40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques

"This dazzling, full-color book provides a fun, practical introduction to photo-editing with Photoshop Elements for both home and business users and anyone who wants to jump right in and enhance their images."
--Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher of DT&G Magazine

Are you new to digital photography and image editing software? This dazzling, full-color book provides a fun, practical introduction to photo-editing with Photoshop Elements for both home and business users--and anyone who wants to jump right in and enhance their images. Discover forty valuable techniques and hundreds of creativity-inspiring images, plus a CD filled with images for practice and a tryout version of Photoshop Elements 2--all at an exceptional price. You'll learn to use the File Browser, change image size, enhance faces, fix blurry images, correct under- and overexposed images, turn photos from color to black-and-white, remove people and objects from photos, add special effects, and much more.

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40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniqueswill show you how to:

* Use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
* Correct lighting and contrast
* Turn color photos into sepia-toned or black-and-white images
* Color black-and-white photos
* Remove red eye, eliminate blemishes, and enhance facial features
* Create studio backgrounds and professional picture packages
* Clean-up, combine, and resize images
* Create reflections and text effects
* Whip up photographic and other special effects
* Make a web banner
* Create a photo gallery for the web
* And more!