In just a short time, you can learn all you need to know about choosing a digital camera, taking great pictures, and editing and saving your digital photographs and albums with Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.

    Using a straightforward, well-paced approach, each lesson
in this book builds on the previous one, explaining in ordinary English everything from the basics or taking great digital pictures to sophisticated techniques that can help you turn your photographs into works of art.

    And regardless of whether you run Adobe Photoshop Elements 3 on a windows PC or on Mac OS S, this book provides clear, step-by-step instructions for even the most advanced tasks.

Part I: The Basics
Part II: Taking Better Pictures
Part III: Putting Your Photos to Work
Part IV: Working with the Tools
Part V: Simple Improvements
Part VI: Photo Rescue
Part VII: Getting Creative
Part VIII: Appendixes
Appendix A Glossary
B Photoshop Element Menus
C All the Shortcuts

Author Description

Carla Rose

Carla Rose started her photography career at the age of
8 with a Brownie Hawkeye camera. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, She worked as a TV news Photographer and film editor, as well as an advertising copywriter and graphic artist. She has written more than two dozen computer books including Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS in 24 Hours and Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 in 24 Hours.

She is a contributing editor for Photoshop User magazine and has also written for publications ranging from the Atlantic Fisherman to Adobe magazine to the New Yorker.