PowerPoint 2007 All in One Desk Reference For Dummies or Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Maximum Performance

PowerPoint 2007 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Author: Peter Weverka

7 books in 1—your key to PowerPoint success!

Your one-stop guide to perfect presentations with PowerPoint 2007

Everybody uses PowerPoint, right? How can you make your presentations pop? Check this handy reference with its easy-to-use minibooks! Once you get going with all the cool new stuff in PowerPoint 2007, you find out how to jazz up your presentations with charts, transitions, photos, animation, and even some ultra-cool power-user tricks.

Discover how to

• Plan and create a presentation

• Use speed techniques

• Handle master slides and master styles

• Customize slides with themes and templates

• Make diagrams and charts

• Create video slides

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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Maximum Performance: Unleash the Hidden Performance of Elements

Author: Mark Galer

Unleash the hidden potential for professional image editing in Adobe ® Photoshop ® Elements with this project-based, real-world guide.

Using step-by-step instructions and accompanying movie tutorials, Mark Galer leads you through the less well-known and most powerful post-production editing techniques Adobe ® Photoshop ® Elements has to offer. Cunning tricks and clever workarounds help you to create professional images without features from the full Adobe ® Photoshop ® package that you need but don't want to pay for — perform tasks you didn't think were possible in Adobe ® Photoshop ® Elements!

Whether you're an imaging professional or a photography enthusiast, this book will help you get the maximum performance from your software. Learn how to:
* Create striking effects with no commercial lighting or studio equipment
* Extend the dynamic range of your digital camera by merging multiple exposures
* Optimize, enhance and montage images with stunning results

The accompanying DVD provides extensive support with movie tutorials for all projects, high resolution images, multilayered files of completed projects, a stock library and a keyboard shortcut guide.

Mark Galer is a freelance photographer, accomplished lecturer and best-selling author of number books on photography. He is an official Adobe Ambassador for Adobe ® Photoshop ® and Adobe ® Photoshop ® Elements.

* Save money by unleashing the hidden potential of Elements for professional image editing rather than upgrading to the full Photoshop software
* Practical, step-by-step projects show you how to solve real-world problems andcreate stunning
images using clever workarounds and powerful, little-known techniques
* Free DVD includes more than 5 hours of tutorials, image files, a stock library and keyboard shortcut guide — worth the cover price alone!

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Optimize Projects 1: Crop and Correct; 2: Levels; 3: Camera RAW; 4: Target Tones; 5: Contrast; 6: Hue and Saturation; 7: Sharpening; 8: Printing; Part 2: Enhance Projects 1: Depth of Field; 2: Shafts of Light; 3: Black and White; 4: Toning; 5: Character Portrait; 6: Glamour Portrait; 7: Motion Blur; 8: Low Key; 9: Channels; Part 3: Montage Projects 1: Creative Montage; 2: Replacing a Sky; 3: High Dynamic Range; 4: Creative Type; 5: Displacement; 6: Preserving Shadows; 7: Panoramas; 8: Hair Transplant; Jargon Buster; Keyboard Shortcuts; DVD Movie tutorials; High resolution images; Camera RAW and 16 Bits/Channel files; Adobe presets; Maximum Performance Action files.