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Legal notices Legal notices For legal notices, see http://help.adobe.com/en_US/legalnotices/index.html. Last updated 1/2/2012 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 3
Chapter 1: Getting started System requirements 1 Installing/uninstalling Adobe Photoshop Elements 1 Creating an Adobe ID 2 Registering your software 2 Supported software and hardware 2 What's new in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 2 Converting a catalog from a previous version 2 Help resources - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 4
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 iv Contents Layer masks ...80 Clipping masks ...80 Layer styles ...82 Chapter color 186 Using image modes and color tables 188 Setting up color management 193 Chapter 10: Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Effects ...196 Filters ...200 Artistic filters ...205 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 5
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 v Contents Stylize filters ...221 Texture filters ...223 Video filters ... ...301 Print options ...308 Send photos to online sharing services 309 Sharing photos ...309 Chapter 16: Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts 310 Keys for viewing - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 6
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 vi Contents Keys for the Magic Extractor dialog box 314 Keys for transforming selections 314 Keys for painting and brushes 314 Keys for using text - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 7
requirements of Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10 for Windows and Mac OS, see www.adobe.com/go/ instructions. See http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_installpse10_en for comprehensive information on installing Photoshop Elements from your installation disc. Install downloaded software See http://www.adobe - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 8
, other hardware, and devices supported by Photoshop Elements, see http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_readmepse10_en. If you do not have access to the Internet, open the ReadMe file on the installation disc. What's new in Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Visit www.adobe.com/go/learn_pse_features_en to learn - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 9
resources that help you quickly start using Photoshop Elements. Help and Support page See http://www.adobe.com/support/photoshopelements/ for quick links to all key resources for Photoshop Elements. Adobe Photoshop Elements Help Find step-by-step instructions for how to use the various features - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 10
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 4 Getting started Download User Guide (PDF) See http://www.adobe.com/go/learn_pdfpse_en. Help menu Use the Help menu in Photoshop Elements to quickly access a list of resources that help you get started with the software. Photoshop Elements Help If you are using Elements - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 11
photos and video clips As you work in Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10, you start by importing photos into Elements Organizer. You can import photos from devices such as cameras, card readers, and scanners or from any folder on a computer. In Elements Organizer, you can view, manage, and find all - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 12
import into Adobe Photoshop Elements are not deleted from the camera or card. 5 (Optional) (Windows) To automatically download photos to Photoshop Elements after a device is connected, select Automatic Download. Automatic download options are set in the Camera Or Card Reader preferences. 6 (Optional - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 13
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 7 Getting started Adobe Photoshop Elements automatically organizes photos by date as they download. Elements Organizer has a Timeline (choose Window > Timeline) and Date View for finding photos by date. You can further sort and categorize photos by adding star ratings, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 14
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 8 Getting started The album appears in the Albums panel objects in photos through Object search. For more information, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_org10_photos_find_en. Here are a few of the features in Elements Organizer to find photos: Find bar Drag a photo to the Find - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 15
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 9 service. You can also use your photos in online photo galleries, photo slideshows, and flipbooks. For more information, see www.adobe mail creation are not supported in Mac OS. Create and share a slideshow (Windows only) 1 In Elements Organizer, select the photos - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 16
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 10 Getting started Fixing (editing) photos Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10 tab, select Crop, and then follow the instructions in the Crop dialog box. Resize a Guided editing modes Photoshop Elements provides additional editing modes in the Edit workspace: Full, Quick, and Guided - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 17
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 11 Getting started In the Edit workspace, photos appear in the Project Bin. You can move between the photos you want to fix by doubleclicking them in the Project Bin. Do I have to use Elements Photoshop Elements provides many automatic and manual with Guided Edits With Guided - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 18
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 12 Getting started To access the Guided Edits options: 1 Click the Edit tab in the Editor. 2 Click the Guided tab. 3 Select a type of Guided Edit. Saving your edits After you edit an image in the Edit workspace, save it, or you'll lose your work. Fixes you make in - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 19
Photoshop Elements opens the message in your default email application. What if I use a web-based email service? If you use a web-based email service such . Back up/synchronize files Note: Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10 free online benefits and Photoshop Elements Plus are available in the United - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 20
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 14 Getting started Backup/Synchronization Window 1 Start Elements Organizer, and then sign in with your Adobe ID. 2 Choose instructions to enable Backup/Synchronization. View Backup/Synchronization activity status ❖ Do one of the following: • Right-click the Elements - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 21
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 15 Getting started Start backup and synchronization activity manually Backup/Synchronization is a scheduled activity. The Elements Backup/Synchronization Agent checks for assets to synchronize at regular intervals. Between these periods of activity, the Elements Backup - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 22
the Fix tab, and then choose Full Photo Edit, Quick Photo Edit, or Guided Photo Edit. When you are working in the Edit workspace, click the Organizer Settings to launch the Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 dialog box. Select the option to control the Adobe Photoshop Elements launch behavior. Select one - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 23
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 17 Photoshop Elements workspace Edit Launch Settings More Help topics "Creating an Adobe ID" on page 2 The Edit workspace For a video about the Quick Fix mode, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid905_pse_en. The Edit workspace provides modes to create and edit images. Select one - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 24
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 Photoshop Elements workspace A B C D E F 18 I G H Full Edit workspace A. Inactive tab B. Active tab C. Active image area D. Menu bar E Options bar file information in the Info panel or status bar" on page 42 "Creating an Adobe ID" on page 2 Last updated 1/2/2012 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 25
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 19 Photoshop Elements workspace Launch the Elements Inspiration Browser The Inspiration Browser lets you access and organize tutorials that contain ideas and ways to do more with your media files. ❖ To launch the Inspiration Browser, select Help > Elements Inspiration - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 26
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 20 Photoshop Elements workspace • Click the Close button (X) in the upper-right corner of the workspace. 2 When closing the Edit workspace, choose whether to save any open files. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 27
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 21 Photoshop Elements workspace Toolbox overview A Navigation and D Crop tools F Painting and A measuring tools a tool For videos about automatic and manual selection of tools, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid907_pse_en and www.adobe.com/go/lrvid908_pse_en. ❖ Do one of - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 28
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 22 Photoshop Elements workspace A D E B C F Using tools A. Toolbox B. Active tool Edit preferences 1 In Windows, choose Edit > Preferences > General. In Mac, choose Photoshop Elements > Preferences > General. 2 Set one or more of the following options, and click - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 29
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 23 Photoshop Elements workspace • To change the hardness of a cursor, press Shift more information on setting options for a specific tool, search for the tool's name in Photoshop Elements Help. Note: To return a tool or all tools to their default settings, click the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 30
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 24 Photoshop Elements workspace Dragging a panel. Panel menus Some commands Enter to close the slider box. To cancel changes, press Esc. To increase or decrease values in 10% increments when the pop-up slider box is open, hold down Shift and press the Up Arrow or - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 31
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 25 Photoshop Elements workspace B C A D The Panel Bin A. Change panel tools B. Adjust panel height C. Panel menu D. Scroll to view rest of panel 1 To show or hide the Panel Bin, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 32
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 26 Photoshop Elements workspace • To move a panel group, drag the title default positions in the Edit workspace, choose Edit > Preferences > General in Windows (Photoshop Elements > Preferences > General in Mac), and then deselect Save Panel Locations. The change - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 33
10 27 Photoshop Elements workspace • To delete the current page, choose Delete Current Page from the context menu. • To show filenames, right-click in the Project Bin and choose Show Filenames from the context menu. • To open or close the Project Bin, choose Window > Project Bin. • To manually - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 34
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 28 Photoshop Elements workspace Place two fingers on the image and pinch to zoom out Using Windows 7 features Photoshop Elements supports the following Windows 7 features: Live Taskbar Displays icons for all running and pinned applications. The icons for all running - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 35
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 29 Photoshop Elements workspace Undo, redo, and cancel Undo, redo, History panel in Performance Preferences (in Windows, Edit > Preferences> Performance; in Mac, Photoshop Elements > Preferences> Performance). The maximum number of states is 1000. • The original state - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 36
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 30 Photoshop Elements workspace • Selecting a state and then changing Undo History. Clearing is useful for freeing up memory, especially if you get an alert that Photoshop Elements is low on memory. Note: Clearing the Undo History panel cannot be undone. Clear memory - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 37
. ❖ Press and hold Alt+Control+Shift immediately after Photoshop Elements begins launching. Click Yes to delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements settings file. A new preferences file is created the next time you start Photoshop Elements. For information on a specific preference option, search for - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 38
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 32 Photoshop Elements workspace Change scratch disks Photoshop Elements needs contiguous hard drive space to create a scratch disk. For this reason you should frequently defragment your hard drive. Adobe recommends that you use a disk tool utility, such as Windows Disk - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 39
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 33 Photoshop Elements workspace 2 In the Preferences dialog, select Additional Plug-ins Folder, select a folder from the list, and click Choose. 3 To display the contents of a folder, double- - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 40
them in Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10. In the Edit workspace, you can create a blank file, open a recently used file, specify which files types to open in Photoshop Elements, and more. An additional option for working in the Edit workspace is to use the Guided Edit feature. Guided Edits helps - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 41
