Originally, the purchase of Photoshop Elements 7 associated with a small training to learn the basics. Then update my software to the publication of PE10. Finally purchase the book Kelby and Kloskowski. Thanks to this book and the clear and precise explanations of the two authors, I am now in the ability to get pictures of professional quality from a possibly trite cliché. Resize, crop, redial, delete unwelcome, manage color, shadows, retouch portraits, all me now easier. But watch out for beginners, the full title is "Photoshop Elements 10 for photographers," which implies that it is better to have some knowledge of Photoshop before tackling this book.