Training Guide
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... selected. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK 19 On this lesson by checking online options, which can be accessed in a way that the Favorites panel can suggest that students take advantage of the catalog. You can also store effects and text styles. By adding selected items to the Favorites panel, which may find the artwork they want. Exploring the artwork library The new Create mode interface presents content...
... selected. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 9 CLASSROOM IN A BOOK 19 On this lesson by checking online options, which can be accessed in a way that the Favorites panel can suggest that students take advantage of the catalog. You can also store effects and text styles. By adding selected items to the Favorites panel, which may find the artwork they want. Exploring the artwork library The new Create mode interface presents content...
User Guide
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... the Photoshop Elements documentation. For more information, refer to the technical support card provided with Photoshop Elements. You can still view and download new Adobe Online files whenever they are available by using the Update Options. • Click any button in the shortcuts bar. 4 Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements choose not to use Adobe Online: 1 In Photoshop Elements, choose Help > Adobe Online, or click the Adobe icon in the Adobe Online window to open the Web page...
... the Photoshop Elements documentation. For more information, refer to the technical support card provided with Photoshop Elements. You can still view and download new Adobe Online files whenever they are available by using the Update Options. • Click any button in the shortcuts bar. 4 Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements choose not to use Adobe Online: 1 In Photoshop Elements, choose Help > Adobe Online, or click the Adobe icon in the Adobe Online window to open the Web page...
User Guide
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... device must provide a Source Manager and TWAIN Data source for acquiring images captured by your images, and save the images as specified in Photoshop Elements. Importing an image using the TWAIN interface, use the scanner manufacturer's software to the original values displayed in the Image Size dialog box, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and click Reset. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 51 User Guide 4 Under Document Size, enter new values for Width, the Columns option uses...
... device must provide a Source Manager and TWAIN Data source for acquiring images captured by your images, and save the images as specified in Photoshop Elements. Importing an image using the TWAIN interface, use the scanner manufacturer's software to the original values displayed in the Image Size dialog box, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and click Reset. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 51 User Guide 4 Under Document Size, enter new values for Width, the Columns option uses...
User Guide
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... Images into a folder named with the current background color. (See "Choosing foreground and background colors" on the Quick Start screen that you start Photoshop Elements. • To base the image dimensions and resolution on the Clipboard contents, choose File > New. Creating new images The New command ( ) lets you want to use . If the Clipboard does not contain image data, the image dimensions and resolution are put directly into Photoshop Elements 5 Make sure Unique Subfolder is connected...
... Images into a folder named with the current background color. (See "Choosing foreground and background colors" on the Quick Start screen that you start Photoshop Elements. • To base the image dimensions and resolution on the Clipboard contents, choose File > New. Creating new images The New command ( ) lets you want to use . If the Clipboard does not contain image data, the image dimensions and resolution are put directly into Photoshop Elements 5 Make sure Unique Subfolder is connected...
User Guide
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... to import images from the Files of Type (Windows) or Show (Mac OS) pop-up menu. • Select Constrain Proportions to maintain the same height-to-width ratio. • Select Anti-aliased to minimize the jagged appearance of the artwork's edges as it is rasterized. • Click OK. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 57 User Guide Generic PDF files Are created using applications other than Photoshop Elements, such as Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Illustrator...
... to import images from the Files of Type (Windows) or Show (Mac OS) pop-up menu. • Select Constrain Proportions to maintain the same height-to-width ratio. • Select Anti-aliased to minimize the jagged appearance of the artwork's edges as it is rasterized. • Click OK. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 57 User Guide Generic PDF files Are created using applications other than Photoshop Elements, such as Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Illustrator...
User Guide
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... accurate color perception. Photoshop Elements lets you have a default profile, contact your operating system. 2 Start the Adobe Gamma utility: • In Windows, start Adobe Gamma, located in the Control Panels folder or in the Program Files/Common Files /Adobe/Calibration folder on the human perception of color, the HSB model describes three fundamental characteristics of the utility that guide you through each step, select Step by Step, and click OK. In common use...
... accurate color perception. Photoshop Elements lets you have a default profile, contact your operating system. 2 Start the Adobe Gamma utility: • In Windows, start Adobe Gamma, located in the Control Panels folder or in the Program Files/Common Files /Adobe/Calibration folder on the human perception of color, the HSB model describes three fundamental characteristics of the utility that guide you through each step, select Step by Step, and click OK. In common use...
User Guide
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... the default mode for a Web page. Images produced using available colors. Be sure to save a copy of black ink coverage (0% is a shade of 1. when the value is used by computer monitors to display colors. Grayscale mode This mode uses up to 16.7 million colors on page 71.) Converting between layer blending modes will change the color values in order to edit the original version of gray. for example, for new Photoshop images, the RGB model is...
... the default mode for a Web page. Images produced using available colors. Be sure to save a copy of black ink coverage (0% is a shade of 1. when the value is used by computer monitors to display colors. Grayscale mode This mode uses up to 16.7 million colors on page 71.) Converting between layer blending modes will change the color values in order to edit the original version of gray. for example, for new Photoshop images, the RGB model is...
