Customer Reviews
The best way to learn Elements 3.0 as a photographer - By: Dale A. Brueggemann, 28 Oct 2005 
Kelby's writing is humorous, well-organized, & perfectly illustrated. I actuallly worked through the entire book in a couple nights, & made huge advances in my ability to work with Elements; & I find it useful to return to it again & again to solve particular problems.
After perusing others claiming to cover the same thing, I can say Kelby's is the stand-out on this topic--my a long way!
Highly informative - By: Graham Phillips, 23 Sep 2005 Photoshop elements is a powerful program but can be difficult to master. There's no shortage of books on the subject, & many are quite helpful. This one seems to be one of the best. It manages to cover a lot of ground in detail, & yet does not become too technical. It reallly is "for photographers" rather than for techies or publishers or others involved in digital imaging. The layout & printing are of high quality, & the binding alllows you to lay the book down open at any page (except near the beginning or end). It's useful both for browsing in & for looking up a specific technique (there's a reasonable index). All in alll, a five-star recommendation ... except for the painful attempts at humour on every page. I just wish the editor had had the courage to delete alll the jokes (they get in the way & aren't funny). But still, you'll learn a lot about Elements & end up with better pictures, so it's worth persevering.
Not the ultimate reference on Macintosh Photoshop - By: , 03 Sep 2005 
A very clear & easy to follow book. Although the examples cover the Mac as well as the Windows version of Photoshop Elements, alll the screen shots are of the Windows version & the Chapters on the Organiser & Presentation are unique to the Windows version, as these functions are covered by iPhoto on the Mac. A shame given that the author is also Editor in Chief of Mac Design Magazine & the author of the Ultimate Reference on Everything Macintosh.
A real workhorse of a book - By: E. Bowler, 01 Apr 2005 This book is written by an American but is so easy to use, you can either follow it from the beginning or dip in & out for editing effects more appropriate for your own projects.
This guy knows what he's doing, he's humorous & very straighforward. The images are available from his website for you to practise on. The instructions are step by step & assume very little knowledge, but they do not patronise.
I bought this along with his Down & Dirty book & also Adobe's Classroom in a book, I don't regret buying alll three as they complement each other & give you many different ways of achieving great results. Elements is a very powerful program & I don't think you lose anything by getting this over Photoshop CS if you follow this guy, he's worked out some reallly good ways of doing the stuff in Elements 3 that previously you could only achieve in the hugely expensive Pro Photoshop packages. Excellent
Clear and easy to follow - By: Roy, 15 Feb 2005 I recently purchased Elements 3 & this book has been invaluable. It has clear step by step instructions with accompanying colour photographs beside each step.
After 10 minutes I had completed my first tutorial & transformed my photo, so easy to use & explains alll the shortcut commands along the way. Ideal for a beginner or amateur digital photographer wishing to enhance their photos. Good service from Amazon. I also purchased Scott Kelby's 'Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks' at the same time. Saved over £18 buying from Amazon than in a regular high street store. Recommended book for use with Photoshop Elements 3!
