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  • Page 1 User Guide...
  • Page 2 The content of this guide is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by Adobe Systems Incorporated.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Registration ........... 1 Installing Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0...
  • Page 4 CONTENTS Chapter 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos About this chapter ......... . . 39 About digital images .
  • Page 5 ....127 Using the Adobe Color Picker .......131 Using the painting tools .
  • Page 6 CONTENTS Improving performance with filters and effects ....171 Choosing a filter ..........172 Applying special color effects to images .
  • Page 7 Chapter 14 Printing Printing images ..........237 Setting print options .

  • Page 9: Installing And Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements

    Web. Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Registration Adobe provides a variety of options you can use to So that Adobe can continue to provide you with learn Photoshop Elements, including a printed the highest quality software, offer technical...
  • Page 10 Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 The user guide assumes you have a working Using Hints, recipes, and tutorials knowledge of your computer and its operating Photoshop Elements provides Hints, recipes, and conventions, including how to use a mouse and tutorials to help you learn the application quickly standard menus and commands.

  • Page 11: Using Web Resources

    A tool tip appears showing the name and keyboard shortcut (if any) for the item. When you set up Adobe Online, you can choose to have Adobe either notify you when new infor- Note: Tool tips are not available in most dialog mation for Adobe Online is available, or automat- boxes.

  • Page 12: Customer Support

    Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Note: To use Adobe Online, you must have an Customer support on Adobe Online Internet connection and an installed Web browser. Adobe Online provides access to the Support Knowledgebase, where you can find trouble-...

  • Page 13: An Overview Of Adobe Photoshop Elements

    An Overview of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Fix unwanted red eye with a dobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 makes Red eye brush single stroke of the red eye brush. digital imaging a breeze. Use Photoshop Elements to create high-quality images for...

  • Page 14: Get Up To Speed Quickly

    An Overview of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Easily acquire Quickly and easily create a WIA Support (Windows only) Web photo gallery photos from Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) Web photo gallery featuring your pictures. Choose enabled digital cameras, scanners, and other from a variety of templates that includes holiday, devices.
  • Page 15 Liquify with transitions that you can share with anyone twisting and pulling an image, or use Liquify as a who has Adobe Acrobat Reader—even on Palm touch-up tool to make subtle enhancements. and Pocket PC devices. Easily erase the background...

  • Page 17: Quickly Fix Photographs

    Quickly Fix Photographs Photoshop Elements Quick Fix 1. Open the Quick Fix dialog box. With the file you want to fix open, choose f you are new to digital photography or experi- Enhance > Quick Fix. The Quick Fix dialog box enced at digital imaging, you’ll find the tools opens and presents tools for fixing photographs you need to correct and enhance your photos...
  • Page 18 Quickly Fix Photographs To straighten an image that was captured at an 5. Accept the changes. angle, or for more rotation options, choose If you are satisfied with the adjustments click OK. Image > Rotate rather than Quick Fix. If you are not satisfied, you can undo, redo, or reset 3.

  • Page 19: Looking At The Work Area

    Chapter 1: Looking at the Work Area The shortcuts bar displays buttons elcome to Adobe Photoshop Elements. Shortcuts bar for executing common commands. (See “Using Photoshop Elements gives you an the shortcuts bar” on page 13.) efficient work area and user interface to create and edit images for both print and the Web.
  • Page 20 12 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Using the tools Press the tool’s keyboard shortcut. The • keyboard shortcut is displayed in its tool tip. You use tools in the toolbox to select, edit, and For example, you can select the move tool by view images;...
  • Page 21 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide You can also perform searches in the shortcuts bar. In the search field, you can enter a word or a phrase, click the Search button, and then a Search Results palette will appear. You can click on a link Options bar for lasso tool for more information about your search topic.
  • Page 22 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To use a palette in the palette well: Note: Drag a palette out of the palette well if you want to keep it open. Click the palette’s tab. The palette remains open until you click outside it or click the palette’s tab. To display a palette: To store palettes in the palette well: Do one of the following:...
  • Page 23 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To group palettes together: Note: Entire palette groups cannot be docked together at once, but you can dock the palettes from Display the palettes you want to group together. one group to another, one at a time.

  • Page 24: Getting The Most Out Of Photoshop Elements

    CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To use a pop-up slider: Do one of the following: Position the pointer over the triangle next to the • setting, hold down the mouse button, and drag the slider or angle radius to the desired value. Click the triangle next to the setting to open the •...
  • Page 25 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To use the Hints palette: Using the Info palette Display the Hints palette by clicking its tab. If The Info palette provides feedback as you use a the Hints palette isn’t showing in the palette well tool.
  • Page 26 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area The percentage of change in width (W) and Using the status bar height (H) as you scale a selection, layer, or shape. The status bar at the bottom of the application window (Windows) or document window The angle of horizontal skew (H) or vertical (Mac OS) displays useful information and is skew (V) as you skew a selection, layer, or shape.
  • Page 27 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • Document Dimensions to display the Using context menus document size of the image. (See “Changing the In addition to the menus at the top of your screen, print dimensions and resolution of an image”...

  • Page 28: Viewing Images

    CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Using the Welcome window To zoom in: Do one of the following: The Welcome window provides options for acquiring images, as well as links to online Help Select the zoom tool , and click the Zoom In •...
  • Page 29 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • Enter the desired magnification level in the • Enter 100% in the Status Bar and press Enter or Zoom text box in the status bar (See “Using the Return. status bar” on page 18) or in the Navigator palette.
  • Page 30 • To specify a different color, click the color box, • image, which represents the boundaries of the and choose a color. (See “Using the Adobe image window. Color Picker” on page 131.) Drag the slider in the Navigator palette.
  • Page 31 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To open multiple views of the same image: Duplicating images Choose View > New View. Depending on the Duplicating lets you experiment with and position of the first window, you may have to move compare multiple versions of the same image.

  • Page 32: Using Rulers And The Grid

    CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To read a Digimarc watermark: To show or hide the grid: Choose Filter > Digimarc > Read Watermark. If the grid isn’t visible, choose View > Grid. If the filter finds a watermark, a dialog box displays Choose the command a second time to hide the Digimarc ID, copyright year (if present), and the grid.

  • Page 33: Undoing Operations

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Some layout programs use the column width For information on how to restore your image to setting to specify the display of an image across how it looked at any point in the current work columns.

  • Page 34: Reverting To Any State Of An Image

    CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Reverting to any state • Once you close and reopen the document, all states from the last working session are of an image cleared from the palette. The Undo History palette lets you jump to any •...

  • Page 35: Working With Preset Options

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To delete one or more states of an image: Do one of the following: Click the name of the state, and choose Delete • from the Undo History palette menu to delete that change and those that came after it.
  • Page 36 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Presets are stored in separate library files that can To select a preset in a pop-up palette: be found in the Presets folder in the Photoshop Click the triangle in the upper right area of a Elements application folder.
  • Page 37 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Note: Using the Load command will add the brush Note: Not all of the above options are available for library to the brushes you have available. If you all pop-up palettes. choose a preset library of brushes, the preset library will replace your current set of brushes.
  • Page 38 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To restore the default library or replace the currently To delete a preset: displayed libraries: Select the preset you want to delete, and Click the More button , and choose a click Delete. command from the pop-up menu: To change the display of presets in the Preset Reset to restore the default library for that type.

  • Page 39: Setting Up Photoshop Elements

    Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements dobe Photoshop Elements can be When an image has a color profile assigned to it, customized to your working each device recognizes the profile, and displays environment. colors according to the settings in the profile. This way, colors should look the same with all the devices.