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 35 Working in Photoshop Elements To open a file from the Media Browser in Elements Organizer, select it, click the triangle beside the Fix tab and select Full Photo Edit . 1 In the Edit workspace, choose File > Open. 2 Locate and select - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 42
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 36 Working in Photoshop Elements With the Import PDF dialog box, you can preview the pages and images in a multipage PDF supported by virtually all graphics, illustration, and page-layout programs. Adobe applications that produce PostScript artwork include Adobe Illustrator - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 43
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 37 Working in Photoshop Elements 3 Indicate the desired dimensions, resolution, and artwork into Photoshop Elements using the Place command and the Paste command. Place a PDF, Adobe Illustrator, or EPS file in a new layer You can place PDF, Adobe® Illustrator®, or EPS - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 44
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 38 Working in Photoshop Elements Process multiple files The Process Multiple Files command images. (Your scanner or digital camera may need an acquire plug-in module that supports these actions.) When processing files, you can leave all the files open, close and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 45
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 39 Working in Photoshop Elements Close a file 1 Do one of the following in the Edit Certain digital cameras import images using Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) support. When you use WIA, Photoshop Elements works with Windows and your digital camera or scanner software - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 46
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 40 Working in Photoshop Elements Photoshop Elements. The information you add is embedded in the file using XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform). XMP provides Adobe Info dialog box. Some file formats, such as PDF and BMP, do not support tags as keywords. 1 With an image open, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 47
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 41 Working in Photoshop Elements Use the Info panel in the Edit workspace In the Full Edit workspace, the Info panel displays file information about an image and also provides - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 48
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 42 Working in Photoshop Elements Display file information in the Info panel or status bar In the Edit workspace, you can change the information displayed in the Info panel or - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 49
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 43 Working in Photoshop Elements 2 Select an import option and click OK. 3 Choose a template from the list of saved metadata templates and click Open. Viewing images in the Edit workspace - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 50
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 44 Working in Photoshop Elements Dragging the Zoom tool to magnify the view of an image. • Click the Zoom In or Zoom Out button in the Navigator panel. • Choose View > - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 51
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 45 Working in Photoshop Elements When Resize Windows To Fit is deselected, the window maintains a constant size regardless of the image's magnification. This can be helpful when you are using - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 52
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 46 Working in Photoshop Elements Note: The Window > Images options are enabled only when , and shapes) precisely across the width or length of an image. In Quick Fix, only guides and grids are available. When visible, rulers appear along the top and left side of the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 53
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 47 Working in Photoshop Elements 1 In Full Edit or Quick Fix, choose Edit > Preferences > Guides & Grid. 2 For Color, choose a preset color, or click and file formats For a video about this process, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid2321_pse9_en. After you edit an image in the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 54
web. PCX A bitmap format widely supported on a variety of platforms. Photoshop (PSD) The standard Photoshop Elements format for images. You should Adobe Photoshop® and PDFs are opened in Acrobat. Photoshop EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) Used to share Photoshop files with many illustration and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 55
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 49 Working in Photoshop Elements TIFF (Tagged-Image File Format) Used to exchange files between applications and computer platforms. TIFF is a flexible bitmap image format supported by most paint, image-editing, and page-layout applications. Most desktop scanners can - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 56
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 50 Working in Photoshop Elements ICC Profile Embed a color profile in the larger in size, require more RAM for viewing, and are not supported by all applications and web browsers. 6 To view the estimated download time of the image, select a modem speed from the Size - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 57
from the Image Quality menu. 5 To view the PDF file, select View PDF After Saving to launch Adobe Acrobat or Adobe® Reader (depending on which application is installed on your computer). 6 Click Save PDF. If you've made changes to an Acrobat Touchup file, but the changes are not reflected when - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 58
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 52 Working in Photoshop Elements Save a file in TIFF format 1 In the Photoshop Elements does not provide options for opening multiresolution files; the image opens at the highest resolution within the file. However, Adobe InDesign® and some image servers provide support - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 59
Adobe Camera Raw For Supported Raw Files Ensures that all the supported raw files are opened with Adobe 10. More Help topics "Save changes in different file formats" on page 49 Guided Edit The Guided : The Guided Edits available may vary in your version of Photoshop Elements. Photomerge Intelligently - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 60
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 54 Working in Photoshop Elements Automated Actions Lets you complete complex workflows in a small number of easy steps by allowing you to select an action set, then play the actions within that file. Use the Guided Edit options 1 Click the Edit tab in the Edit - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 61
Thumbdatabase.db3 files from System Library/Application Support/Adobe/Photoshop Elements/10.0/Locales/en_US. 4 Restart PSE Editor and allow the application to rebuild the media database. The Remove A Color Cast Guided Edit Use the Remove a Color Cast Guided Edit to correct color casts in an image - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 62
use features supported by Photoshop Elements. Keep in mind that the Automated Actions may not work on all file types or layers. 1 In the Edit workspace with the Edit Guided tab selected, make sure that Automated Actions is expanded and then click Action Player. 2 Follow the instructions and choose - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 63
C:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\10.0\Locale\en_US\Workflow Panels\actions Mac System library/Application Support /Adobe /Photoshop Elements /10.0/Locale/en_US/Workflow Panels/actions The next time you start Photoshop Elements, the action will appear in the Automated Actions guided edit menu - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 64
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 58 Working in Photoshop Elements 5 To define areas of focus, click applied to the rest of the image. 1 Open the image in Photoshop Elements. 2 Click Depth of Field. You can locate this option in the Guided panel under Lens Effects. 3 Click Custom. 4 Click the Quick - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 65
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 59 Working in Photoshop Elements 6 Using the Quick Selection tool, select the part of mode after applying the effect, you can move the snapshots around. 1 In the Edit panel, select Guided. 2 In the Photo Play options, select Photo Stack. 3 You can split an image into - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 66
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 60 Working in Photoshop Elements intensifies the effect. Transform an image into pop art In Guided Edit, transform an image into pop art in three simple Pop Art. 2 Choose a style and follow the onscreen instructions: Style A Convert the image mode, add color, and duplicate - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 67
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 61 Working in Photoshop Elements 5 (Optional) Adjust the intensity of reflection. 6 (Optional) Click Add Distortion to distort the reflection in a realistic way. 7 (Optional) Click Crop Tool to remove unnecessary areas. 8 ( - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 68
through to the layers below. Layers are organized in the Layers panel. It's a good idea to keep this panel visible whenever you're working in Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10. With one glance, you can see the active layer (the selected layer that you are editing). You can link layers, so they move as - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 69
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 63 Using layers You can't paint on an adjustment layer, although you can paint on its mask. To paint on fill or type layers, you - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 70
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 64 Using layers The layer is visible. Click the eye to box. The layer is locked. The image contains layer groups and was imported from Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop Elements doesn't support layer groups and displays them in their collapsed state. You must simplify them to - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 71
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 65 Using layers Create and name a new blank layer ❖ Do one of the following in the Edit workspace: • To create a layer with default name and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 72
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 66 Using layers Convert the Background layer into a regular layer The Background layer is the bottom layer in an image. Other layers stack on top - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 73
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 67 Using layers Show or hide a layer In the Layers panel, the eye icon in the leftmost column next to a layer means that the layer - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 74
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 68 Using layers • (Windows only) Right-click the layer and click Simplify in the options bar. • If you selected a type, shape, or fill layer, or a Photoshop layer group, choose Simplify Layer from either the Layer menu or the Layers panel More menu. More Help topics - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 75
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 69 Using layers If you want to paint using sampled data from all visible layers, do the following: 1 In the Edit workspace, select the Magic - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 76
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 70 Using layers More Help topics "Understanding layers" on page 62 "About image size and resolution" on page 151 Copy a layer from one image to - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 77
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 71 Using layers Move the content in a layer Layers are like stacked images the layer or layers in 1-pixel increments, or press Shift and an arrow key to move the layer in 10-pixel increments. • Hold down Shift as you drag to move the layer or layers directly up or down - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 78
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 72 Using layers More Help topics "Understanding layers" on page 62 "Convert the Background layer into a regular layer" on page 66 Link and unlink layers - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 79
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 73 Using layers You can choose to merge only the linked Mac OS), and choose Merge Visible from either the Layers menu or the Layers panel More menu. Photoshop Elements merges a copy of all visible layers into the selected layer. More Help topics "Understanding layers" - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 80
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 74 Using layers Flatten an image When you flatten an image, Photoshop Elements merges all visible layers into the background, greatly reducing the file size. Flattening an image discards all hidden layers, and fills any transparent areas with - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 81
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 75 Using layers More Help topics "Understanding layers" on page 62 "About blending modes" on page 227 "About painting tools" on page 226 Specify the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 82
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 76 Using layers Customize the transparency grid The checkerboard grid from the Color Picker. More Help topics "About the Layers panel" on page 63 "Use the Adobe Color Picker" on page 233 Adjustment and fill layers About adjustment and fill layers Adjustment layers let - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 83
