If you are an amateur or professional photographer who works with digital images and wants great results fast, this is important, easy to follow guide from world-renowned Adobe Photoshop Elements expert Philip Andrews is for you! Andrews covers tried and true tools that have been revamped to better fit the needs of photographers, such as the Adjust Color Curves and Convert to Black and White feature, Brightness / Contrast feature, and a smooth workflow for the creation of photo projects such as Photo Books, Photo Collage , Online Gallery, CD / DVD Jackets, and CD / DVD labels. He also dive into the deep, exciting all-new features of Elements 6 such as: * Quick Selection Tool * Fantastic Photomerge technology for group shots and faces, which lets you combine the best pieces from multiple images * Direct copy to CD / DVD to speed up your workflow when you need to copy several images to disc quickly * The Guided Edit Workshop with interactive tutorials technique * Smart Albums, to automatically add photos that match certain criteria to your Album * Refine Edge feature, which allows you to control how smooth or feathered edge of your image appears * A Task Pane with five different Task Modes (Organize, Fix, Create, Share and Edit) to help you manage your image processing and much, much more .. * Best-selling author and world-renowned Elements expert Philip Andrews walk you through features the latest and greatest in this incredible software with easy to follow, the instructions step-by-step in the right * Think again before you hit the delete button - beautiful, full-color image shows the usual way to process the image into pieces of art remarkable * Begin practicing your new skills immediately with over TWO HOURS great video tutorial included on CD