Photoshop Elements 4 Gone Wild

In the author's own words, this book is crazy. In it you'll find over fifty ways to turn sensible pictures into incredible photo fantasies - and do it so well that the trickery is virtually undetectable. Build the perfect body without visiting the gym. Combine characteristics of different people to create photographic offspring. Give a new meaning to "boilerplate" type. Become a photo cubist. If you are well-versed in the basics of using Photoshop Elements, this book will let you alter reality. Wild! Design a magazine cover featuring your face, or put your best buddy on a $50 billMake a photo look like a still from a 1950s TV show or a 19th century tintypeEncase objects in glass spheres or turn a photo into a watercolor or sketchTurn a still photo into a sports action shot or completely change the backgroundTrick out text to look gold-plated, chiseled in stone, pounded out of metal, or as if it came from an old typewriter