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 77 Using layers More Help topics "Edit the layer masks" on page 79 "About opacity and blending options in layers" on page 74 "Apply the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 84
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 78 Using layers Selecting Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask in step 3, groups the adjustment layer with the layer immediately below it and the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 85
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 79 Using layers Merging adjustment layers You can merge an adjustment or fill layer in several ways: with the layer below it, with other selected - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 86
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 80 Using layers • To view the mask in a red masking color, hold down Alt+Shift (Option+Shift in Mac OS) and click the layer mask's - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 87
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 81 Using layers You can group only successive layers. The name of the base layer in the group is underlined, and the thumbnails for the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 88
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 82 Using layers • In the Layers panel, select any layer in the group except the base layer. Either drag the layer below the base layer, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 89
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 83 Using layers Inner Glow Size Specifies the size of a glow that emanates from the inside edges of the layer's content. You can also set - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 90
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 84 Using layers Hide or show all layer styles in an image ❖ Choose one of the following: • Layer > Layer Style > Hide All Effects. • Layer > Layer - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 91
of preset camera profiles supported by Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10 and set certain values download the files from the camera, they have file extensions like NEF, CRW, and so on. Photoshop Elements can open raw files only from supported cameras. Visit the Adobe website to view a list of supported - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 92
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 files" on page 90.) To undo your manual adjustments and make the adjustments automatically, select ) in Photoshop Elements, click Open. You can edit the image and save it in a Photoshop Elements-supported format. is a variation of the Adobe Photoshop Unsharp Mask filter, which - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 93
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 87 Camera raw files 3 Move the Sharpness slider to the right to raw image with your changes in a .dng file. Be aware that saving the file does not open it in Photoshop Elements. (To open a camera raw file, just use the Open command, like you would with any other file. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 94
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 88 flash photos of people and green or white eye in pets. Open Preferences Dialog Opens the Camera Raw Preferences dialog. Rotate buttons Rotates the photo either counterclockwise or clockwise. Set custom camera settings When you open a camera raw file, Photoshop Elements - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 95
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 89 Camera raw files Color and camera raw Using the histogram . You can adjust it if the white balance is not quite right. The Adjust tab in the Photoshop Camera Raw dialog box includes the following three controls for correcting a color cast in your image: White - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 96
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 90 Camera raw files A B C Correcting the white balance A. Moving the Temperature slider to the right corrects a photo taken at a higher color temperature of light. B. Moving - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 97
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 91 Camera raw files Hold down Alt (Option key in Mac) Using the Blacks slider is similar to using the black point slider for input levels when using the Photoshop Levels command or the After Effects Levels effect. Brightness Adjusts the brightness of the image, much - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 98
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 92 Camera raw files Sharpening Sharpening enhances the definition noise. • Color: Adjusts chroma noise. Camera Profile Chooses the Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) profile. For each camera model it supports, Camera Raw uses profiles to process raw images. To choose from - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 99
border, but you can't touch areas outside the selection border until you deselect the selection. Making selections About selections Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10 contains several selection tools that suit different kinds of selections. For example, the Elliptical Marquee tool selects circular and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 100
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 94 Selecting parts of an image About the selection tools The selection tools are located in the Tools panel, which is located, by default, on - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 101
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 95 Selecting parts of an image • To smooth the edges of your selection, select Anti-aliased (Elliptical Marquee tool only). • From the Mode pop-up - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 102
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 96 Selecting parts of an image A BC DE FG Polygonal Lasso tool options A. Lasso tool B. Polygonal Lasso tool C. Magnetic Lasso tool D. New selection E. Add to - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 103
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 97 Selecting parts of an image 2 (Optional) Set Magnetic along the border. 4 Close the selection border by doing one of the following: • To close the border manually, drag back over the starting point and click. A closed circle appears next to the pointer when you are - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 104
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 98 Selecting parts of an image • To select only adjacent areas using the same colors, select Contiguous. When this option is deselected, pixels using the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 105
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 99 Selecting parts of an image Use the Selection Brush tool The Selection Brush tool makes selections two ways: you can paint over the area - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 106
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 100 Selecting parts of an image Use the Magic Extractor Use the Magic Extractor to make accurate selections based on the appearance of foreground and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 107
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 101 Selecting parts of an image 7 To specify a different switch between the two views. • To specify a different background, choose an option from the Background menu. 10 Do any of the following to fine-tune the selection, and then preview the results again: • To - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 108
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 102 Selecting parts of an image Select and deselect areas using . • To move the selection in 1-pixel increments, use an arrow key. • To move the selection in 10-pixel increments, hold down Shift, and use an arrow key. • To constrain the direction to multiples of 45 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 109
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 103 Selecting parts of an image Add to or subtract from a selection You can add to or subtract from an existing selection to fine-tune - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 110
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 104 Selecting parts of an image 3 For Expand By or Contract By, enter a pixel value between 1 and 100, and click OK. The selection border is - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 111
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 105 Selecting parts of an image Remove stray pixels from a color-based selection The Smooth command searches around each selected pixel for other pixels within - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 112
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 106 Selecting parts of an image Smoothing selection edges with anti-aliasing and feathering Smooth the edges of a selection by anti-aliasing You can smooth - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 113
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 107 Selecting parts of an image 2 Choose Select > Feather. 3 Type a value between .2 and 250 in the Feather Radius text box, and click OK. The feather - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 114
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 108 Selecting parts of an image Distribute menu Spaces selected Copy Merged to copy all layers in the selected area to the Clipboard. When you exit Photoshop Elements, anything in the Clipboard is lost unless Export Clipboard is selected in the General Preferences. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 115
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 109 Selecting parts of an image A B C Copying a selection from one image to another A. Part of the original photo selected B. Photo to copy and paste into - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 116
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 110 Selecting parts of an image Saving selection (top), loading selection (center), and using the selection to fill with a solid color (bottom) 1 In the Edit - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 117
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 111 Selecting parts of an image Intersect With Selection Replaces the saved selection with the intersection between the current selection and the saved selection. You - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 118
Guided Edit If you are new to digital imaging and Photoshop Elements, you can use Guided Edit to guide Photoshop Elements, first save them in a supported file format. More Help topics "About camera raw image files" on page 85 Correct color in Quick Fix For a video about using Quick Fix, see www.adobe - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 119
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 113 Color and tonal correction Using the Auto Lighten Shadows adjustment in Quick Fix to instantly fix the photo 1 Do one of the following: • Select one or more photos in Elements Organizer, click the arrow beside Fix, and click Edit Photos. • With a photo open in the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 120
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 114 Color and tonal correction 4 Click the Commit button to save button beside any of these options. (See "About Levels adjustments" on page 125 or "The Adjust Levels Guided Edit" on page 55.) • Shadows Drag the slider to lighten the darkest areas of your photo without - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 121
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 to remove red eye from a photo. This tool removes red eye in flash photos of people, and green or white eye in pets. Drag the to the sky. For a video about making dull skies blue, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid909_pse_en. • Click the Black And White-High Contrast button to apply - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 122
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 116 Color and tonal correction Quick Selection tool Selects adjustment and fill layers" on page 76. A B C Full Edit A. There are many tools for correcting problems and selecting portions of a photo. B. The Project Bin lets you see which photos are open in the Edit - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 123
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 117 Color and tonal Guided Edit" on page 55.) 6. Adjust the color balance. After correcting the tonal range, you can adjust the image's color balance to remove unwanted color casts or to correct oversaturated or undersaturated colors. With some Photoshop Elements - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 124
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 118 Color and tonal correction Automatically correct lighting and color Photoshop Elements provides several automatic lighting and color-correction commands in both Full Edit and Quick Fix. The command you choose depends on the needs of your - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 125
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 119 Color and tonal correction A B C D E Histogram panel A. Channel menu B. Panel menu C. Uncached Refresh button D. Cache Data Warning icon E. Statistics If many pixels are bunched up - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 126
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 120 Color and tonal correction More Help topics "About camera raw image files" on page 85 "Using the histogram and RGB values in camera raw" on page 89 "The Adjust Levels Guided Edit" on page 55 View a histogram 1 If the Histogram panel is not open in the Edit - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 127
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 121 Color and tonal correction Adjusting shadows and light Adjust color and tonality using the Smart Brush tools The Smart Brush tool and the Detail - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 128
