The Photoshop Elements 11 Book for Digital Photographers

The other Elements how-to books say, "you can do this and you can do that", but few ever show you how to actually use Elements. This series is a collection of actual lessons you can do. You can even download many of the photos used in the book to do the lessons. Now it is my primary Photoshop Elements resource.

I have never used Photoshop or Photoshop Elements before so I found the book to be very helpful. I liked the fact that
you could go directly to what you wanted to do without reading the whole book first. I found it very easy to read and
follow. I would highly recommend this book to first time users and maybe some advanced users too.

I have several other Kelby books and have found all of them to be well written, full of useful information, and easy to use. You should be aware that this book will NOT teach you everything there is to know about Photoshop Elements. As the title says, it is geared toward digital photography and concentrates on the tools and techniques that the digital photographer needs to know how to use. This book does cover the latest additions to version 11 such as the much improved Refine Edge function, which takes some practice to use effectively, and is not easily learned just by experimenting on your own..

I would recommend this book to individuals who are interested in certain aspects of photography in Photoshop Elements. I would not recommend it for someone who has no previoius knowledge of Photoshop Elements. In my opinion another book for learning the very basics would be less frustrating but once that knowledge is grasped, this book would be appropriate for anyone with a desires to achieve great looking photographs.

I like the writing style but this book just isn't for beginners. Mr. Kelby doesn't cover all the basic tools so I have no idea why I'm using a certain tool. I also bought his Lightroom 4 book and it was phenomenal! I was expecting the PSE 11 book to be similar but it's not. I'm sure once I have a better grasp of the basics this book will be very handy and make more sense.

I believe I have all of Scott Kelby's books relating to Photoshop and Lightroom software. Plenty of photo's with step by step instructions. If you own Elements 11 you need this book. There was a price reduction after I pre ordered and Amazon returned .38 cents. How honest is that? Great product and company to do business with.

When this book arrived, I was very excited about getting started with my learning of Elements 11. Now, a week later, I'm quite disappointed. The book is too advanced for beginners, and not very interesting or challenging for more advanced Elements users.
I purchased Kelby's Elements 6 book and got a lot out of it. Not so, this one.

Tried some of the projects, could not complete, followed directions outcome not the same, no tips about what could go wrong and how to correct it. If I can't complete a project, I feel I didn't learn anything

Lots of information and logically prepared. Fun to read and helped me many times already. I am new to Elements and found the book helpful

This book is very easy in following the step by step work flow process, I would recommend this book to anyone.