  • Page 40: Calibrating Your Monitor

    Calibrating with Adobe Gamma A monitor profile uses these settings to precisely describe how your monitor reproduces color. (Windows) The ICC profile you get by using Adobe Gamma The overall level and Brightness and contrast uses the calibration settings to describe how your range, respectively, of display intensity.

  • Page 41: Configuring Photoshop Elements

    When you are finished with can restore all preferences to their defaults, then Adobe Gamma, save the profile using the same create a new file by setting new preferences. description name. (If you do not have a default profile, contact your monitor manufacturer for...
  • Page 42 In Mac OS, hold down Option+Command+Shift The Other Cursors options control the pointers immediately after launching Photoshop Elements. for the marquee, lasso, magic wand, crop, Click Yes to delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements eyedropper, gradient, paint bucket, shape, hand, settings file. and zoom tools.
  • Page 43 Plug-ins folder inside the Plug-in modules are software programs developed Photoshop Elements folder. by Adobe Systems and other software developers to add functionality to Photoshop Elements. Note: Before copying or dragging the plug-in files A number of importing, exporting, and special- into the Plug-ins folder, make sure that the files are...
  • Page 44 CHAPTER 2 Setting Up Photoshop Elements To prevent a plug-in or folder of plug-ins from Assigning scratch disks loading: When your system does not have enough RAM Add a tilde character (~) at the beginning of the to perform an operation, Photoshop Elements plug-in name, folder, or directory.

  • Page 45: About Web Access

    Photoshop Elements must be in contiguous hard tation if you need help with settings. drive space. For this reason you should frequently defragment your hard drive. Adobe recommends that you use a disk tool utility, such as Windows Disk Defragmenter or Norton Speed Disk, to defragment your hard drive on a regular basis.

  • Page 47: Acquiring And Opening Photos

    Chapter 3: Acquiring and Opening Photos ou can acquire digital images from a Bitmap images are the most common electronic variety of sources—you can create new medium for continuous-tone images, such as images, import them from another photographs or digital paintings, because they can graphics application, or capture them using a represent subtle gradations of shades and color.

  • Page 48: Getting Photos From A Scanner

    You can directly import scanned photos from any Choose File > Import, and choose the device • scanner that has an Adobe Photoshop Elements- you want to use from the submenu. compatible plug-in module. See your scanner documentation for instructions on installing the Click the Connect to Camera or Scanner button •...

  • Page 49: Importing Photos From A Digital Camera

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To import images from a scanner using WIA Support: The scanned image will be saved in the .bmp file format. Choose File > Import > WIA Support. Choose a destination on your computer to save image files to.
  • Page 50 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos Save the imported image as a Photoshop Save your photos as .psd files on your computer Elements file. so you can edit them in Photoshop Elements. (See “Saving images” on page 225.) Importing photos from digital cameras If you’re using Windows XP, you can set up your computer so Photoshop Elements is mounted to your computer...

  • Page 51: Getting Images From Video

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Select the digital camera from which you want to import images. Note: If the name of your camera does not appear in the submenu, verify that the software and drivers were properly installed and that the camera is connected.

  • Page 52: Creating New Images

    CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos To import a frame of the video as a still image, To match the width and height of the new click the Grab Frame button or press the space bar image to that of any open image, choose a when the frame is visible on the screen.
  • Page 53 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Opening files from File Browser File Browser helps you quickly locate image files and open them in the work area. You can also rotate images and view file information in the File Browser. To open a file: Select the file or files you want to open, and do one...
  • Page 54 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos • EXIF to view image information imported from Do one of the following: your digital camera. (See “Viewing file infor- Click the Trash button. • mation” on page 23). Drag the files to the Trash button •...

  • Page 55: Opening Images

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • For File Naming, choose elements from the To purge the cache: pop-up menus or enter text into the fields. The Choose Purge Cache from the File Browser menu. specified elements and text will be combined to create the new filename.
  • Page 56 Photoshop format. Created using applications Generic PDF files To specify the file format in which to open a file: other than Photoshop Elements, such as Adobe Do one of the following: Acrobat and Adobe Illustrator , Generic PDF files ®...
  • Page 57 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To open a PDF file: Press Esc to cancel the import operation before all images are imported. Choose File > Open. Select the name of the file, and click Open. To create a new Photoshop file for each page of a You can change which types of files are shown by...
  • Page 58 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos it is rasterized—the mathematically defined lines Select the PCD file you want to open, and click and curves of the vector artwork are converted Open. If the file does not appear, select the option into the pixels or bits of a bitmap image.
  • Page 59 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Choose Raw from the file format list, and The Anti-aliased PICT dialog box indicates the click Open. current file size and dimensions. To change the image dimensions, enter new values for Width and For Width and Height, enter values for the Height.

  • Page 60: Placing Files

    In Photoshop Elements, you can place PDF, PICT Preview is available only in Mac OS. Adobe Illustrator, and EPS files. When you place a PDF, Adobe Illustrator, or EPS Using the File Association Manager file, it is rasterized; you cannot edit text or vector (Windows only) data in placed artwork.

  • Page 61: Closing Files And Quitting

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • In the options bar, enter a value for X to specify Set the Anti-alias option in the options bar as the distance between the center point of the desired. To blend edge pixels during rasterization, placed artwork and the left edge of the image.

  • Page 62: Choosing An Image Mode

    CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos This mode uses one of two color • Click No (Windows) or Don’t Save (Mac OS) Bitmap mode values (black or white) to represent the pixels in for each open file to close the file without an image.
  • Page 63 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Consequently, before converting images, it’s best To convert an image to another mode: to do the following: Choose Image > Mode, and choose the mode you want from the submenu. Modes not available for •...

  • Page 65: Fixing Your Photos

    Chapter 4: Fixing Your Photos ou can fix photos in Adobe Photoshop To remove blemishes, such as dust and scratches, Elements by using the retouching, editing, you can use filters to quickly repair the damaged and color adjusting features. You can areas.

  • Page 66: Quickly Fixing Your Photos

    58 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos For more information, see “Checking scan For information on viewing the range of quality and tonal range” in online Help. shadows, midtones, and highlights in an image, see “Checking scan quality and tonal range” Begin tonal corrections by Adjust the tonal range in online Help.
  • Page 67 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Do one of the following: Using the Auto Color Correction command Choose Enhance > Auto Levels. • The Auto Color Correction command adjusts the Choose Enhance > Adjust Brightness/ • contrast and color by identifying shadows, Contrast >...
  • Page 68 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos Original image, and Backlighting applied Original image, and Fill Flash applied To use the Adjust Backlighting command: To use the Fill Flash command: Do one of the following: Do one of the following: • To make adjustments to your entire image, •...
  • Page 69 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Quick Fix dialog box To use the Quick Fix command: Select an Adjustment Category in the first step of the Quick Fix dialog box: Do one of the following: Brightness lets you adjust your photo’s contrast, •...

  • Page 70: Adjusting The Range Of Dark And Light Tones In An Image

    CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos Select an adjustment type in the second step of Elements. Of all the features for adjusting tonal the Quick Fix dialog box. The text in the Tip values, the Levels dialog box gives you the most section provides helpful information and instruc- precision.
  • Page 71 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • Create a new Levels adjustment layer, or open Note: You can click Auto to move the highlight and an existing Levels adjustment layer. (See “Using shadow sliders automatically to the brightest and adjustment and fill layers” on page 101.) darkest points.

  • Page 72: Describing Color

    CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos • To make adjustments to a portion of your on the standard color wheel, expressed as a image, make a selection in the document degree between 0 and 360. In common use, hue window. (See “Selecting pixels” on page 114.) is identified by the name of the color such as red, orange, or green.