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 122 Color and tonal correction There is an exciting new set of presets, now available under the Textures category for Smart Brush. Textures Option The - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 129
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 123 Color and tonal correction Textures Effects The Detail Smart Brush tool enables you to paint the adjustment to specific areas of the photo just - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 130
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 124 Color and tonal correction Detail Smart Brush tool applying an adjustment stroke Both brush tools enable you to add to or subtract from the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 131
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 125 Color and tonal correction 5 (Optional) Do any of a Smart Brush tool correction by deleting the specific adjustment layer. Smart Brush pop-up panel Photoshop Elements lets you apply many different preset adjustments using the Smart Brush tool and the Detail Smart - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 132
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 126 Color and tonal correction A B C D Levels dialog box A. Channels your image. More Help topics "About adjustment and fill layers" on page 76 "The Adjust Levels Guided Edit" on page 55 Improve shadow and highlight detail 1 In the Edit workspace, choose Enhance > - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 133
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 127 Color and tonal correction Before adjusting shadows and highlights (top) and after (bottom). Adjusting softens the face and reveals more detail behind sunglasses. More - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 134
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 128 Color and tonal correction Dragging the highlight slider to Auto Levels command and may cause a color shift in your image. More Help topics "The Adjust Levels Guided Edit" on page 55 "Adjust saturation and hue" on page 134 "Automatically correct lighting and color" - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 135
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 129 Color and tonal correction • Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Brightness/Contrast to make adjustments to a layer. 2 Drag the sliders to adjust the brightness and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 136
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 130 Color and tonal correction Quickly saturate or desaturate isolated areas The Sponge tool saturates or desaturates areas of the image. You can use the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 137
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 131 Color and tonal correction Comparing color adjustments in the Color Variations dialog box 1 In the Edit workspace, choose Enhance > Adjust Color > Color Variations. The - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 138
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 132 Color and tonal correction More Help topics "Improve cast is an unpleasant color shift in a photo. For example, a photo taken indoors without a camera flash may have too much yellow. The Remove Color Cast command changes the overall mixture of colors to remove - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 139
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 133 Color and tonal correction More Help topics "Color wheel" on page 187 "Adjust shadows and brightness using Levels" on page 127 "The Adjust Levels Guided washed-out objects that were too close to the camera's flash. In the Adjust Color Curves dialog box, you can compare - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 140
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 134 Color and tonal correction Adjusting color saturation and hue Adjust saturation and hue The Hue/Saturation command adjusts the hue (color), saturation (purity), and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 141
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 135 Color and tonal correction • Choose Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Hue/Saturation, or open an existing Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. The two color bars in - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 142
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 136 Color and tonal correction If you modify the adjustment When you click an area of skin in the photo, Photoshop Elements adjusts the skin tone-as well as all other colors in the photo. You can manually adjust the brown and red colors separately to achieve the final - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 143
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 137 Color and tonal correction Blush Increases or decreases the level of red in skin tones. Temperature Changes the overall color of skin tones. 5 When - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 144
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 138 Color and tonal correction • Click the Results box and specify a new color in the Color Picker, then click OK. 6 To cancel your changes and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 145
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 manually add custom presets to the black and white converter by editing a specific text file. Note: This is a task for advanced users. 1 Close the Edit workspace. 2 Navigate to the folder that contains the bwconvert.txt file. • In Windows, \Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 146
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 140 Color and tonal correction Adjustment filters Apply the Equalize filter The Equalize filter redistributes the brightness values of the pixels in an image so that they more evenly represent the entire range of brightness levels. When you apply this command, Photoshop - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 147
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 141 Color and tonal correction By default, the shadows, midtones, and highlights of the image are mapped respectively to the starting (left) color, midpoint, and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 148
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 142 Color and tonal correction • From the Layers panel or Layer menu, create a new Posterize adjustment layer, or open an existing Posterize adjustment layer. 3 Enter - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 149
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 143 Color and tonal correction Apply the Photo filter The choose a preset from the Filter menu. • Select the Color option, click the color square, and use the Adobe Color Picker to specify the color of a custom color filter. Make sure Preview is selected to view the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 150
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 144 Color and tonal correction 3 To adjust the amount of color applied to the image, use the Density slider or enter a percentage in the Density - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 151
crop marquee, or selection. Cropping is useful for removing distracting background elements and creating a focus for your photo. By default, when you background. 1 In the Edit workspace, select the Crop tool , or in the Elements Organizer, select the Fix tab and click Crop. 2 If you want to use - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 152
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 146 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, guides for better cropping results" on page 147 Crop to a selection boundary Using the Crop command, you can remove the areas that fall outside of the current selection. When you crop to a selection boundary, Photoshop Elements - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 153
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 147 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos 2 Choose Image > Crop. Using guides for better cropping results Watch a video to understand cropping using better compositions. The following overlay options are available in the crop tool: Rule - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 154
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 148 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Use the Cookie Cutter tool to clip a photo into a fun shape. 1 In the Edit workspace, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 155
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 149 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming or horizontally. This tool also resizes or crops the canvas to accommodate straightening the image. Manually straighten an image 1 In the Edit workspace, select the Straighten tool . 2 To straighten - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 156
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 150 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming into three separate images ❖ In the Edit workspace, choose Image > Divide Scanned Photos. Photoshop Elements automatically divides the image and places each photo in a separate file. For images with - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 157
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 151 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Resizing About image size and resolution The image size (or pixel dimensions) of an image - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 158
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 152 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and factors: the pixel dimensions of the image, the monitor size, and the monitor resolution setting. In Photoshop Elements, you can change the image magnification on-screen, so you can easily work with images of any - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 159
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 153 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos perform this procedure. Instead, you can choose a size in the Print dialog box and Photoshop Elements applies the appropriate image resolution. Note: To change only the print dimensions or the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 160
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 154 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos A B C method: Nearest Neighbor Fast, but less precise. This method is recommended for use with illustrations containing edges that are not anti-aliased, to preserve hard edges and produce a - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 161
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 155 about this process, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid906_pse_en The Red Eye Removal tool removes red eye in flash photos of people. Red eye is by selecting an eye (top) or clicking an eye (center). 1 To manually fix red eye, select the Red Eye Removal tool in the Full Edit - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 162
www.adobe.com/go/lrvid911_pse_en. Many a time, you need to remove unwanted objects or figures from your photos without destroying the photos. Using the Content-Aware option with the Spot Healing Brush tool, you can remove selected objects constructively from one photo. Photoshop Elements compares - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 163
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 157 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and a large unwanted object, make surethat you work with high-end machine configuration. If you experience problems with large images, try the following approaches: • Make smaller selections to be filled at a - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 164
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 158 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Source Sets the source to use for repairing pixels. Sampled uses pixels from the current - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 165
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 159 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Original photo (top), after adding two starfish with the Clone Stamp tool (center), and after - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 166
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 160 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos More Help topics "About blending modes" on page 227 Replace colors in an image The - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 167
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 161 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming Correct camera distortion The Correct Camera Distortion dialog box enables you to fix common lens distortion problems, like darkened edges caused by lens faults or improper lens shading. For example, in - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 168
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 162 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Correct camera distortion 1 Select Filter > Correct Camera Distortion. 2 Select Preview check box. 3 Set any of - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 169
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 163 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos More Help topics "The Fix Keystone Distortion Guided Edit" on page 56 "Adjust color curves" on page 133 "Improve shadow and highlight detail" on page 126 Use Photomerge Group Shot For a video - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 170
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 164 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Photomerge Group Shot window Note: Photomerge Group Shot does not support the PSE file format. If you try to create a photomerge group shot with a PSE file, you get an error message. This is a - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 171
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 165 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos 4 Click another image create the perfect scenic photo from multiple photos. You can eliminate unwanted elements like tourists that inadvertently wandered into the scenery. Last updated 1/2/2012 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 172
