Photoshop Elements 8 In Simple Steps

Description

Use Photoshop Elements 8 with confidence

This practical book will have you achieving immediate results using:

* a friendly, visual approach
* simple language
* practical, task-based examples
* large, full-colour screenshots.

Discover everything you want to know about Adobe Photoshop Elements 8 in this easy to use guide; from the most essential tasks that you'll want to perform, to solving the most common problems you'll encounter.

Practical. Simple. Fast

Get the most out of Photoshop Elements 8 with practical tips on every page:

· ALERT: Solutions to common problems

· HOT TIPS: Time-saving shortcuts

· SEE ALSO: Related tasks and information

· DID YOU KNOW? Additional features to explore

· WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Jargon explained in plain English

CONTENTS:

Top 10 Photoshop Elements Tips

* Getting photographs from a camera or memory card
* Backing up your photographs
* Assigning a keyword to a photograph
* Creating a photo album

5. Reversing changes

6. Adding to a selection

7. Changing the background to a layer

* Saving for the web

9. Emailing photographs as attachments

* Setting a photograph as the desktop wallpaper

Chapter 1 - Getting your photographs into Photoshop Elements

· Getting photographs from a memory card

· Getting photographs from a scanner

· Getting photographs from a folder

· The Photo Downloader

· Setting Preferences

· Moving files

· Backing up your photographs

Chapter 2 - Working with the Organizer

· Adjusting the thumbnail view

· Sorting thumbnails

· Adding a caption to a photograph

· Creating a category

· Creating a sub-category

· Adding a photograph to a category or sub-category

· Creating a keyword

· Searching for photographs

· Using the Timeline to find photographs

· Using Date View to find photographs

· Creating an album

· Creating a Smart Album

· Using Folder Location view

· Displaying properties

· Deleting a photograph

Chapter 3 - Working with the Editor

· Adding a photograph to the Project Bin

· Displaying multiple photographs

· Selecting a tool from the Toolbox

· Selecting a palette

· Using Quick Editing

· Using Guided Editing

Chapter 4 - Adjusting colour, contrast and lighting

· Using Auto Color Correction

· Using Auto Contrast

· Using Auto Levels

· Using Auto Smart Fix

· Reversing changes

· Selecting the Color Settings

· Working with different image modes

· Adjusting Brightness and Contrast

· Adjusting Hue, Saturation and Lightness

· Correcting over- and under-exposure

· Removing colour cast

· Adjusting shadows, highlights and midtones

· Removing colour cast

· Adjusting for skin tone

· Changing colours

· Changing colour in large portions of an image

· Previewing changes with Color Variations

· Eliminating colour

Chapter 5 - Creating and using selections

· Selecting an area with the Rectangular Selection tool

· Selecting an area with the Elliptical Selection tool

· Adding to a selection

· Setting the Feather

· Creating freeform selections

· Using the Polygonal Lasso tool to create shaped selections

· Creating irregular shaped selections with the Magnetic Lasso tool

· Fast selecting with the Magic Wand

· Painting a selection

· Saving a selection

· Inverting selections

· · Loading a selection

Chapter 6 - Cropping, resizing, rotating, flipping and zooming

· Plain old cropping

· Cropping to a preset size

· Moving, rotating and resizing the cropping box

· Cropping to a selection

· Cookie Cutter cropping

· Resizing an image with the Image Size dialogue

· Resizing an image using the Scale feature

· Rotating to a preset angle

· Custom rotating

· Flipping the image

· Resizing the canvas

· Zooming

Chapter 7 - Layers

· Using the Layers palette

· Changing the background to a layer

· Adding an image (shape) layer

· Adding an adjustment layer

· Adding a fill layer

· Adding a type (text) layer

· Renaming a layer

· Selecting, moving, and resizing content on a layer

· Creating a layer from a selection

· Duplicating a layer

· Reordering layers

· Linking layers

· Hiding and showing layers

· Selecting the blend mode

Chapter 8 - Shapes

· Creating a new image

· Selecting the colour for a new shape

· Adding a shape to the image

· Applying a style to a shape

· Removing a style from a shape

· Resizing a shape

· Adding to a shape

· Subtracting from a shape

· Intersecting shape areas

· Excluding overlapping shape areas

· Changing the colour of a shape

· Aligning shapes

· Distributing shapes

· Combining shapes

· Simplifying a shape

Chapter 9 - Drawing, patterns and gradients

· Drawing with a brush

· Selecting a brush type

· Selecting the brush size

· Altering a drawing with the Impressionist Brush

· Using the Eraser

· Using the Pattern Stamp

· Using the Gradient tool

· Selecting the Gradient pattern

· Selecting the Gradient direction

· Using the Gradient Editor

Chapter 10 - Working with type

· Entering horizontal text

· Entering vertical text

· Editing all the text on a layer

· Editing some of the text on a layer

· Wrapping text

· Setting the leading

· Moving text

· Applying artistic styling

· Warping text

Chapter 11 - Enhancing your photographs with blur and sharpen techniques

· Applying Average blur

· Blur and Blur More

· Using Gaussian Blur

· Using Motion Blur

· Using Radial Blur

· Using Smart Blur

· Getting sharp

Chapter 12 - Repairing images

· Correcting camera distortion

· Automatically Remove Red Eye

· Using the Red Eye Removal Tool

· Using the Healing Brush

· Using the Spot Healing Brush

· Cloning out trouble spots

· Removing scratches

· Working on pixels

· Correcting a group shot

· Straightening an image

Chapter 13 - Saving, printing, sending and sharing

· Saving a file in Photoshop format

· Saving a file in a standard image format

· Saving for the web

· Printing a photograph

· Emailing photographs

· Creating a CD or DVD

· Creating a Photo Book

· Creating a slideshow

· Creating a collage

· Creating an Online Gallery

 Top 10 Photoshop Elements Problems Solved

* The colours don't look good in this photograph
* How do I select the foreground and background colours?
* There is too much extra space and unwanted things in this photograph
* I'm using the Type tool to enter text, but it just keeps going right past the image!
* Yikes, my photo came out blurry!
* Aunt Sally has red eyes!
* The subject in the photograph seems warped
* How can I get rid of skin imperfections?
* My scanned-in photograph has a scratch. How can I remove it?
* The photo came out crooked, now what?