Baby Product:  Embossed tip-on, 80 full color fill-in pages, Die-Cut recessed window
Company: The Gift Wrap Company  (2006-09-28)
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Good news: Adobe’s finally released the new Mac version of Elements. Bad news: It still doesn’t come with a decent user’s manual. But who cares? Author Barbara Brundage has revised her bestselling Elements book just for Apple fans. From gentle introduction to sophisticated tips, this book’s your guide to getting the most out of Elements.

Author Barbara Brundage’s Top 10 Elements Tips
1. Always back up your photos as soon as you get them out of your camera. You can burn a CD or DVD right in the OS X finder (just drag your photos to the disc icon in a Finder window sidebar, then go to File>Burn Disc), or copy to an external hard drive, before you do any editing. Elements 6 also lets you burn discs from Bridge (File>Burn CD/DVD) . For really important photos (wedding and baby pix, for example), it’s not a bad idea to burn a disc and keep that someplace else, like your safe deposit box or with a friend or relative. Then, no matter what happens, you won’t have to worry about losing your photos.
2. Never, ever work on your original photo. Always make a copy (File>Duplicate) and work on that. If you use a program like iPhoto, Lightroom, or Aperture to organize your photos, those will save your original separately from your edited version for you.
3. Sharing photos. There are all kinds of fun, creative ways to share your photos in Elements 6, and Create Mode makes it super easy to explore them all. Try making a photobook or a fancy collage, or upload your photos to EasyShare or one of the other online services to create mugs, bags, and other cool gift items with your photos on them.
4. Don’t scorn the auto buttons. If you’ve never tried these one-click fixes — Auto Levels or Auto Color, for example — give `em a try. Each version of Elements gets a little smarter and you may find that you like the results you get from one of these easy-to-use fixes.
5. Panoramas for everyone. You don’t need to feel wistful anymore about the fact that your point and shoot camera’s lens doesn’t have a true wide-angle setting. Take a series of photos with, ideally, about a 30% overlap and Elements’ Photomerge will automatically stitch them together into a panorama wider than you could have captured with the widest lens. (If you’ve tried Photomerge in previous editions of Elements, the Photomerge in Elements 6 is a whole new thing — totally automated and it does terrific blending to eliminate visible seams between images.)
6. Batch processing with RAW. If you shoot RAW format photos, now you can apply the same settings to multiple pictures at once. Just open all the RAW files you want to work on, and then click to select each of their thumbnail-sized photos. Elements will then apply any edits you’ve made to the current photo to all the pictures you’ve just selected.
7. Crop creatively. Unless you plan to print on standard photo paper, don’t feel compelled to crop your photos to standard photo paper sizes and shapes. Use cropping to emphasize the best parts of your photo if you plan to use the image for the Web or to print at home.
8. Take credit, quickly. You can put copyright info on your photos by using the Watermark feature in the Process Multiple Files dialog box (File->Process Multiple Files), or you can create a custom brush: just type what you want (the copyright symbol is Alt+0169 in Windows, Option+G on a Mac), then select your type and go to Edit-Define Brush. Save your brush and from now on you’ve got a one-click copyright notice.
9. Black and white are beautiful. The Convert to Black and White feature in Elements does a great job, especially if you use the sliders to tweak your adjustments, but you can create even more dramatic black and white photos by using the Dodge and Burn tools to selectively enhance contrast after converting.
10. The very best way to learn Elements is to dive right in. Open a photo and try all sorts of different things. Nobody, even great Photoshop gurus, knows exactly what will happen to any given photo when you combine different filters and effects. Experiment, and you’ll quickly see why Elements is so addicting. You can do all sorts of amazing things you never knew you could!

Author: Barbara Brundage
Paperback:  554 pages Illustrated
Company: Pogue Press  (2008-03-27)
ISBN: 0596519362
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Tim Holtz You’ve seen Tim’s beautiful artwork in several books and stamping magazines. You’ve seen his many guest appearances on television. Now you can experience Tim’s incredible ink techniques and more on DVD

An Altered Journey
This DVD is jam-packed with over two hours of projects, tips, and ideas. Tim demonstrates step-by-step, just how easy it is to create timeless artwork using ink and rubber stamps. It’s all here, from greeting cards to scrapbook pages. Let Tim show you how to change dominos, microscope slides, clay, silk and much more into amazing artwork. Grab your inks and get ready to play.

Projects
Enjoy a front row seat while Tim demonstrates: Brushless Watercolor, Distressing with Ink, Alcohol Ink Agates, Brayered Embossing, Faux Batik, Fragments from Clay, Faux Soldering, Domino Diary and Altered Scrapbooking

Interactive Gallery
The gallery is overflowing with more than 90 photographs of sample artwork. When you see something that inspires you jump directly to the technique used to create it.

This is a NTSC format DVD. It has been enabled for regions 1, 2, and 4.

Director:  Suzanne Lamar
DVD:  Color, Digital Sound, Full Screen, NTSC
Company: PageSage  (2004-04-28)
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