10 photos you want to use for the Photomerge Scene Cleaner: • In the Elements Organizer, select the photos. • In the Edit workspace, open the photos. 2 Choose File > New > Photomerge Scene Cleaner. Photoshop Elements is now in Guided (Optional) If there's a problem with the photos aligning properly, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 173
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 video about photomerge features, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid2342_pse9_en. Use Photomerge Exposure to can then take one photo with the flash turned off to properly expose the background the following modes: • Automatic mode • Manual mode To obtain best results while using the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 174
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 168 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Photomerge Exposure Automatic Photomerge Exposure You can select the required photos from Elements Organizer, and select and deselect the photos through the Project Bin. 1 Do one of the following - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 175
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 169 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Manual Photomerge Exposure Note: For Photomerge Exposure, if you are using photos that have been taken with your flash on, then manual Photomerge Exposure is the default mode. 1 Do one of the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 176
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 170 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Image after the style of the style image is applied 1 Open the image, and do one of the following: • Select File > New > Photomerge Style Match. • In the Guided Edit workspace, select Photomerge - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 177
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 171 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Transfer Tones Transfers the tones of the style image. For example, if the style image - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 178
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 172 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Sharpen an image The Auto Sharpen command increases clarity or focus without the risk of - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 179
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 173 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos 2 Set options in the options bar: Brushes menu Sets the brush tip. Click the arrow - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 180
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 174 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos The Unsharp Mask filter adds contrast to reduce fuzziness. 1 In the Edit workspace, select an - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 181
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 175 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos A B C D Rotating an image A. Rotate 90° left B. Flip Horizontal C. Rotate 90° right D. Rotate 180° E. Original image F. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 182
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 176 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos 4 Do one of the following to specify the rotation amount: • Click and drag the rotate - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 183
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 177 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Note: If you select a photo that is a Background layer (such as a photo imported from a camera - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 184
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 178 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos 4 Do one or more of the following to transform the object: • To scale, drag any - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 185
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 179 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming C. Photo after Recompose Recompose a photo in Guided Edit 1 Open a photo in the project bin that you want to resize, and select Edit Guided. 2 In the Guided Edit panel, Expand Basic Photo Edits, and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 186
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 180 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos 5 Mark the areas you want to remove (areas that are unimportant) using the Remove brush - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 187
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 181 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Recompose a for height and width. For example, you have specified the following values: H: 10 and W: 15. Click the Swap Height and Width icon to interchange these values. The new values are: - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 188
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 182 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Stitching together panoramas Creating photomerge panoramas For a video about this process, see www.adobe . Maintain the same exposure Avoid using the flash in some pictures and not in others. The - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 189
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 183 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos Create a Photomerge panorama composition 1 Do one of the following: • In Full Edit mode in the Edit workspace, choose File > New > Photomerge Panorama. • In the Elements position them manually. 5 ( - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 190
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 184 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming the work area and manually arrange them. 4 After arrange the composition, click OK to generate the panorama as a new file. The composition then opens in Photoshop Elements. The Photomerge dialog box - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 191
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 185 Crop an image Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos • To zoom, click the Zoom In icon and Zoom Out icon in Mac OS) to - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 192
186 Chapter 9: Understanding color In Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10, you use two color models to manipulate a percentage from 0 (black) to 100 (white). Although you can use the HSB model in Photoshop Elements to define a color in the Color Picker dialog box, you cannot use the HSB mode to create - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 193
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 187 Understanding color RGB model A large percentage of the composed of green and red light, but there is no blue light in yellow. When adjusting yellow in Photoshop Elements, you change the color values in the blue color channel. By adding blue to your image, you subtract - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 194
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 188 Understanding color Using image modes and color tables About image modes An image mode determines the number of colors that can be displayed in an image and can also affect the file size of the image. Photoshop Elements provides four image modes: RGB, bitmap, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 195
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 189 Understanding color Note: Hidden layers are discarded and images are flattened automatically when you convert them into bitmap or indexed-color mode, because these modes do not support layers. RGB Color mode The default mode of new Photoshop Elements images and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 196
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 190 Understanding color Convert a bitmap-mode image to grayscale Before converting the number of colors in the image to a maximum of 256-the standard number of colors supported by the GIF and PNG-8 formats and many web browsers. This conversion reduces file size by deleting - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 197
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 191 Understanding color Selective applies the panel to individual images; select a part of the image that contains the colors you want to emphasize. Photoshop Elements weights the conversion toward these colors. Local Adaptive applies the panel to individual images; - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 198
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 192 Understanding color Edit colors in an indexed-color the Color Picker or sample a color from the image. If you are changing a range of colors, Photoshop Elements creates a gradient in the color table between the starting and ending colors. The first color you choose - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 199
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 193 Understanding color Setting up color management About color a different color gamut and thus reproduces the colors differently. RGB CMYK A B Photoshop Elements C The color gamuts of different devices and documents A. Lab color space (entire visible - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 200
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 your monitor. See your LCD monitor documentation for instructions. • When you print an image from Photoshop Elements, make sure that the correct color profile when opening untagged files. Always Optimize For Printing Uses Adobe RGB as the RGB working space; the Grayscale working - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 201
a document. Photoshop Elements automatically assigns the color profile based on the setting you select in the Color Settings dialog box. However, one reason to manually change a color in the document. Convert To Adobe RGB Profile Embeds an Adobe RGB profile in the document. Last updated 1/2/2012 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 202
196 Chapter 10: Filters, effects, styles, and artwork You can enhance images by using a variety of filters, effects, styles, and artwork. Using the deinterlace and NTSC color filters, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 203
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 197 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork B A C Content panel A. Category B. More menu C. Sample thumbnails In the Content panel, the following sections provide various items that can - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 204
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 198 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Add an artistic background to an image When you add an artistic background to an image, you replace the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 205
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 199 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Textures Apply texture layers to an image. You can add texture to a new, blank image as a background, or add a - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 206
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 200 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork More Help topics " effects or create unique transformations using distortion effects. In addition to the filters provided by Adobe, some filters provided by thirdparty developers are available as plug-ins. Once installed, these - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 207
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 201 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Filters can radically change the mood of a photo or image. You can apply filters in any of three ways: - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 208
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 202 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork • Apply filters in succession to build up effects. You can apply filters to individual layers or to several layers - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 209
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 203 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork 7 If you are using the Filter and other reshaping effects. Noise filters Blend a selection into the surrounding pixels and remove problem areas, such as dust and scratches. Pixelate filters Sharply define an image or selection - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 210
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 204 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Filter Gallery The Filter Gallery (Filter > Filter Gallery) lets you apply filters cumulatively, and apply individual filters more than - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 211
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 205 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork More Help topics " Texture Specifies the type of texture to apply. You can also click Load Texture to specify a Photoshop file. Scaling Increases or decreases the effect on the image surface. Relief (if available) Adjusts the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 212
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 206 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Cutout The Cutout the image's lighter areas. This filter is useful for eliminating banding in blends and visually unifying elements from various sources. You can set the grain, highlight area, and intensity. Fresco The Fresco - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 213
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 207 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Rough Pastels The Rough Pastels filter makes an image appear as if it were made with rough strokes of - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 214
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 208 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Blurring the background of a photo Gaussian Blur The Gaussian Blur filter quickly blurs a selection by an adjustable amount. Gaussian refers to the bell-shaped curve that Photoshop Elements generates when it applies a weighted - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 215
