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Page 3: Table Of Contents
........24 Getting the most out of Photoshop Elements .
Page 4 ..74 Using the Adobe Color Picker ......77 Using other color pickers .
Page 5 Painting and Drawing Chapter 7 About painting and drawing ......139 Using the painting tools .
Page 6 Pixelate ﬁlters ........200 Render ﬁlters .
Page 7 Printing Chapter 13 Printing images ........261 Positioning and scaling images .
Page 9: Installing And Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements
Photoshop Elements software develop- user guide, online Help, Hints, Recipes, tutorials, ments, please register your application. and tool tips. You can also use the free Adobe When you ﬁrst start the Adobe Photoshop Online service to easily access a host of continually Elements application, you’re prompted to register...
Page 10 Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements Using the printed documentation To start online Help: Do one of the following: A printed user guide, Adobe Photoshop Elements User Guide, is included with the application. Choose Help > Help Contents. • The user guide assumes you have a working (Windows) Press F1.
Page 11: Using Web Resources
Adobe Online daily, weekly, or monthly. To access the Adobe home page for your region: When you set up Adobe Online to connect to your Open the Adobe U.S. home page at Web browser, Adobe can either notify you www.adobe.com.
Page 12: Customer Support
Photoshop Elements, choose Help > Adobe option, click Setup and follow the prompts. You Online or click the Adobe icon in the shortcuts bar. can also set up an automatic refresh using the (See “Using Web resources” on page 3.) Update Options.
Page 15: Overview
When Photoshop Elements is launched, the Quick Start screen lets you quickly open or create a ﬁle, acquire an image from a scanner or digital camera, and more. Once you have the image in Photoshop Elements, the software offers features designed to help you begin retouching images with ease.
Page 16 Photographs are often taken or scanned at a slight angle and as a result may need to be cropped or rotated. Photoshop Elements lets you automatically straighten and crop images by using one of the Straighten Image commands. You can also cut and rotate images by using the crop tool.
Page 17: Digital Photography: Explore And Create
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Digital Photography: Explore and Create Photoshop Elements tools enable you to explore your visual ideas while mastering the elements of digital imaging. Create panoramas Adobe Photomerge technology automatically resizes, skews, and blends portions of multiple images into ™...
Page 18: Easy To Use And Affordable
You can then paste the foreground object into another image to create professional, seamless composites. Easy to Use and Affordable With an intuitive interface and affordable price, Photoshop Elements enables anyone interested in digital imaging to quickly enhance their images using professional tools. Search for images by previewing them If you’re searching for an existing ﬁle, the integrated ﬁle browser lets you ﬁnd photos simply by viewing...
Page 19 Or simply click the Step Backward button or Step Forward button in the shortcuts bar until you’ve returned to the step you want. You can even conﬁgure your preferences for the number of undos Photoshop Elements allows, giving you the ability to optimize the program’s performance and usability.
Page 20: Web Tools
Overview Web Tools Photoshop Elements provides a series of commands and tools that let you quickly and easily create eye-catching visuals for your Web page. Add custom effects You can specify layer settings such as drop shadows, bevels, and glows. This gives you a fast way to create realistic three-dimensional text, buttons, and other effects that look as if you spent hours reﬁning them.
Page 21: Explore Your Creativity
ﬁle sizes. Explore Your Creativity Photoshop Elements software provides endless ways to get creative with your images. Its wide variety of tools and commands provide easy yet powerful ways to create and modify images.
Page 22: Produce Outstanding Results
Or you can use the Impressionist tool to quickly give photos the look of an artistic painting. Produce Outstanding Results Photoshop Elements software provides highly ﬂexible image capture and output options. You can work with images from digital and ﬁlm cameras and scanners to easily prepare professional-quality output for print, email, or Web posting.
Page 23 User Guide Convenient, cost-effective, reliable printing Photoshop Elements makes it easy to get the most outstanding printed results while also saving time and money. The Picture Package feature automatically generates multiple copies of a photo in different sizes on a single page, similar to the photo packages traditionally sold by portrait studios. This enables you to maximize the use of expensive photo-quality paper, and gives you a simple way to create and print a contact sheet of your images for easy reference.
Page 27: Looking At The Work Area
Using the tools area Some tools in the toolbox let you select, edit, and The Photoshop Elements work area is arranged to view images; other tools let you paint, draw, and help you focus on creating and editing images. type. You can view information about any tool in the toolbox by positioning the pointer over it.
Page 28 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To select a tool: Using the options bar Do one of the following: The ﬁrst thing you should do after you select a tool is to set its options in the options bar. By default, Click its icon in the toolbox.
Page 29 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To collapse the options bar (Windows only): Using the palette well Double-click the bar at the left edge of the options The palette well helps you organize and manage bar to show only the tool icon.
Page 30 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To view information about a palette in the palette To change the size of a palette: well: Drag any corner of the palette (Windows) or drag Position the pointer over the palette’s tab. the size box at its lower right corner (Mac OS).
Page 31 Using palette menus Palette menus are an important part of working with Photoshop Elements. Some commands in Palettes are grouped. palette menus can be found in the menu bar; other commands are exclusive to palette menus.
Page 32: Viewing Images
CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Viewing images To use a palette menu: Select a palette. The hand tool, the zoom tools, the Zoom commands, and the Navigator palette let you view Do one of the following: different areas of an image at different magniﬁca- If the palette is docked in the palette well, click •...
Page 33 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To close windows: • Click the Zoom In button ( ) on the Navigator palette bar. Do one of the following: Choose File > Close to close the active window. • To zoom out: Click the close icon on the title bar for the •...
Page 34 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Drag over the part of the image you want These options scale both the zoom level and the to magnify. window size to ﬁt the available screen space. To automatically resize the window when magnifying or reducing the view: With the Zoom tool active, select Resize Windows To Fit in the options bar.
Page 35 To specify a different color, click the color box, Note: To reset the ruler origin to its default value, and choose a color. (See “Using the Adobe Color double-click the upper left corner of the rulers. Picker” on page 77.) •...
Page 36: Getting The Most Out Of Photoshop Elements
• Getting the most out of Click OK. Photoshop Elements The Photoshop Elements interface provides a To change the grid settings: variety of features to help you work efﬁciently and Choose Edit > Preferences > Grid. knowledgeably. Some features—such as the Hints For Color, choose a preset color, or select palette and the Recipes palette—provide infor-...
Page 37 Follow the instructions in the recipe. You can commands. click the play button ( ), when available, to have Photoshop Elements perform the task for you. Using the Hints palette The Hints palette helps you learn how to use tools Using the Info palette and palettes.
Page 38 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area ( ) The change in position along the x- To change the unit of measurement displayed in the coordinate ( X) and y-coordinate ( Y) as you Info palette: move a selection, layer, or shape. Do one of the following: ( ) The angle (A) of a line or gradient;...
Page 39 If the value is below If the ﬁlter ﬁnds a watermark, a dialog box displays 100%, Photoshop Elements is using the scratch the Creator ID, copyright year (if present), and disk and, therefore, is operating more slowly.
Page 40: Correcting Mistakes
Choose Window > Show Quick Start. Deselect Show this screen at startup if you don’t want the Quick Start window to appear when you restart Photoshop Elements. Correcting mistakes Most operations can be undone if you make a Context menu for a document window mistake.
Page 41: Reverting To Any State Of An Image
Purge command when the amount of information changes to a particular image and so are not added held in memory is so large that Photoshop Elements’ to the History palette. performance is noticeably diminished.
Page 42 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area • States are added from the top down. That is, the To display the History palette: oldest state is at the top of the list, the most recent Choose Window > Show History, or click the one at the bottom.
Page 43: Working With Presets