  • Page 73: Adjusting Color

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide RGB model color components, it helps to keep a diagram of the color wheel on hand. You can use the color A large percentage of the visible spectrum can be wheel to predict how a change in one color represented by mixing red, green, and blue (RGB) component affects other colors.
  • Page 74 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos Using the Color Variations command • Saturation to change the vividness of color in the image. The Color Variations command lets you adjust the color balance, contrast, and saturation of an image Drag the Adjust Color Intensity slider to by selecting previews that show the effect of determine the amount of each adjustment.
  • Page 75 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Using the Color Cast command To use Levels to fine-tune the color balance of your image: The Color Cast command changes the overall In the Levels dialog box, choose a single color mixture of colors to remove color casts in your channel from the Channel pop-up menu, and image.
  • Page 76 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos • Create a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, For Lightness, enter a value or drag the slider to or open an existing Hue/Saturation adjustment the right to increase the lightness or to the left to layer. (See “Using adjustment and fill layers” on decrease it.
  • Page 77 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide If you modify the adjustment slider so that it falls Click OK. into a different color range, the name changes to reflect this. For example, if you choose Yellow and Using the Remove Color command...

  • Page 78: Retouching An Image

    CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos To use the Replace Color command: Drag the Hue, Saturation, and Lightness sliders (or enter values in the text boxes) to change the Do one of the following: color of the selected areas. To make adjustments to your entire image, •...
  • Page 79 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide If Aligned is deselected, the clone stamp tool Choose Filter > Noise > Dust & Scratches, or applies the sampled area from the initial sampling use the Filters palette to apply the Dust & Scratches point each time you stop and resume painting.
  • Page 80 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos Increase the threshold gradually by dragging Specify a replacement color by doing one of the slider to the lowest value that eliminates the following: defects by entering a value between 1 and 255. • To use the default replacement color, click Click OK.
  • Page 81 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide print (dodging) or increase the exposure to darken Choose a brush from the pop-up palette in the areas on a print (burning). You can use the dodge options bar, and drag the Size pop-up slider to set tool to bring out details in shadows and the the brush size.

  • Page 83: Resizing, Cropping, And Laying Out Images

    Chapter 5: Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images djusting the resolution and size of You can see the relationship between image size your images is easy using the tools and resolution in the image size dialog box in Photoshop Elements. (choose Image >...
  • Page 84 76 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images Your printer’s resolution is different from, but related to your image’s resolution. To print a high quality photo on an inkjet printer, an image resolution of about 300 ppi should provide very good results.

  • Page 85: Changing Image Size And Resolution

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide When you work in Photoshop Elements, you Resampling images can change the image magnification on-screen, Changing the pixel dimensions of an image is so you can easily work with images of any pixel called resampling. Resampling also affects the dimensions.
  • Page 86 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images Keep in mind that resampling can result in poorer To maintain the current proportions of pixel image quality. For example, when you resample an width to pixel height, select Constrain Propor- image to larger pixel dimensions, the image will tions.

  • Page 87: Cropping Images

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide If you turn on resampling for the image, you can Under Document Size, enter new values for the change print dimensions and resolution indepen- height and width. If desired, choose a new unit of dently (and change the total number of pixels in measurement.

  • Page 88: Changing The Size Of The Work Canvas

    CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images • To rotate the marquee, position the pointer outside the bounding box (the pointer turns into a curved arrow ), and drag. Note: You can’t rotate the crop tool marquee for an image in Bitmap mode.

  • Page 89: Rotating And Straightening Images

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Choose the units of measurement you want. To rotate or flip an entire image: The Columns option measures width in terms Choose Image > Rotate, and choose one of the of the columns specified in the Units & Rulers following commands from the submenu: preferences.

  • Page 90: Creating Panoramic Images Using Photomerge

    CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images Straightening images Skewed images are a common by-product of the scanning process. For example, if you lay a photo- graph on the scanner at an angle, the image will appear rotated when you open it in Photoshop Elements.
  • Page 91 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Although Photomerge can Keep the camera level Creating a Photomerge composition process slight rotations between pictures, a tilt of When you set up a Photomerge composition, you more than a few degrees can result in errors when identify your source files, and then the assembly of...
  • Page 92 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images When you’ve added all the source files, click OK If the panorama can’t be automatically to create the Photomerge composition. The source assembled, a message appears on-screen. You files will open automatically, and will be processed. can assemble the composition manually in the Photomerge dialog box.
  • Page 93 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Editing a Photomerge composition To navigate in the Photomerge dialog box: Do one or more of the following in the You may need to reposition an individual source Photomerge dialog box: file, or rotate a file in your composition. The...
  • Page 94 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images Select the vanishing point tool , and click on To apply Advanced Blending or Cylindrical Mapping: an image in the work area to make it the vanishing Select Composition options as desired: point image.

  • Page 95: Creating Multiple-Image Layouts

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To preview changes to your Photomerge composition: To create a picture package from a single image: Click the Preview button. To return to edit mode, Choose File > Print Layouts > Picture Package. click Exit Preview.
  • Page 96 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images Customizing picture package layouts Note: The width and height of the document should not exceed the printable area of the paper. For You can customize existing layouts or create new example, if you plan to print on 11 x 17 paper, layouts using a text-editing application.

  • Page 97: Creating Pdf Slideshows

    PDF slideshow. Photoshop Elements generates a PDF file of the images you select that Note: Make sure that the images are closed before plays like a slideshow when it’s opened in Adobe applying this command. Acrobat. To create a contact sheet: Choose File >...
  • Page 98 Note: If you want to compress your final PDF Once processing is complete, a message will file, click the Advanced button to specify appear indicating the success of the generation. encoding options. To see your slideshow, open the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat.

  • Page 99: Using Layers

    Chapter 6: Using Layers ayers are the basis for creating and editing experiment freely with different compositions images in Photoshop Elements. Layers can without making permanent changes to your help you customize your images, fix color overall image. In addition, special features such as and contrast, and give your images different adjustment layers, fill layers, and layer styles let artistic effects.

  • Page 100: About The Layers Palette

    92 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers You can also create sophisticated visual effects with About the Background layer layers. Grouped layers use a base layer to define the When you create a new image with a color-filled image boundaries of a layer group, and you can background, the bottommost layer in the Layers use layers to create a Web animation.
  • Page 101 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide About layers in the Layers palette Except in the case of adjustment layers and some changes to linked layers, changes to an image affect only the selected or active layer, which appears highlighted in the Layers palette. To make a layer active, you can select a layer in the Layers palette.

  • Page 102: Using The Layers Palette

    CHAPTER 6 Using Layers Using the Layers palette When you open Photoshop Elements for the first time, the Layers palette appears in the palette well. (See “Using the palette well” on page 13.) You can drag the palette out of the palette well to keep it on display.

  • Page 103: Selecting Layers

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide For Grid Colors, choose an option: • Select the move tool, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) in the image, and Light, Medium, or Dark to specify a gray • choose the layer you want from the context pattern.
  • Page 104 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers • By using the type tool or by using a shape tool. Choose Layer > New, and choose one of the (See “Creating text” on page 196 and “Creating following commands from the submenu: shapes” on page 191.) •...
  • Page 105 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • Choose Layer > New > Layer from Background to convert the background to a layer. • Select the background, and choose Duplicate Layer from the Layers palette More menu to leave the background intact and create a copy of it as a new layer.
  • Page 106 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers • Send to Back to make the layer the bottommost To copy a layer between images: layer in the image (except for the background). Open the two images you want to use. Note: By default, the Background layer cannot be In the Layers palette of the source image, select moved from the bottom of the layer list.
  • Page 107 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide In the Layers palette, click in the column Repositioning layers immediately to the left of any additional layers you You can quickly adjust the composition of an want to copy. The link icon appears in the image by repositioning its layers.

