Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

402 Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Photo Layouts

and Effects palette (it’s the second from the left). Elements presents all the pos-

sible themes for your particular Photo Creation. Double-click a thumbnail and

then drag the new theme to your photo, or click the thumbnail once and then

click Apply. Presto—you’ve got your existing layout with new frames and back-

ground.

• Edit the Layer style of a Frame. In the Layers palette, most of the frames have a

Layer style icon. Double-click the icon to edit things like the size of the drop

shadow on the frame. (See page 360 for more about editing Layer styles.)

What’s more, you can add and delete pages from Photo Layouts, as the next sec-

tion explains.

POWER USERS’ CLINIC

Smart Objects

Smart Objects are one of the ways Adobe made Elements

5 projects so fun and easy. Like their big-shot cousins in

the full version of Photoshop, these objects seem to know

where they are and what you’re trying to do—and behave

accordingly. Here are some of the things that make Smart

Objects so smart:

• When you apply a new background from the Art-

work and Effects palette, it immediately zooms

down to the bottom of the layer stack to replace

the existing background, without any assistance

from you.

• Similarly, the frames in the Artwork section of the

palette automatically target your photos. (This

behavior can be a little quirky, though, and you

may find that your frames ...