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Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
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Foreword
Introduction
Acknowledgements
1 The Buzz of Digital Photography
The beginning – the digital photograph
Making the digital image
Quality factors in a digital image
The steps in the digital process
Where does Photoshop Elements fit into the process?
Photoshop Elements 7
2 Introducing Photoshop Elements 7
Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 – new tools and features
The Photoshop Elements 7 workflow
The interface
You control the look of Photoshop Elements 7
New tools and features
Revamped favorites
Menus
Tools
Tool types
Guided edits
The Quick editor (previously Quick Fix editor)
The Organizer workspace (Photo Browser or Date View)
Photo Creations become Create and Share options
3 First Steps
The Welcome screen
Step 1: Getting your pictures into Elements
Organizer: File > Get Photos and Videos > From Camera or Card Reader
Organizer: File > Get Photos and Videos > From Scanner
Ensuring enough pixels for the job
Editor: Image > Divide Scanned Photos
Organizer: File > Get Photos and Videos > From Files and Folders
Organizer: File > Watch Folders
Organizer: File > Get Photos and Videos > By Searching
Other options for getting your photos into Elements
Creating new documents
Editor: File > New > Blank File
Editor: File > New > Image from Clipboard
Photomerge options
Editor/Organizer: File > New > Photomerge Group Shot
Editor/Organizer: File > New > Photomerge Faces
Editor/Organizer: File > New > Photomerge Scene Cleaner
Editor/Organizer: File > New > Photomerge Panorama
Editor: File > Import > Frame From Video
Step 2: Viewing your pictures
Organizer: Display > View Photos in Full Screen
First stop – View Photos in Full Screen
Organizer: Display > Compare Photos Side by Side
Comparing apples with apples
Editor: View > Zoom In and Zoom Out
Editor: Window > Navigator
Step 3: Image rotating
Step 4: Cropping and straightening
Cropping
Other rotation controls
Step 5: Automatic corrections
First some background
Organizer: Fix panel > Auto options
Version Sets
Undo, Revert and Undo History
Step 6: Printing
Step 7: Saving
Editor: File > Save
Editor: File > Save As
‘The formats I use’
Step 8: Organizing your pictures
Keyword Tags
Albums
Smart Albums
Stacks and Auto Stacks
Step 9: Backing up your files
Organizer: File > Backup Catalog to CD, DVD or Hard Drive
Organizer: Edit > Preferences > Backup/Synchronization
4 Managing Your Files
Organizing your photos with Photoshop Elements
It starts in-camera
And continues when downloading
Advanced organization options with Adobe Photo Downloader
Organizing and searching features
Tagging your photos
Creating new keyword tags
Face Tagging technology
Albums – the Elements way to group alike photos
Adding photos to an Album
Smart Albums
Creating a new Smart Album
Using Find to make Smart Albums
Smart Albums via the new Search feature
Converting Keyword Tags to Smart Albums
Using Album Groups
Locating files
Finding tagged photos or those contained in an Album
Find by details (metadata)
Attaching a Map Reference
Protecting your assets
Making your first back up
Multi-disk Back up
Multi-session Back up
Online Backup and Synchronization
Back up regularly
Store the duplicates securely
Versioning your edits
Versions and Photoshop Elements
Elements’ photo stacks
Auto stacking
5 Simple Image Changes
Four levels of editing
Setting up your screen for Elements
Popularity can be a problem
Before you start
Brightness and contrast changes
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Brightness/Contrast
Editor: Enhance > Auto Contrast
Editor: Enhance > Auto Levels
Editor: Enhance > Auto Smart Fix
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Smart Fix
The Quick Fix editor – ‘quick change central’
Altering a few tones only
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Shadows/Highlights
Dodge and Burn tools
Color corrections
Editor: Enhance > Auto Color Correction
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Color > Remove Color Cast
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Color > Color Variations
The Red Eye Removal tool
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Color for Skin Tone
Using filters and effects
Editor: Filters menu
Editor: Filter > Filter Gallery
Editor: Window > Effects
Editor: Filter > Blur > Motion Blur
Editor: Filter > Sketch > Chalk & Charcoal
Editor: Filter > Distort > Liquify
Editor: Filter > Sketch > Graphic Pen
Editor: Filter > Stylize > Emboss
Third party filters
The new Guided editing mode
Automating editing tasks
Multi-selection editing
Getting help with Elements
Hints
Help
On the spot help
6 Hands on Techniques
Better digital capture
So what is in a raw file?
Processing with Photoshop Elements and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)
Opening
Rotate, Crop and Straighten
Adjusting white balance
Tonal control
Color strength adjustments
Sharpness/Smoothness and Noise Reduction
Output options
Save, Open or Done
Raw file queue
Color depth or ‘What do you mean 8 bits per channel?’
