The Digital Photographer Series: Photoshop Elements 7

I've had some fun this summer. Last month, I published the first in my latest series of digital photography books, Photoshop Elements 7. You can purchase it at Amazon, but you can get it quicker from my publisher, and its the same price, https://www.createspace.com/3385530.

Here you'll find the simple steps to taking advantage of this great photo editing software, and taking your photographs to the next-level.Kevin first takes you through the steps to managing your photos with the Organizer. After a tour of Elements so you know where everything is, and a great section on using Camera Raw, Kevin shows you in a step by step manner how to quickly and easily correct your images for color and tone. You’ll then learn how to make selections, and perform edits in Photoshop Elements. Kevin also shows you how to convert color images to breathtaking black and white images, pushing the boundaries of color, and retouching portraits.

The book includes hundreds of color illustrations, and is organized in a simple step-by-step manner which will help you become highly proficient with using Photoshop Elements 7.

Here's the scoop:

I’ve been writing and teaching about digital photography, Photoshop and other subjects for quite a long time now. In doing the research, pushing the software to its limits to find out what it can or cannot do, I’ve come to a simple conclusion when it comes to editing software for digital photographers. Photoshop Elements is well worth the price, and is probably the most versatile photo editing software on the market. Unlike Photoshop, Elements was designed strictly for photographers.

Don’t get me wrong, Photoshop is still the king among the pro’s, but in my discovery, there isn’t really anything for photography that Photoshop does that can’t be done in Elements. For most photographers, Elements gives you more than enough tools than you’ll probably ever use, or even learn. It’s that complete.

I’ve also discovered that like Photoshop, Elements has a long learning curve, hence the reason I’ve written this book. In Elements, Adobe has made simple tasks much easier than in Photoshop, but you still have to “get there”. The beginning or intermediate level photographer still needs to know the basics of color, tone and exposure in order to know which tools to use in Elements before taking advantage of its capabilities. There are still “standard” approaches to develop in order to consistently correct and edit photos. The Elements user still needs to understand file management, and how to use Elements to organize their image library. So much to learn, so much yet to do!

My approach to Elements for digital photography is simple. It’s the same approach I teach for users of Photoshop or Lightroom as well. No matter what software you’re using, or what level of technical expertise you possess, the basics are the same, and this book is structured to match the approach