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"Must Have Resource"
The software Premiere Elements 2 by Adobe is loaded with features and enables the user to create high-quality videos. Even for experienced Adobe users, help is needed for understanding all of PE2's amazing tools. This publication, PE2 in a Snap, gets an A for doing a wonderful job with precise and concise instructions and examples. It is not a manual that must be read from start to finish, but rather one where the user can jump in anywhere.

"This is the book I've been looking for!!!"
I've been using Premiere Elements for about a month. Until yesterday I've been slogging through the user manual and the help screens. I struggled to do the very basics--creatung slide shows, capturing video and gluing clips together, saving the output to DVD. Nothing fancy at all.

After spending some time on Adobe's Premiere Elements user forums, I kept seeing mention of this book, so I decided to order it. I can't believe how many cobwebs this book has swept away for me! It's organized well, with an extensive index, helpful contents at a glance, and plenty of screen shots. It contains beginner-level instructions, but also contains enough advanced level ideas and techniques that my head is spinning with new possibilities. I can't wait to modify the amateurish home movies I made before owning the book.

My heartfelt thanks to the authors for letting me USE Premiere Elements rather than fighting with it!!!

"Practical applications of a powerful program"
I don't care what anyone says -- sometimes reading the manual is just too painful. Not that Adobe's manual is bad, it's just... dry, and doesn't really show you practical applications of the program's features. . The "Premiere Elements 2 In A Snap" book makes learning Premiere Elements' ins and outs fun, and does it in a way that you don't have to weed through endless paragraphs to figure out what needs to be done.

Want to do a "Chroma Key" effect? Just turn to that page and follow the instructions.

This book really makes what is not an intuitive program understandable and not so formidable. Halfway through the book you find yourself saying, "Hey, I really CAN get the hang of this program!"

Kudos to the authors for creating what is now my basic "how-to handbook" for this powerful, complex program.

"Enjoyed this book"
This is the first book i have ever started at the beginning and did each and every step.....and i had a ball!
I Love this book. It has made my learning experience extremely easy and fun. I am excited and confident about doing a full project with Adobe.
I will look for thier books again when i need any kind of instruction
Thanks again

"Review APE 2 in a Snap"
This book covers the details you won't get from the user guide or the other standard how-to books that accompany software products like this. It is written from a task oriented perspective and gives you right the level of context (the why) in addition to the actual instruction (the how and the what)

I wish there was version of this book for Adobe's more advanced video/audio products (PPro, AE, Audition, etc)