Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements (CLS.EDUCATION) - Softcover

Using step-by-step tutorials, this book shows the amatuer photographer and hobbyist how to express his or her deepest secrets by using Photoshop Elements to digitally enhance and manipulate photographs.

Comedian and author Wally Wang offers a hilarious and helpful look at how to use Photoshop Elements to manipulate your digital photographs or create completely new images. Turn a mediocre picture into a good picture and a good picture into a spectacular one through a series of lessons that take you step-by-step through the many Photoshop Elements tools. With keen observations and deft language, Wang tells you how to select within an image, use the history palette to go back in time, poke out red eye, remove wrinkles and chins, and alter images with such essential tools as Clone, Warp, Bloat, and Pucker.Learn the three basic ways to edit a picture Decipher the cryptic menus and screens of Photoshop Elements Create the illusion of movement Grab still pictures from movies or off Web pages Modify color, fix lighting, and straighten crooked images Add credibility and make your fake photographs look real Focus on the best parts of pictures by cropping and enlarging Tint, age, or turn color pictures into black and white Paint, draw, and create images that never existed before Rewrite history or restore the past by working with existing pictures, heirlooms, and other memories Print, publish, and share your newly created masterpieces with friends and family