September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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Importing, Managing,
and Saving Your Photos
Now that you’ve had a look around Elements, it’s time to start learning how to get
photos into the program, and also how to keep track of where these photos are
stored. As a digital photographer, you may no longer be facing shoeboxes stuffed
with prints, but you’ve still got to face the menace of photos piling up on your
hard drive. Fortunately, Elements gives you some great tools for organizing your
collection and quickly finding individual pictures.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to import your photos from cameras, digital card
readers, and scanners. You’ll also find out how to import individual frames from
videos, how to open files that are already on your computer, and how to create a
new file from scratch. After that, you’ll learn how to use the Organizer to sort and
find your pictures once they’re in Elements. Finally, you’ll learn how to save the
work you create in Elements and how to make backups.
Importing from Cameras
Elements gives you lots of different ways to get photos from camera to computer,
but the simplest tool is the Adobe Photo Downloader. If you don’t like the Down-
loader, read on. Later in this section, you’ll learn about other ways to import your
photos.
NOTE Take a moment to carefully read the instructions from your camera manufacturer. These
directions should always take precedence over anything you read
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