Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

If you’ve read through earlier chapters of

this book, you’ve learned how to use specific

formatting, retouching, and painting tools

in Photoshop Elements. In this chapter,

you’ll explore a few new Photoshop tools

and techniques and see how to combine

several Photoshop Elements tools to create

your own projects. First we’ll take a look at

Photomerge, a feature that automates much

of the work required to stitch together mul-

tiple images into a single panorama. Then

we’ll look at two different ways of delivering

sets of images: using PDF slide shows and

Web photo galleries. Next, we’ll explore a

couple of techniques for creating animation

using the Layers palette and the Save for

Web dialog box. And we’ll look at a couple

of methods for using the power of trans-

parency and layers for creating compelling

composite images.

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