While many Photoshop Elements users are content with using the software for correcting exposure, sharpening edges & removing unwanted objects from their photographs, there's a whole world of opportunity out there for creating fun photomontages, powerful panoramas & dynamic distortions just waiting to be discovered. How to Cheat in Elements 9 is the answer to anyone who has ever wanted to take their creative skills in Elements one stage further. Starting with the basics of layers, selections & transformations, readers will be creating their own movie posters, textures & caricatures in no time at all, while sections on outputting your images for web or print enable anyone to wow their friends with their creations. Covering the latest tools & features in Elements 9, this book is also fully compatible with all previous versions of Elements. Quick Time movie tutorials & images for all projects in the book are included on the accompanying CD. Fun & creative, with more than 80 full colour, step-by-step projects, supported by Quick Time movie tutorials & image files Comprehensive coverage of photomontage & image manipulation in Elements you simply can't find anywhere else Part of the successful Focal Press ' How to Cheat in' series, featuring Steve Caplin's best-selling How to Cheat in Photoshop titles About the Author David Asch is a beta tester for Photoshop Elements. He contributes to Mac Format magazine, & is co-author of Digital Photo Doctor & contributing author to Drop Dead Photography Techniques. Steve Caplin is a freelance artist & author working in London, Engl&. His satirical photomontage work is commissioned by newspapers & magazines around the world, including The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Sunday Times Magazine, Radio Times, Readers Digest & L' Internazionale. Steve has worked for advertising agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, Bartle Bogle Hegarty & Lowe Howard Spink, & his work has won two Campaign Poster Awards & a D&AD Pencil award. He has lectured widely in Engl&, Norway, France & Holl&, & has taught digital design at the University of Westminster & the University of the Arts London. Steve is the author of ten books: How to Cheat in Photoshop (five editions), How to Cheat in Photoshop Elements (co-authored, three editions), Icon Design, Max Pixel's Adventures in Adobe Photoshop Elements, The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration (co-authored) & Art & Design in Photoshop. He has also co-authored three mainstream books: Dad Stuff, More Dad Stuff, Stuff the Turkey & Complete & Utter Zebu. When he's not at his computer Steve plays the piano well, the accordion moderately & the guitar badly. He spends his spare time making improbable constructions out of wood & other materials. His first commissioned sculpture was for the Bethlem hospital
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