This time with us Sven Fischer through the workout. He is, like his "predecessor" Thomas Kuhn, a comfortable coach with equal voice and good pronunciation. You can always follow his good explanations. Chapter by chapter you will be introduced to the intricacies of PSE 13 and learned to practical examples dealing with the opportunities for improvement.
Even the "playfulness" is not too short, because with PSE 13, you can create photo books, calendars and greeting cards, and of course share his photos on networks.
In Chapter 1 it immediate concern to install PSE. Because I liked that one enters both on Windows, and Macintosh users. You get to know and already edited his first photo, the user interface and the individual areas. In addition, you get to come more quickly to the goal several guidelines and tips to with PSE and the Organizer.
Chapters 2 and 3 deal with the import of his paintings in the Elements Organizer, and the ability to scan images and also provides information on the various file formats. Then it goes to the sighting, management in events and albums, as well as the indexing of the so-called metadata. We learn also how to make pictures again quickly finds and creates a backup.
In chapter 4 a, the Assistentenmodi "Quick" and "Wizard" explained by PSE, with which you can edit accordingly supported his pictures and alienate. Who this is still not enough to meet the intricacies of the expert mode would like to learn looks after passing in Chapter 5. Here then is also the so-called "RAW Developer" presented and explained. The detailed optimization You can then know in Chapter 6. You learn how to deal with levels to edit specifically partial areas of an image. This basis of various examples. Who wonders how you are performing a portrait retouching right here.
The next three chapters are devoted to the extensive effects filters, the already mentioned photo books, calendars etc. and how to Adobe's online service Revel, via email or Facebook the other can present his images. Also CD cases and labels can be created (still) with PSE 13. Apparently there are still people who use CDs and DVDs! Although the younger generation something like forgetting and then not know how to present the grandparents without Facebook Account wedding pictures ... :-)
Chapter 10 concludes, again each tool in detail. Very helpful!
After training, you are able 95% of its photo "problems" to be solved, because the PSE has the normal user. * There also has mechanisms such as panoramas and HDR offshoot "DRI", only a few things are not feasible with PSE. You just have to engage it and thus, together with this training, employ.
This training is intended for beginners, as well as those that have grown beyond this stage. The advanced amateur will certainly come at its own expense, provided he had not to do with PSE. If you already have experience in photography and the use of older versions of PSE, can not know all too much new here. Except of course the new features, the PSE 13 brings.
For any designated groups with this training, however, is in any case worth 5 stars.
* PSE uses the technique DRI (Dynamic Range Increase). For a number of recordings of a subject dark and bright areas are assembled and combined by tone mapping method in an image with "normal bit depth" for showing or compressed in the brightness levels for viewing pictures on a normal output device. The normal user should be enough that, since the results are very satisfactory. At the end, only halt any "HDR file" with increased bit depth, but does nothing. Very few will have appropriate display device for it. :-)
