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 the type tools and explore the Create mode, where Photoshop Elements makes it simple to create stylish, professional-looking projects to showcase your photos, from greeting cards and photo books to calendars and slideshows.

  • Locating artwork in the Graphics library

  • Setting up a photo project in Create mode

  • Adding a creative touch with text and graphics

  • Fitting text to an image

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