Chapter 1. Welcome to Photoshop Elements
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 is an amazing digital graphics program. It has tools that let you do virtually anything you can think of to a photo or any other kind of bitmapped art. Whoa! Only two sentences in and you’re already encountering what may be unfamiliar words. Bitmapped? Digital graphics? Don’t worry. It’s really easy, and you’ll be creating beautiful pictures before you know it.
The term digital graphics refers to any kind of graphic image—a photo, scanned art, a squiggle of color—that you’ve created or placed on an Elements page. Bitmapped graphics are shown on the screen as a mass of little colored bits or pixels . Each bit has a coded description of its color and position. If you make a change ...
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