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This one is complete enough that it may be the only reference manual you need for PSE8. It is definately worth the price. There is an over abundance of written material available for users of Photoshop Elements.

Those were indeed helpful to give me an all around look at the program and detailed instructions for fixing common problems. Based on the step by step instructions I learned a few tools and pretty much stuck with them. I knew there was more to the program, but was at a loss of how to use it. I wound up having trouble with the Organizer and having real issues with honing my selection skills.

This drove me back to the drawing board: I needed a resource that gave me more than a brief overview as the on Demand book did , something that would give me a grand tour with how to use the program capabilities and suggestions when to use them. Barbara Brundage’s book was everything I needed. I wish I had started with this resource instead of the on Demand book. Kelby and the magazine are great resources too, but this has become the book I keep by the computer when using PSE8. Long-Suffering Technology Consumer.

While it has some automated functions, users hoping to harness its full power are going to need some help. Barbara Brundage offers this help in a detailed guide that explores the higher functions of PSE, while respecting the challenges many readers may have in grasping complex technology.

Brundage offers both conceptual overviews and tutorials of PSE 8’s interface and functions. She effectively breaks down the the concepts of file management, basic editing, image manipulation and sharing of the results of these digital editing techniques.

Particularly useful are the two appendices, which provide a summary of ALL of the many many! Minor deficiencies are present in this book. While it certainly provides sound advice on avoiding Adobe’s deliberate efforts to guide consumers to a purchase of the “Plus” version of the online extension to PSE 8, it doesn’t mention the wide scope of Adobe’s data collection of user activities associated with this in both the free and “Plus” online adjuncts.

Advice to consumers to read the EULA if they have concerns about how Adobe will collect their data would have been a welcome addition. While this is true and you won’t be forced to uninstall any earlier version , it doesn’t mention that PSE 8 will force you to choose which single version of PSE you’ll want to keep using. Finally, the book says that “the help files that ship with Elements are sometimes incomplete”. More correctly, in PSE they are absent. The Help menu in PSE 8 launches a browser and takes you online, where all the help content is located.

You can download a 27 MB. These are small shortcomings that do not detract seriously from the overall worth of this book, which is valuable tool with great utility for serious amateur or frugal professional photographers or digital artists expanding their craft. This is a very comprehensive book. For someone just learning PSE, a more literal step by step is suggested. It has helped me more in 2 days than the first book.

I’ve worked with a lot of desktop publishing, photo and creative programs, but PSE 8 is challenging. For beginners, the simpler the instructions, with pictures, the better.

After the “oh, I get it now” Missing Manual is recommended. I bought this book some time ago and can’t believe I never rated it. It is totally awesome and wish they would write a book about Serif software also. Their puny little books tell you nothing. I read this book every time I sit in a doctor’s office or any other place I have to wait. I learn something every time.

It truly helps your Photoshop 8 operate much like the real thing. Can’t go wrong if you can’t afford multi-hundred dollar Photoshop. I restore old photos and sell new pictures, so no junior photographer am I. Trust me. See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. Purchased this through one of Amazons on line secondhand bookshops. It was practically brand new and the postage cost more than the book!

Great book for delving in, and finding those things you cannot work out how to do, or what different icons etc mean or do. Laid out in easy to read manner. Report abuse. Unfortunately the Adobe Premier Elements and Photoshop Elements program is now into version 11 but the Missing Manual publishers advised me March that they have no plans to update this version 8 manual. Thats a shame. Very good manual.

Surely much better than the adobe guides. The explanations are accurate and easy to understand. The examples are useful and easy to follow. A good buy. This book is a great help in making sensible use of it, but like every publication on PSE I’ve ever consulted it’s a bit light on how to make optimum use of the Organiser.

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Automatically back up and sync your photos. Frequent worriers and travelers, prepare to be amazed. You can set Elements to sync your PC-based photos to storage space on Photoshop. See Backing Up Your Files for more about how to use this nifty feature.

Access your photos from other computers. Download lots of extra goodies. The Content panel The Content Panel displays thumbnails for additional backgrounds, frames, graphics, and so on, that you can download right from Photoshop. Get lots of great free advice. Call up the Photoshop Inspiration Browser The Inspiration Browser , and you can choose from a whole range of helpful tutorials for all sorts of Elements tasks and projects.

The bad news is that these Photoshop. Adobe says it plans to expand this offering worldwide. See Activation for more about the regional differences. This also registers Elements. In the window that opens, fill in your information to create your Adobe ID. When you click Create Account, you get a message if the web address you chose is already in use.

