ABSTRACT

How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements 8 is the Elements equivalent to Steve Caplin's How to Cheat in Photoshop-a fun, quirky and inspiring guide, packed with tips, tricks and effects that reveal the power of Elements for design-oriented image manipulation and photomontage. With more than 80 step-by-step projects on page spreads showing the before and after and all stages in between, this is a practical guide to stir the imagination.

chapter |1 pages

How to use this book

chapter |3 pages

Getting up to speed

chapter 1|18 pages

Selection techniques

chapter 2|26 pages

Montage essentials: layers

chapter 3|26 pages

Hiding and showing

chapter 4|38 pages

Image adjustments

chapter 5|26 pages

Light and shade

chapter 6|32 pages

Transformation and distortion

chapter 7|36 pages

Materials and textures

chapter 8|22 pages

Working with text

chapter 9|30 pages

People and animals

chapter 10|16 pages

Shiny surfaces

chapter 11|18 pages

The third dimension

chapter 12|9 pages

Print and the internet