September 2014
Beginner
643 pages
20h 48m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual
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Chapter 3. Rotating and Resizing Photos
In the last chapter, you learned how to get photos into Elements. Now it’s time to look at how to trim off unwanted areas and straighten crooked photos. This chapter will also teach you how to change the overall size of images and how to zoom in and out to get a better look at things while you’re editing.
Note
From here through Chapter 15, you need to be in the Editor to follow along. If you’re still in the Organizer, press Ctrl+I/⌘-I to go to the Editor, and then click the Expert tab at the top of the screen.
Straightening Scanned Photos
Anyone who’s scanned printed photos can testify about the hair-pulling frustration you feel when your carefully placed pictures come out crooked onscreen. Whether you’re feeding in precious memories one at a time or scanning batches of photos to save time, Elements can help straighten things out.
Straightening Two or More Photos at Once
If you’ve got a pile of photos to scan, save yourself some time and lay as many of them on your scanner as you can (see Figure 3-1). It doesn’t matter whether you scan directly into Elements or use the scanner’s own software. (See Working with PDF Files for more about scanning images into Elements.) Thanks to Elements’ handy Divide Scanned Photos command, you can save them as individual image files in no time.
Figure 3-1. Consumer-grade flatbed scanners are generally pretty slow, so ...
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