Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements

By Wallace Wang

Using step-by-step tutorials, this book shows the amatuer photographer and hobbyist how to express his or her deepest secrets by using Photoshop Elements to digitally enhance and manipulate... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0072228849
• ISBN13: 9780072228847
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Just how to digitally enhance and manipulate photographs

In Totally Tasteless Photoshop Elements Wally Wang, a highly informative and witty writer accessibly illustrates just how to digitally enhance and manipulate photographs. In a step-by-step instructional which is an ideal introduction for the novice (and with a great deal to offer even the more experienced Photoshop user), Wang shows how his readers can express their deepest secrets and fantasies artistically, clean-up dirty pictures, erase bad memories, make themselves look younger and thinner, and perform other tricks.

Totally hillarious and usefull!

After reading tons and tons of technical books for Photoshop, this has got to be the most entertaining one yet. Being a designer for a newspaper, this book has opened up a whole new world of satire for me. My associate who teaches a design class in Portland read it once and decided to use it for his Photoshop class.The instructions are easy and maintainable, unlike all those other dry humorless books. The illustrations are pretty damn funny also (I love the gorilla/strip dancer photo!). I hope to see more from Wally Wong in the future.

Funny and Helpful

I wasn't sure what to expect, but this is really a good Photoshop book for beginners. It is really well written, extremely funny. I chuckled every page I read.

Funny Book For Being Instructive

Knowing next to nothing about Photoshop Elements, this book really helped. The humor throughout the book was great because it wasn't just another mind-numbing technical manual that goes from introductory to a Ph.D. level of understanding by the third chapter.The use of humor throughout the book made it fun to read. It's one of the few "computer/software" books I've read front to back.But along with the humor, is a lot of good instruction and information about using Photoshop Elements.

Great how-to guide....

Don't let the title fool you - first and foremost this is the best step-by-step guide to Photoshop Elements out there (I've looked at too many of them). I found the explanations clear and concise and my frustrations with trying to learn the program on my own were solved. It is an excellent how-to book....The bonus is that it is also funny and I've often stopped reading in my tracks and thought - "I can't believe he just said that!" Overall it is the best of both worlds - very useful and damn amusing....