Jeff Carlson, known for his photography instruction along with his technical expertise, has authored the new Adobe Photoshop Elements Classroom in a Book, and explains why Elements has all the elements of Photoshop that most of us really need. As the title indicates, Jeff’s book is more instruction than manual, and takes you through the capabilities of Elements by having you work on downloadable sample images. Elements 13 has some new tricks too, like helping you improve the visual aspects of your social media presences. Jeff covers that, Element’s guided features and lots more. You can get a special discount on this a book/ebook bundle by buying from Peachpit and using the offer code EL13CIB.

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Author and photographer Jeff Carlson (@jeffcarlson, [email protected]) is a columnist for the Seattle Times, a senior editor at TidBITS (tidbits.com), and writes for publications such as Macworld and Photographic Elements Techniques. He is the author of The Connected Apple Family, The iPad for Photographers, Third Edition, iPad & iPhone Video: Film, Edit, and Share the Apple Way, and Take Control of Your Digital Photos on the Mac, among many other books. He believes there’s never enough coffee, and does his best to test that theory.