Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 : A Visual Introduction to Digital Photography (Paperback)

If you are an amateur or professional photographer who works with digital images and wants great results fast, this essential, easy-to-follow guide from world-renowned Adobe Photoshop Elements expert Philip Andrews is for you!

There are countless ways to use Adobe's powerful Elements 6 software, and Andrews helps you with the skills to conquer them all; from turning ordinary photos into extraordinary scrapbooks, calendars, and albums to making business cards, flyers, and other promotional materials for your organization quickly and economically. Real-life examples and precise, easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions will help you get up to speed with Elements 6 fast for the results you want in no time, whether your photographs are from your digital camera or scanned images from film and slides.

If it's in Elements, it's in this book. Andrews covers tried and true tools which have been revamped to better suit photographers' needs, such as the Adjust Color Curves and Convert to Black and White features, the Brightness/Contrast feature, and a smoother workflow for the creation of photo projects such as Photo Books, Photo Collage, Online Galleries, CD/DVD Jackets, and CD/DVD Labels. He also dives into the exciting, all-new features of Elements 6 such as:

*The Quick Selection Tool
*Fantastic Photomerge technology for group shots and faces, which lets you combine the best pieces from multiple images
*Direct copy to CD/DVD to speed up your workflow when you need to copy several images to disc quickly
*The Guided Edit Workshop with interactive technique tutorials
*Smart Albums, to automatically add photos that match certain criteria to your Album
*The Refine Edge feature, which allows you to control how smooth or feathered the edges of your images appear
*A Task Pane with five different Task Modes (Organize, Fix, Create, Share and Edit) to help you manage the processing of your images

.and much, much more.

Whatever your organizing, editing, creating, and sharing needs are, you'll find clear-cut, no-nonsense answers in this introductory book/CD/website learning package. If you find yourself getting stuck, Philip is just a click away with over two hours of superb video tutorials on the included CD. Or, visit the book's website, www.guide2elements.com, for updates and more images that you can use to practice your new skills.

Written by a photographer for photographers, this book is for those who want to know the techniques that get results and can be put into practice immediately.

如果你是一位業餘或專業的攝影師，使用數位影像並希望快速獲得出色的結果，這本由世界知名的Adobe Photoshop Elements專家Philip Andrews所撰寫的基本且易於遵循的指南就是為你而設！

Adobe強大的Elements 6軟體有無數種使用方式，而Andrews將協助你掌握所有技巧；從將普通照片轉變為非凡的剪貼簿、日曆和相冊，到快速且經濟地製作名片、傳單和其他組織的宣傳材料。實際案例和精確易懂的逐步指示將幫助你快速上手Elements 6，以獲得你想要的結果，無論你的照片來自數位相機還是從底片和幻燈片掃描的影像。

如果Elements中有這個功能，這本書都有涵蓋。Andrews介紹了經過改進以更好地滿足攝影師需求的經典工具，例如調整色彩曲線和轉換為黑白功能、亮度/對比功能，以及更流暢的工作流程，用於創建照片項目，如照片書、照片拼貼、線上畫廊、CD/DVD封套和CD/DVD標籤。他還深入介紹了Elements 6的全新功能，包括：

*快速選擇工具
*令人驚嘆的Photomerge技術，用於合併多張圖像中的最佳部分
*直接複製到CD/DVD，以加快工作流程，當你需要快速將多張圖像複製到光碟時
*帶有互動式技巧教程的引導編輯工作坊
*智能相冊，可自動將符合特定條件的照片添加到你的相冊中
*精緻邊緣功能，可控制圖像邊緣的平滑度或羽化效果
*具有五種不同任務模式（組織、修復、創建、分享和編輯）的任務窗格，可幫助你管理圖像處理

還有更多更多的功能。

無論你的組織、編輯、創建和分享需求是什麼，你都可以在這本入門書/光碟/網站學習套裝中找到明確且直接的答案。如果你遇到困難，Philip在光碟中提供了超過兩個小時的精彩視頻教程，只需點擊即可。或者，你可以訪問本書的網站www.guide2elements.com，以獲取更新和更多可用於練習新技巧的圖像。

這本書是由攝影師為攝影師撰寫的，適用於那些想要了解獲得實際效果並能立即實踐的技巧的人。