Photoshop Elements 8

Photoshop Elements 8

By Ken Bluttman
July 2010
Pearson Education
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9780273734390
223 pages, Illustrated
$32.50 Paper Original

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?

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