  • Page 108: Specifying Opacity And Blending Options

    CHAPTER 6 Using Layers To link layers: Select a layer in the Layers palette. Click in the column immediately to the left of any layers you want to link to the active layer. The link icon appears in the column. To unlink layers: In the Layers palette, click the link icons to remove them.

  • Page 109: Using Adjustment And Fill Layers

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To specify a blending mode for a layer: Select the neutral color layer in the Layers palette, and choose a filter, effect, or layer style Select the layer in the Layers palette. from the Filters, Effects, or Layer Styles palette.
  • Page 110 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers To create an adjustment layer: In the Layers palette, select the topmost layer you want to affect. To confine the effects of the adjustment layer to a selected area, make a selection. Do one of the following: To affect all the layers below the adjustment •...
  • Page 111 fill type you chose: changes to two overlapping circles ), and then click. For more information, see “Creating Specify a color. (See “Using the Adobe Solid Color grouped layers” on page 106. Color Picker” on page 131.)
  • Page 112 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers • Scale changes the size of the gradient. To edit an adjustment or fill layer: To open the adjustment or fill options Reverse flips the orientation of the gradient. • dialog box: Dither reduces banding by applying dithering to •...
  • Page 113 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Editing a mask involves painting or erasing with Use the following methods to view the black, white, or shades of gray. When you select an layer mask: adjustment or fill layer in the Layers palette, the •...

  • Page 114: Creating Grouped Layers

    CHAPTER 6 Using Layers Merging adjustment layers Note that you can group only successive layers. The name of the base layer in the group is under- You can merge an adjustment or fill layer in several lined, and the thumbnails for the overlying layers ways: with the layer below it, with the layers in its are indented.

  • Page 115: Editing Layers

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • Link together the desired layers in the Layers • In the Layers palette, select any layer in the palette. (See “Linking layers” on page 99.) group besides the base layer, and either drag the Then choose Layer >...
  • Page 116 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers painting and editing are confined to opaque areas Sampling from all layers of the layer. For example, if you lock a layer’s trans- By default, when you work with the magic wand, parency, you can edit an object without adding smudge, blur, sharpen, or clone stamp tool, you opaque pixels to the transparent area outside the are applying color sampled only from pixels on the...

  • Page 117: Managing Layered Images

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • To load the intersection of the pixels and an existing selection, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS), and either click the layer thumbnail in the Layers palette or if the layer has a mask, the mask thumbnail.
  • Page 118 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers • Select the layer in the Layers palette, and choose your purposes. If the file is becoming too large, Rename Layer from the Layer menu or the More you can merge some layers together, remove menu in the Layers palette. Type a new name in hidden layers you don’t need, flatten your image, the Layers Properties dialog box.
  • Page 119 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Do one of the following: Note: If the bottom layer in the pair is a shape, type, or fill layer, you can’t choose Merge Down until Drag the layer to the Delete Layers button •...
  • Page 120 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers Select a layer in the Layers palette on which to To flatten an image: merge all visible layers. Make sure that the layers you want to keep in your image are visible. Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and choose Merge Visible from either Choose Flatten Image from either the Layers the Layers menu, or the Layers palette menu.

  • Page 121: About Selections

    The selection tool or command you choose in Adobe Photoshop Elements, you first depends on the nature of your image, the changes select the area in the active layer. You can you want to make, and the area you want to select.

  • Page 122: Selecting Pixels

    114 CHAPTER 7 Selecting Selecting pixels Showing or hiding selection borders Selections are marked by a border of moving You can select pixels in an image by dragging dashes. You can show or hide selection borders in with the marquee tools, lasso tools, selection your image.
  • Page 123 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide If you chose the elliptical marquee, you can By default, a selection border is created from one select Anti-aliased in the options bar to smooth of its corners. To create a marquee from its center, the edges of your selection.
  • Page 124 CHAPTER 7 Selecting Drag to draw a freehand selection border. To use the magnetic lasso tool: Select the magnetic lasso tool , and then To draw a straight-edged selection border, select tool options in the options bar: hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and click where segments should begin and end.
  • Page 125 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Drag the pointer along the edge you want to • To close the border with a straight segment, trace. (You can also drag with the mouse button hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), depressed.)

  • Page 126: Adjusting Selection Borders

    CHAPTER 7 Selecting To adjust the brush tip’s hardness, drag the To define a smooth selection edge, select Anti- Hardness pop-up slider, or enter a number aliased. (See “Softening the edges of a selection” on between 0 and 100. page 121.) If the Mode option is set to Mask, set the color To select only adjacent areas using the same and opacity of the overlay color:...
  • Page 127 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To move a selection border: For consistent results when manually adding to or subtracting from a selection, use the same feather Using any selection tool, select New and anti-aliasing settings used for the original...
  • Page 128 CHAPTER 7 Selecting • Hold down Alt+Shift (Windows) or command on a selection that lacks feathering or Option+Shift (Mac OS) so that cross hairs anti-aliasing. (See “Filling and tracing selections appear next to the pointer, and select an area and layers” on page 144.) that intersects the existing selection.

  • Page 129: Softening The Edges Of A Selection

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Note: The relationship between physical distance also add feathering to an existing selection by and the pixel distance depends on the resolution of using the Select menu. Feathering effects are the image. For example, 5 pixels is a longer distance apparent when you move, cut, copy, or fill the...

  • Page 130: Moving, Copying, And Pasting Selections

    CHAPTER 7 Selecting Note: If you make a small selection with a large Moving pixel selections within an image feather radius, Photoshop Elements displays the The move tool lets you drag a pixel selection to a message “No pixels are more than 50% selected.” new location in the image.
  • Page 131 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Copying with the move tool within a single image Note: Keep in mind that when a selection or layer is saves memory because the Clipboard isn’t used, pasted between images with different resolutions, the but once you deselect the copied selection, you pasted data retains its original pixel dimensions.
  • Page 132 Use the Cut or Copy command to copy the part of the image you want to paste. When you drag vector shapes or text to Photoshop Elements from an application that uses Adobe Make a selection in the image into which you want to paste the copied image.

  • Page 133: Saving And Loading Selections

    Note: Some file formats, including JPEG and GIF, choose Edit > Copy. Applications that produce cannot save selections. PostScript artwork include Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator (versions 5.0 through 10), Adobe Dimensions , and Adobe Streamline To save a new selection: ®...

  • Page 134: Deleting Selected Areas

    CHAPTER 7 Selecting • Add To Selection to add the current selection to • Subtract From Selection to subtract the saved the saved selection. selection from the current selection. • Subtract From Selection to subtract the current • Intersect With Selection to replace the current selection from the saved selection.

  • Page 135: About Painting And Drawing

    Chapter 8: Painting ou can paint, erase, and fill areas of your When you want to transform your image without image with several different tools in Adobe adding new colors or patterns, a few tools allow Photoshop Elements. By customizing the...
  • Page 136 Using the eyedropper tool color by using the eyedropper tool, the Swatches The eyedropper tool samples color from an image palette, the icons in the toolbox, or the Adobe to designate a new foreground or background Color Picker. color. You can sample from the active image or from another open image.
  • Page 137 Using the Swatches palette related or special swatches and manage palette You can select a foreground or background color size. The Adobe Photoshop Elements application from the Swatches palette, or you can add or delete folder includes a Color Swatches folder inside the colors to create a custom swatch library.
  • Page 138 CHAPTER 8 Painting To add a color to the Swatches palette: inside the Presets folder of the Photoshop Elements application folder. (To see the new Set the foreground color in the toolbox to the swatch set in the menu, you must restart the color you want to add.

