Chapter 28. Creating Elements Projects

In This Chapter

  • Understanding creations

  • Creating photo books

  • Creating a calendar

  • Creating photo collages

  • Creating greeting cards

  • Creating photo stamps

  • Creating CD/DVD labels

  • Creating VCDs with menus

  • Creating flip books

Adobe Photoshop Elements offers you a number of creations that can be shared onscreen or in print. From both the Create and Share panels in the Panel Bin in the Organizer and from within both editing modes, you have a number of menu choices for producing creations designed for sharing.

In Book IX, Chapter 3, we look at creating files for screen and Web viewing. In this chapter, we talk about creations designed for print and sharing.

Creating Elements Projects

Getting a Handle on Creations

In Book IX, Chapter 4, we talk about online albums, attaching files to e-mail, using photo mail, creating CDs and DVDs, and using online sharing services. All these creations offer different output options, such as e-mailing, burning files to disc, and creating HTML documents — as well as printing and PDF creation — and you create all of them using the Share panel.

You work with the remaining creations — photo books, photo collages, photo calendars, greeting cards, print labels, and photo stamps — by choosing options from the Create panel shown in Figure 1-1. All these creations are designed for output to your printer or for sending files to an online printing service, or to friends ...

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