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 209 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Brush Stroke filters Accented Edges The Accented Edges filter accentuates the edges of an image. When the edge brightness - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 216
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 210 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Distort filters Diffuse own glass surface as a Photoshop file and apply it. You can adjust scaling, distortion, and smoothness settings. When using surface controls with a file, follow the instructions for the Displace filter. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 217
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 211 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Liquify The Liquify filter makes it easy to manipulate areas of an image as if those areas had been - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 218
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 212 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork To create the effect of dragging in a straight line between the current point and the previous point that you - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 219
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 213 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Apply the Shear filter 1 In the Edit workspace, select an image, layer, or area. 2 Choose Distort > Shear from the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 220
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 214 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork 5 Drag the minimum and maximum Wavelength sliders to set the distance from one wave crest to the next. Set - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 221
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 215 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Despeckle The Despeckle filter detects the edges in a layer (areas where significant color changes occur) and blurs all of - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 222
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 216 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork 4 Enter a screen-angle value between -360 and 360 (the angle of the dot from the true horizontal) for one - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 223
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 217 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Difference Clouds The of the settings for each light and appear in the Style menu whenever you open an image in Photoshop Elements. Delete Removes the selected style. You can't delete default styles. Style menu Lets you choose - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 224
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 218 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork • Circle Of Light Adds four spotlights. White has full intensity and a concentrated focus. Yellow has strong intensity and a concentrated - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 225
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 219 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Adjust a light Do any of on page 217 "Lighting Effects" on page 217 Texture Fill The Texture Fill filter uses a grayscale Photoshop image as a texture for an image. Sketch filters Bas Relief The Bas Relief filter transforms an - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 226
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 220 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork After applying the Chrome filter, use the Levels dialog box to add more contrast to the image. Conté Crayon - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 227
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 221 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Stamp The Stamp filter simplifies the image so that it seems made with a rubber or wood stamp. You can - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 228
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 222 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Solid Front Faces Fills the front face of each block with an averaged color of the block. Deselect Solid - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 229
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 223 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Texture filters Craquelure The Craquelure filter paints an image onto a high-relief plaster surface, producing a fine network of cracks - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 230
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 224 Filters, effects, styles, and artwork Other filters on the values of surrounding pixels. You can save the custom filters you create and use them with other Photoshop images. Use the Save and Load buttons to save and reuse custom filters. Apply a Custom filter 1 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 231
Adobe Systems Developer Support. Important: If you have problems or questions about a third-party plug-in, contact the plug-in's manufacturer for support. More Help topics "About filters" on page 200 "Apply a filter" on page 202 "About plug-in modules" on page 32 Digimarc filter Photoshop Elements - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 232
to large areas. Tools like the Eraser tool, Blur tool, and Smudge tool modify the existing colors in an image. The power of painting in Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 10 is in the options that you can set to specify how a tool applies or modifies color. You can apply color gradually, with soft edges - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 233
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 227 Painting About foreground and background colors You apply the foreground color when you paint with the Brush or Pencil tools, and when you fill - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 234
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 228 Painting The Multiply blending mode (top), Screen blending mode (center), and Luminosity blending mode (bottom) applied to the starfish layer. You can choose any - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 235
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 229 Painting Lighten Looks at the color information in each channel and selects the base or blend color-whichever is lighter-as the result color. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 236
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 230 Painting Color Creates a result color with the luminance of you prepare for the web display accurately in a web browser. You can identify web-safe colors in the Adobe Color Picker by using either of the following methods: • Select Only Web Colors in the lower-left - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 237
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 231 Painting If you want the color always to be available, you can add the sampled color to the Color Swatches panel. You can also - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 238
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 232 Painting Use the Color Swatches panel The Color Swatches panel (Window > can help you group related or special swatches and manage panel size. The Photoshop Elements\9.0\Presets\Color Swatches folder contains the various swatch libraries. When you create custom - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 239
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 233 Painting 4 If prompted to save the swatch library, enter a swatches you delete, you must resave the library that contained them. Use the Adobe Color Picker You can use the Adobe Color Picker to select the foreground or background color by choosing from a color - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 240
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 234 Painting A B C D E F G H Adobe Color Picker. A. Adjusted color B. Original color C. HSB color values D. RGB color values E. Displays only web colors F. Color field G. Color slider H. Hexadecimal color value 1 Click the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 241
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 235 Painting 2 Select the Brush tool in the toolbox. 3 on page 241 "Add a new brush to the brush library" on page 243 "Set up pressure-sensitive tablet support" on page 244 Use the Pencil tool The Pencil tool creates hard-edged freehand lines. 1 In the Edit workspace - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 242
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 236 Painting Auto Erase If you begin drawing and drag over an area that doesn't contain the foreground color, the tool paints with the foreground - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 243
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 237 Painting More Help topics "About brush options" on page 241 Use the Smudge tool The Smudge tool simulates the actions of dragging a finger through - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 244
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 238 Painting Use the Eraser tool The Eraser tool changes pixels in the image as you drag through them. If you're working in the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 245
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 239 Painting Original image (left), and after erasing the clouds (right) 1 In the Layers panel, select the layer containing the areas you want to erase. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 246
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 240 Painting Use the Background Eraser tool The Background Eraser tool turns color pixels to transparent pixels so that you can easily remove an object - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 247
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 241 Painting Setting up brushes About brush options You can to one mark of the brush tip. Possible values range from 0 to 9999. For example, entering 10 for Fade produces a fade in 10 increments. For smaller brushes, you may want to set a value of 25 or larger. If - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 248
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 242 Painting Hardness Controls the size of the brush's hard center. Type a number, or use the slider to enter a value that's a percentage of the brush - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 249
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 243 Painting More Help topics "About blending modes" on page 227 Add a new brush to the brush library 1 Select the Brush tool . 2 Click the arrow - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 250
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 244 Painting Creating a custom brush of a dog. When you paint Help topics "Use the Preset Manager" on page 254 Set up pressure-sensitive tablet support Photoshop Elements is compatible with most pressure-sensitive digitizing tablets, such as Wacom® tablets. With the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 251
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 245 Painting The mouse mode in Wacom Tablets works seamlessly in the following Wacom tablets: Wacom Intuos3, Intuos 4, Bamboo Fun, and Bamboo Touch. Switch between - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 252
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 246 Painting Contiguous Fills similarly colored pixels that are next to each other. Deselect this option to fill all similar pixels in the image, including - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 253
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 247 Painting 3 In the Stroke dialog box, set any of the stamp tool or fill a selection or layer with a pattern that you choose from the pattern libraries. Photoshop Elements has several patterns you can choose from. To customize your images, or to make one-of-a-kind - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 254
Each preset file in the PostScript Patterns folder contains a single pattern in the Adobe Illustrator format. You can scale these patterns at any resolution. 1 Choose File > Open. 2 Navigate to Photoshop Elements 10.0/Presets/Patterns/PostScript Patterns. 3 Select the pattern file you want to use - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 255
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 249 Painting 4 When the Rasterize Generic EPS Format dialog opens, the options bar. 6 Choose Edit > Define Pattern From Selection. The pattern is defined as an Adobe Photoshop Elements pattern. 7 Enter a name for the pattern in the Pattern Name dialog box, and click OK. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 256
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 250 Painting Gradients are stored in libraries. You can choose a different library of gradients to display in the Gradient Picker menu by clicking the small - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 257
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 251 Painting Define a gradient You can define your own OK. The newly created gradient is selected and ready to use. More Help topics "Use the Adobe Color Picker" on page 233 Specify gradient transparency Each gradient fill contains settings (opacity stops) that - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 258
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 252 Painting 2 To adjust the starting opacity in the text box, and then click New. This creates a new gradient preset with the transparency setting you specified. 10 Click OK to exit the dialog box and select the newly created gradient. Make sure that Transparency is - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 259
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 253 Painting Restrict Colors Prevents oversaturated colors. Add Presets are stored in separate library files that can be found in the Presets folder in the Photoshop Elements application folder. Use preset tool options 1 Select the tool you want to use. 2 In - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 260
