Photoshop Elements Question

[rjphoto]

Can anyone suggest a good book or WEB site that is geared towards creating Stock Photos in Photoshop Elements?
Something that might provide good examples and is written for our business, everything I've seen is more towards the general use of Photoshop Elements.
Most of my rejections are lighting or artifact problems so just looking for a few hints to help improve my photos.

Thanks

[leaf]

are you using smartsharpen to sharpen your images?  if so that sometimes creates artifacts.

[rjphoto]

I try to stay away from Smartsharpen. With the newer version 6 of Elements the RAW converter has some new sharpen and "Fine tune" settings before you bring it into PE , so try to do most settings in there.
I stay away from anything that says auto and try to do it myself but lately I've been getting a lot more rejections.

[leaf]

well in answer to your question I guess i don't really know of any books....

but if you wanted to post some 100% crops on here we might be able to figure out where the errors are coming from.

[strikerx98]

I just received PSE The Missing Manual through Amazon.  Although I've just started using it, it seems to be a very good book.  Detailed information without being too technical for those of us that AREN'T computer nerds.  Good Luck!

Connie