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Photoshop Elements 5 for Dummies (For Dummies)

By: Barbara Obermeier Ted Padova
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470098104
ISBN-13: 9780470098103
Released: 26 Jan 2007
RRP: £15.99
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Rather Boring ! - By: doodallybloke, 01 Oct 2007
Unfortunatly we read 2 others excellent books (purchased here on Amazon) on Photoshop Elements v5.00 prior to reading this one. I think that reading the other slightly more advanced books spoilt us. This book is designed for getting very basic knowledge of alll the buttons & tools, but you would get that anyway but simply exploring the software. No tutorials to read, just basic information that appears to go on & on. Around about half way through it's 370 pages it just got very repetitive. This does that & that does this. There are examples written in the book but not a lot of detailed explanations as such. The section on 'Gradients' (a very powerful Element 5 tool) was a prime example of a powerful section lightly skipped over. There was not a lot of pictures either come to think of it, just thumbnails. It's reallly alll about written comments that only just touch the surface. Can't reallly say that we would recommend this book at alll.

As you would expect with this type of book it's well presented but just so boring. For digital photograph novices such as myself when you own such a powerful piece of software such as Photoshop Elements 5 you need to be told 'HowTo' do things as the software is just so versatile. It needs to be explained how the Authors arrived from this to that. A 'before & after' thumbnail picture view is simply not good enough for this software. Never learnt a single thing from this book at alll. All IMHO of coarse.