September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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224 Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
Photo Filter
Photo Filter
The Photo Filter command gives you a host of nifty new photo filters that are the
digital equivalent of the many-colored lens-mounted filters used in traditional film
photography. You can use them to correct problems with your image’s white bal-
ance, as well as for a bunch of other fixes, from the seriously photographic to the
downright silly. For example, you can correct a bad skin tone or dig out an old
photo of your fifth-grade nemesis and make him green, literally. Figure 8-9 shows
one Photo Filter in action.
Elements comes with 20 Photo Filters, but for most people, the important ones are
the top 6: three warming filters and three cooling filters. You use these filters to get
rid of the color casts that come from a poor white balance (see page 217).
POWER USERS’ CLINIC
Digital Blending
With most digital cameras, you’re likely to hit the clipping
point (page 219) in an image much sooner than you
want to. If you up the exposure so that the shadows are
nice and detailed, about half the time you’ve blown the
highlights. On the other hand, if you adjust your expo-
sure settings down to favor the highlights, your shadows
are murkier than an Enron annual report.
Photographers try to get around these limitations with a
technique called digital blending, in which you bracket
your shots. That is, you take two identical shots of your
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