Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual

Chapter 2: Importing, Managing, and Saving Your Photos 39

Creating a New File

1. Find the video that contains the frame you want to copy.

Click the Browse button and navigate to the movie you want. After you choose

the movie, the first frame should appear in the window in the Frame From

Video dialog box.

2. Navigate to the frame you want.

Either click the Play button or use the slider below the window to move

through the movie until you see what you want.

3. Copy the frame you want by clicking Grab Frame.

You can grab as many frames as you want. Each frame shows up in the Ele-

ments Editor as a separate file.

4. When you have everything you need, click Done.

While grabbing video frames is a very fun thing to be able to do, it does have

certain limitations. Most importantly, your video is going to appear at a fairly

low resolution, so don’t expect to get a great print from a video frame.

Creating a New File

You can also create a new blank Elements document. You may want to create a

new blank document when you’re using Elements as a drawing program or when

you’re combining parts of other images together, for example.

To create a new file, go to the Editor, and choose File ➝ New ➝ Blank File (or press

Ctrl+N) to bring up the New File dialog box. You have lots of choices to make

each time you start a new file; they’re all covered in the following sections.

NOTE You can’t create a new blank file in the