Working with presets Photoshop Elements provides predeﬁned brushes, swatches, gradients, patterns, layer styles, and custom shapes called presets. Think of presets as ingredients for creating an image. You select presets through pop-up palettes in the options bar.
Page 44 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To select a preset in a pop-up palette: To save a library of brushes, gradients, or patterns for later use: Click the triangle next to the thumbnail image Choose the Save command from the pop-up of the current preset.
Page 45 • Reset to restore the default library for that type. come with Photoshop Elements. For example, you • Replace to replace the current library with the can create a set of favorite brushes, or you can contents of another library.
Page 46: Conﬁguring Photoshop Elements
In Windows, press and hold Alt+Control+Shift control how the program uses memory, and to immediately after launching Photoshop Elements. control the work area environment. Click Yes to delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements settings ﬁle. Setting preferences In Mac OS, do one of the following:...
Page 47 The Other Cursors options control the pointers Folder, and drag the following ﬁles to the Trash: for the marquee, lasso, magic wand, crop, Adobe Save For Web 1.0 Prefs and all ﬁles in the eyedropper, gradient, paint bucket, shape, hand, Adobe Photoshop Elements Prefs folder.
Page 48 (Windows) or click Open (Mac OS). Photoshop Elements may not be able to list all the The path to the folder will appear in the prefer- plug-ins in their appropriate menus. Newly installed ences window.
Page 49 Select the desired disks from the menu (you can partition of a drive with free memory. By default, assign up to four scratch disks). Photoshop Elements uses the hard drive that the Click OK. operating system is installed on as its primary scratch disk.
Page 50: Closing Files And Quitting
Click No (Windows) or Don’t Save (Mac OS) to • close the ﬁle without saving it. To exit Photoshop Elements: Choose File > Exit (Windows) or File > Quit (Mac OS). Choose whether or not to save any open ﬁles: Click Yes (Windows) or Save (Mac OS) for each •...
Page 53: Getting Images Into
ﬁle formats, and how to adjust the resolution and Note: Bitmap images in Photoshop Elements are not size of images. the same as images saved using the .bmp ﬁle format in Windows.
Page 54: About Image Size And Resolution
CHAPTER 2 Getting Images into Photoshop Elements certain radius, set at a speciﬁc location, and ﬁlled For example, a 15-inch monitor typically with a speciﬁc color. You can move, resize, or displays 800 pixels horizontally and 600 vertically. change the color of the tire without losing the An image with dimensions of 800 pixels by quality of the graphic.
Page 55 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide The number of pixels displayed Image resolution of 90,000 pixels. Higher resolution images usually per unit of printed length in an image, usually reproduce more detail and subtler color transi- measured in pixels per inch (ppi). In Photoshop tions than lower resolution images.
Page 56: Changing Image Size And Resolution
The box displays the width and height of the image (both in pixels and in the unit Photoshop Elements supports a maximum ﬁle size of measurement currently selected for the rulers), of 2 GB and maximum pixel dimensions of 30,000 the number of channels, document dimensions, by 30,000 pixels per image.
Page 57 Photoshop Elements provides three interpolation methods: • Nearest Neighbor is the fastest but least precise method.
Page 58 Under Pixel Dimensions, enter values for Width Photoshop Elements adjusts the other value and Height. To enter values as percentages of the automatically to preserve the total pixel count. For current dimensions, choose Percent as the unit of the highest print quality, it’s generally best to...
Page 59: Scanning Images
Do one of the following: see “Using plug-in modules” on page 40. Choose View > Print Size. • If your scanner does not have an Adobe Photoshop-compatible scanner driver, import the • Select the hand tool or zoom tool, and click Print scan using the TWAIN interface.
Page 60: Importing Images From A Digital Camera
Click Acquire on the Quick Start screen that • white printer, and then scan it into Photoshop appears when you start Photoshop Elements. Elements. Note: You can also perform this test using an Optimizing the dynamic range of the scan 18-percent neutral gray card or an 11-step gray wedge from a photography store.
Page 61: Importing Images Using Wia (Windows Image Acquisition) Support
WIA Support. When you • Click Select All to import all available images. use WIA Support, Photoshop Elements works Click Get Picture to import the image. with Windows and your digital camera or scanner software to import images directly into Photoshop To import images from a scanner using WIA Support: Elements.
Page 62: Creating New Images
CHAPTER 2 Getting Images into Photoshop Elements Make sure Unique Subfolder is selected so that • Click New on the Quick Start screen that appears the imported images are put directly into a folder when you start Photoshop Elements. named with the current date.
Page 63: Opening And Importing Images
Saving Files preferences to always save a preview; on page 245.) select Ask When Saving to save previews on a ﬁle- Note: Photoshop Elements uses plug-in modules to per-ﬁle basis. open and import many ﬁle formats. If a ﬁle format Click Open.
Page 64 ﬁle’s true format, or the Adobe Acrobat. ﬁle may be damaged. Photoshop Elements recognizes two types of PDF ﬁles: Photoshop PDF ﬁles and Generic PDF ﬁles. Opening ﬁles with File Browser You can open both types of PDF ﬁles; however, File Browser helps you quickly locate image ﬁles...
Page 65 Are created using applications Generic PDF ﬁles To import images from a PDF ﬁle: other than Photoshop Elements, such as Adobe Choose File > Import > PDF Image, Acrobat and Adobe Illustrator, and can contain select the ﬁle you want to import images from, multiple pages and images.
Page 66 CHAPTER 2 Getting Images into Photoshop Elements To open an EPS ﬁle: • Proﬁle to specify a device proﬁle for color management. (See “Using color management” on Choose File > Open. page 65.) Select the ﬁle you want to open, and click Open.
Page 67 To have Photoshop Elements retain the header and not to the resource’s identiﬁcation number. when you save the ﬁle, select Retain When Saving. Note: In Photoshop Elements, you can also open a Click OK. ﬁle in the PICT Resource ﬁle format by choosing File >...
Page 68: Placing Files
Illustrator, and EPS ﬁles. edge of the image. When you place a PDF, Adobe Illustrator, or EPS If desired, scale the placed artwork by doing one ﬁle, it is rasterized; you cannot edit text or vector or more of the following: data in placed artwork.
Page 69 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide If desired, skew the placed artwork by holding down Ctrl (Windows) or Command (Mac OS), and dragging a side handle of the bounding box. Set the Anti-alias option in the options bar as desired. To blend edge pixels during rasterization, select the Anti-alias option.
Page 73: Working With Color
Photoshop Elements follows a color management workﬂow based on conven- tions developed by the International Color About color and computer Consortium (ICC).
Page 74: Calibrating Your Monitor
The parameters work just as they do on a television set. exact color proﬁle depends on the color mode of Adobe Gamma helps you set an optimum the image. brightness and contrast range for calibration.
Page 75: Describing Color
• To use a version of the utility that will guide you blue (RGB) light. Photoshop Elements lets you use through each step, select Step by Step, and click the HSB and RGB color models to select and OK.
Page 76: Choosing A Color Mode
0% (black) to 100% (white). Although you can use the HSB model in Photoshop Elements to deﬁne a color in the Color Picker dialog box, there is no HSB mode available for creating and editing images.
Page 77 When converting to indexed color, values of all three components are equal, the result Photoshop Elements builds a color lookup table is a shade of neutral gray. When the value of all (CLUT), which stores and indexes the colors in the components is 255, the result is pure white;...
Page 78 CHAPTER 3 Working with Color To convert an image to another mode: To convert an image to Bitmap mode: Choose Image > Mode, and choose the mode you Do one of the following: want from the submenu. Modes not available for If the image is in color, choose Image >...
Page 79 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide surrounding pixels and diffused throughout the Converting to indexed color image, resulting in a grainy, ﬁlmlike texture. This Converting to indexed color reduces the option is useful for viewing images on a black- number of colors in the image to at most 256—...
Page 80 Previous colors from the RGB color cube. For example, if previous conversion, making it easy to convert Photoshop Elements takes 6 evenly spaced color several images with the same custom palette. levels each of red, green, and blue, the combi- nation produces a uniform palette of 216 colors (6 cubed = 6 x 6 x 6 = 216).
Page 81 Dithering mixes Choose a color, as explained in “Using the the pixels of the available colors to simulate the Adobe Color Picker” on page 77, and click OK. missing colors. Choose a dither option from the menu, and enter a value for the dither amount.
Page 82: Choosing Foreground And Background Colors
Displays a palette based on the Black Body Photoshop Elements uses the foreground color to different colors a blackbody radiator emits as it paint, ﬁll, and stroke selections and shapes, and is heated—from black to red, orange, yellow, the background color to make gradient ﬁlls and ﬁll...
