Introduction

I love Photoshop Elements, I really do.

Now, that’s a statement that might surprise people who know me—in other words, people who know that I make a lot of my living working with “Big Photoshop” and its professional-level siblings in Adobe’s powerful Creative Suite. Nonetheless, Photoshop Elements has a special place in my heart. And I’m sure you’ll feel the same way by the time you’ve finished reading this book.

Look at it this way. You’ve got a digital camera (and probably a scanner, too). You’ve got this desktop PC that’s hundreds—no, thousands—of times more powerful than the computers of just a few decades ago. Maybe you even have a cell phone that can take photos. How about your PDA? I bet it can do the same.

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