Restoration and Retouching With Photoshop Elements 2 [Anglais] [Broché]

* Presents the capabilities of Photoshop Elements in an easy-to-understand language geared to the home user
* Enables readers to restore damaged archival photos, repair scratches and tears, enhance color, and correct poor exposure
* Makes the reader a digital plastic surgeon who can correct wrinkles, blemishes, figure flaws, and "bad hair days"
* Includes information about printing, storing, and protecting images
* Appeals to the growing market of consumers interested in genealogy and preserving family heritage

Step-by-step guide to using professional digital photo editing capabilities. Covers revitalizing faded pictures, enhancing new images, restoring damaged family photos, producing top-quality prints, correcting exposure and eliminating red-eye, and much more. Illustrated, with index and glossary. Softcover.

Preserve and restore heirloom photos, or become a digital plastic surgeon

If you’re a photo hobbyist, genealogy enthusiast, or small-business owner with a Web site to maintain, the release of Photoshop Elements 2 has finally put professional digital photo editing capabilities within your grasp. This book shows you, step by step, how to use these easy yet powerful tools to revitalize faded pictures, enhance new images, restore treasured family photos that have suffered damage, produce top-quality prints, and even remove embarrassing physical flaws from your subjects. And once you’ve created your masterpieces, designer and Photoshop instructor Laurie Ulrich tells you how to protect and preserve your precious photos.

• Reverse the effects of time, improper storage methods, weather, and poor photographic technique
• Correct exposure and eliminate red-eye
• Apply dazzling special effects to photos and original artwork with Photoshop Elements’ automatic features
• Understand the Photoshop Elements interface and learn how to find help using the Hints and Recipes features
• Improve color and contrast
• Remove objects from a photo and rearrange elements for more a pleasing composition
• Reconstruct torn images and erase the effects of dust and water damage
• Fix "bad hair days,"change body shapes, and apply digital cosmetics
• Master the Effects, Filters, and Palettes unique to Photoshop Elements 2

Laurie Ulrich has a background in fine arts as well as extensive professional experience in graphic and Web design. She is the author of two books on Photoshop and has written extensively on other topics from Microsoft Office to Web design. Laurie also conducts Photoshop classes at universities, corporate training centers, and privately, for growing businesses, non-profit organizations, and home users.