Page 83 You can also specify the area sampled by the eyedropper tool. For example, you can set the The Info palette and the Adobe Color Picker let eyedropper to sample the color values of a you display color values using a number of color 3-by-3-pixel area under the pointer.
Page 84 Color Picker to select the color you want to add. the background color selection box. Release the (See “Using the Adobe Color Picker” on page 77.) mouse button to pick the new color. Position the pointer over an empty space in the...
Page 85: Using The Adobe Color Picker
Preferences ﬁle. Using the Adobe Color Picker Changing views of the palette You can use the Adobe Color Picker to select the You can change the view of the palette to display foreground or background color by choosing from swatches in different ways.
Page 86 Any color you pick with Specifying a color using numeric values this option selected is Web-safe. In the Adobe Color Picker, you can select a color • Choose a color in the color picker. If you choose...
Page 87: Using Other Color Pickers
To use the Apple Color Picker (Mac OS): Choose Edit > Preferences > General. In addition to the default Adobe Color Picker, you can use the built-in color pickers on your system For Color Picker, choose Apple, and click OK.
Page 91: Making Color And Tonal
Check the scan quality and tonal range the image’s histogram to evaluate whether the Photoshop Elements are used with images image has sufﬁcient detail to produce high-quality that were taken with a digital camera or output.
Page 92: Checking Scan Quality And Tonal Range
CHAPTER 4 Making Color and Tonal Corrections Once you Make other special color adjustments detail concentrated in the midtones. An image have corrected the overall color balance of your with full tonal range has a high number of pixels in image, you can make optional adjustments to all areas.
Page 93: Adjusting Tonal Range
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Displays the intensity level of the area To display the histogram for an image: Level underneath the pointer. To display histogram data for a portion of the image, ﬁrst select that portion. By default, Shows the total number of pixels corre-...
Page 94 CHAPTER 4 Making Color and Tonal Corrections Using the Auto Levels command Using the Auto Contrast command The Auto Levels command deﬁnes the lightest and The Auto Contrast command adjusts the overall darkest pixels in an image, and then redistributes contrast and mixture of colors in an image intermediate pixel values proportionately.
Page 95 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To use the Adjust Backlighting command: To use the Brightness/Contrast command: Choose Enhance > Adjust Backlighting. Do one of the following: Drag the Darker slider or enter a value in the Choose Enhance > Brightness/Contrast >...
Page 96 CHAPTER 4 Making Color and Tonal Corrections avoid altering the color balance. You can use the image) are mapped to 255; pixels with lower middle Input slider to change the intensity values intensity values are mapped to corresponding of the middle range of gray tones without dramat- lighter values.
Page 97 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide If your image needs midtone corrections, use To set target colors for highlights, neutral grays, and shadows: the gray Input Levels slider. Drag the slider to the right to darken the midtones; drag it to the left to Select the eyedropper tool, and choose 3 by 3 lighten the midtones.
Page 98 CHAPTER 4 Making Color and Tonal Corrections • With a low-key image, you might want to set the • You can approximate these same values quickly highlight to a lower value to avoid too much by entering 4 in the Brightness (B) text box under contrast.
Page 99: Adjusting Color
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide darkest parts if you are dragging the black slider. If color components, it helps to keep a diagram of a color channel is selected in the Levels dialog box, the color wheel on hand. You can use the color...
Page 100 CHAPTER 4 Making Color and Tonal Corrections Using the Color Cast command You can also use the Colorize option to add color to a grayscale image converted to RGB, or to an The Color Cast command changes the overall RGB image—for example, to make it look like a mixture of colors in an image for generalized duotone by reducing its color values to one hue.
Page 101 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide For Saturation, enter a value or drag the slider • Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag to the right to increase the saturation or to the left (Mac OS) the color bar so that a different color is to decrease it.
Page 102 CHAPTER 4 Making Color and Tonal Corrections To colorize a grayscale image or create a monotone Using the Replace Color command effect: The Replace Color command lets you create a If you are colorizing a grayscale image, choose mask around speciﬁc colors and then replace those Image >...
Page 103: Applying Special Color Effects To Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Using the Variations command Drag the Fine/Coarse slider to determine the amount of each adjustment. Moving the slider one The Variations command lets you adjust the color tick mark doubles the adjustment amount. balance, contrast, and saturation of an image by showing you thumbnails of alternatives.
Page 104 When you apply this command, areas of an image. Photoshop Elements ﬁnds the brightest and darkest values in the composite image and remaps them so that the brightest value represents white...
Page 105 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To use the Threshold command to convert images to Click Cancel to close the Threshold dialog box black and white: without applying changes to the image. Do one of the following: Using the Posterize command Choose Image >...
Page 106: Sharpening Images
CHAPTER 4 Making Color and Tonal Corrections To use the Posterize command: • To edit the gradient ﬁll currently displayed in the Gradient Map dialog box, click the gradient ﬁll. Do one of the following: Then modify the existing gradient ﬁll or create a Choose Image >...
Page 107 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Unsharp Mask locates pixels that differ from • Drag the Radius slider or enter a value to surrounding pixels by the threshold you specify determine the number of pixels surrounding the and increases the pixels’ contrast by the amount edge pixels that affect the sharpening.
Page 111: About Selections
Chapter 5: Selecting o modify part of an image in Adobe isolating color areas with the magic wand tool. Photoshop Elements, you ﬁrst select the Making a new selection replaces the existing one. area you want to edit in the currently active Additionally, you can create selections that can be layer.
Page 112 CHAPTER 5 Selecting To use the marquee tools: To make a selection, drag over the area you want to select. Hold down Shift as you drag to constrain Select a marquee tool: the marquee to a square or circle. To drag a Rectangle marquee ( ) to make a rectangular •...
Page 113 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To close the selection border, release the To use the magnetic lasso tool: mouse without holding down Alt (Windows) Select the magnetic lasso tool ( ), and select or Option (Mac OS). options. (See “Setting options for the lasso, polygonal lasso, and magnetic lasso tools”...
Page 114 CHAPTER 5 Selecting Close the selection border: • To specify the lasso’s sensitivity to edges in the image, enter a value between 1% and 100% for To close the border with a freehand magnetic • Edge Contrast. A higher value detects only edges segment, double-click, press Enter or Return, or that contrast sharply with their surroundings;...
Page 115: Adjusting Pixel Selections
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To use the magic wand tool: Moving, hiding, or inverting a selection Select the magic wand tool ( ). You can move a selection border around an image, hide a selection border, and invert a selection so...
Page 116: Softening The Edges Of A Selection
CHAPTER 5 Selecting To select the unselected parts of an image: Do one of the following: Choose Select > Inverse. Select the Subtract from Selection option ( ) • in the options bar, and drag inside the selection to You can use this option to select an object placed subtract it.
Page 117 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Smooths the jagged edges of a Anti-aliasing To deﬁne a feathered edge for an existing selection: selection by softening the color transition between Choose Select > Feather. edge pixels and background pixels. Since only the Enter a value for the Feather Radius, and edge pixels change, no detail is lost.
Page 118: Moving, Copying, And Pasting Selections And Layers
CHAPTER 5 Selecting Moving, copying, and pasting Do one of the following: selections and layers Move the pointer inside the selection border, and • drag the selection to a new position. If you have You can move or copy selections and layers within selected multiple areas, all move as you drag.
Page 119 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Depending on your color management settings To create multiple copies of a selection within an image: and the color proﬁle associated with the ﬁle (or imported data), you may be prompted to Select the move tool ( ), or hold down Ctrl specify how to handle color information in the ﬁle...
Page 120 CHAPTER 5 Selecting Using drag and drop to copy between In some cases, the contents of the Clipboard are converted to a raster image. Photoshop Elements applications prompts you when vector artwork will be The drag-and-drop feature lets you copy and rasterized.
Page 121: Deleting Selections
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Deleting selections In the dialog box, select from the following options: To delete a selection, choose Edit > Clear, or press • Paste as Pixels to have the artwork rasterized as it Backspace (Windows) or Delete (Mac OS). To cut is pasted.
