Repair, enhance, organize, and share your photos — it's never been easier!

Whether you're a brand-new digital photographer or you get paid to take pictures, Photoshop Elements has something for you — and so does this book. Learn the tools, commands, and workspaces; correct color, brightness, and contrast; create postcards, slide shows, and even movie files; give your photos the look of a fine-art painting, and so much more.

• Get organized — use the Organizer on a Windows PC or Adobe Bridge on a Mac to sort, find, tag, and catalog your photos

• Master simple makeovers — crop photos for better composition, straighten crooked images, remove red-eye, or adjust color

• Become a digital magician — move people or objects in and out of your pictures, change the background, combine multiple images, or replace one color with another

• Bring out your inner artist — discover how to add effects with filters, get creative with type, or play with the drawing and painting tools

• Share your work — turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo books with a few mouse clicks

Open the book and find:

• How to get images into Elements from a variety of sources

• Instructions for both Windows and Mac users

• Simple makeover tips to improve your images

• How to correct color, contrast, and clarity

• Steps for tagging your photos by geographic location

• Secrets for making and modifying selections

• Creative applications for layers, filters, effects, and styles

• How to upload and save images to Photoshop