help-book for users of adobe photoshop elements. tutorials are illustrated with movie clips showing around the program. are you looking for a video course? the 76 embedded clips may be played as a single full-length and full-size movie. the elaborated controls allow you to instantly find any fragment. in the meantime, the book interface features most functions available in popular readers and browsers - table of contents, bookmarks, text search, etc. the course introduces you to the essential techniques of the program - color and tonal adjustments, layers, transformations, selecting, and masking. the full version of this book comes to you with a patch uncovering undocumented masking and selecting functions of elements also the book suggests a collection of practical solutions. real photos are enhanced, retouched, manipulated for you in real time, showing the most efficient combinations of the explained techniques.