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Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 for Photographers
by Philip Andrews
Publisher: Focal Press
Release Date: May 2013
ISBN: 9780240521893
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Book Description
First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Section One: Introducing Photoshop Elements
Digital Basics
Photography is everywhere
The beginning – the digital photograph
Creating digital photos
The steps in the digital process
Where does Photoshop Elements fit into the process?
Photoshop Elements 8
Photoshop Elements
Top tools for the photographer
The Photoshop Elements workflow
The Organizer workspace
The Editor workspace
Moving between Organizer and Editor spaces
The Create and Share task panes
New and improved features for Photoshop Elements 8
Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements
Photoshop Elements 8 for the Apple Macintosh
First steps
The Welcome screen
Step 1: Getting your pictures into Elements
Step-by-step to better scanning
Creating new documents
Step 2: Viewing your pictures
Step 3: Image rotating
Step 4: Cropping and straightening
Step 5: Automatic corrections
Step 6: Printing
Step 7: Saving
Step 8: Organizing your pictures
Step 9: Backing up your files
Section Two: The Photographer’s Toolkit
Organize
The Organizer workspace
The Welcome Screen
The Organizer Menu Bar
The Organizer Shortcuts Bar
The Organizer Bottom Bar
Managing your photos with the Organizer
Organizing and searching features
Albums – the Elements way to group alike photos
Locating files
Attaching a Map Reference
Protecting your assets
Bridge – the center for Mac-based image management
The latest version of Bridge
Setting up Bridge
Using Bridge to manage your Elements photos
Fix
The Fix Task Pane
Automatic editing options
Automating editing of several pictures at once
Create
Photo projects
Photo Book and Photo Collages
Photo Calendar
Photo Stamps
Greeting Card
Photo Prints
Flipbook
Slide Shows
PDF Slide Show
VCD/DVD with Menu
CD/DVD Labels
CD and DVD Jackets
Web Gallery
Instant Movie
Share
Share, share and share alike!
Archiving files direct to CD/DVD
Sharing online
Phone Photos
Raw
Better digital capture
Enabling your Raw camera
Modifying your capture workflow for Raw
Auto Raw Conversions
The Adobe Camera Raw utility
Raw Enhancement Workflow
Output options
The manual raw conversion process via ACR
Keeping ACR up to date
Other Raw plug-ins
Raw file queue
Applying changes across multiple raw files
Applying changes across rated raw files
The raw advantage
Edit Guided
The Guided editor mode – ‘help when you need it’
Edit Quick
The Quick editor mode – ‘quick change central’
Edit Full
The Full Editor interface
Setting up your screen for Elements
Setting Color Management in Photoshop Elements
Brightness and contrast changes
Dodge and Burn tools
Color corrections
Transforming the shape of photos
Section Three: Elements in Action
Advanced Techniques
The importance of Bit Depth
Manual tonal control
Specialized color control
High quality sharpening techniques
Retouching techniques
Adding texture to an image
Changing the size of your images
Selections
Selection basics
Beyond One Step Selections
Selections in action
Layers
Layers and their origins
Layer Masking techniques
Text
Creating simple type
Creating paragraph text
Basic text changes
Creating and using type masks
Reducing the ‘jaggies’
Warping type
Applying styles to type layers
Debunking some common type terms
Other ways to add text
Painting
Painting tools
Better with a tablet
Custom brush creation
Painting tools in action
Drawing tools
Filters
Using filters and plug-ins
Photomerge
Taking images with Photomerge in mind
Getting images into Photomerge
Photomerge Group Shot
Photomerge Faces
Photomerge Scene Cleaner
Photomerge Exposure
Photomerge Panorama
Photomerge Panorama in action
Fixing Photomerge problems
Photo Books and Collages
Elements’ advanced layout options
Creating Photo Books with Elements
Five steps to creating an Elements Photo Book
Creating Photo Collages
Edit an existing design
Adding, replacing and removing photos
Adding, moving and deleting pages
The Create Module
Web
The Photoshop Elements’ community
Images and the Net
Getting the balance right
Web compression formats side by side
Making your own web gallery
Online Gallery versus Online Album
Other ways to share albums
Creating Web Galleries in Elements for Macintosh
Sending images as email attachments
Photoshop.com is your new online partner
Making simple web animations with Elements
Creating your own slideshows
Printing
Pathways to printing in Elements
Making your first print
Making multiple prints
Color Management in the Print Dialog
Typical printing problems and their solutions
Web-based Printing
Printing directly from Photoshop.com
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
Organizer Preferences (Win)
Editor Preferences:
Color Settings
Bridge Preferences (Mac)
Premiere Elements 8 (Windows)
Index