Photoshop Elements 13 For Dummies

Introduction

We live in a photo world. And Photoshop Elements has become a tool for both professional and amateur photographers who want to edit, improve, manage, manipulate, and organize photos and other media. Considering the power and impressive features of the program, Elements remains one of the best values for your money among computer software applications.

About This Book

This book is an effort to provide as much of a comprehensive view of a wildly feature-rich program as we can. Additionally, this book is written for a cross-platform audience. If you’re a Macintosh user, you’ll find all you need to work in Elements 13 for the Macintosh, including support for placing photos on maps and more consistency with Windows features.

As each software product is upgraded to a newer version, you sometimes find a whole bunch of new features that dazzle you and sometimes you find not so many new features but much more improved performance. Photoshop Elements 13 is focused on the latter. You find some new and interesting features such as a few more Guided Edits, a completely new Slideshow tool, a Facebook Profile Creator, Selection Editing, more 16-bit support, Crop suggestions, and Photomerge Compose. However the real power in Photoshop Elements 13 is under the hood and features you don’t see such as much improved performance and support for Windows 64-bit operating systems.

Because Photoshop Elements has something for just about everyone, we know that our audience is large and also ...