• Author:
  • Lynch, Richard
• Subject:
  Business Applications
• Published by:
  John Wiley & Sons Inc (US)
• Published:
  07/01/2003
• Price:
  $59.99
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Unlock Photoshop Elements' Awesome Power with Sophisticated Techniques and Original Power Tools
Until now, Adobe's Photoshop Elements hasn't been considered powerful or full-featured enough for serious image correction. This is the book that changes that forever, revealing advanced features locked inside Photoshop Elements, ready to be turned loose.

All you need are the techniques found in this book and the author's custom Hidden Power Tools included on the CD--powerful enhancements that unlock key Photoshop features, like curves, channel separations in RGB and CMYK, and masking. Soon you'll do more with Photoshop Elements than you ever thought possible, including:

* Radically upgrade the quality of your color results using channels, custom separations, and image luminosity
* Alter reality by creating new photo-realistic objects and adding them to existing images
* Create dynamic images for the Web using animation and rollovers
* Correct and enhance image tone and color with Curves, Color Balance, and custom layer-blending tools
* Make complicated masks and advanced selections to easily target your corrections
* Create original, scalable line art for logos by harnessing the power of customized vectors

See the author's supporting web site at www.hiddenelements.com.

Richard Lynch is the author Special Edition Using Photoshop 6 and Adobe Photoshop 5 How-To, as well as numerous articles on Photoshop, scanning, digital photography and imaging for various magazines. He is the editor of more than 30 current photography and digital imaging how-to books. His Photoshop work has appeared in print and on the web, in web site design, magazines, books, music CDs, trade-show installations, and as logos.

Introduction.

PARTI: PREPARATION AND CONCEPTS FOR SERIOUS IMAGE EDITING.

Chapter 1: Essentials of Images and Image Editing.

PARTII: WRESTLING WITH IMAGE TONE AND CONTRAST.

Chapter 2: Separating Color and Tone.

Chapter 3: Manipulating Image Tones.

PART III: SERIOUS COLOR CORRECTION.

Chapter 4: Applying Tonal Manipulations to Color.

Chapter 5: Color-Specific Correction Tools.

PART IV: REBUILDING IMAGES.

Chapter 6: Altering Composition.

Chapter 7: Shaping and Replacing Objects.

PART V: IMAGES IN PRINT.

Chapter 8: Vectors.

Chapter 9: Options for Printing.

PART VI: IMAGESONTHEWEB.

Chapter 10: Creating and Using Web Graphics.

Appendix: Other Concepts and References.

Index.