March/April issue, extras ready for download
The March/April issue of PET has started mailing to print subscribers, but all subscribers can download the PDF of the magazine — and the sample files for articles from Larry, Matt and Diana — from the March/April issue page.
In the coming days, we’ll also be posting Diana’s extra online article for her cool “Chalk It Up” tutorial in the issue, so keep an eye out for it. (If you sign up for email alerts via the “Get PET Site Updates” box on the lower right side of the website, you’ll get an email as soon as we post any new video, blog post or magazine extra.)
Regarding delivery times, US subscribers should receive their copies by March 11. Canadian subscribers should receive their issues by March 18; delivery worldwide should be complete by March 26.
If you’re missing your issue after the dates listed above, send us a note via our contact form on the website. (If you subscribed after February 7, 2012, our second mailing will go out from the printer in late March for an early April delivery. After that, you’ll be on the schedule for the initial mailing.)
[Update, March 6: The low-resolution version of the issue has been replaced with a better copy. Sorry for the inconvenience.]
Graeme
March 5, 2013 at 3:02 pm
Unable to down load PET March/April
Peter
March 9, 2013 at 10:44 am
Thank you for adding articles about Lightroom in each issue. Our camera club has a Post-Processing Special Interest Group, and we are finding the majority of our members are transitioning to using Lightroom and Photoshop Elements together in their workflow. I hope you will expand your Lightroom articles, tutorials, and all things Lightroom as Adobe adapts their strategy.
The more recent article, “One of the Best Features in Lightroom” is great for those of us transitioning to RAW. But, it only references matching the camera profile. I often compare my JPG captures with RAW and find I like a lot of the other “improvements” the camera can cook into the JPG versions. Is there a way to see some of them in Lightroom without opening the JPG file?
Alan
March 9, 2013 at 11:49 am
Please do not continue/extend articles about Lightroom! I was drawn to PET because it was for Elements users. I have not yet completed one year as a subscriber; will I just have to give up and nor renew my subscription?
Anne
March 27, 2013 at 2:35 pm
Count me on the side of favoring inclusion of Lightroom in the Elements issues. I’ve been using Lightroom’s Catalog for about a year and am very pleased with it. Having almost all of the “develop” sections in one panel makes for an streamlined workflow for most of the corrections necessary. A simple ‘right click’ sends you to Elements or Photoshop for anything else you need to do.
Gosta
March 5, 2013 at 3:05 pm
Can not download. Tell us how!
Terry
March 5, 2013 at 4:28 pm
Sorry, but I cannot down load PET March/April issue.Terry
Ross
March 5, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Someone should do a better job of proof reading the mag. In the table of contents which is as far as I got before finding an error. “Show” is not spelt “Shoe”.
Greg
March 15, 2013 at 10:24 am
Spelled is not spelled “spelt”…
Ross
March 5, 2013 at 6:59 pm
Look for the direct link to these textures,
links to fonts and other resources to use in
your images, as well as further examples of
chalkboard signs, in the online Extras under
the Magazine section for the March/April
2013 issue at PhotoshopElementsUser.com
I downloaded the mag. downloaded all the extras which are image files. but nowhere was there any of the aforementioned links to fonts, or examples of chalkboard signs, or other resources. I did follow the link to the site with the grudge textures but didn’t see the chalkboard used in the tutorial.
Rick
March 6, 2013 at 10:48 am
Hi Ross,
The Chalk It Up extras article will go up in the next couple of days. We had a death in the family, and got behind on the extras.
The background texture is up, though, and accessible via the magazine page.
Rick
lisa
March 6, 2013 at 4:02 pm
I’m so sorry for the death in your family.
Robert
March 5, 2013 at 7:55 pm
The quality of the PDF download is disappointing. The resolution of the graphics is poor and some of the screenshots are almost not readable. As I subscribed to the online magazine only I hope that some work can be done on the PDF file to increase the quality.
Rick
March 6, 2013 at 10:49 am
Robert,
I’m not sure what they did differently this time, but I’ve asked for a better version to go up on the site. I’ll let filks know via the blog.
I am sorry about the problem; we know you want a clear, clean digital copy.
Rick
Mike
March 5, 2013 at 9:17 pm
I must be in a bad mood; first I read in your editorial that you are linked to B & H, which may well be an advantage to US subscribers, but to us overseas their postage costs are way too high.
Secondly, why the push to Lightroom; isn’t this called ‘Photoshop Elements User???