Finally, for security purposes, you need to enter the text you see in a box on the sign-up screen. Click the Create Account button. Adobe tells you if it finds any errors in what you submitted and gives you a chance to go back and fix them. You need to click the link within 24 hours of creating your account, or you may have to start the whole process again. Once you have an account, you can get to it by clicking Sign In at the top of the Editor or Organizer.

You can also look at the bottom of the Welcome screen to see how much free space you have left, as shown in Figure A free Photoshop. You can also upgrade to a paid account called Plus , which gives you more of everything: more template designs for Online Albums, more downloads from the Content panel, more tutorials, and more storage space: 20— GB depending on what level membership you choose. Once you sign into your account, Elements logs you in automatically every time you launch the program.

The Editor is the other main component of Elements Figure This is the fun part of the program, where you get to edit, adjust, transform, and generally glamorize your photos, and where you can create original artwork from scratch with the drawing tools and shapes. You can operate the Editor in any of three different modes:. Full Edit. Most of the Quick Fix commands are also available via menus in the Full Edit window. Quick Fix. For many beginners, Quick Fix Figure ends up being their main workspace.

Guided Edit, described below, is the other. Chapter 4 gives you all the details on using Quick Fix. Guided Edit. It provides step-by-step walkthroughs for popular projects such as cropping your photos and removing blemishes from them. Like Quick Fix, Guided Edit offers a before-and-after view of your photo as you work on it see Getting Help and also offers some advanced features, like the Actions Player Using Actions. To get rid of the lock and free up your image for Organizer projects, go back to the Editor and close the photo there.

When you first open the Editor, you may be dismayed at how cluttered it looks. You can leave everything the way it is if you like a cozy area with everything at hand.

Or if you want a Zen-like empty workspace with nothing visible but your photo, you can move, hide, and turn off almost everything. Figure shows two different views of the same workspace. To do that, just press the Tab key; to bring everything back into view, press Tab again. To expand it again, click the top bar once more. To bring it back, click Reset Panels at the top of your screen, which resets all your panels, not just the bin.

You can also combine panels with each other, as shown in Figure ; this works with both panels in the bin and freestanding panels. When you launch Elements for the first time, the Panel bin contains only two panels: Layers and Effects.

In addition to combining panels as shown in Figure you can also collapse the Panel bin or any group of panels into icons. Then, to use a panel, click its icon and it jumps out to the side of the group, full size. To shrink it back to an icon, click its icon again. You can combine panels here by dragging their icons onto each other. Then those panels open as a combined group, like the panels in Figure Clicking one of the icons in the group collapses the opened, grouped panel back to icons.

You can also separate combined panels in icon view by dragging the icons away from each other. In the Editor, the long narrow photo tray at the bottom of your screen is called the Project bin. It shows you what photos you have open, as explained in Figure , but it does a lot more than that.

Show Open Files. If you send a bunch of photos over from the Organizer at once, you may think something went awry because no photo appears on your desktop or in the Project bin.

Bin Actions. This is where the Project bin gets really useful. The Project bin is useful, but if you have a small monitor, you may prefer to have the space it takes up for your editing work. In Elements 8, the Project bin behaves just like any of the other panels: you can rip it loose from the bottom of the screen and combine it with the other panels.

You can even collapse it to an icon, like the other panels, or drag it into the Panel bin. If you combine it with your other panels, the combined panel may be a little wider than it would be without the Project bin, although you can still collapse the combined group to icons. Older versions of Elements have used floating windows, where each image appears in a separate window that you can drag around. All the things you can do with image windows are explained on Image Views. Because your view may vary, most of the illustrations in this book show only the image itself and the tool in use, without a window frame or tab boundary around it.

Elements gives you an amazing array of tools to use when working on your photos. You get almost two dozen primary tools to help select, paint on, and otherwise manipulate images, and many of the tools have as many as six subtools hiding beneath them see Figure It stays perfectly organized so you can always find what you want without ever having to lift a finger to tidy it up.

To activate a tool, click its icon. Any tool that you select comes with its own collection of options, as shown in Figure As the box below explains, you can have either a single- or double-columned Tools panel. If you had a single-row panel when you clicked, it changes to a nice, compact double-column panel with extra-large color squares Choosing Colors. If you had two columns when you clicked, it becomes one long, svelte column.

If you want to hide it temporarily, press the Tab key and it disappears along with your other panels; press Tab again to bring it back. Stop tapping the key when you see the icon for the tool you want. You probably have a bunch of Allen wrenches in your garage that you only use every year or so. To activate the tool, just press the appropriate key. If the tool you want is part of a group, all the tools in that group have the same keyboard shortcut, so just keep pressing that key to cycle through the group until you get to the tool you want.

