The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2 by Richard Lynch
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Book Reviews of The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2
Book Review: Valuable for both the book and the tools
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2" is really two products intertwined into one. The book goes over image editing by first addressing basic cleanup techniques, tone, contrast and sizing. Color editing is developed through RGB separations. Here the real value of Hidden Power comes through: Lynch provides tools (RGB separation, levels) in an included CD that add this capability thought to be available only in the full version of Photoshop.Other topics covered in the book are altering composition, shaping and replacing objects, vector art, printing (tools for CMYK separation are provided,) and web graphics, including animated GIF's.
Hidden Power is well written and suitable as both a tutorial and reference.
Book Review: Truly Hidden Power
Summary: 5 Stars
The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements 2
After 7 years of struggling with Elements 2 and various books, I bought this, used, and discovered the way to think about images and the Elements software interface. The enclosed toolkit of add-on functions, with the written instructions for how to use them, gives Elements much of the power of the fully-featured Photoshop products. Without this knowledge, I might have abandoned Elements and wasted money on an even more hard-to-fathom product. Now I can do everything I ever wanted to do, and do it quickly. I doubt I'll need anything more than Elements 2 with Hidden Power.
Book Review: Great addition for Elements users
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been a user of Photoshop Elements (1.0) for about 6 months. In addition to providing 'hidden' tools within Elements (curves, channels, masks) this book provides good tips and suggestions for general digital photo editing and enhancements. The book is very detailed, but the accompanying cd provides examples from the book (to follow along) and also the hidden tools to update either Elements 1.0 or 2.0. The author is extremely knowledegable and he makes himself available for any questions/suggestions on his web site, and in various forums and discussion groups on the web. I highly recommend this book for Element users who want the power of full blown photoshop without the price.Book Review: I love this book and the additional tools
Summary: 5 Stars
If one really goes through the book step by step or at least reads it fully so one knows where information is contained when the use for same comes up, this book is an absolute must for anyone wishing to get full photoshop applications out of photoshop elements 2. If you should run into problems there is an online discussion group and, in addition, I have contacted Mr. Lynch a couple of times and have always gotten a response. Considering that he must be a very busy man, I was impressed with his desire to accomodate his consumer base.
Pat Heere
Book Review: Now You Can Use Curves
Summary: 5 Stars
The best thing about the book and the CD that accompanies it,
is that now you are able to use the CURVES feature with Elements 2. For me, this is the one very handy feature that this photo
software was lacking. Mr. Lynch also explains in great detail how to use this previously missing feature. My pictures have improved greatly. Also, the author responds to emails quite
rapidly with any question that you might have.