September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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Elements for Digital
Photographers
If you’re a fairly serious digital photographer, you’ll be delighted to know that
Adobe hasn’t just loaded Elements with easy-to-use features, aimed at beginners.
Elements is also brimming with a collection of pretty advanced tools pulled
straight from Photoshop.
Number one on the list is the famous Adobe Camera RAW Converter, which takes
RAW files—a format some cameras use to give you maximum editing control—
and lets you convert and edit them in Elements. In this chapter, you’ll learn lots
more about what RAW is, and why you may or may not want to use it in your own
photography.
You’ll also get to know the Photo Filter command, which helps adjust image col-
ors by replicating the old-school effect of placing filters over a camera’s lens. And
last but not least, Elements includes some truly useful batch-processing tools,
including features to help rename files, perform format conversions, and even
apply basic retouching to multiple photos.
The RAW Converter
Probably the most useful thing Adobe has done for photography buffs in Elements
is including the Adobe Camera RAW Converter. For many people, this feature
alone is well worth the price of the program, since you just can’t beat the conve-
nience of being able to perform conversions in the same program you use for
editing.
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