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On top of that knowing how to have fun with a photo makes me want to learn more. For example, I fixed the only picture my friend had of his mother by scanning it and doing a little healing to replace a torn section. He was somewhat reluctant to hand the damaged photo to me but he was very happy to see the new one version. It was kick to be able to help! So this is the book I keep in the office so when I import the latest group of pictures I've got it handy in case I have to change or fix something.

She did a good job of explaining how to use layers, which I knew nothing about when I got PSE5 a few years ago. By the way, this is not a "Dummies" style manual, though they have their place.

This one is complete enough that it may be the only reference manual you need for PSE8. It is definately worth the price. There is an over abundance of written material available for users of Photoshop Elements. Those were indeed helpful to give me an all around look at the program and detailed instructions for fixing common problems.

Based on the step by step instructions I learned a few tools and pretty much stuck with them. I knew there was more to the program, but was at a loss of how to use it. I wound up having trouble with the Organizer and having real issues with honing my selection skills.

This drove me back to the drawing board: I needed a resource that gave me more than a brief overview as the on Demand book did , something that would give me a grand tour with how to use the program capabilities and suggestions when to use them.

Barbara Brundage's book was everything I needed. I wish I had started with this resource instead of the on Demand book. Kelby and the magazine are great resources too, but this has become the book I keep by the computer when using PSE8. Long-Suffering Technology Consumer. While it has some automated functions, users hoping to harness its full power are going to need some help. Barbara Brundage offers this help in a detailed guide that explores the higher functions of PSE, while respecting the challenges many readers may have in grasping complex technology.

Brundage offers both conceptual overviews and tutorials of PSE 8's interface and functions. She effectively breaks down the the concepts of file management, basic editing, image manipulation and sharing of the results of these digital editing techniques.

Particularly useful are the two appendices, which provide a summary of ALL of the many many! Minor deficiencies are present in this book. While it certainly provides sound advice on avoiding Adobe's deliberate efforts to guide consumers to a purchase of the "Plus" version of the online extension to PSE 8, it doesn't mention the wide scope of Adobe's data collection of user activities associated with this in both the free and "Plus" online adjuncts. Advice to consumers to read the EULA if they have concerns about how Adobe will collect their data would have been a welcome addition.

While this is true and you won't be forced to uninstall any earlier version , it doesn't mention that PSE 8 will force you to choose which single version of PSE you'll want to keep using.

Finally, the book says that "the help files that ship with Elements are sometimes incomplete". More correctly, in PSE they are absent.

The Help menu in PSE 8 launches a browser and takes you online, where all the help content is located. You can download a 27 MB. These are small shortcomings that do not detract seriously from the overall worth of this book, which is valuable tool with great utility for serious amateur or frugal professional photographers or digital artists expanding their craft. This is a very comprehensive book.

For someone just learning PSE, a more literal step by step is suggested. It has helped me more in 2 days than the first book. I've worked with a lot of desktop publishing, photo and creative programs, but PSE 8 is challenging. For beginners, the simpler the instructions, with pictures, the better. After the "oh, I get it now" Missing Manual is recommended. I bought this book some time ago and can't believe I never rated it. It is totally awesome and wish they would write a book about Serif software also.

Their puny little books tell you nothing. I read this book every time I sit in a doctor's office or any other place I have to wait. I learn something every time. It truly helps your Photoshop 8 operate much like the real thing. Can't go wrong if you can't afford multi-hundred dollar Photoshop. I restore old photos and sell new pictures, so no junior photographer am I.

Trust me. See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. Purchased this through one of Amazons on line secondhand bookshops. It was practically brand new and the postage cost more than the book! Great book for delving in, and finding those things you cannot work out how to do, or what different icons etc mean or do.

Laid out in easy to read manner. Report abuse. Unfortunately the Adobe Premier Elements and Photoshop Elements program is now into version 11 but the Missing Manual publishers advised me March that they have no plans to update this version 8 manual. Thats a shame. Very good manual. Surely much better than the adobe guides. The explanations are accurate and easy to understand. The examples are useful and easy to follow.

A good buy. This book is a great help in making sensible use of it, but like every publication on PSE I've ever consulted it's a bit light on how to make optimum use of the Organiser. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Back to top. The program, however, provides a means to align the multiple shots manually, and you can designate the over- and under-exposed areas manually too, if necessary.

Even better results can be achieved if you've taken three or more alternative shots. If the shots aren't strongly similar in composition, you can get some odd-looking mixes. But the freedom this feature affords is brilliant: all you have to do is rattle off a couple of snaps each time -- one with the flash on, and one without -- in the knowledge that Elements 8 will sort it all out later. Good photography is all about composition, apparently. In the real world of last-minute holidays and nights in the pub, we just shoot what we can and hope for the best.

Elements 8 offers a remedy for poorly composed photos that lets you eliminate the background bits you don't want. Say you've taken a photo of two people standing apart from each other. Using the Recompose function in Elements 8, you can push them closer together without distorting their appearance.

If the program's automatic guesswork proves unsatisfactory, you can manually mark up which parts of the image to preserve and which to eliminate as shown in the example below.

In fact, you can mark up people to remove from the image as you drag on the Recompose handles. There are limitations, of course, most notably when the subject matter is already fairly close, causing distortion to creep in. We were pleasantly surprised at how seamless the backgrounds were after the Recompose process, but less impressed when we removed parts of the image. For some reason, this always caused the affected part of the background to look slightly skewed or twisted.

Much like modern digital cameras, previous versions of Elements could identify the 'face' areas in images. Elements 8 is supposed to be able to identify whose faces they are see the example below. To do this, you start by enabling People Recognition in the Elements Organizer and entering names for faces in several images. The program then analyses your other photos and identifies them accordingly -- in theory, anyway. In practice, this feature works reasonably well for spot-on, full-face photos with perfect clarity and rich colour.

If, however, the majority of your photos are rather rough, the People Recognition feature just doesn't have a clue.

Most of the time, it prompts you with the question 'who is this? More annoyingly, sometimes it doesn't prompt you at all. The feature's saving grace is that it's certainly no worse than Apple's equivalent in iPhoto. Much more impressive is the Auto-Analyzer in the Elements Organizer shown below , which looks through your pictures and tags them automatically within a range of categories.

Within a few minutes, it will have tagged your entire library, helping you sort out the high-quality shots from the blurred ones, for example, or those containing several people from those containing just one.

We much prefer this to the annoying Tag Cloud, for assigning tags from one of those silly collections of previously used words shown at different type sizes. These bloody tag clouds just encourage you to use the same words the big ones over and over again. Auto-Analyzer, on the other hand, makes a valuable judgement on each picture, thereby making your dumb computer smarter than the average tag-cloud fan.

Other worthwhile enhancements in Elements 8 include adjustment previews for Quick Fix tasks shown below. These comprise a set of alternative 'fixed' versions of your image at full size not just a thumbnail , allowing you to choose the one closest to your intended result and then make additional tweaks. It's a great time-saver. The package also includes an updated set of templates for creating photo books, greetings cards and so on. We didn't try them all but they appear to be good-quality tools on the whole.

That said, it's slightly irritating to click on the Create button only to be flogged paid-for services from Shutterfly and Kodak Gallery. No doubt this is supposed to be helpful, but it isn't to someone with pre-paid credits at Snapfish or a similar alternative service.

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