Page 125: Transforming And Retouching
Chapter 6: Transforming and Retouching ou can transform and retouch images in If necessary, select the Shield cropped area many ways. For example, you can manip- option to show the cropping shield. To adjust the ulate areas of a layer as if the pixels in the color and opacity of the cropping shield, use the area had been melted, and scale, rotate, or ﬂip color selection box and the opacity pop-up slider...
Page 126: Changing The Size Of The Work Canvas
CHAPTER 6 Transforming and Retouching Changing the size of the work Creating panoramic images canvas using Photomerge The Canvas Size command lets you add or remove The Photomerge command lets you create a ™ work space around an existing image. You can crop seamless, panoramic image from multiple an image by decreasing the canvas area.
Page 127 30% to 50% of the image area. If larger than 2 megapixels. Larger ﬁle sizes will take the overlap is less, Photomerge may not be able to longer for Photoshop Elements to process, and too automatically assemble the panorama. However, many large ﬁles could generate memory errors.
Page 128 Choose File > Photomerge. dialog box appears. Click Add in the Photomerge dialog box. If Photoshop Elements is unable to automati- Navigate to the source ﬁles and select the ﬁles cally assemble the composition, a message to for your Photomerge composition.
Page 129 Because of differences in the work area: perspective, the pieces may not line up exactly. Photoshop Elements lets you adjust the • Dragging to control the interaction between perspective and blend exposure differences to overlapping images.
Page 130 CHAPTER 6 Transforming and Retouching To adjust the perspective of a composition: The perspective correction only works up to approximately a 120° angle of view. For a wider Select the Use Perspective option. angle of view, the Use Perspective option should be Select the vanishing point tool ( ), and click deselected.
Page 131 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To preview a Photomerge composition: Saving and opening Photomerge compositions Select Composition options as desired: You can save a composition so that you can Cylindrical Mapping to reduce the “bow tie” • reaccess it at a later time. You may want to create...
Page 132: Using The Liquify Filter
CHAPTER 6 Transforming and Retouching Using the Liquify ﬁlter Choose Filter > Liquify. A dialog box displays the preview image, tools for editing the image, and The Liquify ﬁlter makes it easy to manipulate tool and view options. areas of an image as if those areas had been melted. Note: If a type or shape layer is selected, you must You work with a preview image of the current simplify the layer before proceeding.
Page 133: Rotating And Straightening Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide • The twirl counterclockwise tool ( ) to rotate To restore a preview image to a previous state: pixels counterclockwise as you hold down the Do one of the following: mouse button or drag. Select the reconstruct tool ( ), and hold down •...
Page 134: Transforming Layers, Selections, And Shapes
CHAPTER 6 Transforming and Retouching Transforming layers, selections, • Canvas 90° Right to rotate the image clockwise by a quarter-turn. and shapes • Canvas 180° to rotate the image by a half-turn. You can scale, rotate, skew, distort, and apply Canvas Custom to rotate the image by the angle •...
Page 135 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To set the reference point for a transformation: To freely rotate a layer, selection, or shape: Select a transformation command, as described Select the layer, area, or shape you want to in the following topics. A bounding box appears in transform.
Page 136 CHAPTER 6 Transforming and Retouching To scale a layer, selection, or shape: Skewing, distorting, and applying perspective to layers, selections, and Select the layer, area, or shape you want to shapes transform. (See “Specifying what to transform” on page 126.) Skewing, distorting, and applying perspective are transformations that change the geometry of a Choose Image >...
Page 137 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide If desired, switch to a different type of transfor- Do one or more of the following: mation by clicking the Rotate button ( ), the To scale, drag a handle. Press Shift as you drag a •...
Page 138: Transforming Objects In Three Dimensions
CHAPTER 6 Transforming and Retouching Transforming objects in three • Drag the 3D Transform thumbnail from the Filters palette to the image. dimensions Select one of these tools in the dialog box: The 3D Transform ﬁlter lets you manipulate a ﬂat, Cube ( ) to map the image (such as a ﬁle •...
Page 139 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide If you are creating a complex cylinder, do any of • To move the object, click the pan camera tool the following: ( ) in the dialog box, and drag the object. • To add an anchor point to a cylinder, select the •...
Page 140: Retouching An Image
CHAPTER 6 Transforming and Retouching Modifying the preview image • Select Display Background to include the portions of the original image outside of the wire Use the zoom and hand tools in the 3D Transform frame in the preview and with the rendered image. dialog box to change your preview of an image.
Page 141 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Select Aligned to apply the entire sampled area To use the pattern stamp tool: once, regardless of how many times you stop and Select the pattern stamp tool ( ). resume painting. This option is useful when you...
Page 142 CHAPTER 6 Transforming and Retouching Using the red eye brush • To pick a custom replacement color, click the Replacement color swatch, and pick the color that Red eye occurs when light from an on-camera you want to use for the correction. ﬂash reﬂects off the back of the eye.
Page 143 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide If a brush is too large to ﬁt in the palette, it appears To use the blur or sharpen tool: as a smaller brush with a number indicating the Select the blur tool ( ) or sharpen tool ( ).
Page 144 CHAPTER 6 Transforming and Retouching To use the dodge or burn tool: To use the sponge tool: Select the dodge tool ( ) or burn tool ( ). Select the sponge tool ( ). Choose a brush size from the pop-up palette in Choose a brush size from the pop-up palette in the options bar.
Page 147: Painting And Drawing
Chapter 7: Painting and Drawing here are several tools you can use to paint • The paintbrush tool creates soft strokes of color. and draw objects in Photoshop Elements. The pencil tool creates hard-edged freehand • You can create different effects with the lines.
Page 148: Erasing
CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing Set additional options: To use the eraser tool: Select the eraser tool ( ). For the paintbrush tool, select Wet Edges to • paint with a watercolor effect. The paint builds up Choose a brush size from the pop-up palette in along the edges of the brush stroke.
Page 149 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide parency, the pixels change to the background Using the background eraser tool color; otherwise, the pixels are erased to trans- The background eraser tool lets you erase pixels on parency. You can choose to erase contiguous pixels a layer to transparency as you drag;...
Page 150: Using The Impressionist Brush Tool
CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing Using the impressionist brush For Tolerance, enter a value or drag the slider. A low tolerance limits erasure to areas that are very tool similar to the sampled color. A high tolerance The impressionist brush tool lets you paint with erases a broader range of colors.
Page 151: Customizing Brush Libraries
In Photoshop Elements, you can save libraries, For Spacing, enter a value or drag the slider to load, replace, save, rename brushes in libraries,...
Page 152 CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing shows the current brush angle and roundness. • Click the brush in the pop-up palette, and As you enter new options, the brushes in these choose Delete Brush from the pop-up boxes update. Set the brush options as described palette menu.
Page 153 Preset Manager. Press Shift+ the [ key to decrease the brush hardness. (See “Working with presets” on page 35.) Exiting Photoshop Elements saves the contents of the current pop-up palette in the Preferences ﬁle. Setting brush options You can deﬁne a number of options for the default...
Page 154 CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing Controls the size of the brush’s hard Speciﬁes the angle by which an elliptical Hardness Angle center. Type a number, or use the slider to enter a brush’s long axis is offset from horizontal. Type a value that is a percentage of the brush diameter.
Page 155: Setting Options For Painting And Editing Tools
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Setting options for painting and Edits or paints only on the transparent Behind part of a layer. This mode works only in layers with editing tools Lock Transparency deselected and is analogous to You set options for a painting or editing tool in the painting on the back of transparent areas in a sheet options bar for that tool.
Page 156 CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing Darkens or lightens the colors, Looks at the color information in each Soft Light Lighten depending on the blend color. The effect is similar channel and selects the base or blend color— to shining a diffused spotlight on the image. whichever is lighter—as the result color.