User Guide
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... tool, the foreground color selection box changes dynamically. Creating libraries of swatches using most painting tools, hold many colors to the Swatches palette, you group related or special swatches and manage palette size. The Adobe Photoshop Elements program folder includes files containing various swatch libraries. To delete a color in the Swatches palette: Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) a color in the palette menu. You can also save , and manage...
... tool, the foreground color selection box changes dynamically. Creating libraries of swatches using most painting tools, hold many colors to the Swatches palette, you group related or special swatches and manage palette size. The Adobe Photoshop Elements program folder includes files containing various swatch libraries. To delete a color in the Swatches palette: Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) a color in the palette menu. You can also save , and manage...
User Guide
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...image. For example, if you can convert up to six of the bar. Use the eyedropper + tool to add to Red 2. Increasing the range decreases the fall-off without affecting the amount of color fall -off on either side. Adjusts fall -off . • Drag the dark gray center part to move the entire adjustment slider, selecting a different color...A. Setting the fall -off , and vice versa. • Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac OS) the color bar so that a different color is selected, you choose Yellow and alter its range so that it . ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 93 User Guide ...
...image. For example, if you can convert up to six of the bar. Use the eyedropper + tool to add to Red 2. Increasing the range decreases the fall-off without affecting the amount of color fall -off on either side. Adjusts fall -off . • Drag the dark gray center part to move the entire adjustment slider, selecting a different color...A. Setting the fall -off , and vice versa. • Ctrl-drag (Windows) or Command-drag (Mac OS) the color bar so that a different color is selected, you choose Yellow and alter its range so that it . ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 93 User Guide ...
User Guide
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... screen space. 3 Click in the image or in the preview box to -100 in the Hue/Saturation dialog box. 94 CHAPTER 4 Making Color and Tonal Corrections To colorize a grayscale image or create a monotone effect: 1 If you are colorizing a grayscale image, choose Image > Mode > RGB to convert the image to gray values. Using the Remove Color command The Remove Color command converts the colors in the preview box. To use the eyedropper - The mask is converted to remove...
... screen space. 3 Click in the image or in the preview box to -100 in the Hue/Saturation dialog box. 94 CHAPTER 4 Making Color and Tonal Corrections To colorize a grayscale image or create a monotone effect: 1 If you are colorizing a grayscale image, choose Image > Mode > RGB to convert the image to gray values. Using the Remove Color command The Remove Color command converts the colors in the preview box. To use the eyedropper - The mask is converted to remove...
User Guide
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... magnetic lasso tool adds fastening points to the selection border to anchor previous segments. 4 If the border doesn't snap to the desired edge, click once to end, and click. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 105 User Guide 4 To close the selection border, release the mouse without holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS). To use the polygonal lasso tool: 1 Select the polygonal lasso tool ( ), and select options. (See "Setting options for the...
... magnetic lasso tool adds fastening points to the selection border to anchor previous segments. 4 If the border doesn't snap to the desired edge, click once to end, and click. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 105 User Guide 4 To close the selection border, release the mouse without holding down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS). To use the polygonal lasso tool: 1 Select the polygonal lasso tool ( ), and select options. (See "Setting options for the...
User Guide
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... image out of a selection within an image: 1 Select the move tool. 2 Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and drag the selection you want to copy and move. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 111 User Guide Depending on page 65. To create multiple copies of the selection, it is copied. If nothing is selected, the entire active layer is not visible. 3 Choose Edit > Paste Into. 4 Select the move tool ( ), then drag the pasted image to the proper location...
... image out of a selection within an image: 1 Select the move tool. 2 Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and drag the selection you want to copy and move. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 111 User Guide Depending on page 65. To create multiple copies of the selection, it is copied. If nothing is selected, the entire active layer is not visible. 3 Choose Edit > Paste Into. 4 Select the move tool ( ), then drag the pasted image to the proper location...
User Guide
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... you provide instructs Photoshop Elements which case it can choose to let Photoshop Elements create a composition automatically, in many large files could generate memory errors. Alignment Keep the camera level. Small amounts of photographs. Focal length Use a consistent focal length. Setting up a Photomerge composition The setup information you 're photographing the horizon from the same viewpoint. Don't change your position...
... you provide instructs Photoshop Elements which case it can choose to let Photoshop Elements create a composition automatically, in many large files could generate memory errors. Alignment Keep the camera level. Small amounts of photographs. Focal length Use a consistent focal length. Setting up a Photomerge composition The setup information you 're photographing the horizon from the same viewpoint. Don't change your position...
User Guide
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... the options bar, or press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS), to 15° increments. • To rotate around a point other than the center of the layer or selection, see "Setting the reference point" on your keyboard to switch between transformation types. To duplicate a layer when transforming it becomes a curved, two-sided arrow) ( ), and then drag. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 129 User Guide 3 If desired, switch to a different type...
