Photoshop Elements 3 For Dummies
Author: Deke McClelland
Do you want to rearm Venus de Milo, shave Uncle Harry’s beard, or turn gray skies to blue? Have at it with PhotoshopElements 3 For Dummies, your guide to enhancing the effect, fixing the flaws, or adding artistic effects to your photos. You’ll discover how to:
• Import and organize your photos
• Create, rearrange, blend and manipulate layers to create a composite image
• Save photos using the correct file format— TIFF (Tagged Image File Format, PDF (Portable Document Format), or BMP (for PC users)
• Save for the Web with JPEG and GIF
• Take advantage of the terrific Help Great Help system, including a How To palette with step-by-step tutorials for image editing and features
• Create a slide show, a picture package, or a Web photo gallery
PhotoshopElements 3 For Dummies was written by Dele McClelland, award-winning author of more than 75 titles, including Photoshop for Dummies and Photoshop CS Bible, and Galen Fott, writer and reviewer for Macworld and PC Magazine. It includes 16 pages of full-color examples that demonstrate capabilities and show you “before” and “after” photos. You’ll get step-by-step specifics on techniques that can transform your photos, including:
• Selecting the area you want to work with using the lasso, marquee, or magic wand tools or the selection brush
• Using the healing brush to remove imperfections such as blemishes and the new red eye removal tool to remove that demonic glow
• Adjusting color with a variety of tools andtechniques
• Applying filters such as Blur, Gaussian Blur, Colored Pencil, Diffuse Glow, Glass, Glowing Edges and many more
• Color correcting quickly with fast color-corrections
• Using the layer styles in the Styles and Effects palette to let your imagination go wild with painting, drawing, applying drop shadows and bevels, adding text, and more
• Using the brush, pencil, eraser, shape and cookie cutter tools
• Working with the type tools, including formatting options, warping type into unusual shapes, and creating outline type
• Making the most of the effects, including frame, image effects, text effects, and textures
• Using Photomerge to create panoramic pictures
PhotoshopElements 3 For Dummies doesn’t just give you instructions—it gives you ideas. You’ll be inspired to capitalize on the capabilities and explore different techniques to enhance and share your photos.
Table of Contents:
| Ch. 1 | Braving the elements | 11 |
| Ch. 2 | Dissecting your desktop | 23 |
| Ch. 3 | "Open!" says me | 37 |
| Ch. 4 | Pixels : it's hip to be square | 55 |
| Ch. 5 | Over (and under) the rainbow | 75 |
| Ch. 6 | Get organized (before it gets you) | 93 |
| Ch. 7 | Saving with grace | 121 |
| Ch. 8 | It's perfect : no, wait! : okay, print | 139 |
| Ch. 9 | Making selections on the pixel prairie | 153 |
| Ch. 10 | Fifty ways to love your layer | 179 |
| Ch. 11 | The Midas retouch | 195 |
| Ch. 12 | Darkroom Deja Vu | 213 |
| Ch. 13 | The rainbow correction | 231 |
| Ch. 14 | Startling style | 259 |
| Ch. 15 | If a picture paints a thousand words ... then shut up and paint | 277 |
| Ch. 16 | Painting with the digital stencil | 303 |
| Ch. 17 | Type righter | 319 |
| Ch. 18 | Can Photoshop Elements do that? | 331 |
| Ch. 19 | Ten shortcuts to commit to long-term memory | 361 |
| Ch. 20 | Ten reasons why you might want to upgrade to Photoshop someday | 367 |
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ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
Author: Colin Moock
Macromedia Flash MX is the de facto standard for delivering web-based multimedia to over 500 million users worldwide. ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide is dedicated entirely to ActionScript, Flash MX's object-oriented programming language. This book is for web developers using Flash for true application development, not just eye candy. The book targets Flash and ActionScript developers of all levels, plus JavaScript programmers migrating their skills to ActionScript. Updated to cover Flash MX, this second edition is the one book no serious Flash developer should be without. It covers new features in Flash MX ActionScript, such as the Drawing API, loading of external MP3 and JPEG files, improved sound control, text formatting, component development using movie clip subclasses, local data storage, accessibility features, and much more. ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide is the most complete, up-to-date reference available, with over 400 new pages added since the best-selling first edition. The book's Language Reference has nearly doubled in size, with more than 250 new classes, objects, methods, and properties. You'll find exhaustive coverage of dozens of undocumented, under-documented, and misdocumented features.
Author Colin Moock, one of the most universally respected developers in the Flash community
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