The Photoshop Elements 12 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter)
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The Photoshop Elements 12 Book for Digital Photographers (Voices That Matter) Details
About the Author Scott Kelby is Editor, Publisher, and co-founder of Photoshop User magazine, Executive Editor and Publisher of Lightroom magazine, and host of The Grid, the weekly, live, webcast talk show for photographers, as well as the top-rated weekly video webcast, Photoshop User TV. He is also President of the online training, education, and publishing firm, KelbyOne. Scott is a photographer, designer, and award-winning author of more than 50 books, including The Adobe Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Book for Digital Photographers, Professional Portrait Retouching Techniques for Photographers Using Photoshop, Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It: Learn Step by Step How to Go from Empty Studio to Finished Image, The Photoshop Elements Book for Digital Photographers, and The Digital Photography Book, parts 1, 2, 3 & 4. Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and co-host of The Grid, the popular weekly online show about all things photography. Both Scott and Matt live in the Tampa Bay area. Read more
Reviews
While the book says it's designed for beginners to intermediate users, beginners with no Elements experience will be lost. The authors assume you have a basic understanding of the software. One very frustrating problem is they constantly give you only the keyboard shortcuts for activating features and not the corresponding menu option. For example, one paragraph said, press D, then X then Alt-Backspace. While this did what they said it would do, I learned nothing because there was no explanation of what the D, the X, or the Alt-Backspace did. There has to be another way to accomplish the task without having to memorize the keystrokes. But I guess I'll have to read another book to find out what it is. To compound the frustration, there is not list of keyboard shortcuts in the book.The book is very useful if you already have a basic understanding of Elements. It is a good resource for learning specific features of the software. But it is definitely not for people that are new to Elements.
