Bad Pics Fixed Quick : How to Fix Lousy Digital Pictures

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Summary: Sure is optimistic!
Review: The title is certainly optimistic. Any of you who have taken digital photos soon realises that the camera is no panacea for cruddy photos. So what Miller does is give an extended excursion into the depths of Photoshop Elements 3. With the upsurge in digital cameras, now surpassing traditional film cameras, it has created a chance for Adobe to broaden the market for Photoshop. Just a few years ago, the typical Photoshop user was a professional running it in her workplace.

Well, Miller disabuses you of that, at least as far as Elements 3 is concerned. The example photos are carefully chosen. Not just to show how to use Photoshop to clean them up. In addition, the subject matter is often what you might take photos of - family and friends, in casual surroundings. It underscores the narrative, which walks through the various Photoshop menus, showing how to do your fixes.

Also, there is not much traditional photography jargon, about f-stops, apertures and the like. This also carries through into digital cameras, of course. But the book's purview is with what happens after those photos are taken.

Needless to say, if you have traditional photos and want to clean them up, try scanning them into a computer. Then apply anything you can find germane in this book to them.