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 254 Painting • To rename a brush, gradient, or pattern in a and default folder. Preset files are installed on your computer inside the Presets folder in the Photoshop Elements program folder. Note: You can delete a preset in the Preset Manager by selecting the preset - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 261
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 255 Painting Dragging a preset to a new position in the Preset library. By default, preset files are installed on your computer inside the Presets folder in the Photoshop Elements program folder. • Click the More button and choose a library from the bottom section of - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 262
you see the Commit button and Cancel button in the options bar. Note: When you add text to an image that's in indexed color mode, Photoshop Elements does not create a new text layer. The text you type appears as masked text. Add text 1 In the Edit workspace, select the Horizontal Type tool - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 263
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 257 Adding text and shapes The small line through the I-beam marks the position of the type baseline. For horizontal type, the baseline marks the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 264
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 258 Adding text and shapes Underline Applies an underline to new text or selected existing text. Strikethrough Applies a line through new text or selected existing - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 265
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 259 Adding text and shapes • Double-click to select a single word. • Triple-click to select an entire line of text. • Click a point in the text - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 266
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 260 Adding text and shapes Change text color You can change the type color menu in the options bar. More Help topics "Use the Color Swatches panel" on page 232 "Use the Adobe Color Picker" on page 233 Adding Text to Images You can add text to an image. There are three - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 267
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 261 Adding text and shapes 2 Place the cursor on the object in the image and drag the cursor till you get your desired selection. You - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 268
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 262 Adding text and shapes Text on Shape You can add text to the shapes available in the Text on Shape tool. 1 In the Text - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 269
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 263 Adding text and shapes 2 Draw a custom path over the image. You can commit/cancel the drawn path to redraw from the tool options bar. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 270
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 264 Adding text and shapes Add Text 5 After adding text, click the Commit icon in the options bar or cancel icon to start your workflow - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 271
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 265 Adding text and shapes Warp type Warping allows you to distort type to conform to a variety of shapes; for example, you can warp type - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 272
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 266 Adding text and shapes Work with Asian type Display Asian type options Photoshop Elements provides several options for working with Asian type. Asian fonts are often referred to as doublebyte fonts or CJK fonts, meaning Chinese, Japanese, and Korean - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 273
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 267 Adding text and shapes 4 Select Tate-Chuu-Yoko. Turn on or Asian Text Options button in the options bar. 3 Select Mojikumi. Creating shapes About shapes In Photoshop Elements, shapes are vector graphics, which means they are made up of lines and curves defined by - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 274
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 268 Adding text and shapes Vector objects created with the shape tools in Photoshop Elements More Help topics "Select or move a shape" on page 271 "Transform a shape" on page 271 "Apply a layer style to a shape" on page 271 Draw a rectangle, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 275
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 269 Adding text and shapes From Center Draws an ellipse Arrowheads Width and Length Specify the proportions of the arrowhead as a percentage of the line width (10% to 1000% for Width, and 10% to 5000% for Length). Enter a value for the concavity of the arrowhead (from - - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 276
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 270 Adding text and shapes Draw a custom shape The Custom Shape tool provides many different shape options for you to draw. When you select the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 277
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 271 Adding text and shapes Editing shapes Select or move a shape Use the Shape Selection tool to select shapes with one click. If you convert a shape into a bitmap element color of a shape. More Help topics "Use the Adobe Color Picker" on page 233 "Use the Paint Bucket - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 278
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 272 Adding text and shapes Before (left) and after (right) applying a layer style to a custom shape. 1 In the Layers panel, click the New Layer button . 2 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 279
in the Edit workspace. The projects under the Create tab guide you through the process of using professionally designed templates to create projects professionally printed through Adobe Photoshop Elements Online Services. Note: Projects from previous versions of Photoshop Elements might not open in - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 280
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 274 Creating projects in the Edit workspace When you start a photo project, you can specify a size, printing option (local or through a service Adobe Photoshop Elements Online Services. number of sizes are supported for each printing option. instead of manually adding them - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 281
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 can be ordered online from Adobe Photoshop Elements Online Services for some locales. Sample photo Photoshop Elements lets you create disc jackets (covers) for a CD and DVD case. They can be printed with your home printer, saved to your hard drive, and sent by e-mail as PDFs - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 282
" on page 277 About slide shows Slide shows are a fun way to share media files. With Photoshop Elements, you can customize slide shows with music clips, clip art, text, and even voice narration. Images in PDF do not display in slide shows. After you complete a slide show, you can choose several ways - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 283
layouts and designs to your images. Photo books can be printed on your home printer, ordered online from Adobe® Photoshop® Services, saved to your hard drive, and sent by e-mail. Photo books are designed to be ordered online using Adobe Photoshop Elements Online Services. Last updated 1/2/2012 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 284
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 278 Creating projects in the Edit workspace Create a photo book 1 online services. 3 Select Autofill With Selected Images to add all the photos already open in the Project Bin. 4 Specify the number of pages in the photo book. Note: Photoshop Elements supports different - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 285
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 279 Creating projects in the Edit workspace 7 Use the in the advanced mode. 9 Click Order. 10 Follow the onscreen instructions to create and order photo books. Note: Sign up for Shutterfly membership to use their services. Create photo books using Kodak Gallery 1 In - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 286
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 280 Creating projects in the Edit workspace You can also upload photos and order greeting cards from Shutterfly and Kodak Gallery. Greetings cards can be ordered online from Adobe Photoshop Elements Online Services from some locales. Sample photo greeting cards For a - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 287
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 281 Creating projects in the Edit workspace 3 Select a theme. 4 Select Autofill With Selected Images to add all the photos already open in the Project Bin. 5 Click OK. Photoshop Elements creates the greeting card and displays Pages, Layouts, Artwork, and Text tabs in - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 288
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 282 Creating projects in the Edit workspace Create photo displays options suitable for online services. 4 Select Autofill With Selected Images to add all the photos already open in the Project Bin. 5 Click OK. Photoshop Elements creates the photo calendar and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 289
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 283 Creating projects in the Edit workspace Text Add and edit text on the pages. 8 Click Switch To Advanced Mode to access Full Edit options. Note: You cannot resize a creation in the advanced mode. 9 Click Order. 10 Follow the onscreen instructions to create and order - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 290
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 284 Creating projects in the Edit workspace Add new pages to a photo project 1 In the Project Bin, select the page that will precede the new - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 291
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 285 Creating projects Photoshop CS5 If you have Adobe® Photoshop® CS5 and Photoshop Elements installed on the same computer, you can send JPEG, GIF, and other single-page photo files to Photoshop by using the Edit >Edit with Photoshop command. Photoshop does not support - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 292
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 286 Creating projects in the Edit workspace Create a VCD with a start from the Edit workspace and complete the task of creating a VCD with a menu of slide shows in Elements Organizer. Click Create > More Options > VCD With Menu to start the creation of a VCD with a menu - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 293
The goal is a file size that is small enough to allow reasonable download times but that preserves colors and details to your satisfaction. Three major precisely optimize an image for use in web authoring applications, such as Adobe® Dreamweaver®, you can use the Save For Web command. The Save - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 294
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 Optimizing for the web A B 288 C D E F G H I Save For Web dialog box A. Toolbox browser" on page 299 "Preview variations in color display" on page 300 "View estimated download time" on page 299 Optimized file formats for the web You can choose between four formats - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 295
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 289 Optimizing for the web PNG-24 Like JPEG, this is a good format for photographs. Choose PNG-24 rather than JPEG only when your image contains transparency. (JPEG does not support web browser while the full image is downloading. JPEG image compression is called lossy - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 296
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 290 Optimizing for the web About the GIF format also use the GIF format to create an animated image and preserve transparency in an image. GIF is supported by most browsers. The GIF format uses LZW compression, which is a lossless compression method. However, because - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 297
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 291 Optimizing for the web PNG-8 with 256 colors and no dither (left), and PNG-8 with 16 colors and dithering (right) More Help topics "Preserve background transparency in a GIF or PNG image" on page 296 About the PNG-24 format The PNG-24 format supports 24-bit color. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 298
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 292 Optimizing for the web Images in separate layers can be sequenced together to create an animation. More Help topics "Understanding layers" on page 62 " - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 299
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 293 Optimizing for the web 5 Select Progressive to display the image progressively in a web browser; that is, to display it first at a low resolution, and then at progressively higher resolutions as downloading proceeds. Note: Some browsers do not support progressive - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 300
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 294 Optimizing for the web 8 If the image contains transparency, select Transparency to preserve transparent pixels; deselect Transparency to fill fully and partially transparent pixels with the matte color. 9 To create an animated GIF, select Animate. 10 To save your - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 301
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 295 Optimizing for the web More Help topics "Preview an animation page to show through the transparent areas of your image. (Although the JPEG format does not support transparency, you can specify a matte color to simulate the appearance of transparency in the original - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 302
