Adobe Premiere Elements - The Power of Adobe Premiere Made Easy

This is the official Adobe Systems Premiere seminar--all in a book/CD-ROM set! With this book, teachers and students can realize the dazzling capabilities of Premiere for Windows--Adobe's popular video editing software. "CD-ROM includes special projects to go with the book's lessons, including sample movies. 20 detailed yet easy-to-follow lessons help users harness all of Premiere's essential features. Lessons designed and tested in actual classroom environments". Covers Version 4 for Windows.

Book Info
Official training workbook for Adobe Premiere 4 as developed by the staff of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Covers all the new and advanced features of Adobe Premiere for Windows 4.0 or greater. Paper. CD ROM included.

The Photoshop Elements 3 and Premiere Elements Classroom in a Book Collection is the fastest, easiest way to master both programs.

This convenient collection combines two best-selling books into one to help you learn the Windows version of Photoshop Elements 3 and Premiere Elements quickly and easily. Classroom in a Book offers what no other book or training program does–an official training series from Adobe Systems Incorporated, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.

This Windows-only, lesson-based collection offers copious black and white screenshots and illustrations to guide you through 12 lessons covering Premiere Elements basics and eight lessons covering Photoshop Elements basics. You can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. The book includes a DVD with all of the lesson files used in the book, making it easy to follow along with each lesson.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 Classroom in a Book Collection is the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way for new users to learn all the new features in Adobe's newly released consumer-level image and video editing software. Each chapter in this step-by-step, practical training workbook contains a project that builds on the reader's growing knowledge of the programs, while end-of-chapter review questions wrap up each lesson. Readers can follow the book from start to finish or choose only the chapter that interest them. This book provides a series of lessons covering the basics of using Photoshop Elements 5.0 and Premiere Elements 3.0, along with practical tips and techniques to help readers become thoroughly grounded in the basics of organizing, retouching, and sharing their digital images. Premiere Elements users will learn all about Premiere Elements' new bells and whistles, including the new Sceneline which enables quick assembly of your movies, fast, easy on screen text, amazing professional quality effects, native HDV support and more.

Hollywood Special Effects with Adobe Premiere Elements 3 is a book that will help users get to the next level in video editing, and that next level goes beyond simply splicing together clips and creating simple titles. In no time readers will be overlaying multiple tracks of videos and adjusting transparency; creating Picture-in-Picture overlays; using key frames and motion paths; setting and refining greenscreens and bluescreens; using color effects for emotional impact; and a whole range of other special effects to help them tell their story. What sets this book apart is the author's expertise in carefully showing readers how to execute each of these effects step-by-step in a clear and friendly writing style. With this book, budding filmmakers will be well on their way to becoming the next George Lucas! The accompanying DVD contains royalty free music, sound effects, and video clips from Artbeats, Digital Juice, TwistedTracks, and the Footage Firm (among others) and fully functional 30-day trial versions of Adobe Premiere Elements 3 and SmartSound Quicktracks.

Jan Ozer's Making a Movie in Premiere Elements is a simple, to-the-point guide that leads you through the process of creating your very first digital video project with Adobe's brand-consumer-level video editing software, Premiere Elements ($99).

Rather than explore every option and feature of Premiere Elements, Jan uses project-based instruction and big, colorful screen shots to demonstrates the quickest, easiest, and smartest route to cinematic success. Each short lesson builds on the last as you learn how to capture and import video; add transitions, titles and effects; take advantage of the program's stunning templates; use the program with Photoshop Elements to edit and incorporate still images; and output your finished video to DVD. The book's small size and even smaller price ($12.99) make it the perfect entry point into the world of digital filmmaking as well as the ideal jumping-off point for further exploration

This is a great book if you are just starting out in digital photography and graphic design. Based around Adobe's Photoshop Elements, it walks you through many of the tasks and challenges that digital photographers face as they master the technology. It starts with basic cameras tips and tricks and then seques into the use of Adobe Elements. It describes the process and demonstrates how to do it in Adobe Elements. However, most of the exercises can be implemented using other digital imaging and editing programs.

The book's step-by-step instructions, illustrated with full-color "before" and "after" examples, show you how to turn disappointing photos into super shots. Some help you fix images you can't re-take, while others demonstrate how to adjust settings, lighting, and other factors so what you get is what you want.

Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual" - (O'Reilly, US $39.99),

"If you have an earlier version of Elements, you'll find a fair number of similarities in the basic editing functions, but Elements 5 gives you a lot of new ways to tackle old projects," says Brundage. Her new book clearly and concisely explains how all the new tools and commands work and when to use them. "With so many appealing new features, Photoshop Elements 5 is definitely a welcome, even essential update, no matter which version of Elements you might have used before." more