Page 157 Photoshop Elements. Specifying the effect of stylus pressure Specifying a paint fade-out rate Photoshop Elements is compatible with most If you don’t have a stylus, you can still simulate pressure-sensitive digitizing tablets such as the actual brush strokes by setting the rates at which Wacom tablets.
Page 158: Using The Gradient Tools
CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing Using the gradient tools To specify a paint fade-out rate: Click the Brush Dynamics button ( ) in the The gradient tools create a gradual blend between options bar, and choose Fade for each of the multiple colors.
Page 159 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To apply a gradient ﬁll: Creating or editing gradient ﬁlls To ﬁll part of the image, select the desired area. The Gradient Editor dialog box lets you deﬁne a Otherwise, the gradient ﬁll is applied to the entire new gradient by modifying a copy of an existing active layer.
Page 160 Choose a color, and click OK. For information on choosing a color, If desired, set transparency values for the see “Using the Adobe Color Picker” on page 77. gradient. (See “Specifying the gradient trans- parency” on page 153.) •...
Page 161 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Applying gradient ﬁll to text Specifying the gradient transparency You can ﬁll text using the gradient tool. Each gradient ﬁll contains settings that control the opacity of the ﬁll at different locations on the gradient. For example, you can set the starting To apply gradient ﬁll to text:...
Page 162 CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing • Drag the diamond above the gradient bar to the To create a noise gradient: left or right. Select the gradient tool ( • Select the diamond and enter a value for Click in the gradient sample in the options bar Location.
Page 163: Using The Paint Bucket Tool
Select the paint bucket tool ( ). (See “Locking layers” on page 178.) Specify whether to ﬁll the selection with the foreground color, or in Photoshop Elements, with a pattern. (See “Filling and stroking selections and layers” on page 159.) Specify a blending mode and opacity for the paint.
Page 164: Drawing Shapes
ﬁll the shape. (See “Using the draw a rectangle with ﬁxed dimensions or a line Adobe Color Picker” on page 77.) with arrowheads. • Select a layer style from the Layer Style pop-up palette to apply a predeﬁned layer style to...
Page 165: Editing Shapes
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Renders a polygon as a star. Enter To set tool-speciﬁc options: Indent Sides By a percentage in the text box to specify the portion Select a shape tool. of the star’s radius taken up by the points. A 50%...
Page 166 Click a style to apply it to the shape layer. • Use the color picker to select a new color. (See “Using the Adobe Color Picker” on page 77.) Using the shape selection tool If the color of a shape doesn’t change when you...
Page 167: Filling And Stroking Selections And Layers
Select the shape selection tool ( ). and layers Drag the shape to a new position in the image. Photoshop Elements provides a variety of ways to ﬁll a selection or a layer with colors and patterns. Transforming shapes You can also paint a border around a selection or a You can alter a shape by applying transformations layer.
Page 168 CHAPTER 7 Painting and Drawing you can easily change the type of layer being used. Specify the blending mode and opacity for the (See “Using the Layers palette” on page 166 and paint. (See “Setting options for painting and “Using adjustment layers and ﬁll layers” on editing tools”...
Page 169: Creating And Editing Patterns
This In addition to using the libraries of patterns allows you to create a softer border than one provided with Photoshop Elements, you can created using the Stroke layer style. The Stroke create your own custom patterns. Once you’ve...
Page 170 Feather must be set to 0 px. Choose Edit > Deﬁne Pattern. The pattern is Choose Edit > Deﬁne Pattern and enter a name deﬁned as an Adobe Photoshop Elements pattern. for the pattern. Enter a name for the pattern in the Pattern Deselect the rectangle.
Page 173: Using Layers
About layers When you create, import, or scan an image in Photoshop Elements, the image consists of a single layer. If you’re simply retouching the image, you don’t have to create new layers. However, if you plan to add different elements to your image, layers will make your task a lot easier.
Page 174: Using The Layers Palette
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Using the Layers palette Because the background can never be transparent, it’s helpful to have a background when you want to The Layers palette lists all layers in an image, create an image that will not have any transparent starting with the topmost layer.
Page 175 The right column lists the layer’s name and may Displaying the Layers palette display additional icons. By default, this column When you open Photoshop Elements for the ﬁrst also shows a thumbnail image that is updated as time, the Layers palette appears on the right side of you edit the layer.
Page 176 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers To select a layer: To show or hide a layer: Do one of the following: Do one of the following: In the Layers palette, click a layer to make In the Layers palette, click the eye icon next to a •...
Page 177 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To change the transparency display: To change the order of layers by dragging: Choose Edit > Preferences > Transparency. In the Layers palette, select the layer that you want to move. For Grid Size, choose a pattern size. By default, the transparent areas of a document appear as a Drag the layer up or down in the Layers palette.
Page 178: Creating A Layered Image
• Creating a layered image the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers Photoshop Elements lets you create up to 8000 palette. layers in an image, each with its own blending Name the layer, and set other layer options.
Page 179 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide The selection contents appear in the same position When copying layers between images, keep in relative to the image boundaries. mind that the printed size of the copied layer depends on the resolution of the destination image.
Page 180 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers • Use the move tool ( ) to drag the layer from the Choose Layer > Duplicate Layer, or choose source image to the destination image. The copied Duplicate Layer from the Layers palette menu. layer appears in the destination image where you Type a name for the duplicate layer.
Page 181: Managing Layered Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide • Hold down Shift as you drag to move the layer Simplifying layers directly up or down, directly to the side, or on a 45° You can simplify a type layer, shape layer, solid diagonal. In other words, using the Shift key in this color layer, gradient layer, pattern ﬁll layer, or an...
Page 182 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Merging layers To merge all the visible layers in an image: Hide any layers you do not want to merge. Make Merging layers combines several layers into one sure that no hidden layers are linked to the and keeps ﬁle size manageable.
Page 183: Using Layer Styles
The layer styles that come with To track ﬁle size: Photoshop Elements are grouped into sets. For Select the Document Sizes option in the status bar. example, one set contains drop shadow styles;...
Page 184 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers To change the set of styles in the Layer Styles palette: To apply a layer style to a layer: Select a style set from the pop-up list at the top of Do one of the following: the Layer Styles palette.
Page 185: Editing Layers
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Adjust one or more of the following settings, Specify how much you want to scale the effects. and click OK. If a setting is dimmed, it is not Scaling applies only to shadow distance, outer present in the effect you are using, and therefore glow size, inner glow size, and bevel size.
Page 186 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Locking layers Click the Lock Transparency icon ( ) at the top of the Layers palette. You can fully or partially lock layers to protect their contents. When a layer is locked, a lock Note: For type and shape layers, transparency is displays to the right of the layer name.
Page 187: Specifying Opacity And Blending Options
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide In the options bar, select Use All Layers. • To add the pixels to an existing selection, press Ctrl+Shift (Windows) or Command+Shift Mac OS), and click the layer thumbnail in the Layers palette. • To subtract the pixels from an existing selection,...
Page 188: Creating Grouped Layers
CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Specifying opacity To specify a blending mode for a layer: Select the layer in the Layers palette. A layer’s opacity determines to what degree it obscures or reveals the layer beneath it. A layer Choose an option from the Blending Mode with 1% opacity appears nearly transparent, while pop-up menu.
Page 189: Using Adjustment Layers And Fill Layers
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Note that only successive layers can be included • Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), in a group. The name of the base layer in the position the pointer over the line separating two...
Page 190 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers About adjustment layers Creating adjustment layers or ﬁll layers Adjustment layers let you experiment with color Adjustment layers and ﬁll layers have the same and tonal adjustments to an image without opacity and blending mode options as image permanently modifying the pixels in the image.