Manual tonal control
Editor: Window > Histogram
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Levels
Specialized color control
Editor: Enhance > Auto Color Correction
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Hue/Saturation
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Color > Color Variations
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Color Curves
Sponge
Editor: Filter > Adjustments > Posterize
Editor: Filter > Adjustments > Invert
Editor: Filter > Adjustments > Photo Filter
High quality sharpening techniques
Editor: Enhance > Auto Sharpen
Editor: Enhance > Unsharp Mask
Editor: Enhance > Adjust Sharpness
Elements’ sharpening tools
Retouching techniques
Editor: Filter > Noise > Dust & Scratches
Clone Stamp
Spot Healing Brush
Healing Brush tool
Editor: Filter > Noise > Reduce Noise
Adding texture to an image
Editor: Filter > Noise > Add Noise
Editor: Filter > Texture > Grain
Editor: Filter > Texture > Texturizer
Changing the size of your images
Editor: Image > Resize > Image Size
Editor: Image > Resize > Canvas Size
Increasing the canvas size with the Crop tool
7 Using Selections and Layers
Selection basics
Drawing selection tools
Drawing selection tool summaries
Color selection tools
Modifying drawn and color-based selections
The Quick Selection tool (previously the Magic Selection Brush)
The new Smart Brush tool
Select > Refine Edge
The Magic Extractor feature
Selections in action Advanced dodging and burning
Artificial depth of field
Filtering a selection
Selective saturation changes
Paint on selective changes
Layers and their origins
The Layers palette
Layer types
Frame layers
Layer transparency
Layer blend modes
Layer Styles
Organizing layers
Quick guide to Layer shortcuts
8 Combining Text with Your Images
Paragraph text
WYSIWYG font previews
Creating simple type
Creating paragraph text
Basic text changes
Creating and using type masks
Reducing the ‘jaggies’
Warping type
Applying styles to type layers
Other ways to add text
Debunking some type terms
Font size
Font family and style
Alignment and justification
Leading
9 Using Elements’ Painting and Drawing Tools
Cookie Cutter tool
Painting tools
Paint Brush
The More Options palette
Airbrush
Pencil
Paint Bucket
Choosing my paint colors
Painting tools summary
The Impressionist Brush tool
Color Replacement tool
Erasing
Smart erasing
Better with a tablet
Painting tools in action
Hand coloring black and white photos
Drawing tools
Even more shapes
Cookie Cutter tool
Shapes and graphics in the new Effects palette
10 Creating Albums and Scrapbooks
Five steps to creating an Elements Photo Book
Step 1: Select the images to include
Step 2: Create a title page
Step 3: Adjusting the look of the book pages
Step 4: Create the Photo Book
Step 5: Save the Photo Book
Edit an existing design
Adjusting the frame and picture
Adding, replacing and removing photos
Adding, moving and deleting pages
The Artwork panels
Create > Artwork > Content
Create > Artwork > Effects
Create > Artwork > Favorites
Bringing it all together
11 Photomerge Stitching
Photomerge Group Shot
Photomerge Faces
Photomerge Panorama
Photomerge Group Shot
Photomerge Faces
Photomerge Scene Cleaner
Photomerge Panorama
Taking images with Photomerge in mind
Image overlap
Keep the camera level
Maintain focal length
Pivot around the lens
Maintain exposure
Keep white balance consistent
Watch the edges
Producing your panorama
New Photomerge Panorama stitching modes
Editor: File > New > Photomerge Panorama
Interactive Layout Step-by-Step
Photomerge Panorama from the Photo Browser
Photo Browser: File > New > Photomerge Panorama
Photomerge Panorama in action
Vertical stitches
Document stitches
Making panoramas that spin
Fixing panorama problems
13 Preparing Images for Printing
Printing the Elements way
Printing from the Organizer workspace
The link between paper type and quality prints
Making your first print
Color Management in the Print Dialog
Color Handling
Printer Profile
Rendering Intent
Printing directly from Photoshop.com
Making multiple prints
Contact sheets
Picture packages
Picture labels
Individual Prints
Balancing image size and picture quality
Getting to know your printer
Typical printing problems and their solutions
Web-Based Printing
Making your first online prints
Options for web printing
15 Theory into Practice
The Project – ‘A Family History’
1. Capturing the source files
2. Importing, tagging and creating Albums
3. Crop, Straighten, Trim
4. Brightness, Contrast, Color
5. Removing backgrounds
6. Restore and retouch
7. Convert to gray and tint
8. Creating a Photo Book
9. Add extra elements and fine-tune
10. Output to print
Appendices
Index
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 7
A visual introduction to digital photography
Philip Andrews
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