create the Illusion of Movement with the Motion Blur Filter	p. 222
Where to Go from Here	p. 224
Playing with Collages, Panoramas, and Special Effects	p. 227
How to Create a Panorama	p. 228
How to Create a Collage	p. 232
How to Modify a Picture with Filters and Effects	p. 234
Where to Go from Here	p. 237
Playing with Text	p. 239
How to Add Text to a Picture	p. 240
Twist Text into Different Shapes	p. 244
Apply Effects and Gradients	p. 246
Fill Text with an Image	p. 248
Where to Go from Here	p. 251
Where to Go from Here	p. 253
Publishing Your Pictures	p. 255
How to Print a Single Picture	p. 256
How to Print Thumbnails of Multiple Pictures	p. 259
How to Create and Print a Picture Package	p. 261
Where to Go from Here	p. 264
Sharing Your Pictures Electronically	p. 267
How to E-mail a Picture	p. 268
Put Your Pictures on a Web Page	p. 269
How to Create a Slideshow	p. 272
How to Share Your Pictures with Other Programs	p. 275
Where to Go from Here	p. 277
Tips and Tricks for Dealing with Photoshop Elements	p. 279
Get Used to Layers	p. 280
Use Grids and Rulers	p. 287
Make Shadows	p. 288
Where to Go from Here	p. 290
Index	p. 292
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