Tim - Take a look at The Hidden Power of Photoshop Elements, by Richard Lynch. It's a pretty good Elements primer and includes a CD with additional tools that he has developed. It's available in print for Elements v3 and v4 from Amazon.
http://tinyurl.com/2gjwl2 The update for v5 is not quite ready yet and will be only available electronically. You can check all the versions out in depth here... http://tinyurl.com/2b4er2 -p Tim Øsleby wrote: > I'm prepering a shopping cart at amazon. The plan is to send it when I have > the lens money in the bank. > > First I need something light on Elements. So I'm leaning against Scott > Kelby, The Photoshop Elements 5 Book for Digital Photographers. The reviews > indicates that this is light humourous reading. A light approach on the > subject seems good for my PS fobia. > > Me and Lightroom gets along very well, but to read up on it might be > productive. So there I'm debating two candidates Kelby og Evening. I could > by both, but that sounds like overkill at the moment. > > The workflow book by Bruce Frasier has been recomended several times. The > one thing that is holding me back, is that I'm a bit scared by the idea of > geting Computer Program Bying Adiction by reading about the big brother in > the PS family. I want to standardise on Elements for a while, and see how we > gets along. The cheap part of me says I will do very well, with Lightroom as > a frontend. But I'm weak against temptations. > > Back to Kelby's Elements book. Some reviews indicates that it is too light. > Are there other better alternatives, that are not too detailed trigging my > PS phobia? A search at amazon gives too many results. I'm not able to sort > out what to buy from there. I can't buy them all ;-) > > Tim Typo > Mostly Harmless > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Walters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 1:18 AM > Subject: Re: PESO - Heavy Weather 2 > > > I have two of Fraser's books. The only things wrong with them are the > titles. They both refer specifically to Photoshop CS/CS2, giving the > impreession that they aren't much use for Elements or earlier versions of > Photoshop. > > I'm still using Photoshop 6 and Elements 1 and both books have changed the > way I use those programs. There are parts of the books that are CS/CS2 > specific but there's so much more in them of more general application. > > I highly recommend them (Real World Image Sharpening and Real World Camera > Raw) - especially the one on sharpening. > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > > > > > Quoting Tim Øsleby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Unitentionally I was refering to a private joke by telling you >> about my ONE >> BOOK. Rather stupid by me refering to something you couldnt posibly >> >> understand. >> I might as well let you in on the joke. It refered a little story >> about a >> couple of brothers who inhereted a fine book collection. They >> turned it >> down, because they had a book. >> >> Thank you Godfrey, for not giving up on me on this topic ;-) >> I'm selling a lens now, a dustcollector. I'm talking about 400USD, >> so I >> might turn the cash into some of the recomended reading. >> >> Tim Typo >> Mostly Harmless >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Godfrey DiGiorgi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 10:25 PM >> Subject: Re: PESO - Heavy Weather 2 >> >> >> >> On May 8, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Tim Øsleby wrote: >> >>> Yeah. I've heared about books ;-) >>> >>> I have one about Elements, Elements in a snap. Total crap, >> written >>> by a >>> computer geek. A lot details, but nothing giving me a general >>> understanding. >>> A lot of how's, but no why's. >> It's unfair to consider one book that didn't help you as being >> indicative of all authors' work. >> >> Bruce Fraser/David Blattner, Scott Kelby and Martin Evening have >> all >> published well-written books on using Photoshop CS2 from a >> photographer's perspective (several at least for Scott Kelby). >> Some >> parts are technique oriented ("do this to get that result"), some >> parts have a more 'reference'/theory perspective. Which would be >> best >> for your particular learning is hard to say. >> >> I have a couple of Scott's books, one by Martin on Lightroom, and >> all >> of Bruce Fraser's books. In particular, I find Bruce Fraser very >> illuminating and interesting. I don't read any of them >> exhaustively >> in a sitting, I tend to skim and look up specific things that I >> want >> more clarity on. I often look up how to do something, read a bit >> to >> get some context, and then experiment with the ideas having the >> book >> open on my desk. >> >> Godfrey >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Find out how you can get spam free email. > http://www.bluebottle.com > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
