September 2011
Beginner
656 pages
24h 9m
English
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Chapter 1. Finding Your Way Around Elements
Photoshop Elements lets you do practically anything you want to your digital images. You can colorize black-and-white photos, remove demonic red-eye stares, or distort the facial features of people who’ve been mean to you. The downside is that all those options can make it tough to find your way around Elements, especially if you’re new to the program.
This chapter helps get you oriented. You’ll learn what to expect when you launch the program, how to use Elements to fix photos with just a couple of keystrokes, and how to sign up for and connect to all the goodies that await you on Photoshop.com. You’ll also learn how to use Guided Edit mode to get started editing your photos. Along the way, you’ll find out about some of Elements’ basic controls and how to get to the program’s Help files.
Getting Started
Unlike the past several versions of Elements, with Elements 10 there’s not much difference in how you start up the program, regardless of whether you have a Mac or a Windows computer.
When you install Elements in Windows, the installer creates a desktop shortcut for you. Just double click that to launch Elements.
In the Mac version, you can launch Elements as the last step in the installation process (Beyond This Book explains how to install Elements), or you can go to Applications→Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 and double-click its icon there. (Incidentally, the only other thing in there besides the uninstaller is a folder called Support Files ...
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