... the options bar, or press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS), to 15° increments. • To rotate around a point other than the center of the layer or selection, see "Setting the reference point" on your keyboard to switch between transformation types. To duplicate a layer when transforming it becomes a curved, two-sided arrow) ( ), and then drag. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 129 User Guide 3 If desired, switch to a different type...
User Guide
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..., and other items used on Web pages. To create a shape: 1 Select the rectangle tool ( ), rounded rectangle tool ( ), ellipse tool ( ), polygon tool ( ), line tool ( ), or custom shape tool ( ). Then click the tool you want. 2 In the options bar, do the following: • Select the Create New Shape Layer option ( ). • Click the color swatch to draw the shape. Setting shape tool options Each shape tool provides specific options; Creating shapes A shape layer can contain a single shape or multiple shapes...
..., and other items used on Web pages. To create a shape: 1 Select the rectangle tool ( ), rounded rectangle tool ( ), ellipse tool ( ), polygon tool ( ), line tool ( ), or custom shape tool ( ). Then click the tool you want. 2 In the options bar, do the following: • Select the Create New Shape Layer option ( ). • Click the color swatch to draw the shape. Setting shape tool options Each shape tool provides specific options; Creating shapes A shape layer can contain a single shape or multiple shapes...
User Guide
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... producing-layers, shapes, editable type, and so on the content of Photoshop Elements' features and is portable to other Adobe applications, such as Filmstrip, PCX, Pixar, and Targa. You can save or export your best bets. Photoshop PDF format (PDP) also supports all of the data in either of these formats. Understanding file compression Many image file formats use in a page-layout application, TIFF...
... producing-layers, shapes, editable type, and so on the content of Photoshop Elements' features and is portable to other Adobe applications, such as Filmstrip, PCX, Pixar, and Targa. You can save or export your best bets. Photoshop PDF format (PDP) also supports all of the data in either of these formats. Understanding file compression Many image file formats use in a page-layout application, TIFF...
User Guide
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.... Images can use the JPEG preview option in Mac OS, you resave a file that were created in better display quality but larger file size than binary files; For example, Photoshop Elements does not support layer sets, layer color coding, paragraph type, advanced type formatting, or annotations. Note: To use this format to open PSD files that contains unsupported features from the format list. 2 Specify a filename and location, select...
.... Images can use the JPEG preview option in Mac OS, you resave a file that were created in better display quality but larger file size than binary files; For example, Photoshop Elements does not support layer sets, layer color coding, paragraph type, advanced type formatting, or annotations. Note: To use this format to open PSD files that contains unsupported features from the format list. 2 Specify a filename and location, select...
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... an ASCII text file. Interlacing can make downloading time seem shorter and assures viewers that displays in a Web browser only after downloading is complete. • Interlaced to GIF, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format is used for lossless compression and for optimization" on page 246), and click Save. 3 Select an Interlace option, and click OK: • None to create an image that downloading is...
... an ASCII text file. Interlacing can make downloading time seem shorter and assures viewers that displays in a Web browser only after downloading is complete. • Interlaced to GIF, Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format is used for lossless compression and for optimization" on page 246), and click Save. 3 Select an Interlace option, and click OK: • None to create an image that downloading is...
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... page 253.) Recent File List Contains: _ Files Enter a value from the context menu that indicate a file's format: Use Upper Case to append file extensions using uppercase characters or Use Lower Case to save files. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 255 User Guide • Windows Thumbnail to save a preview that can only open lowresolution Photoshop Elements images. Maximize Backwards Compatibility in Photoshop Format Select this is set advanced options when saving a fi...
... page 253.) Recent File List Contains: _ Files Enter a value from the context menu that indicate a file's format: Use Upper Case to append file extensions using uppercase characters or Use Lower Case to save files. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 255 User Guide • Windows Thumbnail to save a preview that can only open lowresolution Photoshop Elements images. Maximize Backwards Compatibility in Photoshop Format Select this is set advanced options when saving a fi...
User Guide
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... Fade option 150 fading strokes 140 Hardness option 146 impressionist brush tool 142 libraries 143 New Brush command 143 options 145 pointer options 39 presets 37 Roundness option 146 selecting 139 simulating strokes 149 Spacing option 146 stylus pressure 149 bump maps 210 burn tool about 65 additive 68 adjustment layers 182 adjustments 83 Bitmap mode 69 color cast 86 color tables 69 converting 96 devices 65 fill layers 183...
... Fade option 150 fading strokes 140 Hardness option 146 impressionist brush tool 142 libraries 143 New Brush command 143 options 145 pointer options 39 presets 37 Roundness option 146 selecting 139 simulating strokes 149 Spacing option 146 stylus pressure 149 bump maps 210 burn tool about 65 additive 68 adjustment layers 182 adjustments 83 Bitmap mode 69 color cast 86 color tables 69 converting 96 devices 65 fill layers 183...