Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

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Introduction

• Add type to your images and turn them into things like greeting cards and

flyers.

• Create slideshows to share with your friends, regardless of whether they use

Windows, Mac, or even just a cellphone.

• Automatically resize photos so that they’re ready for email. Elements even lets

you send your photos inside specially designed emails.

• Create digital artwork from scratch, even without a photo to work from.

• Create and share incredible Web photo galleries, and email-ready slideshows

that will make your friends actually ask to see the pictures from your latest trip.

• Create and edit graphics for Web sites, including making animated GIFs (pic-

tures that move animation-style).

• Create wonderful collages and photo layout pages that you can print or share

with your friends digitally. Scrapbookers—get ready to be wowed.

It’s worth noting, though, that there are still a few things Elements can’t do. While

Elements 5 handles text quite competently, at least as photo-editing programs go,

it’s still no substitute for PageMaker, InDesign, or any other desktop publishing

program. And Elements can do an amazing job of fixing problems in your photos,

but only if you give it something to work with. If your photo is totally over-

exposed, blurry, and the top of everyone’s head is cut off, there may be a limit to

what even Elements can do to help you out. (C’mon, be fair.) The