Fool your friends by creating your own montages and manipulations that look like genuine photographs. Save time with invaluable shortcuts and tips to cut through unnecessary steps, helping you to work faster and smarter. Covering the latest tools & features in Elements 6, this book contains progressive and cutting-edge projects as well as activities relevant to previous Elements versions. Compatible with previous releases of Elements, this is packed with tips & tricks, secrets, and techniques that challenge & inspire.

    Work through each section to build up your Photoshop Elements skills, creating everything from basic layer and masking effects right up to advanced manipulation. Or just dip right into a project to learn a new technique. Turn day into night, add snow, shadows and water to your scenes, make fire and smoke, give your car a respray. A glossary of terms, keyboard shortcuts, and an index will help you locate that fantastic technique in a flash. On the CD: QuickTime movie tutorials; High resolution royalty free images.

1. Selection techniques
2. Montage essentials: layers
3. Hiding and showing
4. Image adjustments
5. Light and shade
6. Transformation and distortion
7. Materials and textures
8. Working with text
9. People and animals
10. Shiny surfaces
11. The third dimension
12. Print and the internet