  • Page 139: Using The Adobe Color Picker

    (for example, R, G, or B). The color field displays the range for the You can use the Adobe Color Picker to select the remaining two components—one on the foreground or background color by choosing from horizontal axis, one on the vertical.
  • Page 140 To specify a color using numeric values: Using other color pickers Do one of the following: In addition to the default Adobe Color Picker, you can select colors by using the built-in color pickers In RGB color mode (the mode your monitor •...

  • Page 141: Using The Painting Tools

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Using the painting tools Click the inverted arrow next to the brush sample, choose a brush category from the Brushes You can use the brush, pencil, pattern stamp, or pop-up menu, and then select a brush thumbnail.
  • Page 142 CHAPTER 8 Painting Using the impressionist brush tool Click the More Options button to specify the following options: The impressionist brush tool lets you re-create your image as if it were painted with stylized • Choose a style to control the shape of the paint strokes.

  • Page 143: Setting Options For Painting And Editing Tools

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Specify a blending mode and strength. Choose a pattern from the Pattern pop-up (See “Setting options for painting and editing palette in the options bar. tools” on page 135.) To load additional pattern libraries, select a library...
  • Page 144 CHAPTER 8 Painting • The result color is the color resulting from unchanged. When you’re painting with a color the blend. other than black or white, successive strokes with a painting tool produce progressively darker colors. The effect is similar to drawing on the image with To select a blending mode for a tool: multiple felt-tipped pens.
  • Page 145 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Multiplies or screens the colors, Burns or dodges the colors by Overlay Linear Light depending on the base color. Patterns or colors decreasing or increasing the brightness, depending overlay the existing pixels while preserving the on the blend color.
  • Page 146 CHAPTER 8 Painting Creates a result color with the luminance of Color To specify opacity, pressure, exposure, tolerance, or the base color and the hue and saturation of the flow: blend color. This preserves the gray levels in the In the options bar, enter a value, or drag the pop- image and is useful for coloring monochrome up slider for Opacity, Pressure, Exposure, images and for tinting color images.
  • Page 147 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Increasing the spacing makes the brush skip. Paint stroke without and with color jitter Sets the number of steps until the paint flow Controls the size of the brush’s hard Fade Hardness fades to nothing. A low value makes the paint center.
  • Page 148 CHAPTER 8 Painting Specifies the angle by which an elliptical Angle tool properties based on the chosen Pen Pressure brush’s long axis is offset from horizontal. Type a brush and the amount of pressure you apply with value in degrees, or drag the arrowhead in the your stylus.
  • Page 149 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To add a new brush to the brush library: • Choose Preset Manager from the palette menu, select Brushes from the Preset Type list, select Click the inverted arrow next to the brush the brush from the list in the dialog box, and sample to display the pop-up palette in the options click Delete.

  • Page 150: Erasing

    CHAPTER 8 Painting Managing brush libraries transparency, erased pixels change to the background color; otherwise, erased pixels The brush sizes and shapes available for painting become transparent. and editing appear in the pop-up palette in the options bar for the painting and editing tools. You To use the eraser tool: can customize the brushes and settings for each of the painting tools (airbrush, brush, eraser, and...
  • Page 151 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Specify an opacity to define the strength of the erasure. An opacity of 100% erases pixels to complete transparency on a layer and to the background color on a locked layer. A lower opacity erases pixels to partial transparency on a layer and paints partially with the background color on a locked layer.

  • Page 152: Filling And Tracing Selections And Layers

    CHAPTER 8 Painting Filling and tracing selections and • Contiguous to erase areas that contain the sampled color and are connected to one layers another. Photoshop Elements provides a variety of ways to For Tolerance, enter a value or drag the slider. fill and trace selections and layers.
  • Page 153 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Choose Edit > Fill to fill the selection or layer. In the Fill dialog box, choose one of the following options from the Use pop-up menu: Foreground Color, Background Color, Black, • 50% Gray, or White to fill the selection with the specified color.
  • Page 154 You can use the Stroke command to automatically Elements 2/Presets/Patterns/PostScript Patterns/) trace a colored border around a selection or layer. contains a single pattern in the Adobe Illustrator format. You can scale and render these patterns at To stroke a selection or layer: any resolution.

  • Page 155: Using The Gradient Tools

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Click OK to stroke the selection or layer. To smooth the edges of the filled selection, select Anti-aliased. (See “Softening the edges of a selection” on page 121.) Using the paint bucket tool To fill only pixels in a contiguous group with the The paint bucket tool fills an area that is similar in...
  • Page 156 CHAPTER 8 Painting Applying a gradient fill Creating or editing gradient fills You fill an area with a gradient by dragging in the The Gradient Editor dialog box lets you define a image or in a selection. The distance between the new gradient by modifying a copy of an existing starting point (where you press and hold the gradient.
  • Page 157 Smoothness text box, or drag and click OK. For information on choosing a the pop-up slider. color, see “Using the Adobe Color Picker” on If desired, set transparency values for the page 131. gradient. (See “Specifying the gradient trans- •...
  • Page 158 CHAPTER 8 Painting • Select the Vertical Type tool to enter vertical To specify the gradient transparency: text. Create a gradient as described in steps 1 through 10 of “Creating or editing gradient fills” Enter the type you want, and then in the on page 148.
  • Page 159 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To add an intermediate opacity, click above the To set the roughness for the gradient, enter a gradient bar to define a new opacity stop. You can value, or drag the pop-up slider. then adjust and move this opacity as you would a Choose a color model from the Color Model starting or ending opacity.

  • Page 161: Transforming And Distorting Images

    Chapter 9: Transforming and Distorting Images ou can transform a layer in many ways by To transform the background layer, select the • making subtle changes to retouch an layer in the Layers palette and choose Select > image, or by making drastic distortions to All.
  • Page 162 154 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images Choose Image > Rotate, and choose one of the Type an angle of rotation (–180 to 180) in the • following commands from the submenu: angle degree text box of the options bar. A positive value rotates clockwise, and a negative Layer/Selection 90°...
  • Page 163 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To scale a layer, selection, or shape: in any direction; applying perspective makes things appear to go backward or forward in three- Select the layer, area, or shape you want to scale. dimensions. (See “Specifying what to transform” on page 153.) Choose Image >...
  • Page 164 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images • To give your image perspective, choose Image > By default, any rotation occurs around the Transform > Perspective, and drag a corner center of your selection. To change this behavior, handle to apply perspective to the bounding click a square on the reference point locator box.

  • Page 165: Transforming Objects In Three Dimensions

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • To apply perspective, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift include anything from simple objects, such as a (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift can of soup, to more complex shapes, such as a (Mac OS), and drag a corner handle. When bottle or a lamp.
  • Page 166 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images To transform and manipulate an object in three Note: The wire frame turns red if you try to make a dimensions: wire frame that is impossible to re-create in three dimensions. Select the layer, area, or shape you want to transform.
  • Page 167 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • To rotate the object in any direction, click the Click the image to zoom in, or Alt-click trackball tool , and drag the object. (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) to zoom out. •...

