PHOTOSHOP® ELEMENTS 3: DOWN & Dirty TRICKS

Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks98

STEP ONE: Create a new document

that’s roughly 7x5" set at 72 ppi in RGB.

Press D to set your Foreground color

to black, and then click on the Create

a New Layer icon at the top of the

Layers palette. Press the U key until the

Rounded Rectangle tool appears in the

Toolbox, and then press Control-R to

show the rulers in your document. In

the Options Bar, set the Radius for the

Rounded Rectangle tool to 10 pixels,

then draw your rounded-corner box at

the size of a credit card (approximately

3

1

⁄4 x 2

1

⁄8 ", but I’m going to draw mine

slightly larger to show the effect better).

STEP TWO: Open the image yo ...