You can deactivate it by clicking a different tool. When you open the Editor, Elements activates the tool you were using the last time you closed the program. Wherever Adobe found a stray corner in Elements, they stuck some help into it. Here are a few of the ways you can summon assistance if you need it:. Help menu. You can click blue-text tooltips for more information about whatever your cursor is hovering over.

Dialog box links. Most dialog boxes have a few words of bright blue text somewhere in them. That text is actually a link to Elements Help. It walks you through a variety of popular editing tasks, like cropping, sharpening, correcting colors, and removing blemishes. If you already have a photo open, it appears in the Guided Edit window automatically. If you have several photos in the Project bin, then you can switch images by double-clicking the thumbnail of the one you want to work on.

Choose what you want to do. Your options are grouped into major categories like Basic Photo Edits and Color Correction, with a variety of specific projects under each heading. Just click the task you want in the list on the right side of the window. Just move the sliders and click the buttons till you like what you see.

If you want to start over, click Reset. If you change your mind about the whole project, click Cancel. If several steps are involved, then Elements shows you just the buttons and slider you need to use for the current step, and then switches to a new set of choices for the next step as you go along. If there are more steps, then you may see another set of instructions.

If you click one, then you get a pop-up window that suggests a tutorial explaining how to do whatever the text alert mentioned. You need a Photoshop. The first time you start the Inspiration Browser, you see a license agreement for yet another program: Adobe AIR, which lets other programs show you content stored online; no need to get out a web browser and navigate to a website. Adobe AIR got installed automatically along with Elements.

The tutorials are all in either PDF or video format. You can also click on one of the column headings to see the available tutorials arranged by Title, Author, Difficulty, Date Posted, Category, Type video or PDF , or the average star rating people have given it.

The Inspiration Browser is a wonderful resource and may well give you most of the help you need with Elements beyond this book. Elements has a couple of really wonderful features to help you avoid making permanent mistakes: the Undo command and the Undo History panel. No matter where you are in Elements, you can almost always change your mind about what you just did.

These keyboard shortcuts are great for toggling changes on and off while you decide whether you really want to keep them. Just push the slider up and watch your changes disappear one by one as you go. Be careful, though: You can back up only as many steps as Elements is set to remember. If Elements runs slowly on your machine, then reducing the number of history states it remembers try 20 may speed things up a bit.

Always, always, always make a copy of your image and work on that instead. Name the duplicate and then click OK in the dialog box. Elements opens the new, duplicate image in the main image window. Find the original image and click its Close button the X. Choose Photoshop. Saving Your Work has more about saving.

 
 

 

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Top reviews Most recent Top reviews. Top reviews from the United States. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Verified Purchase. I guess I could just quote the sub-title and say that this is the book that should have been in the box, yet this one goes further than anything they could have included. It’s more detailed and has a better layout than most manuals you get, but what is the best feature is the step by step way Barbara Brundage explains how to do something.

As a former writer of high tech operational manuals I appreciate that style knowing that once you do something correctly a couple of times it becomes second nature. On top of that knowing how to have fun with a photo makes me want to learn more. For example, I fixed the only picture my friend had of his mother by scanning it and doing a little healing to replace a torn section. He was somewhat reluctant to hand the damaged photo to me but he was very happy to see the new one version.

It was kick to be able to help! So this is the book I keep in the office so when I import the latest group of pictures I’ve got it handy in case I have to change or fix something. She did a good job of explaining how to use layers, which I knew nothing about when I got PSE5 a few years ago. By the way, this is not a “Dummies” style manual, though they have their place.

This one is complete enough that it may be the only reference manual you need for PSE8. It is definately worth the price. There is an over abundance of written material available for users of Photoshop Elements.

Those were indeed helpful to give me an all around look at the program and detailed instructions for fixing common problems. Based on the step by step instructions I learned a few tools and pretty much stuck with them.

I knew there was more to the program, but was at a loss of how to use it. I wound up having trouble with the Organizer and having real issues with honing my selection skills.

This drove me back to the drawing board: I needed a resource that gave me more than a brief overview as the on Demand book did , something that would give me a grand tour with how to use the program capabilities and suggestions when to use them. Barbara Brundage’s book was everything I needed. I wish I had started with this resource instead of the on Demand book. Kelby and the magazine are great resources too, but this has become the book I keep by the computer when using PSE8.

Long-Suffering Technology Consumer. While it has some automated functions, users hoping to harness its full power are going to need some help. Barbara Brundage offers this help in a detailed guide that explores the higher functions of PSE, while respecting the challenges many readers may have in grasping complex technology.

