Photoshop® Elements for Dummies®

I'm a fan of "Dummies" books, as well as those titled "...for Complete Idiots" because they compile lots of useful information in one place. I bought this book because I felt that it would help me, a person relatively new at photo editing, understand and quickly learn to use the features of Elements. This book does provide a lot of detail for both PC and Mac users, but that is, for me, part of the problem. It launches very quickly into page after page and chapter after chapter of procedural sequences and commands and bogs down in detail. I have found myself frustrated and impatient to get to where I can learn how to do something--but also to where I can learn exactly what this program can do. I feel that an initial chapter giving an overview of PSE, describing its major features with examples would encourage the reader to plug on through the details, knowing the rewards that await him. Such a chapter would also provide a meaningful context for those many command sequences and procedures, like a map and compass for a hiker. Also, some step by step demonstrations of projects commonly useful to photographers and artists would have made the book much more useful.Overall, there is a lot of useful information in this book, well written and indexed, and I will keep it for reference and maybe even finish reading it! But I have reverted to the Elements Online tutorial and the manual that came with the software, and I have also purchased the book by Andrews and Evening: "Adobe Photoshop Elements: A Visual Introduction to Digital Imaging." Introduction..." too.

When I ordered "Photoshop Elements for Dummies", I didn't expect it to be a tutorial. I wanted something that would answer some of my questions about Photoshop Elements... well, when I opened to book, it proved to be an easy to read and understand tutorial. It's the perfect solution for me. If you use Photoshop Elements and ever have a question... you'll probably find the answer in this book!

I found this book to be very useful in learning how to use Photoshop Elements. It's a very informational book.

Practically useless! Instructions are not clear. I couldn't get anywhere with this!

Hard to understand as a beginner.