photoshop elements

[rabid23]

i am looking for an easy to use editing software and i hear ELEMENTS is good for those of us newer to all of this, just curious on what everyone thinks, or is there something better i should be looking into......

i mainly want to clean up photos and also do the cool b&w background but keep a color focal point, does elements even allow you to do that?

thanks alot

[Trader]

Hi Tom, yes, Elements will do that very nicely for you. There are a lot of software packages out there and Elements is one of the better ones.

[rabid23]

thanks alot i willl pick it up today

[rabid23]

thanks alot do you know of any good publications or tricks to learning elements?

[kurtwall]

Originally Posted by rabid23

thanks alot do you know of any good publications or tricks to learning elements?

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.

[Footski]

A long standing photographer, but fairly new to digital photography, I have acquired a Nikon D60 DSLR and with my new Pc I got elements 6 included in the software package. I am afraid, it simply confused me so i left it alone.........until that is I discovered the magazine Photoshop Elements made easy, which was produced for the autumn (Fall) of 2009. A brilliant publication for anyone starting off with Digital editing...

It has rekindled my enthusiasm.