Brundage offers both conceptual overviews and tutorials of PSE 8’s interface and functions. She effectively breaks down the the concepts of file management, basic editing, image manipulation and sharing of the results of these digital editing techniques. Particularly useful are the two appendices, which provide a summary of ALL of the many many!

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You can download a 27 MB. These are small shortcomings that do not detract seriously from the overall worth of this book, which is valuable tool with great utility for serious amateur or frugal professional photographers or digital artists expanding their craft. This is a very comprehensive book. For someone just learning PSE, a more literal step by step is suggested. It has helped me more in 2 days than the first book. I’ve worked with a lot of desktop publishing, photo and creative programs, but PSE 8 is challenging.

For beginners, the simpler the instructions, with pictures, the better. After the “oh, I get it now” Missing Manual is recommended. I bought this book some time ago and can’t believe I never rated it. It is totally awesome and wish they would write a book about Serif software also. Their puny little books tell you nothing.

I read this book every time I sit in a doctor’s office or any other place I have to wait. I learn something every time. It truly helps your Photoshop 8 operate much like the real thing. Can’t go wrong if you can’t afford multi-hundred dollar Photoshop. I restore old photos and sell new pictures, so no junior photographer am I.

Trust me. See all reviews. Top reviews from other countries. Purchased this through one of Amazons on line secondhand bookshops. It was practically brand new and the postage cost more than the book! Great book for delving in, and finding those things you cannot work out how to do, or what different icons etc mean or do. Laid out in easy to read manner. Report abuse. Unfortunately the Adobe Premier Elements and Photoshop Elements program is now into version 11 but the Missing Manual publishers advised me March that they have no plans to update this version 8 manual.

Thats a shame. Very good manual. Surely much better than the adobe guides. The explanations are accurate and easy to understand. The examples are useful and easy to follow. A good buy. This book is a great help in making sensible use of it, but like every publication on PSE I’ve ever consulted it’s a bit light on how to make optimum use of the Organiser.

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Suddenly, out of the blue, the Editor on my Elements 8 is very slow to open takes about a minute. Was previously instantaneous.

Can’t think why. I would appreciate any suggestions as to what may be causing this. It seems that the long launch time only occurs when there is an active internet connection, at least that’s what happens here when using the pse 8 Welcome Scrren to launch the pse 8 editor.

I suggest you skip using the welcome screen and put shortcuts on your desktop that link directly to the pse 8 editor and pse 8 organizer. You can try to frre the preferences of Photoshop Elements to check if that helps. Check the steps in the link below. Thanks for replying. No it doesn’t seem to be that. I’m using a PC with Windows Just to be clear: Photoshop Elements launches normally. When I then select Editor I get this 30 to 60 second pohtoshop in Editor launching.

After that all operates normaly. I can live with it but I just wondered if anyone had experienced the same and if there was a simple solution. This only started happening very recently. I’ve had exactly the same problem – around 60 seconds to load on a highly-specced PC, exactly the same symptoms as you describe.

Did pdf expert 6 review free ever find out what the probelm was? I tried deregistering, uninstalling then reinstalling. Worked fine first time then a 60 second delay on the second launch.

I’ve elemenfs PE8. Would love some suggestions! That made me a tad abbyy finereader corporate mega free I have decided to just pse adobe photoshop elements 8.0 free with fgee pse adobe photoshop elements 8.0 free at least for the time being it works perfectly well once it has loaded.

My wife has the same problem with PE 8. Very odd! Suspicious of what exactly? Hope you’ll find this helpful. Thanks for the info, Phinny – much appreciated. It’s a shame that the product is unsupported but I guess I’ll live with it for the moment too. It does everything I need it to do so I would prefer not to have to purchase a new licence. Thank you for your reply and your help. Yes that seems to have done the trick so far. Nevertheless, it remains a mystery why the problem suddenly presented itself with the welcome screen when Editor had opened perfectly from eleents welcome screen for years, even during an active internet connection.

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Follow Report. Community guidelines. Be источник статьи and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more. Jeff Arola. Adobe Community ProfessionalJan 09, Jan 09, Jump to latest reply. Hi there, Would you mind sharing the operating system version you are currently using? Regards, Nikunj. In Response To nikunj.

Hi Nikunj, Thanks for replying. Regards, Silhillian. In Response To Silhillian In Response To jkandbr. In Response To Phinny. Correct answer by Jeff Arola. In Response To Jeff Arola. Hello Jeff, Thank you for your reply and pse adobe photoshop elements 8.0 free help. Thanks again, Dan. Such a simple fix, such a great result, let’s hope it continues to work the way it should.

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