Book description
Photoshop Elements lets you edit and enhance your digital photographs and images with professional quality tools. Whether you’re a professional photographer or a beginner, Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies gives you the scoop on using this full-featured photo-editing program.
You’ll find out how to transform your ordinary photos into visually stunning creations. This book gives you the tools to enhance your images, fix flaws, share pictures online, correct small problems with Quick Fix, keep track of images with the Project Bin, take charge with Shortcuts, present your photos as a slideshow, use Web hosting, animate images, and create movie files. You’ll also learn to:
Use the Organizer to move around efficiently in Elements
Correct color, brightness, contrast, and exposure
Use Adobe’s free Photoshop.com service
Streamline your work using shortcuts
Work with bitmap, grayscale, and indexed color modes
Create albums and import images
Follow creative applications for filters and effects
Prepare images for printing
Turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo albums
Straighten crooked lines, crop for effect, or fix color, sharpness, red-eye, and contrast
Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies shows you how to use all the Elements of great image editing, management, and photo fun. Whether you’re concerned about color profile embedding or just want to put your kid’s photo on a calendar, you’ll learn how with this book!
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Authors
- Authors' Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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I. Getting Started
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1. Getting to Know the Work Area
- 1.1. Launching Photoshop Elements 7
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1.2. Getting Around in Full Edit Mode
- 1.2.1. Jumping to Full Edit mode
- 1.2.2. Examining the image window
- 1.2.3. Moving through the menu bar
- 1.2.4. Uncovering the context menus
- 1.2.5. Using the Tools panel
- 1.2.6. Playing with panels
- 1.2.7. Selecting tool options from the Options bar
- 1.2.8. Juggling all your interface options
- 1.2.9. Looking at shortcuts
- 1.3. Changing Workspaces
- 1.4. Using the Project Bin
- 1.5. Retracing Your Steps
- 1.6. Getting a Helping Hand
- 2. Getting Ready to Edit
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3. Working with Resolutions, Color Modes, and File Formats
- 3.1. The Ubiquitous Pixels
- 3.2. The Art of Resampling
- 3.3. Choosing a Resolution for Print or Onscreen
- 3.4. Go Ahead — Make My Mode!
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3.5. Saving Files with Purpose
- 3.5.1. Using the Save/Save As dialog box
- 3.5.2. Saving files for the Web
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3.5.3. Understanding file formats
- 3.5.3.1. Photoshop (*.PSD, *.PDD)
- 3.5.3.2. BMP (*.BMP, *.RLE, *.DIB)
- 3.5.3.3. CompuServe GIF (*.GIF)
- 3.5.3.4. Photo Project Format (*.PSE)
- 3.5.3.5. Photoshop EPS (*.EPS)
- 3.5.3.6. JPEG (*.JPG, *.JPEG, *.JPE)
- 3.5.3.7. JPEG 2000 (*.JPF, *.JPX, *.JP2, *. J2K, *.JPC)
- 3.5.3.8. PCX (*.PCX)
- 3.5.3.9. Photoshop PDF (*.PDF, *.PDP)
- 3.5.3.10. Photoshop Raw (*.RAW)
- 3.5.3.11. PICT File (*.PCT, *.PICT)
- 3.5.3.12. Pixar (*.PXR)
- 3.5.3.13. PNG (*.PNG)
- 3.5.3.14. Scitex CT (*.SCT)
- 3.5.3.15. Targa (*.TGA, *.VDA, *.ICB, *.VST)
- 3.5.3.16. TIFF (*.TIF, *.TIFF)
- 3.5.4. File formats at a glance
- 3.5.5. Audio and video formats supported in Elements
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1. Getting to Know the Work Area
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II. Getting Organized
- 4. Getting Your Images
- 5. Viewing and Finding Your Images
- 6. Organizing and Managing Your Photos
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III. Selecting and Correcting Photos
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7. Making and Modifying Selections
- 7.1. Defining Selections
- 7.2. Creating Rectangular and Elliptical Selections
- 7.3. Making Freeform Selections with the Lasso Tools
- 7.4. Working Wizardry with the Magic Wand
- 7.5. Modifying Your Selections
- 7.6. Painting with the Selection Brush
- 7.7. Painting with the Quick Selection Brush
- 7.8. Working with the Cookie Cutter Tool
- 7.9. Eliminating with the Eraser Tools
- 7.10. Using the Magic Extractor Command
- 7.11. Using the Select Menu
- 8. Working with Layers
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9. Simple Image Makeovers
- 9.1. Cropping and Straightening Images
- 9.2. Employing One-Step Auto Fixes
- 9.3. Editing with Quick Fix
- 9.4. Cloning with the Clone Stamp Tool
- 9.5. Retouching with the Healing Brush
- 9.6. Zeroing In with the Spot Healing Brush
- 9.7. Lightening and Darkening with Dodge and Burn Tools
- 9.8. Smudging Away Rough Spots
- 9.9. Softening with the Blur Tool
- 9.10. Focusing with the Sharpen Tool
- 9.11. Sponging Color On and Off
- 9.12. Replacing One Color with Another
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10. Correcting Contrast, Color, and Clarity
- 10.1. Adjusting Lighting
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10.2. Adjusting Color
- 10.2.1. Removing colorcasts automatically
- 10.2.2. Adjusting with Hue/Saturation
- 10.2.3. Eliminating color with Remove Color
- 10.2.4. Switching colors with Replace Color
- 10.2.5. Correcting with Color Curves
- 10.2.6. Adjusting skin tones
- 10.2.7. Defringing layers
- 10.2.8. Correcting with Color Variations
- 10.2.9. Adjusting color temperature with photo filters
- 10.2.10. Mapping your colors
- 10.3. Adjusting Clarity
- 10.4. Working Intelligently with the Smart Brush tools
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7. Making and Modifying Selections
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IV. Exploring Your Inner Artist
- 11. Playing with Filters, Effects, Styles, and More
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12. Drawing and Painting
- 12.1. Choosing Color
- 12.2. Getting Artsy with the Pencil and Brush Tools
- 12.3. Filling and Outlining Selections
- 12.4. Splashing On Color with the Paint Bucket Tool
- 12.5. Working with Multicolored Gradients
- 12.6. Working with Patterns
- 12.7. Creating Shapes of All Sorts
- 13. Working with Type
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V. Printing, Creating, and Sharing
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14. Getting It on Paper
- 14.1. Getting Pictures Ready for Printing
- 14.2. Working with Color Printer Profiles
- 14.3. Printing to Epson Inkjet Printers
- 14.4. Printing to HP Inkjet Printers
- 14.5. Printing to Canon Printers
- 14.6. Submitting Files to Service Centers
- 14.7. Using Online Printing Services
- 14.8. Exploring Other Print Options
- 15. Showing It Onscreen
- 16. Making Creations and Sharing
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14. Getting It on Paper
- VI. The Part of Tens
Product information
- Title: Photoshop® Elements 7 for Dummies®
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2008
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9780470397008
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