9. Getting Creative

Lesson overview

Once you’ve adjusted and polished your photos, Photoshop Elements offers a multitude of ways to add your own artistic touches. You’ve already experimented with some of the creative possibilities of the Recompose and Photomerge tools and designed your own custom effects in the Filter Gallery; in this lesson you’ll have some fun with text and explore the Create mode.

Photoshop Elements makes it simple to create stylish, professional-looking projects to showcase your photos, from greeting cards and Photo Books to calendars and animated slide shows.

This lesson introduces some fun type tools and steps you through the basic techniques you’ll use to build projects in Create mode:

Locating artwork in the Graphics ...

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