Page 191 For more information on creating then click OK. patterns and loading pattern presets, see “Creating and editing patterns” on page 161 and “Working Specify a color. (See “Using the Adobe Solid Color with presets” on page 35. Color Picker” on page 77.)
Page 192 CHAPTER 8 Using Layers Specify a threshold level. (See “Using Threshold To edit an adjustment or ﬁll layer: the Threshold command” on page 96.) Do one of the following: Specify the number of tonal levels for Posterize Double-click the adjustment or ﬁll layer’s •...
Page 193 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide • Shift-click the adjustment layer thumbnail to Merging adjustment layers or ﬁll layers turn off the masking effects temporarily; click the You can merge an adjustment or ﬁll layer several thumbnail again to turn on the mask.
Page 197: Applying Filters And Effects
Chapter 9: Applying Filters and Effects photographer places ﬁlters over the Using the Filters palette camera lens to create visual effects. Adobe The Filters palette lets you view and select Photoshop Elements provides ﬁlters you ﬁlter effects. can use to simulate photographic effects and to create visual effects beyond the bounds of tradi- tional photography.
Page 198 CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects • Click the Thumbnail View button ( ) at the If a dialog box appears, enter values or bottom of the Filters palette to view the ﬁlters select options. as thumbnails. To display the dialog box for the last ﬁlter you •...
Page 199 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Not all of these ﬁlters load images or textures in the Using texture and glass surface controls same way. (See “Using the Lighting Effects ﬁlter” The Conté Crayon, Glass, Rough Pastels, on page 207.) Texturizer, and Underpainting ﬁlters have textur- izing options.
Page 200: Using Effects
CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects Using effects When prompted, click Yes to keep the effect, or click No to discard the effect. Effects let you achieve complex effects through the Note: To undo multiple actions effects, such as automatic sequencing of ﬁlters, layer styles, and/or Blizzard, you must undo multiple times to clear all program functions.
Page 201: Improving Performance With Filters
By applying ﬁlter effects to Apply backgrounds solid-color or grayscale images, you can generate a • Allocate more RAM to Photoshop Elements. If variety of backgrounds and textures. You might necessary, exit from other applications to make then blur these textures. Although some ﬁlters more memory available to Photoshop Elements.
Page 202 CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects Soften a selection or an image. Blur Create 3D shapes, cloud patterns, Blur ﬁlters Render ﬁlters ﬁlters are useful for retouching. They smooth refraction patterns, and simulated light reﬂections transitions by averaging the pixels next to the hard in an image.
Page 203: Artistic Filters
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Portrays an image as though it were made Invert command to outline the edges of a color Cutout from roughly cut-out pieces of colored paper. image with colored lines or to outline the edges of High-contrast images appear as if in silhouette, a grayscale image with white lines.
Page 204: Blur Filters
CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects Reduces the number of colors in an Blur ﬁlters Poster Edges image (posterizes) according to the posterization The Blur ﬁlters soften a selection or an image, and option you set, and ﬁnds the edges of the image are useful for retouching.
Page 205: Brush Stroke Filters
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Preserves the details and features of results; or Good and Best for smoother results, Crosshatch the original image while adding texture and which are indistinguishable except on a large roughening the edges of the colored areas in the selection.
Page 206 CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects Uses an image, called a displacement Displace The Displace ﬁlter shifts a selection using a color map, to determine how to distort a selection. For value from the displacement map—0 is the example, using a parabola-shaped displacement maximum negative shift, 255 is the maximum map, you can create an image that appears to be positive shift, and a gray value of 128 produces no...
Page 207: Liquify Filter
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Distorts an image along a curve. Specify the Shear the upper left or lower right, Out From Center curve by dragging the line in the box to form a displaces pixels toward or away from the center of curve for the distortion.
Page 208: Pixelate Filters
CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects Detects the edges in an image (areas Despeckle Increase the threshold gradually by entering a where signiﬁcant color changes occur) and blurs value or by dragging the slider to the highest value all of the selection except those edges. This blur- possible that eliminates defects.
Page 209: Render Filters
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Render ﬁlters • For Grayscale images, use only channel 1. For RGB images, use channels 1, 2, and 3, which • The Render ﬁlters create 3D shapes, cloud correspond to the red, green, and blue channels.
Page 210: Sharpen Filters
CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects Lets you produce myriad lighting Sketch ﬁlters Lighting Effects effects on RGB images by varying 17 light styles, Filters in the Sketch submenu add texture to 3 light types, and 4 sets of light properties. You can images, often for a 3D effect.
Page 211: Stylize Filters
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Is best used with black-and-white images. For a muted effect, change the background color Stamp The ﬁlter simpliﬁes the image to appear stamped to white with some foreground color added to it with a rubber or wood stamp.
Page 212 CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects Makes a selection appear raised or Emboss Select Solid Front Faces to ﬁll the front face of stamped by converting its ﬁll color to gray and each block with an averaged color of the block. tracing the edges with the original ﬁll color.
Page 213: Texture Filters
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Adds texture to an image by simulating To use the Trace Contour ﬁlter: Grain different kinds of grain—regular, soft, sprinkles, Choose Filter > Stylize > Trace Contour, or use clumped, contrasty, enlarged, stippled, horizontal, the Filters palette to apply the Trace Contour ﬁlter.
Page 214: Other Filters
CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects Other ﬁlters Repeat steps 2 and 3 for all pixels to include in the operation. You don’t have to enter values in all Filters in the Other submenu let you create your the text boxes. own ﬁlter effects, use ﬁlters to modify masks, offset For Scale, enter the value by which to divide the a selection within an image, and make quick color...
Page 215: Lighting Effects Filter
For information on choosing a location. Depending on the size of the selection, color picker, see “Using the Adobe Color Picker” you can ﬁll the empty area with a transparent on page 77, or “Using other color pickers” on background, with the edge pixels, or with pixels page 79.
Page 216 CHAPTER 9 Applying Filters and Effects To use a texture ﬁll, choose a color in the To adjust the angle and height of the Directional light using the preview window: Texture Channel pop-up menu. (See “Using a Lighting Effects texture” on page 210.) Choose Filter >...
Page 217 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide A white spotlight with medium (35) • To stretch the ellipse or rotate the light, drag one Crossing intensity and a wide (69) focus. of the handles. Shift-drag to keep the angle constant and change only the size of the ellipse.
Page 218: About Plug-In Filters
Filter menu unless speciﬁed by the developer. Plug-in ﬁlters must be created and installed by the To delete a style: ﬁlter developer especially for Photoshop Elements In the Lighting Effects dialog box, choose a style, for previews to appear in the Filters browser.
Page 221: Using Type
) in the options bar. Creating type • Press the Enter key on the numeric keypad. In Photoshop Elements, you create and edit type Press Ctrl+Enter on the main keyboard • directly on-screen (instead of in a dialog box). This (Windows) or Command+Return (Mac OS).
Page 222: Working With Type Layers
CHAPTER 10 Using Type To enter type: To create a type selection border: Select the horizontal type tool ( ) or the Select a layer in the Layers palette. For best vertical type tool ( ). results, create the type selection border on a normal image layer, not on a type layer.
Page 223 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide • Use ﬁll shortcuts. To ﬁll with the foreground Position the insertion point in the text, and do color, press Alt+Backspace (Windows) or one of the following: Option+Delete (Mac OS); to ﬁll with the •...
Page 224 CHAPTER 10 Using Type Specifying anti-aliasing Warping type layers Anti-aliasing lets you produce smooth-edged type Warping allows you to distort type to conform to a by partially ﬁlling the edge pixels. As a result, variety of shapes; for example, you can warp type the edges of the type blend into the background.
Page 225: Formatting Characters
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Formatting characters If desired, specify values for additional warping options: Photoshop Elements gives you precise control over • Bend to specify how much warp is applied to individual characters in type layers, including the layer.
Page 226 CHAPTER 10 Using Type • To use the arrow keys to select characters, Italic. The range of available type styles varies with hold down Shift and press the Right Arrow or Left each font. If a font doesn’t include the style you Arrow key.
