Adobe Photoshop Elements Advanced Editing Techniques and Tricks: The Essential Guide to Going Beyond Guided Edits
暫譯: Adobe Photoshop Elements 進階編輯技巧與竅門：超越引導編輯的必備指南

《Adobe Photoshop Elements 進階編輯技巧與秘訣：超越引導編輯的必備指南》是想要超越自動化功能和引導編輯，深入探索使用 Adobe Photoshop Elements 的各種進階技術的必讀書籍。

學習如何：

- 完美編輯人像圖片，執行如膚色修正、頻率分離、肌膚平滑和增強面部特徵等技術
- 正確編輯和增強主題的眼睛、嘴唇、眉毛和面部光影
- 應用進階照片合成技術，利用控制透視的規則
- 使用類似專業電影剪輯師所用的色彩分級技術
- 深入了解 Photoshop Elements 中未包含的進階工具，如曲線、色彩範圍、選擇性顏色、使用色彩 LUT 等等

本書提供詳細的逐步指導，針對希望將攝影提升到更高層次的中級和高級用戶。更多使用 Photoshop Elements 的額外技巧可以在 Ted 的 YouTube 頻道 www.YouTube/tedpadova 找到。

I've been a professional photographer on and off for almost 60 years. I first started working in photography in 1963 at the Army Aviation Test Office at Edwards Air Force Base in Edwards, California. I shot on glass plates using the Fairchild Flight Analyzer, developed the plates, and made contact prints. It was crude but an interesting first introduction to photography.

 

 

A few years later, I joined the Peace Corps and spent several years in a Venezuelan fishing village and the Amazon jungle in Ecuador. It was early in my Peace Corps service that I acquired my first SLR and became thoroughly engrossed in photography.

 

 

After my tour in the Peace Corps, I went to the New York Institute of Photography in New York City when it was a resident school. After a short time in Manhattan, where I shot all over the city, I acquired a diploma in Commercial Photography and headed off to my home in California.

 

 

Throughout the time I was working on my baccalaureate degree and going to graduate school, I shot weddings that paid for my education. When I had time off from school, I worked in a small trailer I converted into a dark room, where I processed B&W film and made enlargements.

 

 

I began teaching secondary school after finishing my university degree and was given a class to teach in photography. For more than 30 years, I've been involved in teaching photography and digital image editing. I owned a digital imaging and photo finishing company for more than 16 years. That's where much of my work was spent on the back end of photography.

 

 

Photography has never been a regular job for me, but it's been a delight and a great love. I wouldn't want to spend all my time in a full-time job in photography, and I'm quite certain that is the reason it's still a first love for me. In years past, my heroes in the photography world were the great photographers of all time, such as Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Bert Stern, Irving Penn, Annie Leibovitz, and several others. But today, my heroes are the many young people I come across in teaching and some young modern-day professionals.

 

 

 

I've been working with computers for more than 40 years. I had the luxury of learning applications slowly over time. When Photoshop 1.0 was introduced, I taught all the tools and menu commands and just about all that could be done in Photoshop in my one-day university classes at UC Santa Barbara and UCLA. The same went for Adobe Illustrator all the way through version 3.2. Today, however, one could spend a week covering just color in Photoshop or Illustrator without getting into various tools and commands to handle other edits.

 

 

The young people today who can jump into Photoshop 2022 or Elements 2022 and become knowledgeable and skilled in a short time are truly my heroes. I'm simply amazed at how fast young people learn such a complicated set of applications so quickly. It took me more than 40 years to know a little about the applications I work with today. If I had to start learning now, I just might retire and go fishing.

 

我從事專業攝影工作已經快60年了，時斷時續。我在1963年於加州愛德華空軍基地的陸軍航空測試辦公室開始接觸攝影。我使用Fairchild Flight Analyzer拍攝玻璃底片，然後沖洗底片並製作接觸印刷。這雖然粗糙，但卻是我對攝影的有趣初次接觸。

幾年後，我加入了和平隊，並在委內瑞拉的一個漁村和厄瓜多爾的亞馬遜叢林度過了幾年。在我和平隊服務的早期，我獲得了我的第一部單反相機，並對攝影產生了濃厚的興趣。

在和平隊服務結束後，我前往紐約市的紐約攝影學院，當時這是一所常駐學校。在曼哈頓短暫的時間裡，我在整個城市拍攝，並獲得了商業攝影的文憑，然後回到了加州的家。

在我攻讀學士學位和研究生學校的期間，我拍攝婚禮以支付我的學費。當我有空的時候，我在一個小拖車裡工作，將其改造成暗房，處理黑白底片並製作放大照片。

完成大學學位後，我開始教高中，並被分配教授攝影課程。在過去的30多年裡，我一直從事攝影和數位影像編輯的教學。我擁有一家數位影像和照片沖印公司超過16年。那段時間我大部分的工作都集中在攝影的後端。

攝影對我來說從來不是一份正職工作，但它一直是我的樂趣和熱愛。我不想把所有時間都花在全職的攝影工作上，我相當確定這就是為什麼它仍然是我心中的初戀。在過去的歲月裡，我在攝影界的英雄是歷史上偉大的攝影師，如安塞爾·亞當斯、理查德·阿維登、伯特·斯特恩、歐文·潘、安妮·萊博維茨等人。但今天，我的英雄是我在教學中遇到的許多年輕人和一些現代的年輕專業人士。

我從事電腦工作已經超過40年了。我有幸能夠隨著時間慢慢學習應用程式。當Photoshop 1.0推出時，我在加州大學聖塔芭芭拉分校和加州大學洛杉磯分校的一天大學課程中教授所有工具和菜單命令，以及在Photoshop中幾乎所有可以做的事情。Adobe Illustrator也是如此，一直到版本3.2。然而，今天，僅僅在Photoshop或Illustrator中花一周的時間來講解顏色，而不涉及其他編輯的各種工具和命令，都是可能的。

今天那些能夠迅速掌握Photoshop 2022或Elements 2022的年輕人，真的是我的英雄。我對年輕人如此快速地學會這一套複雜的應用程式感到驚訝。我花了超過40年的時間才對我今天使用的應用程式有一點了解。如果我現在必須開始學習，我可能會選擇退休去釣魚。