Title Adobe Photoshop Elements
Author: Phil Hawkins
Duration: 100 Lessons – 6 Hours
Covers: Version 6
Free Demo: Photoshop Elements Tutorial
This Adobe Elements tutorial will give you the knowledge and creative skills to exploit Adobe Elements and create images that will astound. This training video starts with a brief overview of the program interface after which it devotes an entire chapter on importing photographs from a digital camera, a subject that most tutorials only cover briefly if at all, once the fundamentals of importing images has been covered the lessons take on a practical approach, the subjects covered are not limited to just Photoshop Elements, but appertain to digital imagery in general. Learn how to: color correct an image, enhance color and tones, correct skin tones, fix scratches, restore old photographs, remove color casts and so much more, by the end of this Photoshop Elements tutorial you will be able to do all this and a whole lot more too.
Photoshop Elements is sold at a fraction of the cost of the full version and retains about 90% of the features that are commonly used by image professionals. Photoshop Elements can comfortable accommodate the web designer or photographic enthusiast with more features then they will ever need. So unless you are in the upper 2% of the worlds photographic / digital imagery elite, the chances are Photoshop Elements will serve you just fine, of course some people just like the status that purchasing expensive software brings, maybe they somehow think that high-end software will compensate for their own lack of ability or knowledge, of course it won’t, if any thing it will make it worse.
If your on a budget and $600+ seems a lot of moolah to splash out on the full version of Photoshop, have a rethink, particularly if buying the full blown version will leave you with no funds left to learn how to use it, better to buy the lighter version and understand how to leverage all the functionality, than to buy the full version and sit staring at a blank screen trying to get it to do something remotely creative.
My humble option, for what its worth
If you simply want to import digital images, correct or edit them and then straight print or post them to the web, Photoshop Elements is fine, if you intend to take professional photographs and apply complex color adjustments and corrections and output them to a high-end printer then Elements is not going to accommodate your needs.
Tags: Adobe, Digital Imagery, graphics, Photoshop Elements
