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Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies

by Barbara Obermeier and Ted Padova

Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies

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About the Authors

Barbara Obermeier is the principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. She is the author of Photoshop CS6 All-in-One For Dummies and has contributed as author or coauthor on over two dozen books on Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, PowerPoint, and digital photography for Wiley Publishing, Peachpit Press, and Adobe Press. She is currently a faculty member in the School of Design at Brooks Institute.

Ted Padova is the former chief executive officer and managing partner of The Image Source Digital Imaging and Photo Finishing Centers of Ventura and Thousand Oaks, California. He has been involved in digital imaging since founding a service bureau in 1990. He retired from his company in 2005 and now spends his time writing and speaking on Acrobat, PDF forms, LiveCycle Designer forms, and Adobe Design Premium Suite applications.

Ted has written more than 50 computer books and is the worlds leading author on Adobe Acrobat. He has written books on Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Reader, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Adobe Illustrator. Recent books published by John Wiley & Sons include Adobe Acrobat PDF Bible (versions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and X), Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Forms Bible, Adobe Creative Suite Bible (versions CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5), Color Correction for Digital Photographers Only, Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 For Dummies: Just the Steps, Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Forms, Teach Yourself Visually Acrobat 5, and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Complete Course. He also coauthored Adobe Illustrator Master Class Illustrator Illuminated and wrote Adobe Reader Revealed for Peachpit/Adobe Press.

Dedication

Don Mason was a coauthor for two books with Ted. One of the books was Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies . Sadly, Don passed away this year (2012).

Photo courtesy Teresa HarigianNielson

Don was an inspiration for both of us. He assisted a few times in reviewing images for our Photoshop Elements books, and we both considered him to be one of the best color correction experts in the industry.

Don was truly a generous individual who was always happy to offer assistance to all Photoshop Elements and Photoshop users. He was the premiere commercial photographer serving most of the graphic designers and advertising agencies in his hometown Bakersfield, California.

Prior to the year 1998, Don never touched a computer keyboard. His graphic artist clients were all using Adobe Photoshop and frequently asked him questions about editing photos. When asked a question, Don typically said to his clients, It must have some kind of manual. Why dont you drop it off at my office on your way home? Amazingly, and on several occasions, the next day Don walked his clients through steps, over the phone, to properly adjust brightness values using Adobe Photoshop. All this he did after reading a manual in one evening and never looking at a computer monitor.

In 1997 Don asked Ted about what a computer could do for him. He brought spectrometers to Teds service center, read books, and finally late in 1997 he purchased his first computer. In less than a year, Don became the master, and we both asked Don many technical questions.