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Photoshop Elements 2024 For Dummies
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Photoshop Elements 2024 For Dummies

by Barbara Obermeier, Ted Padova
December 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
496 pages
12h 57m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 2

Basic Image-Editing Concepts

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Understanding and changing resolution

Bullet Resampling images

Bullet Working with file formats

Bullet Understanding color

When you open a picture in Photoshop Elements, you’re looking at a huge grid of pixels. These pixels are tiny, colored squares, and the number of pixels in a picture determines the picture’s resolution.

This relationship between pixels and resolution is important for you to understand in all your Elements work. You’ll find the concepts covered in this chapter especially helpful when creating selections (as we explain in Chapter 8), printing files (Chapter 15), and sharing files (Chapter 16).

Additionally, you need to understand color modes, which define how many colors an image contains. Color modes are important when you’re using tools in the Tools panel and Panel Bin and printing and sharing files. Basically, you want to choose a color mode for your image that is best suited for print or onscreen and the type of image you have (a photo with lots of colors versus a line drawing with only a few colors, for example).

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