A highly visual, colorful, learn-by-doing approach to get quick results from the popular and fun Windows tool, Photoshop.

Join the digital photo revolution! In short sessions that can take just a minute, you¿ll learn to enhance those pictures you took with your digital camera or picture cell phone¿or old snapshots you recapture with your scanner. Remove that red-eyed look from flash photos. Fix contrast and brightness on under- or over-exposed shots. Adjust for vibrant, life-like color. Fix old or damaged family photos. (You can even get rid of the clutter in your closet by storing them conveniently on your hard drive or burning them on CDs!) Learn how to create compact picture files from your photos so you can share them easily with your family and friends via email or post them to your personal website. Create digital albums and shows from your new personal collection of impressive digital photographs, and produce high-quality prints from your color inkjet printer¿all without the cost and delay of photofinishing.

Along with the popularity of MP3 music, the fun, convenience, and sheer economy of digital photogrpahy is a great reason to buy a new computer and camera. Adobe has designed Photoshop Elements so you can get great-looking results with just a few clicks, and Easy Photoshop Elements is the perfect book to deliver on that promise of incredible ease of use!

Easy Photoshop Elements can also show you how to create photo albums and slide shows using other popular applications - Photoshop Album, Micro Research 3-D Album, and Microsoft PowerPoint. The book includes a CD with sample files you can use to recreate the book's lessons yourself, template files for building your own albums and shows, and a trial version of 3-D Album.