  • Page 168: Using Distort Filters To Transform An Image

    CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images Using Distort filters to transform To zoom in or out on the image preview, do one of the following: an image • Choose a zoom level from the pop-up menu in Many of the Distort filters let you apply 3D effects the bottom left area of the dialog box.
  • Page 169 files or the files included in the procedures. Photoshop Elements 2 / Plug-Ins / Displacement Maps folder or the Photoshop Elements 2 / Presets To create the effect of dragging in a straight line / Textures folder.
  • Page 170 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images To use Displace: Drag the slider to the right, into positive values, to pinch a selection inward toward its center; or to Choose Filter > Distort > Displace. the left, into negative values, to shift a selection To define the magnitude of the displacement, outward.
  • Page 171 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Applying the Spherize filter Applying the Wave filter The Spherize filter gives objects a 3D effect by The Wave filter creates an undulating pattern on a wrapping a selection around or inside a spherical layer or selection.
  • Page 172 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images Applying the ZigZag filter Choose a displacement option from the Style pop-up menu: The ZigZag filter distorts a selection radially, depending on the radius of the pixels in your • Around Center rotates the pixels around the selection.

  • Page 173: Applying Filters, Effects, And Layer Styles

    Glow category from the Layer Styles palette with camera lens to create interesting visual Neon Nights from the Image Effect category in the effects. Adobe Photoshop Elements Effects palette. provides filters, layer styles, and effects you can use to enhance your photos, simulate photographic effects, and create visual effects beyond the bounds of traditional photography.

  • Page 174: Using Filters

    166 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Click the Filters, Layer Styles, or Effects tab in You can’t use some filters on images in Grayscale • • the palette well. mode, or any filters on images in Bitmap or Indexed Color mode.
  • Page 175 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To set filter options and preview the filter, select See “Transforming layers, selections, and shapes” Filter Options at the top of the Filters palette. Or, on page 153 for more information. to apply the preset filter settings deselect Filter Options.

  • Page 176: Using Effects

    CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Using effects Tips for applying filters Try the following techniques to create special The Effects palette lets you quickly create different visual effects with filters. looks for your images. If you’re applying a filter Feather the filter edges If an effect name is followed by (Selection), to a selected area, you can soften the edges of the...

  • Page 177: Using Layer Styles

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Note: In some cases, when applying an effect to an Image effects image with multiple layers, you are prompted to Image effects apply an effect to a copy of a selected flatten the image first.
  • Page 178 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Layer styles are cumulative, which means that you You can also drag the style to the image, where can create a complex effect by applying multiple it is applied to the selected layer. styles to a layer.

  • Page 179: Improving Performance With Filters And Effects

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Specifies the size of a glow that Outer Glow Size To remove a layer style: emanates from the outside edges of the layer’s In the Layers palette, select the layer containing content. the style you want to remove.

  • Page 180: Choosing A Filter

    CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Portrays an image as though it is made • Adjust filter settings to make memory-intensive Cutout from roughly cut-out pieces of colored paper. filters less complex. Memory-intensive filters High-contrast images appear as if in silhouette, include Lighting Effects, Cutout, Stained Glass, while colored images are built up from several Chrome, Ripple, Spatter, Sprayed Strokes, and...
  • Page 181 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Makes an image look painted. You Paints a layer with highly textured areas Paint Daubs Sponge can set the brush size, image sharpness, and brush of contrasting color. You can set the brush size, types in the filter options.
  • Page 182 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Quickly blurs a selection by an Gaussian Blur Brush Stroke filters adjustable amount. Gaussian refers to the bell- Like several of the Artistic filters, the Brush Stroke shaped curve that Photoshop Elements generates filters give a painterly or fine-arts look using when it applies a weighted average to the pixels.
  • Page 183 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Replicates the effect of a spatter airbrush. Applies random pixels to an image, Spatter Add Noise You can set the spray radius, and smoothness in simulating the effect of shooting pictures on high- the filter options.
  • Page 184 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Redraws a layer as blocks of solid color. You Pixelate filters Facet can use this filter to make a scanned image look The Pixelate filters sharply define an image or hand painted or to make a realistic image resemble selection by clumping pixels of similar color an abstract painting.
  • Page 185 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To generate a starker cloud pattern, hold down To use the Lighting Effects filter: Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you Either choose Filter > Render > Lighting choose Filter > Render > Clouds.
  • Page 186 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles • Material determines whether the light or the • Omni shines light in all directions from directly object on which the light is cast reflects more above the image—like a light bulb over a piece light.
  • Page 187 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To adjust the angle and height of the Spotlight using • To copy an existing light, select a light in the the preview window: preview window, press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and drag to a new location.
  • Page 188 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Find the areas Sharpen Edges and Unsharp Mask To use Unsharp Mask to sharpen an image: in the image where significant color changes occur Choose Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp Mask, and and sharpen them.
  • Page 189 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Sketch filters After applying the Chrome filter, use the Levels dialog box to add more contrast to the image. Filters in the Sketch submenu add texture to (For more information on adjusting levels, see images, often for a 3D effect.
  • Page 190 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Simulates the texture of handmade Uses blotchy daubs that appear to be Note Paper Water Paper paper by combining the effects of the Emboss and painted onto fibrous, damp paper, causing the Grain filters.
  • Page 191 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide After using filters like Find Edges and Trace Choose a 3D type: Contour that highlight edges, you can apply the Blocks creates objects with a square front face • Invert command to outline the edges of a color image and four side faces.
  • Page 192 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Draws the image as if it were made To use the Trace Contour filter: Mosaic Tiles up of small chips or tiles and adds grout between Either choose Filter > Stylize > Trace Contour, the tiles.
  • Page 193 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Restricts the gamut of colors to those NTSC Colors For example, to multiply the brightness value of acceptable for television reproduction to prevent the pixel to the immediate right of the current oversaturated colors from bleeding across pixel by 2, enter 2 in the text box to the immediate television scan lines.

  • Page 194: Applying Special Color Effects To Images

    When you invert an image, the brightness value of You can install plug-in filters developed by non- each pixel in the channels is converted to the Adobe software developers. Once installed, the inverse value on the 256-step color-values scale. plug-in filters appear at the bottom of the Filter For example, a pixel in a positive image with a menu unless the developer has specified another...
  • Page 195 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Using the Equalize command converted to white; and all pixels darker are converted to black. The Threshold command is The Equalize command redistributes the useful for determining the lightest and darkest brightness values of the pixels in an image so that areas of an image.
  • Page 196 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Reset the dialog box by pressing Alt (Windows) Using the Gradient Map command or Option (Mac OS). The Gradient Map command maps the equivalent grayscale range of an image to the colors of a Click Cancel to close the Threshold dialog box specified gradient fill.
  • Page 197 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Select either, none, or both of the Gradient Options: • Dither adds random noise to smooth the appearance of the gradient fill and reduce banding effects. • Reverse switches the direction of the gradient fill, reversing the gradient map.

  • Page 199: Creating Shapes And Text

    Chapter 11: Creating Shapes and Text dobe Photoshop Elements lets you add About shapes text and shapes to images with flexibility You use the shape tools to draw lines, rectangles, and precision. rounded rectangles, polygons, ellipses, and custom shapes in an image. You can change the color of a shape by editing its fill layer and applying About vector graphics layer styles to it.
  • Page 200 Drag in your image to draw the line. Click the color swatch to choose the color with • which you want to fill the shape. (See “Using the Adobe Color Picker” on page 131.) Creating custom shapes Set tool-specific options. (See “Setting shape •...

  • Page 201: Editing Shapes

    To create multiple shapes in the same layer: Use the Color Picker to select a new color. (See “Using the Adobe Color Picker” on page 131.) Select a shape layer in the Layers palette or create a new shape layer.
  • Page 202 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text Transforming shapes Applying layer styles to shapes You can alter a shape by applying transformations You can apply effects—such as drop shadows to it. For example, you can scale, rotate, skew, and bevels—to shapes quickly and easily using distort, and apply perspective to a shape.
  • Page 203 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Renders a custom shape Setting shape tool options Defined Proportions based on the proportions with which it was Each shape tool provides specific options; for created. example, you can set options that allow you to draw a rectangle with fixed dimensions or a line...

