It was a big disappointment opening up the book and seeing the poor-quality illustrations and photo images--no doubt related to inferior paper quality. Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac (the application) is a significant improvement over Elements 4, but The Missing Manual for the former is a serious DOWNGRADE in quality. The photos and illustrations are so poorly rendered that it's sometimes difficult to see any difference between Before and After shots. I was surprised that O'Reilly Press would put out such a book--one devoted to top-notch image quality--with such disregard for clarity in its own photos and graphics. I know they can do better; I own their Elements 4 manual, and there's a world of difference between it and the Elements 6 book. Holding the two side-by-side and comparing identical photos is dismaying. In Elements 4, the images are sharp and crisp; in Elements 6 they are grainy, fuzzy, and washed out. It's as though they used an old dot-matrix printer to generate the images. Until O'Reilly can put out an edition in line with its usual high standards, I would not recommend purchasing this title.Get more detail about Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac: The Missing Manual.
