Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements

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Summary: Totally hillarious and usefull!
Review: After reading tons and tons of technical books for Photoshop, this has got to be the most entertaining one yet. Being a designer for a newspaper, this book has opened up a whole new world of satire for me. My associate who teaches a design class in Portland read it once and decided to use it for his Photoshop class.

The instructions are easy and maintainable, unlike all those other dry humorless books. The illustrations are pretty damn funny also (I love the gorilla/strip dancer photo!).

I hope to see more from Wally Wong in the future.

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Summary: Great how-to guide....
Review: Don't let the title fool you - first and foremost this is the best step-by-step guide to Photoshop Elements out there (I've looked at too many of them). I found the explanations clear and concise and my frustrations with trying to learn the program on my own were solved. It is an excellent how-to book....

The bonus is that it is also funny and I've often stopped reading in my tracks and thought - "I can't believe he just said that!" Overall it is the best of both worlds - very useful and damn amusing....

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Summary: Funny and Helpful
Review: I wasn't sure what to expect, but this is really a good Photoshop book for beginners. It is really well written, extremely funny. I chuckled every page I read.

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Summary: Just how to digitally enhance and manipulate photographs
Review: In Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements Wally Wang, a highly informative and witty writer accessibly illustrates just how to digitally enhance and manipulate photographs. In a step-by-step instructional which is an ideal introduction for the novice (and with a great deal to offer even the more experienced Photoshop user), Wang shows how his readers can express their deepest secrets and fantasies artistically, clean-up dirty pictures, erase bad memories, make themselves look younger and thinner, and perform other tricks.

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Summary: Funny Book For Being Instructive
Review: Knowing next to nothing about Photoshop Elements, this book really helped. The humor throughout the book was great because it wasn't just another mind-numbing technical manual that goes from introductory to a Ph.D. level of understanding by the third chapter.

The use of humor throughout the book made it fun to read. It's one of the few "computer/software" books I've read front to back.

But along with the humor, is a lot of good instruction and information about using Photoshop Elements.

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Summary: It gives you the basics but not much else.
Review: This book is easy to read and often funny. It covers a lot of what Photoshop Elements can do but is very basic in nature. It gives you the basic ideas of what you can do with Elements but often does not expand on how to go further. Its big learning suggestion is to play with the different features to see what they can do.

After reading this book and the user guide that came with Elements, I have just a fair understanding of what I can do with Elements and how to do it. Elements is a very powerful photo editor.

I recently discovered and had the opportunity to browse a book titled "The Photoshop Elements Book for Digital Photographers". This book appears to be a good supplement to the two books above. It shows you things like how to remove facial blotches and to turn a smirk in to smile, among many other practical and useful things.