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Originally Posted by rabid23
thanks alot do you know of any good publications or tricks to learning elements?
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I picked up the Adobe Press title,
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Classroom in a Book. I'd recommend it. It explained terms and concepts that I've heard about for years but never understood. More importantly, it showed me how to do things using Elements that I never would have figured out on my own. I'd give it 4 of 5 stars. I dock it 1/2 a star for some egregious typos in the text. I dock it an additional 1/2 star because it spends three chapters on organizing, keywords, and the like — perhaps useful information, but not what most interested me. On the plus side, the text is easy to read, the examples and exercises are well-designed. It made me immediately more productive with Elements.
I don't know if I will end up buying Elements — I've been using the 30-day trial edition — but even if I don't I can leverage what I learned here with CS4, Lightroom, or the full Photoshop suite.