September 2014
Beginner
643 pages
20h 48m
English
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Chapter 1. Finding Your Way Around Elements
Photoshop Elements lets you do practically anything you want to digital images. You can colorize black-and-white photos, remove demonic red-eyed 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 and how to use Elements to fix photos with just a couple of keystrokes. You’ll also find out how to use Guided Edit mode to get started editing images. 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
On a Windows computer, when you install Elements (Installing Elements in Windows explains how), the installer creates a desktop shortcut for you. Just double-click that shortcut to launch Elements. You can also go to the Start menu and click the Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 icon. (If you don’t see Elements in the Start menu, then click the arrow next to All Programs, and you should see it in the pop-up menu.)
On a Mac, you can launch Elements as the last step in the installation process, or you can go to Applications→Adobe Photoshop Elements 13 and double-click its icon there. (Incidentally, the only other thing in that folder besides the uninstaller is a folder called Support Files. That’s where you’ll find the Editor application, ...
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