Explains how to select and use a digital camera, offering advice on taking pictures, altering images, and adding photographic special effects to Web pages.

Are you a visual learner? Do you prefer instructions that show you how to do something — and skip the long-winded explanations? If so, then this book is for you. Open it up and you'll find clear, step-by-step screen shots that show you how to tackle more than 160 Photoshop Elements tasks. Each task-based spread covers a single technique, sure to help you get up and running on Photoshop Elements 12 in no time. You'll learn to: Use both the Organizer and Editor Import photos from various sources Enhance lighting and color Restore old photos and add effects Save, back up, and share photos Designed for visual learners Two-page lessons break big topics into bite-sized modules Succinct explanations walk you through step by step Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task Helpful sidebars offer practical tips and tricks

All-new update to this complete photography guide-over 125 photography tasks explained! Teach Yourself VISUALLY Digital Photography, Fourth Edition is a brand new take by a brand new author and professional photographer, who packs this book with heaps of essential tasks and new photos. Step-by-step screen shots show you best practices for completing more than 125 digital photography activities, including composing and lighting pictures; mixing and matching focus and lens settings; cropping, resizing, and sharpening photos; and enhancing photos with software. You'll find great tips and tricks for capturing your best photos and turning them into impressive prints and photo-based projects. As digital photography technology and photo-editing software evolve, so do the latest digital photography techniques Explores essential digital photography concepts, including composition, lighting, focus, sharpening, and enhancing photos with photo-editing software Demonstrates through step-by-step instructions and numerous, full-color screen shots and photos, so you can see exactly how to perform tasks Offers tips and tricks to help you make the best captures and turn them into impressive prints and photo-based projects See how to produce your best digital photographs ever with this easy-to-follow visual guide!

A visual learner's guide to creating beautiful, functional websites without writing a line of code Adobe Muse allows graphic and visual designers to leverage the skills they already have in graphic design programs such as Adobe InDesign to create engaging, visually stunning websites without needing to write code. Veteran web designers as well as those new to website creation will learn to outline what a site needs and who it serves, as well as all about generating a look and feel, implementing the design as a working page, testing functionality, taking the site live, and keeping it going. Adobe Muse empowers graphic designers to create spectacular, functional websites without coding, and this visual guide makes it fast and easy to learn Muse Covers planning the site, designing the page layout, converting the layout to a website, adding multimedia content, and publishing a site Presented in the highly acclaimed Visual step-by-step format that breaks big topics into bite-sized modules and shows exactly what to expect at every step A companion website provides materials for experimentation to help you plan and develop your site Adobe Muse provides graphic and visual designers with the flexibility they have longed for as they design websites; this full-color book helps visual learners master Adobe Muse quickly and easily.

See what to do and how to do it in this visual guide to Photoshop Elements 10 If you want practical coverage of the most important features of Photoshop Elements 10, this book is for you. Packed with step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color screen shots, this book clearly shows you how to do tasks, rather than using lengthy explanations. Even better, the book includes an associated website with all the images in the book available for download, so you can get hands-on practice as you go. It's an efficient, easy-to-follow way to get up to speed on the latest and best that Photoshop Elements 10 has to offer. A visual guide to Photoshop Elements 10, perfect for visual learners Helps you build your skills through clear, step-by-step instruction and ample, full-color illustrations Covers important new features such as importing photos from digital cameras and scanners, retouching and repairing damaged photos, enhancing digital images, perfecting group shots with Photomerge, and editing images for posting on the web Also covers using the sharpness interface to correct blurry images, exploring the Curves tool to adjust contract and brightness, and organizing images with auto-stacking Get the very most out of Photoshop Elements 10 with Teach Yourself VISUALLY Photoshop Elements 10.

Are you a visual learner? If so, this is the Photoshop Lightroom book for you. Clear, step-by-step screen shots show you how to tackle more than 140 important tasks in Photoshop Lightroom 2. You'll learn to work with Lightroom's interface; import, view, and organize photos; personalize preferences; explore the Develop module; make slideshows and Web galleries; print pictures from Lightroom, and more. Full-color screen shots demonstrate each task, while succinct explanations walk you through step by step.

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Learn to use Microsoft Word 2010 the easy, visual way Word is the most popular application in the Microsoft Office suite, and Word 2010 has some exciting new features. If you learn best when you can see how something is done, you'll find the step-by-step instructions and full-color screen shots make it quick and easy to learn this new version of Word. The visual format helps you understand Word's new features, including Web Apps and the revised user interface. Learn to set up and format documents, work with graphics, use Mail Merge, post documents to the Web, and more. Word 2010 includes support for typographic features that enable you to create more sophisticated documents This guide shows how to use the new features with step-by-step instructions and full-color views of what you see on the screen at each step Perfect for visual learners who like to see how something is done Covers dozens of common tasks you will use every day Teach Yourself VISUALLY Word 2010 gets you up to speed on the new version of Word quickly and easily.

The fast, easy, visual way to learn Dreamweaver Dreamweaver holds 90 percent of the market share for professional Web site development software. It allows users to build and maintain robust Web sites without writing code; this full-color, step-by-step visual guide shows beginning Web designers how to build dynamic, database-driven Web sites quickly and easily. Dreamweaver is the leading tool for Web site development ; this visual reference covers what beginners need to know to make the most of newest release and create professional-quality sites Covers more than 150 Dreamweaver tasks with clear, step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color screen shots Shows how to apply style sheets, use dynamic HTML, add multimedia and images, publish and maintain your site, use hyperlinks to navigate through a site as well as to link to other sites, create dynamic sites using databases, and much more With two-page lessons, larger screen shots, and concise, jargon-free explanations, Teach Yourself VISUALLY Dreamweaver is the ideal guide for beginning Web designers who are also visual learners.

Furnishes an overview of digital photography, covering such topics as cameras, exposure, lighting, shutter speed, depth of field, and resolution--and tips on how to avoid hours of photo-editing by taking great photographs the first time.