Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

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Chapter 1

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Finding Your Way

Around Elements

Photoshop Elements lets you do practically anything you want to your digital

images. You can colorize black-and-white photos, remove demonic red-eye stares,

or distort the facial features of people who’ve been mean to you. The downside is

that all those options can make it tough to find your way around Elements, espe-

cially when you’re new to the program.

This chapter helps get you oriented in Elements. You’ll learn about what to expect

when you start up the program and how to use Elements to fix your photos with

just a couple of keystrokes. Along the way, you’ll find out about some of Elements’

basic controls and how to get hold of the program’s Help files if you need them.

UP TO SPEED

Which Version of Elements Do You Have?

This book covers Photoshop Elements 5. If you’re not

sure which version of Elements you have, the easiest way

to find out is to look at the program’s icon (the file you

click to launch Elements).

You can use this book if you have an earlier version of

Elements because a lot of the basic editing procedures are

the same. But Elements 5 is a pretty big update, so you’ll

find many new features, like Color Curves (page 248) and

Black-and-White conversion (page 265), that won’t be in

your version of the program. There are Missing Manuals

for Elements 3 and 4, too, and you may prefer to track

down the right book for your version of Elements. ...