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How to Wow with Photoshop Elements 5
Jack Davis
Mike McHugh
Wayne Rankin

ISBN-10: 0321486153
ISBN-13: 9780321486158

Publisher: Peachpit Press
Copyright: 2007
Format: Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 192 pp
Published: 12/26/2006

Suggested retail price: $39.99
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Visually inspiring guide with eye-popping example and step-by-step instructions shows users how to take their images to the next level.
  • Users learn by doing as they use Photoshop Elements to create the photos and graphics pictured in the book's pages.
  • From best-selling authors Davis, McHugh, and Rankin: design and training pros who use just the right combo of text and images to inspire and inform.
  • CD includes the files to complete the book's projects, plus style sheets, templates, graphic libraries, and more.

Jack Davis is best known as the coauthor of the award-winning guide to Photoshop, The Photoshop Wow! Book. Jack is also a designer, photographer, and internationally recognized creative spokesperson on digital imagery. Mike McHugh is Australia’s leading Photoshop and InDesign trainer, with an extensive background in prepress, finished art, and graphic design. He is a certified Adobe expert and trainer, and is also the coauthor of How to Wow with InDesign CS2. Wayne Rankin, a renowned Australia-based graphic designer, has been pushing the boundaries of digital imaging and design since the early 1980s. He is coauthor of How to Wow with InDesign CS2.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could have three of the world’s top digital imaging experts sitting next to you at your computer, helping you navigate through the infinite possibilities available to you in Photoshop Elements 5?

How to Wow with Photoshop Elements 5 is the next best thing. It combines the skills and techniques of Jack Davis and Mike McHugh along with the inspiring designs and creative projects of Wayne Rankin. All three are renowned authors, designers, and educators.

Jack, Mike, and Wayne guide you step by step through real-world projects, with an emphasis on uncompromising quality, last-minute flexibility, and phenomenal speed. You’ll learn tips and techniques on everything from sorting your digital photos to creating a digital scrapbook. Whether it’s optimizing the color and tone of your image, ...and turn your digital photographs into creative masterpieces!retouching cosmetic undesirables, reconstructing priceless heirlooms, or creating customized wrapping paper, you’ll be given the tools at every stage of the process in order to learn How to Wow!

The book begins with an introduction to the Elements 5 workspace, and then moves on to workflow (including file organizing, color settings, and Camera Raw), and then explores photo optimizing and retouching and repairing. Next comes the fun stuff with enhancing all aspects of your photography for maximum impact. You will produce stunning creative projects, including a digital watercolor and a multimedia VCD or DVD that you can watch on your home TV. You’ll also create engaging presentations, and using the How to Wow presets, available on the CD accompanying this book, you can’t go wrong.

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This title is a member of the How to Wow, which also contains the titles below . You can also visit the How to Wow page.

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    © 2005 | Peachpit Press | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 176 pages | Instock
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    © 2007 | Peachpit Press | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 192 pages | Instock
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    Bonus CD, included with the book, contains all the images you’ll need to follow along with each project!
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    © 2006 | Peachpit Press | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 288 pages | Out of Stock
    ISBN-10: 0321357507 | ISBN-13: 9780321357502
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  • 032130330XHow to Wow: Photoshop for the Web
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    © 2005 | Peachpit Press | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 200 pages | Instock
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