Chapter 11. Advanced Editing Techniques

In this lesson, you will discover advanced editing techniques in Adobe Photoshop Elements. Using innovative tools that enable you to improve the quality and clarity of your images, you will learn to do the following:

  1. Use camera raw images from your digital camera.

  2. Save conversions in the DNG format.

  3. Use histograms to understand the characteristics of an image.

  4. Understand highlights and shadows.

  5. Resize and sharpen an image.

  6. Create effects with the filter gallery.

  7. Use the Cookie Cutter tool.

Most users can complete this lesson in a little over an hour.

This lesson assumes that you are already familiar with the overall features of the Photoshop Elements 5.0 work area, and recognize the two ways in which you can use ...

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