Chapter three, "Enhancing Portraits," focus on the face. Here you will learn about removing red-eye, facial blemishes, adding make up and creating bigger eyes and a sharper chin. You will also discover how to open closed eyes, adjust skin tone colors, use selective focusing creating a studio background and add a picture frame to your image.
Chapter four, "Editing Skills and Special Effects," will show you how to automatically separate scanned images, process Camera Raw files, adjust image size and shape as well as clean up backgrounds. You will also find out how to create reflections, add type effects, alter perspective and combine images.
Chapter five, "Very Special Effects," explores stitching panoramas together to create a large image that you cannot get in one shot. It also works with camera blur to give motion to an image as well as giving photos an antique look.
Chapter six, "Using and Sharing Images," will show you how to create a greeting card, how to maintain photographs with album pages, make a web banner and make a web photo gallery.
While this book is rather slight in size, it is large in punch. There are a lot of techniques contained within that most professionals use on a regular basis. Also, included with the book is a trial version of Photoshop Elements, as well as 92 images that you can use to follow along with the book. If you are new to photo image retouching 40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques with Photoshop Elements is the perfect book to get up to speed.
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