Customer Reviews
Not As Expected - By: Frankie, 28 Aug 2008 
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6: A Visual Introduction to Digital Photography
Written by an Australian author, unfortunately, the book doesn't take into account jurisdictional variations. Specificallly regarding the UK, for example, you can't create a Photobook with the Elements software to then automaticallly upload it as the finished product to have printed by the Adobe/Kodak website. You can only upload individual photos which you then rearrange on the Kodak website itself, thereby rendering any artwork you created in your Elements software obselete. So some of the instructions frustratingly don't apply to the software you buy in the UK.
Also, as a beginner to Elements software, I found the book launched into explanations using the same technical jargon as the software itself. The point of buying a seemingly accessible guide was to break that down for me to understand with greater ease.
A good introduction to the latest verson of Elements - By: Mr. N. K. Turley, 05 Mar 2008 
As the subtitle says, this is an introduction to Adobes' `junior' image editing application.
The book itself is well laid out, with sections ranging from introductions to digital photography & Elements itself to printing, file management & some simple projects.
It's a good book for dipping into - the sections are easy to navigate with a clear contents page & index to help you find your way around.
The graphics used throughout the book are clear & well laid out & illustrate the tools & techniques being described in the text. Screenshots are good & a reasonable size so you can see alll the components of a tool or menu.
At the moment, it only covers the Windows version - there's no indication of what will happen when the Macintosh version is released later this month.
- All the keyboard shortcuts are for Windows, & the `Organizer' workspace is fairly extensively covered - the Mac version will use `Bridge' as featured in CS3, so a relatively major rewrite would be required.
However, for users of the previous Windows based Elements version, mention is made where appropriate to equivalent commands in v.5 along with indicators where a particular tool or technique is new to v.6. It should be just possible to apply some of the techniques to older versions of Elements, but I wouldn't recommend buying this book unless you already own or are intending to upgrade to Elements 6.
A CD is supplied with the book which has a number of video tutorials covering the new & updated features in v.6 & some of the projects featured in later sections in the book, along with resources for practicing the more complex work-throughs - within the text, an indicator is used to show that content is available on the CD.
The author also has a web site including video podcasts, tutorials, & loads of additional resources, some for previous Elements versions.
I found this to be a very informative book with plenty of material for the new Elements user & a good alll round introduction to digital imaging.
