September 2011
Beginner
656 pages
24h 9m
English
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Introduction
It’s a visual world these days. Want your Facebook friends to see what you’re having for lunch? Post a picture. Need an extra whatchamacallit from the hardware store? Just show them a photo. It’s just so much easier than trying to describe such things with words. Everybody has a digital camera now. Most likely, even your cellphone is a pretty competent little camera. But there are two problems with all this photo-y goodness: People’s expectations of photos are pretty high now, and keeping track of so many images can be a nightmare that may make you long for the days when all your family photos fit in one shoebox.
Enter Photoshop Elements. Not only does Elements 10 give you terrific tools for editing and improving your photos, but you also get a free account at Photoshop.com, making it incredibly easy to share photos on your personal Photoshop.com web page, back them up automatically, and sync them between your computers.
Note
For now, you have to be in the United States to use Photoshop.com. If you’re in another country, you can create and share online albums at Adobe’s Photoshop Showcase (www.photoshopshowcase.com), a site first created for folks using Elements 6. Alas, a few features are available only with Photoshop.com, so for now, these features are U.S.-only.
Elements also includes a great photo organizer (aptly named the Organizer), which used to be available only in the Windows version of Elements, but now Mac folks get it, too. And since more and more people are ...
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