Errata for The Hidden Power Book and
Tools for Photoshop Elements 2
No published book is perfect. For one reason or another errors seep into the mix. One of the goals of this page will be to list the errors found in the Hidden Power book as they are uncovered by readers so that everyone knows where the problems are and so no one will be left scratching their head when the results don't turn out as expected. Right now, there are none...
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| Introduction |
Email address is wrong in the Going Further with Hidden Power section. rl@hiddenelements.com is not currently in service. |
Use rl@ps6.com |
...of all things that could go wrong...a service I have used for 5+ years suddenly changed policy on email forwarding between completion of the book and printing. A solution is being sought. |
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| 12 |
There is a reference to a Hex code chart in the book's appendix |
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...The hex code chart is in the Tables section of the Hidden Power tools. The reference in the text was finalized before the final decision on placing the chart in the tools had been made. |
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| 45 |
Step references are off |
Step 8 should reference Steps 6-7; Step 11 should reference Steps 9-10; Step 14 should reference Steps 12-13 |
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| 48 |
Near the bottom of the page there is a reference to the Revert button. |
This should refer to the Reset button, not Revert |
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| 49 |
Diagram 2.6 refers to a Transparency Stop |
This should say "Opacity Stop" |
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| 56 |
Left the word 'as' in during editing in the following sentence: "In the image used for this example, as the separate..." |
Should read: "In the image used for this example, the separate..." |
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| 56 |
Step 11 refers to Gradient Map 1 |
should refer to Gradient Map 2 |
...Gradient Map 1 should have been committed or merged in Step 1 -- only Gradient Map 2 is left to be renamed. |
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| 70 |
In discussing cutting off Level tails, the text refers to levels as 'pixels' |
The sentence should read: "...you might trim half or less of a tail that covers 50 levels." |
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| 74 |
Figure 3.15 mislabelled |
From left to right should read: Highlights, Midtones, Shadows |
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| 85 |
Step 9 references figure 3.30. The step says to set the point at 73,0, and the figure shows 74,0. |
Both should read 73,0 for Elements 1 or 74,0 for Elements 2 |
...The functionality was improved between versions, and this change was captured in the screen shot. The effect on the result should be minimal. |
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| 88 |
Step 3 refers to duplicating a layer to a new image. This is actually covered later on pagge 131. |
Refer to figure 5.27 page 131 when completing step 3. |
...reorganizing sometimes adds such flip-flopped references, aand that's what happened here. |
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| 110 |
Step 5 has a 2 typos |
Should read: "Create a new Fill Layer and fill with gray (put 50% in B in the HSB fields; S and H should be 0%)..." |
...originally the step just created another layer and filled -- the result was the same. |
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