  • Page 204: Creating Text

    CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text Creating text Click in the image to set an insertion point for the type. The small line through the I-beam marks In Photoshop Elements, you use the horizontal the position of the type baseline. For horizontal and vertical type tools to create and edit text.
  • Page 205 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Note: To apply the Perspective or Distort commands, To change the orientation of a type layer: or to transform part of the type layer, you must Select the type layer in the Layers palette.
  • Page 206 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text Because anti-aliasing greatly increases the number of colors in an image, you may want to turn anti- aliasing off when designing for the Web. In Web images, anti-aliasing can make file sizes larger and cause stray colors to appear along the edges of type.

  • Page 207: Formatting Text

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide To unwarp type: Note: Selecting and formatting characters in a type layer puts the type tool into edit mode. You must Select a type layer that has warping applied to it. commit the changes before you can perform other Select a type tool, and click the Warp button operations.
  • Page 208 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text Choosing a font • If the font family you chose does not include a bold or italic style, click the Faux Bold button A font is a set of characters— letters, numbers, or , Faux Italic button , or both; then click OK. symbols—that share a common weight, width, and style.
  • Page 209 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Do one or both of the following in the Aligns the bottom edge of each type line in the options bar: layer to the initial cursor position. • Click the Underline button to apply a line...

  • Page 210: Creating A Text Selection Border

    CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text In Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > Preferences > Units & Rulers. Select a unit of measurement for Type. Creating a text selection border When you use the horizontal type mask tool Horizontal type mask with type warp applied to create vertical type mask tool , you create a selection filled selection...
  • Page 211 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Adjusting tsume Tsume reduces the space around a character by a specified percentage value. The character itself is not stretched or squeezed as a result. Instead, the space around the character is compressed. When...
  • Page 212 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text To turn on or turn off mojikumi: If you’re working with an existing layer, select the type layer in the Layers palette and then select a type tool. Click the Asian Text Options button in the options bar.

  • Page 213: Optimizing Images For The Web And E-Mail

    To precisely optimize an image for use in a Web • optimize the display and file size of your page authoring application, such as Adobe images for effective Web publishing and GoLive , you can use the Save for Web ®...
  • Page 214 206 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail Viewing images during optimization Drag in the view area to pan over the image. You use a dual-image window to see both your To zoom in or zoom out: original and optimized images in the Save For Web dialog box.

  • Page 215: Choosing A File Format For The Web

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Viewing optimization information Choose a display option: Underneath your image in the Save For Web dialog Uncompensated Color (the default option) to • box, the annotation area provides valuable optimi- view the image with no color adjustment.
  • Page 216 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail includes multilevel transparency. (Unlike the About JPEG format PNG-24 format, the JPEG format doesn’t support The JPEG format supports 24-bit color, so it transparency. See “Making transparent and preserves the broad range and subtle variations in matted images”...
  • Page 217 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide The JPEG format does not support animation or You can choose the number of colors in a GIF transparency. When you save an image as a JPEG image and select options to control how colors file, transparent pixels are filled with the Matte...

  • Page 218: Optimizing Web Images

    CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail As with the GIF format, you can choose the In addition to supporting background trans- number of colors in an image and select options to parency and background matting, the PNG-24 control how colors dither in a browser.
  • Page 219 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide When you change the options in a predefined setting, the Settings menu displays the term “Custom.” You cannot save a custom setting; however, the current settings appear in the Save for Web dialog box the next time you display it.
  • Page 220 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail Select Progressive to create an image that areas of solid color while preserving sharp detail; displays progressively in a Web browser. however, not all Web browsers can display PNG-8 Progressive images display first at a low resolution, files.
  • Page 221 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Choose a color reduction algorithm for gener- image contains fewer colors than the palette, the ating the color lookup table: color table reflects the smaller number of colors that are in the image. •...

  • Page 222: Making Transparent And Matted Images

    CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail To optimize an image in PNG-24 format: Background matting, supported by the GIF, PNG, and JPEG formats, simulates transparency by Choose PNG-24 for the optimization format. filling or blending transparent pixels with a matte Select Interlaced to create an image that displays color that can match the Web page background.
  • Page 223 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide For GIF and PNG-8 format, specify how to treat To create a matted GIF or PNG image: partially transparent pixels in the original image. Open or create an image that contains trans- You can blend these pixels with a matte color, or parency, and choose File >...

  • Page 224: Previewing And Controlling Dithering

    CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail In the Save For Web dialog box, select JPEG as the optimization format. Select a color from the Matte pop-up menu: None, Eyedropper (to use the color in the eyedropper sample box), White, Black, or Other (to select a color using the color picker).
  • Page 225 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide • Browser dither occurs when a Web browser To control application dither: using an 8-bit color display (256-color mode) Choose an option from the Dither Algorithm attempts to simulate colors that aren’t in the 8- pop-up menu: bit color palette.

  • Page 226: Previewing An Image In A Browser

    CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail To preview browser dither: To add a browser to the Preview pop-up menu: Choose Browser Dither from the document panel Create a shortcut (Windows) or alias (Mac OS) menu in the Save For Web dialog box. (To view the for the browser you want to add to the menu.
  • Page 227 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Setting up animated GIFs Choose File > Save for Web, or click the Save for Web button in the shortcuts bar. To create an animated GIF file, you work with layers. Each layer becomes a frame when...

  • Page 228: Creating Web Banners

    Photoshop Elements, you can customize the Web pages in any Web page authoring program Creating Web banners such as Adobe GoLive. You use the Web Banner preset size to design an To create a Web photo gallery: image banner with dimensions that are suitable for Choose File >...
  • Page 229 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Choose a gallery style from the Styles pop-up • For Date, enter the date that you want to appear menu. A preview of the home page for the chosen on each page of the gallery. By default, style appears on the right side of the dialog box.

  • Page 230: Sending Images With An E-Mail Message

    CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail • If you chose the Simple, Table, or Wet gallery Click OK to create the gallery. style in step 2, you can enter the number of Photoshop Elements places the following HTML columns and rows for the thumbnails in the and JPEG files in your destination folder: Columns and Rows text boxes.
  • Page 231 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Note: If you’ve made any changes to your image, Photoshop Elements prompts you to save your image before you e-mail it. If your image is not in JPEG format, is larger than 1200 pixels in either dimension, or includes properties that aren’t supported by the JPEG...

  • Page 233: Saving Images

    Chapter 13: Saving Images dobe Photoshop Elements supports a To save changes to the current file: variety of file formats to suit a wide range Choose File > Save, or click the Save button of output needs. You can save or export the shortcuts bar.

