O'Reilly Released Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual

With most of the power of Photoshop--the tool of choice among graphics professionals--Photoshop Elements 3 lets people manipulate their digital images just as they like. But even though Elements is meant for "regular folks," says the author Barbara Brundage, "finding your way around the program has become a lot more complicated than it used to be." And since it doesn't come with a trusty manual, she wrote the all-new, full-color Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, US $39.95).

To us Photoshop Elements 3 is a lot more like the full Adobe Photoshop than the previous version of Elements and, hence, is more complicated. Quite a few simple operations, like typing text over an image and manipulating it, are much harder to do but have greater flexibilty or features. This "Missing Manual" should be of help to anyone using Elements, including us. [Bill Fox]