Page 227 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Choosing a type size To specify the default unit of measurement for type: Choose Edit > Preferences > Units & Rulers. The type size determines how large the type appears in the image. The default unit of Select a unit of measurement for Type.
Page 228: Setting Options For Asian Type
Setting options for Asian type Select Strikethrough to apply a line through the • middle of the type. Photoshop Elements provides several options for working with Asian type. Asian fonts are often referred to as double-byte fonts or CJK fonts. CJK Aligning type fonts means Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fonts.
Page 229 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Adjusting tsume Using tate-chuu-yoko Tsume reduces the space around a character by a Tate-chuu-yoko (also called kumimoji and renmoji) speciﬁed percentage value. The character itself is is a block of horizontal type laid out within a not stretched or squeezed as a result.
Page 230 CHAPTER 10 Using Type Using mojikumi Mojikumi determines spacing between punctu- ation, symbols, numbers, and other character classes in Japanese type. When mojikumi is off, full-width spacing is applied to these characters. When mojikumi is on, half-width spacing is applied to these characters. Mojikumi on, and Mojikumi off To turn on or turn off mojikumi: If you’re working with an existing layer, select...
Page 233: Optimizing Images For The Web
Chapter 11: Optimizing Images for the Web dobe Photoshop Elements lets you and modify optimization settings to select the optimize the display and ﬁle size of your best combination of settings for your needs. You images for effective Web publishing can also use the layers in your original image to results.
Page 234 CHAPTER 11 Optimizing Images for the Web Viewing images during optimization options, the size of the optimized ﬁle, and the estimated download time using the selected You use a dual image window to view both the modem speed. You can select a modem speed in original and optimized images in the Save For Web the Preview pop-up menu.
Page 235: Choosing A File Format For Optimization
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide • Standard Windows Color to view the image supported by the PNG-24 format but the JPEG with color adjusted to simulate a standard format does not support any transparency. See Windows monitor. “Making transparent and matted images” on page 233.)
Page 236 CHAPTER 11 Optimizing Images for the Web About JPEG format color of the Web page where you will place the image, you can match the Matte color to the Web The JPEG format supports 24-bit color and page background color to simulate the effect of preserves the broad range and subtle variations in background transparency.
Page 237 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide background matting, in which you blend the edges matting, in which you blend the edges of the image of the image with a Web page background color. with a Web page background color. (See (See “Previewing and controlling dithering” on “Previewing and controlling dithering”...
Page 238: Optimizing Images
CHAPTER 11 Optimizing Images for the Web Optimizing images Setting optimization options for JPEG format Optimization options appear on the right side of JPEG is the standard format for compressing the Save For Web dialog box. You can choose a continuous-tone images such as photographs.
Page 239 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide To create an enhanced JPEG with a slightly efﬁciently compresses solid areas of color while smaller ﬁle size, select Optimized. The Optimized preserving sharp detail; however, not all Web JPEG format is recommended for maximum ﬁle browsers can display PNG-8 ﬁles.
Page 240 Selective is the the frequency of colors in the image. Choose Auto default option. if you want Photoshop Elements to determine the Adaptive to create a custom color table by • optimal number of colors in the color table.
Page 241: Making Transparent And Matted Images
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Setting optimization options for PNG-24 Background matting, supported by GIF, PNG, and JPEG formats, simulates transparency by ﬁlling or format blending transparent pixels with a matte color that PNG-24 format is suitable for compressing you choose to match the Web page background on continuous-tone images.
Page 242 CHAPTER 11 Optimizing Images for the Web Select Transparency. If you deselect Transparency, fully transparent pixels are ﬁlled with the matte color, and partially For GIF and PNG-8 format, decide how you transparent pixels are blended with the want to treat partially transparent pixels in the matte color.
Page 243: Previewing And Controlling Dithering
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide the optimized image. Use hard-edged trans- appearance of background transparency in a parency when you don’t know the background JPEG. Fully transparent pixels are ﬁlled with the color of a Web page or when the Web page matte color, and partially transparent pixels are background is a pattern.
Page 244 Application dither occurs in GIF and PNG-8 • continuous-tone color (especially color gradients) images when Photoshop Elements attempts to may require dithering to prevent color banding. simulate colors that appear in the original image but not in the color lookup table. You can choose To control application dither: a dithering pattern to be applied to the image.
Page 245 You can save custom You can preview browser dither directly in dither patterns in groups called collections, and use Photoshop Elements or in a browser that uses an the dither patterns with other images. 8-bit color display (256-color mode).
Page 246 CHAPTER 11 Optimizing Images for the Web Choose one of the following from the color To edit the custom dither pattern, do one of palette pop-up menu in the DitherBox dialog box: the following: • Web Safe Colors to create a dither pattern using •...
Page 247: Creating Animated Gifs
Save GIF dialog box, which has the same images, or frames, over time. Photoshop Elements animation options as the Save for Web dialog box. provides a powerful, easy way to create animated GIFs from a multiple-layer image.
Page 248: Previewing An Image In A Browser
Photoshop Elements program folder. You can open an existing animated GIF in Restart Photoshop Elements. Photoshop Elements using the Open command. The ﬁle is opened as a stack of layers. Each layer Saving optimized images corresponds to one frame. If you want to view a speciﬁc frame in the document window, make the...
Page 249: Creating Web Photo Galleries
To set options for the gallery pages, choose Gallery Images from the Options pop-up menu. Photoshop Elements provides a variety of styles Then do the following: for your gallery, which you can select using the Web Photo Gallery command. If you are an •...
Page 250 CHAPTER 11 Optimizing Images for the Web To set options for the home page, choose To set options for colors of elements in the Gallery Thumbnails from the Options pop-up gallery, choose Customize Colors from the menu. Then do the following: Options pop-up menu.
Page 253: Saving Images
Photoshop Elements features format for newly created images and supports all to add information to ﬁles, and set up multiple image data that Photoshop Elements is capable of image layouts. producing—layers, shapes, editable type, and so on.
Page 254: Saving Images
CHAPTER 12 Saving Images Saving images compress image data without removing detail; lossy techniques compress images by removing You can use the following commands to detail. The following are commonly used save images: compression techniques: Save to save changes you’ve made to the current •...
Page 255: Saving Images In Speciﬁc Formats
Saving images in speciﬁc formats Saves thumbnail data for Thumbnail (Windows) Photoshop Elements can save images to various the ﬁle. In order to select or deselect this option, ﬁle formats. (See “About ﬁle formats” on you must choose Ask When Saving for the Image page 245.) While you’re developing an image, you...
Page 256 ﬁle format of a downloading time seem shorter and assures Filmstrip ﬁle in Photoshop Elements, you won’t be viewers that downloading is in progress. However, able to save it back to Filmstrip format. For further interlacing also increases ﬁle size.
Page 257 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide When the Save GIF dialog box appears, set optimi- If the image contains transparency, select a zation options as described in “Optimizing Matte color to simulate the appearance of images” on page 230. If necessary, select Animate.
Page 258 (as described in “Saving images” on for newly created images. You can open PSD ﬁles page 246), and click Save. that were created in Adobe Photoshop; however, you may not be able to access all ﬁle data. For For Preview, choose a low-resolution preview example, Photoshop Elements does not support type.
Page 259 PostScript printer to convert the ﬁle data to the application that supports PDF transparency. printer’s color space. Do not select PostScript When reopening the ﬁle in Photoshop Elements, Color Management if you’re planning to place the transparency is always preserved, regardless of image into another color-managed document.
Page 260 CHAPTER 12 Saving Images PNG format Each pixel is described in binary format, with 0 representing black and 255 white. You can specify Developed as a patent-free alternative to GIF, the ﬁle extension (Windows), ﬁle type (Mac OS), Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format is used ﬁle creator (Mac OS), and header information.