Raymond
March 6, 2013 at 7:23 am
Great extras, great magazine but as Robert said, the quality of de PDF download is disappointing. For me it’s impossible to read many of the screenshots.I hope that the quality of the printed magazine that I will receive this month is as good as it was in the January-February edition.
Ray
March 6, 2013 at 10:37 am
With highlly active grandchildren, it’s hard to pose chilldren during holidays. In a narrow room I have to grab action shots, often with shadows next to their figures.
Is there a plug-in to ameliorate the shadow problem?
Ray
lisa
March 6, 2013 at 4:00 pm
I havent received any magazine at all!
Rick LePage
March 6, 2013 at 4:22 pm
Lisa,
The March/April issue is still working its way through the mail system, but you should have gotten a copy of January/February in mid-February. I’ll put replacements in the mail tomorrow.
Rick
Robert
March 6, 2013 at 4:23 pm
Thanks, Rick, for following up on my concern.
Alan
March 7, 2013 at 4:12 am
Like at least one other contributor, I am very disappointed to find Lightroom articles in the last two editions. I subscribed to PET because it is for Element users. Please stick to that approach.
Raymond
March 7, 2013 at 8:06 am
Thanks, Rick, for wthe new digital version of the magazine. It’s now pristine clear.
Knowing that most cameras let us to take videos and many of us are buying
the combo elements (photoshop elements and premiere elements), I hope to find
one day one or two pages with premiere elements techniques. Or a magazine as
good as this one on premiere elements.
Lawrence
March 7, 2013 at 10:55 am
I can’t find the fonts or the DesignerMotifs to download. Please send me the url’s to these.
Thank you!
Kelly
March 7, 2013 at 4:49 pm
The texture download mentioned on page 14 of the March/April 2013 issue on Caleb Kimbrough’s blog, Lost and Taken, does not work. Disappointed.
Michele
March 7, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Kelly, I couldn’t open it directly from the blog, but I was able to download it from the link in the “extras” page for “chalk it up”.
Linda
March 7, 2013 at 7:57 pm
The magazine is only showing in double page format – hard to read!
Adalberto
March 10, 2013 at 4:18 am
The PDF is in double page quite impossible to read and impossible to print.
Ron
March 15, 2013 at 10:54 am
Is there an Ipad app available for PET?
Susan
March 16, 2013 at 1:13 pm
I love your information and find it very helpful because I can FOCUS on PSE only. This is where other publications loose me. Please keep it just to the main reason we subscribe to you. I dont want to know what to do in an application I dont use and just get confused. Thanks. Keep up the good work otherwise!
John
March 16, 2013 at 1:52 pm
Scene With 3D Text is great but am I right in saying that some of the options listed are only available in Version 11? I refer specifically to the adjustments to the bevel efect.
Charles
March 16, 2013 at 5:41 pm
Seeing that your magazine is pretty small as it is; 36 pages, I don’t own Lightroom program and don’t want to see pages used for tutorials that I can’t use. Sorry, but I only have Photoshop Elements 11 and don’t own Lightroom. Please stick to turtorials/how to’s specific to that. Those are great!
Thank You!
Chip Cunningham
Peter
March 20, 2013 at 10:45 pm
I’d like to add my weight to the many others concerning the increasing amount of PET space being devoted to Lightroom.
Like many others, I subscribed to PET. I’m receiving increasing amounts of the publication devoted to another product.
Can I get a refund? (LOL)
Could we have a response from the PET managemnt team as to the future direction of PET with regard to Lightroom or any other product for that matter?
Rodney
March 25, 2013 at 2:55 pm
I am a lightrooom user and appreciate the few articles you have had about this Adobe program. I think that if most of the people complaining about these articles would try Lightroom they would be Lightroom users too. I originally bought the program to have the latest Raw processing engine which is now included in Photoshop Elements 11 but have found it an eminently valuable addition to my photo editing arsenal. It is not perfect, at least on the PC platform, but then what Adobe program is?
Mike
March 25, 2013 at 5:30 pm
Rodney’s argument is self defeating; if Elements does Camera Raw, and this magazine is concerned with ‘Elements’, why should we buy Lightroom?
John
March 25, 2013 at 6:47 pm
I love lightroom keep up with lightroom articles
John k
Bob
April 5, 2013 at 9:54 am
Started using Lightroom 4 a year ago along with Elements. Keep including the Lightroom articles.
Bob