Beckham, Barry

Presents a guide to using Photoshop Elements picture-editing software to enhance digital photographs, explaining how to import images from a digital camera or scanner, crop photographs, adjust contrast, exposure, and color, and remove red eye, and discussing retouching techniques, creative imaging, printing, and other topics.

Presents profiles of colleges focusing on the needs of African-American college-bound students, and featuring candid comments by African-Americans already enrolled.

Explains where to find and how to go about getting scholarships that are targeted toward African-American students, with listings from private and federal sources.