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Photoshop Elements 5 in Easy Steps
Working with digital images has never been more exciting and Photoshop Elements 5 in easy steps shows how to edit, display and share them in some truly stunning and dazzling ways.
Editing digital images is at the heart of Elements 5 and this book covers it in depth. It looks at obtaining images, color enhancements and techniques such as
skin tone adjustment, cloning and removing flaws and blemishes. There are also sections on quick fixes and advanced features, including the newly added curves feature for precision color editing and support for working with the increasingly popular RAW file format.
Elements 5 breaks new ground when it comes to sharing images creatively and this book covers all of these stunning features including, improved effects, color-coordinated layouts, animated slideshows, dynamic Web galleries, photo emails and fun flip-books. It also shows how to print images creatively and produce items such as calendars, cards, photo albums, CD or DVD covers and even genuine stamps.
Organizing images can sometimes be a chore, but this book shows how Elements 5 simplifies the process through the use of tags, collections, face recognition and version sets of similar images and placing images on a map where they were taken.
Photoshop Elements 5 in easy steps puts the fun into working with digital images and covers everything you can do once you've captured the images.
Introducing Elements
* About Elements
* Welcome Screen
* Editor mode
* Photo Bin
* Organizer mode
* Create mode
* Shortcuts bar
* Menu bar
* Toolbox
* Options bar
* Palettes
* Preferences
* Getting help
chapter 2 Organizing images
* Obtaining images
* Photo Browser
* Full Screen View
* Full Screen Compare
* Stacks
* Version sets
* Tagging images
* Tagging faces
* Creating collections
* Searching for images
* Date View
* Map View
* Opening and saving images
chapter 3 First digital steps
* Color enhancements
* Cropping
* Cloning
* Pattern cloning
* Healing Brush
* Spot Healing Brush
* Rotating
* Transforming
* Magnification
* Eraser
chapter 4 Quick wins
* Removing red-eye
* Adjusting skin tones
* Straightening an image
* Dividing scanned images
* Quick Fix options
* General Quick Fixes
* Lighting Quick Fixes
* Color Quick Fixes
* Sharpening Quick Fixes
* Variations
* Changing to black and white
* Panoramas
chapter 5 Beyond the basics
* Hue and saturation
* Histogram
* Levels
* Color curves
* Pegging points
* Filter adjustments
* Unsharp Mask
* Fixing camera distortion
* Importing RAW images
* Image size
* Resampling images
chapter 6 Selecting areas
* About selections
* Marquee tools
* Lasso tools
* Magic Wand tool
* Selection Brush tool
* Magic Extractor tool
* Magic Selection Brush tool
* Defringing selections
* Inverting a selection
* Feathering
* Editing selections
chapter 7 Layers
* Layering images
* Layers palette
* Adding layers
* Fill layers
* Adjustment layers
* Working with layers
* Blending layers
* Opacity
* Saving layers
chapter 8 Text and drawing tools
* Adding and formatting text
* Distorting text
* Text and shape masks
* Adding shapes
* Layer Styles
* Paint Bucket tool
* Gradient tool
* Brush and Pencil tools
* Impressionist Brush tool
* Working with color
chapter 9 Artwork and Effects
* About Artwork and Effects
* Artwork
* Themes
* Special Effects
* Text Effects
* Favorites
chapter 10 Sharing images
* Saving images for the Web
* Creatively emailing images
* Emailing to a phone
* Sharing online
* Sharing with Showcase
* Sharing with Easyshare
chapter 11 Getting creative
* About Creations
* Photo Book Pages
* Slide Shows
* VCDs
* Photo Galleries
* Flipbooks
* Photo Calendars
* PhotoStamps
chapter 12 Printing images
* Calibrating your monitor
* Print size
* Print Preview
* Printing multiple photos
* Print Layouts
* Online prints
* Creating PDF files
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