  • Page 234: Saving Images In Different File Formats

    226 CHAPTER 13 Saving Images Saves thumbnail data for Saving images in different file Thumbnail (Windows) the file. In order to select or deselect this option, formats you must choose Ask When Saving for the Image Different file formats cater to the needs of different Previews option in the Preferences dialog box.
  • Page 235 . (To use ® Specify a filename and location, and click Save. this feature, Adobe Premiere must be installed on your system.) If you resize, resample, change the For RGB images, the Indexed Color dialog box color mode, or change the file format of a appears.
  • Page 236 CHAPTER 13 Saving Images Select the Layers as Frames option, specify a Do one of the following to specify the filename and location, and click Save. image quality: When the Save for Web dialog box appears, set • Choose an option from the Quality menu. optimization options as described in “Optimizing Drag the Quality pop-up slider.
  • Page 237 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Saving in Photoshop EPS format Saving to PCX format You can use Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format PCX is a bitmap format widely supported on a to share Photoshop files effectively with many variety of platforms.
  • Page 238 CHAPTER 13 Saving Images Select Save Transparency if you want to preserve Saving in PNG format transparency when the file is opened in another Developed as a patent-free alternative to GIF, application that supports PDF transparency. Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format is used for lossless compression and for display of images Select Image Interpolation if you want to on the World Wide Web.
  • Page 239 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Saving in Raw format The new image is saved as a copy to the specified directory. Raw format is a flexible file format for transferring images between applications and computer platforms. Raw format consists of a stream of bytes Saving in Targa format describing the color information in the image.

  • Page 240: About File Compression

    files; Compression techniques differ in the way detail the image opens at the highest resolution within and color are removed from the images. the file. However, Adobe InDesign and some ® Lossless techniques compress image data without image servers provide support for opening multi- removing detail;...

  • Page 241: Setting Preferences For Saving Files

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide is a family of lossless compression CCITT • Windows Thumbnail to save a preview that can techniques for black-and-white images. CCITT is display on Windows systems. an abbreviation for the French spelling of Interna- •...

  • Page 242: Adding File Information

    CHAPTER 13 Saving Images To display a preview file icon (Windows only): • Caption to enter text that can be printed under an image or displayed in a Web browser’s title Save the file in Photoshop format with a bar. To print the caption, choose File > Print thumbnail preview.
  • Page 243 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Note: If the plug-in module for your camera or • Specify the width and height of the processed scanner does not support importing multiple images, images. To keep the aspect ratio (the ration of it may not work optimally during batch-processing.

  • Page 245: Printing Images

    Chapter 14: Printing etting up your image files for printing is Note: By default, Photoshop Elements prints a easy with Adobe Photoshop Elements. You composite of all visible layers. To print an individual can adjust the positioning, scaling, and layer, make it the only visible layer in the Layers output options for your image.

  • Page 246: Positioning And Scaling Images

    238 CHAPTER 14 Printing Select an Encoding method, if desired (see To scale the print size of an image: “Choosing a print encoding method” on Choose File > Print Preview. page 239.) Do one of the following: Do one of the following: •...

  • Page 247: Choosing A Print Encoding Method

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide prints a black border around an image. encoding gives a one-byte value to each Border Binary Type in a number and choose inches, millimeters pixel of your image. Binary encoded files are (mm) or points to specify the width of the border.

  • Page 248: Using Online Services

    CHAPTER 14 Printing is suitable for business graphics, where To color-manage an image while printing: Saturation the exact relationship between colors is not as Choose File > Print Preview. important as having bright saturated colors. Make sure Show More Options (located below Saturation creates vivid color at the expense of the image preview area) is checked.

  • Page 249: Index

    ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Index All command 114 Auto Contrast command 59 Absolute Colorimetric rendering angle gradient tool 147 Auto Erase option 133 intent 240 Angle option pencil tool 144 Accented Edges filter 174 brush tool 140 Auto Levels command 58...
  • Page 250 INDEX Bas Relief filter 181 browser dither Cascade command 23 base layer 106 about 217 Chalk & Charcoal filter 181 Batch command 234 brush tool Change Layer Content command 104 Batch Rename command 46 about 133 Charcoal filter 181 Behind blending mode 136 More Options 138 chroma 64 Bicubic interpolation 78...
  • Page 251 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide foreground color 128 Color Settings command 31 PostScript artwork from Clipboard 125 Grayscale mode 54 color slider 131 See also duplicating HSB model 64 color values copyright information 23 inverting in images 186 specifying 131...
  • Page 252 INDEX deleting document size 78 Embed Color Profile.See also color profiles layers 110 tracking 110 Emboss filter 182 locked selections 126 documentation overview 1, 3 encoding methods 239 selections 122, 126 dodge tool EPS files Desaturate command about 72 opening 50 see Remove Color command 69 adjusting highlights 73 placing 52...
  • Page 253 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide changing the display 47 Fill command 145 Filters palette 165, 166 copying files 46 Fill Flash command 60 Find Edges filter 182 creating new folders 46 fill layers 101 Fine Grain filter 172 deleting files 46...
  • Page 254 INDEX hard-edged transparency 215 colorizing 69 adjustment layer 101 interlaced option 212 converting to high-contrast defined 64 black-and-white images 187 preserving transparency 214 Hue blending mode 137 creating from color images 69 previewing animations 219 Hue mode 137 definition of 54 saving files in 227 Hue/Saturation Grayscale mode 54...
  • Page 255 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide retouching 70, 159 deleting 110 JPEG format reverting to any state 26 distorting 155 about 208, 228 rotating 47 duplicating 98 background matting in 216 rotating and flipping 81 editing 107 sampling 70 compression 232...
  • Page 256 INDEX Levels command Load Swatches command 130 Merge Visible command 111 about 62, 67 loading merging adjusting color 67 brushes 28 adjustment or fill layers 106 adjustment layer 101 gradients 28 layers 111 Auto option 58 patterns 28 Mezzotint filter 176 libraries 29 Lock Transparency option 126 Midtones...
  • Page 257 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide moving objects 17 Open Recent command 48 using 133 multiple-image layouts 87 opening Painting contact sheets 89 EPS files 50 about 127 picture packages 87 images 45, 47 painting Multiply blending mode 136 PDF files 48...
  • Page 258 INDEX creating 103 select image tool 85 background matting in 215 pattern stamp tool 135 source photographs 82 Interlace option 230 about 133 vanishing point tool 86 saving in 230 creating patterns 145 Photoshop compensation 207 PNG-24 file format patterns Photoshop Elements 1 about 210 creating 145...
  • Page 259 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide Display & Cursors 34 Web images in a Web Read Watermark command 24 browser 218 File Extension 233 Recipes 2 print dimensions, changing 78 Grid 25 reconstruct tool 161 printing Gutter 24 rectangular marquee tool 114...
  • Page 260 INDEX changing 78 from layers 108 Select menu 114, 118 displaying 77 image with clone stamp tool 70 selecting document size 78 saturation contiguous pixels 118 Resolution option 159 about 64 from all layers 118 restoring images 25 adjusting 66, 67, 73 layers 95 Reticulation filter 182 Saturation blending mode 137...
  • Page 261 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide feathering 121 sharpen photos adjusting saturation 73 filling 144 automatically 60 spotlight effect 178 filling with patterns 147 Quick Fix command 60 Sprayed Strokes filter 175 freehand 115, 117 sharpen tool 73 Stained Glass filter 184...
  • Page 262 INDEX Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF). Tolerance option 118 toolbox 11 See TIFF format tolerance option tools Targa format 231 magic eraser tool 143 background eraser tool 143 Tate-Chuu-Yoko command 203 paint bucket tool 147 brush 133 text. See type tonal and color adjustment custom shape 192 Texture Channel 178 adjustment layers 101...
  • Page 263 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 User Guide zoom 20, 21 choosing a font 200 vanishing point tool 86 Torn Edges filter 182 choosing a size 201 Variations command 66 Trace Contour filter 183 color vector graphics tracing, see also stroking 144...
  • Page 264 INDEX using predefined optimization Windows Color Picker 132 settings 210 ZigZag filter 164 wire frame 158 Web Banner preset size 220 ZIP compression 233 wire frame.See transformations Web documentation overview 3 zoom tool 20, 21 with color Web Photo Gallery command 220 filling selections and layers 144 zooming 20 Web-safe color table 213...

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