Photoshop<sup>®</sup> Elements 2 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography

click here for more details, find new or used items	Mikkel Aaland Our price £29.99 New from £8.95 Used from £0.25 Pages: 304 (Paperback) ISBN: 0782141404 Pub: John Wiley & Sons Pub date: 2002-09-02 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 225497

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A Professional's view is always helpful (3/3 people found this helpful)

I found this book to be very useful and entertaining. I really learned a lot from reading it. The author is instructive and to the point. Don't waste your time in trying to read the millions of other books on PE2. This is one of the best around and the author really knows what he's talking about. Can't wait to read more of his books! Definitely 5 stars!

Making your photos as good as they can be (21/21 people found this helpful)

This book is for people who want to make their photos as good as they can be, and are prepared to put in some time and mental effort in learning how to use Elements 2. The book is divided into chapters which each covers a job you are likely to want to do, such as improving faces, making composites, improving landscape shots, preparing images for the web, and many more. The Photoshop Elements 2 program is not organised that way - it has its Tools and Filters grouped into the functions they perform, not into the jobs the user wants to do, so as you follow the book you have to jump all over the program getting the Tools you need. Quite a mental exercise, but that's life with Elements. Aaland gives hundreds of tips for avoiding disasters and saving time as he goes through the step-by-step instructions for every task. Not much space is wasted on those amazing but rarely used filter effects; the emphasis is on making photos and web images that are beautiful and useful. I really felt I was learning from a multimedia professional, not a technical author. Again and again I found myself saying "Aha, so that's how you do it!". If you are a newcomer to computers or image processing, or are just going to stick to the "Quick Fix", then this book and Elements 2 are probably more than you need. Having had some experience with a simpler program, I quickly learned to use the extra power of Elements so if you, too, are ready to go beyond the basics of digital photography, I recommend this book.

Photoshop Elements 2 Solutions (9/11 people found this helpful)

Just a few words from a 75 year old to say what a great book! I have only recently obtained PSE 2 and my old brain was struggling a bit, but now I am really enjoying following the excellent instructions and ideas. Well done, and keep up the good work.

Excellent introduction to a complex but powerful program. (10/11 people found this helpful)

So many books on Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 - which one to buy? I requested several from my local public library and decided that Mikkel Aaland's book with its CD ROM was the one which suited my style of working the best. Working through the examples, before getting to grips with the program, gave me the confidence to try many of its features; rather than say "I'm a novice, I'll stick to Quick Fixes".

More than just boring text (8/9 people found this helpful)

This book has been of great value since it explains all the necessary steps you have to do in order to optimize your digital images, not only telling which tools there are, but also how to apply them to your images. It does not only contain dry text, but also a wide range of pictures illustrating the given examples. Since the images and examples are also included on a CD, I think this is one of the better books to learn about how to handle Photoshop elements. The reader does not have to have any pre-knowledge, however a basic skill in using a computer might be necessary.

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