Book description
A visual guide to getting the most out of Photoshop Elements 10
If you understand the basics of Photoshop Elements, you'll love this collection of 100 must-know tips and tricks. Two-page tutorials, full-color screen shots, and step-by-step instructions make it easy to see and follow the directions, helping you to get the very most from this top-selling image-editing software. This guide catches you up on Photoshop Elements 10, covers features you may not have known about, and alerts you to a slew of cool effects and techniques.
Explains techniques, best practices, and creative ways to transform your digital images from everyday to extraordinary
Includes beautiful photos and tips from an experienced photographer and author who shares his secrets on how to create images that wow viewers
Features step-by-step instruction in a series of two-page, highly visual tutorials, with helpful, full-color screen shots on every page
Perfect for visual learners who are migrating from older versions of the software or who already have a comfort level with Photoshop Elements and want to move to a new skill level
Take your image editing and Photoshop Elements skills beyond the essentials with this practical guide.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CREDITS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
- Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: Organize and Prepare Photos for Processing
- Set Up a WORKFLOW
- IMPORT your images
- VIEW PHOTOS with full-screen mode
- SORT the good pictures from the bad
- STACK your images
- CREATE ALBUMS to group your pictures
- USE KEYWORDS to tag your images
- POST PICTURES TO FACEBOOK with the Organizer
- CHANGE THE ORGANIZER INTERFACE as needed
- BACK UP YOUR PICTURES to protect them
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Chapter 2: Start Adjusting Your Images in Photoshop Elements
- Open pictures and USE SAVE AS
- MAKE THE EDITOR INTERFACE your own
- SET PREFERENCES to make Editor work for you
- YOU CANNOT HURT your pictures
- CROP YOUR PHOTOS for tighter shots
- FIX AND ROTATE crooked pictures
- USE GUIDED EDIT to help you learn the program
- USE GUIDED EDIT for special effects
- USE GUIDED EDIT for Photo Play
- SET BLACKS AND WHITES with Levels
- ADJUST YOUR MIDTONES with Levels
- ADJUST YOUR MIDTONES with Color Curves
- QUICKLY ADJUST dark shadows and bright highlights
- CORRECT COLOR to remove color casts
- ENHANCE COLOR with Hue/Saturation
- Use Quick Edit to WORK FAST
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Chapter 3: Work with RAW Photos in Photoshop Elements
- Change images NONDESTRUCTIVELY
- CROP YOUR PHOTOS to start your processing
- ADJUST BLACKS AND WHITES to give a photo strength
- ADJUST MIDTONES to make tonalities light or dark
- CORRECT COLOR to clean up color casts
- USE VIBRANCE AND CLARITY to intensify images
- SHARPEN PHOTOS with precision
- CONTROL NOISE in your photo
- Apply adjustments to MULTIPLE PHOTOS
- MOVE YOUR PICTURE to Photoshop Elements
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Chapter 4: Choose Local Control Features
- CREATE AND USE a selection
- USE MARQUEE TOOLS for specific shapes
- USE LASSO TOOLS to follow picture elements
- USE AUTOMATED TOOLS for easy selections
- EXPAND OR CONTRACT your selection
- SELECT WHAT IS EASY and invert
- BLEND EDGES by feathering
- USE SELECTIONS FOR traditional edge darkening
- USE THE SMART BRUSH for specific area fixes
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Chapter 5: Create Adjustment Layers for Nondestructive Changes
- Understand HOW LAYERS WORK
- Understand HOW ADJUSTMENT LAYERS WORK
- WORK BLACKS AND WHITES with a Levels adjustment layer
- WORK MIDTONES with a Levels adjustment layer
- CORRECT COLOR with an adjustment layer
- ENHANCE COLOR with an adjustment layer
- FIX PROBLEM EXPOSURES with layer blending modes
- Understand HOW LAYER MASKS WORK
- COMBINE TWO PHOTOS with layer masks
- REMOVE ADJUSTMENTS with black
- ADD ADJUSTMENTS using black and then white
- COMBINE LAYER MASKS with selections
- BALANCE COLORS AND TONES in a picture
- BRING OUT SHADOW DETAIL in specific areas
- DARKEN HIGHLIGHT DETAIL in specific areas
- FLATTEN LAYERS when done
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Chapter 6: Solve Photo Problems
- CLONE OUT problems
- Remove people from a scene with PHOTOMERGE SCENE CLEANER
- Remove unwanted objects with ENHANCED SPOT HEALING
- Fix problems due to LENS DISTORTION
- FIX PERSPECTIVE PROBLEMS with building photographs
- Remove dead space with RECOMPOSE
- Make an OUT-OF-FOCUS BACKGROUND
- Remove DISTRACTING COLORS
- Improve BLANK SKIES
- Create the focus with GAUSSIAN BLUR
- ADD A NEW BACKGROUND for your subject
- Chapter 7: Size and Sharpen Photos
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Chapter 8: Go Beyond the Basics
- Convert color photos to BLACK-AND-WHITE
- Adjust your photos in BLACK-AND-WHITE
- Create TONED IMAGES
- USE THE SMART BRUSH for creative effects
- Create out-of-bounds effects with GUIDED EDIT
- ADD TEXT to a page
- Photograph a scene to GET MORE EXPOSURE DETAIL
- MERGE PHOTOS for more photo detail
- Photograph a scene for a PANORAMIC IMAGE
- MERGE PHOTOS for a panoramic image
- TRANSFER STYLES between photos
- Chapter 9: Software Plug-ins Make Work Easier
- Chapter 10: Get Photos out of Photoshop Elements
- Index
Product information
- Title: Photoshop® Elements 10: Top 100 Simplified® Tips & Tricks
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2011
- Publisher(s): Visual
- ISBN: 9781118161586
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