Photoshop Elements is the scaled-down sibling of the standard bearer of photographic image processing, Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop Elements has the combination of affordable cost with a reasonable learning curve. The main purpose of 40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques with Photoshop Elements is to show you how, by using a simple tool, that anyone can garner professional results with their photographic images.
40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques is divided into six chapters and an introduction. While it is geared for those who have some experience with image editing and want to learn the proper techniques, even if you have no image-editing experience, the introduction will help get you started. The techniques have been tested to work with version 5.0 of Photoshop Elements and for the most part will work with earlier versions as well.
The introduction walks you through the fundamentals of what is image-editing software, and what the key elements of Photoshop Elements are. It walks you through file types, the interface and shows you around the product and how it works. It also shows the basic fundamentals such as opening and closing files.
Chapter one, "Correcting Contrast," begins the techniques with learning how to evaluate the contrast of an image and how to adjust it so that it looks like it should. You will learn how to diagnose problems, how to correct blurred images, correct the back lighting and brightening specific spots on your image.
Chapter two, "Manipulating Colors," will show you how to change colors, replace colors and how to turn color photos into black and white. It will also show you how to correct improper white balance, turn summer into fall and how to make detail color changes. You will get closer looks at the hue/saturation dialog box and the color replacement tool options bar as well.
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