Page 261 Select a byte order to determine ﬁle compati- for opening multiresolution ﬁles such as PNG format bility with IBM PC or Macintosh computers. or Photo CD; however, Adobe InDesign and some Select LZW Compression to compress the image servers provide support for opening multires- image and reduce the ﬁle size.
Page 262: Adding File Information
Setting preferences for saving format. ﬁles To enter information about a ﬁle: In Photoshop Elements, you can set preferences Choose File > File Info. for saving image previews, using ﬁle extensions, For Section, choose an attribute. To move and maximizing ﬁle compatibility.
Page 263 Right-click the ﬁle on the desktop (or in any File extensions Append File Extension (Mac OS) Windows or Photoshop Elements dialog box that are necessary for ﬁles that you want to use on or displays a ﬁle list), and choose Properties from the transfer to a Windows system.
Page 264: Using The Batch Command
CHAPTER 12 Saving Images Using the Batch command To change the size and/or resolution of processed images, select Convert Image Size. Then You can automatically convert multiple images to choose the resolution to which you want to the same ﬁle format, size, and resolution using the convert the images.
Page 265: Creating Multiple-Image Layouts
Subdirectories to include images inside any • Select Use Frontmost Document to use the subfolders of the chosen folder. image currently active in Photoshop Elements as the source. Under Document, specify the dimensions, resolution, and color mode for the contact sheet, For Layout, choose a preset layout option.
Page 266 CHAPTER 12 Saving Images Customizing picture package layouts • The height of the document. You can customize existing layouts or create new Note: The width and height of the document should layouts using a text-editing application. The layout not exceed the printable area of the paper. For options in the Picture Package dialog box are example, if you plan to print on 11 x 17 paper, determined by text ﬁles that are stored in the...
Page 269: Printing Images
Adobe Photoshop Elements. You and choose File > Print One. can adjust the positioning, scaling, and Note: By default, Photoshop Elements prints a output options for your image. You can also use composite of all visible layers. To print an individual...
Page 270: Positioning And Scaling Images
To scale the print size of an image in the Print Preview dialog box: represents the margins of the selected paper; the printable area is white. Photoshop Elements Do one of the following: cannot override the borders settings for your Click Scale to Fit Media to ﬁt the image within...
Page 271: Printing Part Of An Image
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Prints crop marks where the options aren’t visible by default in the Print Corner Crop Marks page is to be trimmed. Options dialog box; you must select Show More Options (located below the image preview area) in order to see them.
Page 272: Using Color Management When Printing
Understanding when to use color management color graphics. requires an understanding of how colors are repre- sented in digital images. Photoshop Elements uses To determine if you need to use color management a grid of elements known as pixels to represent when printing: images.
Page 273 ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS User Guide Known as the Image intent in Adobe To color-manage an image while printing: Perceptual PageMaker and Illustrator 9, Perceptual aims to Choose File > Print Preview, or click the Print preserve the visual relationship between colors Preview button ( ) in the shortcuts bar.
Page 274: Printing Over The Web
If you don’t have a printer or want to get paper would be printed over with a dingy gray to high-quality reproductions, you can send images simulate the actual newsprint appearance. from Photoshop Elements to an online service This intent is identical Relative Colorimetric for printing.
Page 275: Index
Bilinear interpolation 49 aspect ratio, constraining Adobe Photomerge 9 binary encoding 263 when placing files 60 Adobe Photoshop Elements CD 1 bitmap images, about 45 Auto Erase option 140, 142 Adobe Premiere 248 See also images Auto Levels command 86, 88...
Page 276 INDEX black and white points, New Brush command 143 Choose 23 scanning 52 options 145 chroma 68 black-and-white images, pointer options 39 Chrome filter 202 creating 96 presets 37 CJK type blending modes 147 Roundness option 146 composition options 222 bloat tool 125 selecting 139 showing options for 220...
Page 277 39 Color Picker option 79 choosing a compression format Curves command, setting target color pickers for 227 values with 89 Adobe 77, 79 contrast Custom color table 232 Apple 79 adjusting 87 Custom filter 206 choosing 79 adjusting automatically 86...
Page 278 INDEX dithering Dark Strokes filter 197 edge effects 193 about 70, 73, 235 Darken mode 148 editing application dither, previewing and controlling 236 Define Brush command 144 blending modes 147 browser dither, previewing and Define Pattern command 161, 162 layers 177 minimizing 237 De-Interlace filter 205 See also copying, correcting...
Page 279 filling Find Edges filter 204 Facet filter 201 layers 159 Fine Grain filter 195 fade rate selections 159 Finger Painting option 134 for brush strokes 140 with background color 160 Fit on Screen command 26 for eraser strokes 140 with foreground color 160 Fixed Size option 104 painting 149 with gradients 151...
Page 280 INDEX radial gradient tool 150 Hints palette 29 gamut 65 Randomize option 154 Histogram command 85 Gaussian Blur filter 196 reflected gradient tool 150 histograms GIF format saving and loading 155 about 84, 91 about 228, 248 tools 150 key type 84 Adaptive color table 232 transparency 153 Levels display of 89...
Page 281 converting between color importing images modes 69, 71 laser printers 48 digital camera with WIA copying layers between 171 support 53 lasso tool copying selections between 111 from a digital camera 52 detection width 106 creating new 54 from a scanner 52 edge sensitivity 106 cropping 117 scanning with WIA support 53...
Page 282 INDEX saving 247 Crossing 209 locking layers 178 scaling 127 Crossing Down 209 lossless compression selecting 168 Default 209 CCITT 246 shape 156 Five Lights Down 209 GIF format 228 skewing 128 Five Lights Up 209 LZW 246 stroking 159 Flashlight 209 PNG-24 format 229 thumbnails 168...
Page 283 midtones New View command 24 See also placing, importing adjusting 95, 136 Noise dither 236 OpenType fonts 213 adjusting with Levels 89 Noise filters 194, 199 Optimized option, for JPEG 231 Minimum and Maximum See also individual names of optimizing images filter 206 filters about 225...
Page 284 155, 160 Photoshop 2.0 format 250 options 147 libraries 162 Photoshop compensation 227 Overlay mode 147 painting with 133 Photoshop Elements 1 result color 147 PostScript Pattern folder 162 Photoshop EPS format. See EPS Saturation mode 148 format presets 37...
Page 285 display of 46 Web-safe color table 232 File Extension 255 maximum 48 See also PNG format Grid 28 new images and 54 PNG-24 format Gutter 28 resampling and 49 about 229 History States 33 viewing 48 optimization settings for 233 Image Previews 254 Pixelate filters 194, 200 preserving transparency 233...
Page 286 Resample Image option 50 raster images. See bitmap images about dpi 48 resampling rasterizing 112 background color 263 interpolation methods 49 Adobe Illustrator artwork 113 borders 263 See also resizing PDF files 57, 60 captions 263 Reselect command 103 PostScript artwork 57, 60...
Page 287 resolution select image tool 121 sampling about 47 selecting from layers 178 changing 49 contiguous pixels 107 image with clone stamp tool 132 displaying 48 layers 168 document size 50 saturation pixels 103 about 68 dpi 48 type 217 adjusting 92, 95, 136 file size and 48 unselected areas 108 Saturation mode 148...
Page 288 INDEX softening edges of 108 Shear filter 199 Standard Macintosh Color display 227 stroking 159 defining undistorted areas 191 Standard Windows Color subtracting from 108 shift pixels tool 125 display 227 tools 103 shortcuts bar 21 status bar 30 See also floating selections Show Bounding Box option 215 straight-edged selection Selective color table 232...
Page 289 text. See type automatic 86 hidden tools 19 Texture Channel 210 automatic adjustments 86 layer sampling 178 Texture Fill filter 202 Brightness/Contrast magic eraser 140 command 87 Texture filters 195, 205 magic wand 106 Color Cast 92 See also individual names of magnetic lasso 104 filters Fill Flash 87...
Page 290 INDEX in EPS files 250 size 219 vector graphics 112 option for PNG-24 232, 233 strikethrough 219 about 45 option in Save for Web 234 tool options bar 213 resizing 48 preserving in optimized underlining 219 vector shapes. See shapes images 233 warping 216 vertical type tool 214...
Page 291 Web documentation overview 3 Web Photo Gallery command 241 Web-safe color table 232 Wet Edges option 140 WIA support 53 importing with digital camera 53 scanning 53 Wind filter 205 Windows Color Picker 79 wire frame 130 wire frame. See transformations work area about 19 components 19...
Page 293 Production Notes This book was created electronically using Adobe Julieanne Kost FrameMaker . Art was produced using Adobe Business woman (page 10), Butterﬂy (page 21), ® Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. The Minion Orange (page 26), Grapes (page 71), Archway ®...

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Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements

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Looking at the Work Area

Getting Images into

Photoshop Elements

Working with Color

Making Color and Tonal

Chapter 5

Transforming and Retouching

Painting and Drawing

Using Layers

Chapter 8 About Layers

Applying Filters and Effects

Using Type

Optimizing Images for the Web

Saving Images

Chapter 13

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