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 296 Optimizing for the web More Help topics "Adding layers" on page 64 "Optimized file formats for the web" on page 288 Preserve background transparency in a GIF or PNG image GIF and PNG-8 formats support one level of transparency-pixels can be fully transparent or - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 303
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 297 Optimizing for the web Create hard-edged transparency in the PNG-8 format" on page 290 Create a matted JPEG image Although the JPEG format does not support transparency, you can specify a matte color to simulate the appearance of transparency in the original image. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 304
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 298 Optimizing for the web Dithering simulates continuous tones Use to prevent color banding. More Help topics "Optimized file formats for the web" on page 288 "Use the Adobe Color Picker" on page 233 "Optimize as GIF or PNG-8 format" on page 293 Control dither in web - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 305
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 299 Optimizing for the web 3 To preview dither in Photoshop Elements, choose Browser Dither from all installed browsers. 4 Select a browser, click Add, and then click OK. View estimated download time 1 In the Edit workspace, open an image and choose File > Save For Web. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 306
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 300 Optimizing for the web More Help topics "About optimizing" on page 287 Preview variations in color display When optimizing an image for the web, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 307
to print T-shirt transfers. Note: To print a PDF file, you must have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer. Finally, you can print projects you've made in Photoshop Elements, such as photo albums, cards, and calendars. Some projects can be ordered from online print services. Last updated 1/2/2012 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 308
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 302 Printing and sharing photos A B C Different printing options A. Individual photos B. Contact sheet C. Picture package Before you print your photos, ensure that you provide Photoshop Elements some basic information about your print job, such as the paper size you - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 309
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 303 Printing and sharing photos 5 (Windows only) Click the Change Print Size drop-down list. 9 Select or enter a number in the Print copies of each page text box. 10 To fit the individual image to the specified print layout, select Crop To Fit. The image is scaled and, - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 310
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 304 Printing and sharing photos Image and Photoholder rotation An image can be rotated in the Print dialog box. Both the Photoholder and the image in specific can be rotated. Last updated 1/2/2012 - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 311
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 305 Printing and sharing photos Image Photoholder Rotation A. Rotate Image B. Zoom slider • Click the image rectangle buttons to rotate the Photoholder to the left or - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 312
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 306 Printing and sharing photos • You can Zoom In or Out invert images. Selecting both the options horizontally flips the image twice. • Trim Guidelines Select Print Crop Marks (guide lines on all four edges of the photo) to make it easier to trim a photo. Custom print - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 313
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 307 Printing and sharing photos Scale an image in the Print dialog box Upload Your Pictures And Order Prints Shutterfly. Note: Sign up for Shutterfly membership to use their services. • Select Order Prints Kodak Gallery. Note: Sign up to Kodak Gallery to use their - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 314
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 308 Printing and sharing photos 4 Follow the onscreen instructions to print your photos. Print a information about printing a contact sheet from Elements Organizer, see Print a contact sheet in the Elements Organizer guide. Sample contact sheet Print a picture package - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 315
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 services from the pop-up menu. 3 Follow the onscreen directions to share your photos online. Sharing photos Photoshop Elements Mail is not supported in Mac OS. services. Note: For a video about sharing files by e-mail, see www.adobe.com/go/lrvid914_pse_en Last updated - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 316
you view, select, edit, and use many of the other tools that are available in Full Edit mode. Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts Photoshop Elements supports the following Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts: Result Activate Aero Peek Activate Aero Shake Maximize Restore or minimize Maximize the current window - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 317
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 311 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Result Windows Switch to Hand tool (when not in text panel Scroll up or down 1 screen Page Up or Page Down Scroll up or down 10 units Shift + Page Up or Page Down Scroll left or right 1 screen Ctrl + Page Up or Page - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 318
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 312 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Result Horizontal Type tool Vertical Type tool Horizontal Type Mask tool Vertical Type Mask tool Crop tool Recompose tool Cookie Cutter tool Straighten - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 319
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 313 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Result Show/Hide all panels Default foreground and background colors Switch foreground and background colors Windows Tab D X Mac OS Tab D X Keys for selecting - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 320
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 314 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Keys for the Magic Extractor dialog tool + Option-click Any painting or editing tool + number keys (for example, 0 = 100%, 1 = 10%, 4 and 5 in quick succession = 45%). When airbrush option is enabled, use Shift + number keys. - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 321
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 315 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Result Windows Cycle through blending modes Shift + + (plus) or - (minus) Fill selection/layer with foreground or background color Alt + Backspace, or Control + Backspace - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 322
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 316 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Result Windows Turn Underlining on/off Control + Shift + U Turn Strikethrough on/off Control + Shift + / (forward slash) Decrease or increase type size of selected - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 323
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 317 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Result Create a clipping mask Rename layer Add to layer selection in Layers panel Windows Alt-click the line dividing two layers Double-click - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 324
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 318 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Keys for the Info panel This partial list includes the most helpful shortcuts. You'll find additional shortcuts in menu commands and tool - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 325
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 319 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Result Change Cancel button to Reset Undo/redo Step forward Step backward Windows Alt Control + Z Control + Shift + Z Control + Alt + Z Mac OS Option Command + Z - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 326
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 320 Photoshop Elements keyboard shortcuts Result Step forward Move selected image 1 pixel Change Cancel button to Reset Show individual image border Windows Mac OS Control + Shift + Z Command + Shift + Z - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 327
. Adobe Photo Downloader A feature of Photoshop Elements that automatically searches for and downloads photos from attached card readers, cameras, or mobile phones. You can disable the automatic detection in the camera and card reader preferences. When disabled, you can still manually access - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 328
to an application (also, file association). Each file type has an associated application. For example, PSD files are associated with Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. You receive an alert if you try to open a file that lacks an associated application. audio caption Voice narration of a photo - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 329
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 323 Glossary blending mode A feature that controls how pixels in an Full Edit. card reader Portable hardware on which you can store, upload, or download photos, audio, video, and other data. You can download data from a card reader into Photoshop Elements. CCITT Comité - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 330
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 Photoshop Elements does not support CMYK color mode, most desktop printers automatically convert to it. color cast An unwanted or unexpected color shift in a photo. For example, a photo taken indoors without a camera flash used by Adobe applications is - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 331
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 Adobe that improves on-screen text resolution. Cos object An internal part of an Adobe PDF Differential JPEG files are not supported in Photoshop Elements. digital camera A camera that save images that will be used in illustration and page-layout programs EPS file An - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 332
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 . FDF File containing comments from an Adobe Acrobat PDF file. Photoshop Elements cannot open FDF files. feathering The A high-bit image mode that can contain thousands of colors per channel. Photoshop Elements supports 8-bit or 16-bits per color channel, so an RGB image can - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 333
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 327 Glossary fuzziness A tolerance setting for the Magic Wand tool and printing presses. highlight and shadow The lightest and darkest colors in an image. highlights The brightest elements in an image. (See also "shadows" on page 332.) histogram A bar chart showing the - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 334
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 328 Glossary image cache A section of hard disk space used as series of low-resolution versions of an image in a browser while the full image file is downloaded. J jitter Specifies the randomness of a brush stroke. JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group. A committee - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 335
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 in images displayed on web pages. When transparency is not supported, you can specify a matte color that matches the background added to a Photoshop file. In Photoshop Elements you can view and delete notes, but you can't add them. O online service Any service to which you - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 336
PDF documents. PDF and PDP files are identical, except that PDF files are opened in Adobe Acrobat and PDP files are opened in Adobe Photoshop Elements. developed by Adobe or third parties to add functionality to Adobe products. PNG-24 Portable Network Graphics. An image format that supports 24-bit - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 337
, and more. PSD The native file format of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Photoshop Elements. Q Quick Mask A mask channel created in Quick Mask mode in Photoshop. Photoshop Elements has no Quick Mask mode and flattens all channels in Photoshop images. QuickTime Software from Apple that allows you to - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 338
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 332 Glossary revert The command that reverts the image to the last saved the selection boundary. selection module A plug-in that enables you to make a selection in Photoshop Elements, such as the TextureSelect plug-in that is used by the Magic Selection Brush tool and - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 339
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 333 Glossary 16-bit grayscale A high-bit image mode that can contain thousands of shades of gray. Photoshop Elements supports flattened 16-bit images (it does not support layers in 16-bit images). skewing Deviation of the content of an image from a vertical or - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 340
are no jagged lines in the output. Adobe Illustrator is a vector graphics program. version set Edited versions of photos that are automatically grouped together when you save edits in the Editor. By default, when you edit a photo in the Editor, Photoshop Elements saves the edited version as the top - Adobe 65045315 | Photoshop Elements Manual - Page 341
USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 10 335 Glossary video monitor Video monitors use a progressive white. This reference point is used to calculate all other colors in the image. wizard A Photoshop Elements tool that steps you through a creation process from start to finish. The wizard informs you of
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