The Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers

A good instructive book. It requires a great deal of concentration with the aid of a magnifying glass. It is regularly spoilt by corny Americanisms

Very useable and practical reference for non-experts (3/3 people found this helpful)

I don't usually reviews books but this is a real gem for keen photographers. The book is structured into specific tasks that you would want to perform, such as removing spots from an image or changing an object's colour or various sharpening techniques. In all the book covers approximately 300 such tasks and for each task there are a set of clearly written steps with Photoshop screen prints to show you how to go about it. The book covers tasks in all the following areas:

Using the Organiser
Resizing and cropping
Colour correction
Digital camera Image problems
Selecting objects
Retouching
Removing unwanted objects
Special effects
Restoration techniques
Sharpening techniques
Presenting your work
Colour Management

I find that I am delving into this book all of the time and use it as my reference for Photoshop Elements 5.

Like other Scott Kelby books it does have a slightly flippant and sometimes condescending writing style but the content is fantastic and Scott does tend to strip away the jargon and get to the point very directly.

Improving your understanding of Photoshop is all about practice and experimenting with the software and this book rapidly gives you the hooks into Photoshop's features so that you can start learning by doing.

Highly recommended to keen photographers who are not Photoshop experts but want to learn how to become very proficient with Elements 5.

What a shame! (3/3 people found this helpful)

Scott Kelby is clearly a natural with image enhancement software, and has gifts as a teacher as well. I have profitted greatly from reading this book, and some of his others. But he should have been ruthless with his red pencil, editing out all of his intrusively lame jokes. And where was his editor during the production process? Leaving out the jokes and tightening up the grammar needn't have made the book any less accessible. Sussex Reader can take it from me, an American currently living in London, that this is a case of personal error of judgement, not of American/English language differences.

Good for beginners (4/4 people found this helpful)

This book contains some really good stuff which will improve your photoshop skills and make your photo's better. There is a section on most of the main area's of photography such as portrait fixing and landscape altering.

One of the most useful techniques that I learnt was how to remove unsightly objects from a photo such as TV antena's. It is also good on starting to use layers to create effects.

The only bad thing about the book is that towards the middle and end of the book simple things are still explained in detail which you know how to do already from earlier in the book.

Brilliant book (8/9 people found this helpful)

This was my 6th PhotoShop book, and by far the best one!! Easy to read, good examples, easy to achieve good result, very inspiring indeed!!
And fun...
Really helps you out to get what you want. Covers most areas you will need, in good depth.
You can just pick a task and start working!
Shame that the price has doubled since my order, but it's still worth it!!

The Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers

Scott Kelby, Matt Kloskowski

Reader Reviews:

Good but corny (1/1 people found this helpful)

Very useable and practical reference for non-experts (3/3 people found this helpful)

What a shame! (3/3 people found this helpful)

Good for beginners (4/4 people found this helpful)

Brilliant book (8/9 people found this helpful)

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