Bored with your family snapshots? Ugly friends?

We'll show you how to harness the power of Photoshop Elements 2 to subtly improve or distort them beyond all recognition as you see fit!

Packed full of creative, fun ideas, each explained with step-by-step tutorials, and with all the source files on the accompanying CD, this book will show you how to:

• Produce caricatures by distorting faces with the popular Liquify tool


• Transform ordinary snapshots into works of art by Warhol, Lichtenstein, and Van Gogh


• Turn your kids into clowns, or tigers, or anything else they can dream up with digital face paint


• Eliminate red eye and achieve perfect skin tone on your everyday shots


• Tweak out to freak out! Give your nearest and dearest the cosmetic surgery you think they deserve!


• Enter the world of fantasy with some sumptuous mystical makeovers

...and more!