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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 149 User Guide Specifying opacity, pressure, or exposure You can specify opacity, pressure, or exposure for a variety of tools: • Opacity is used by the gradient ﬁll, pencil, paintbrush, clone stamp, pattern stamp, and impressionist brush tools. • Pressure of action is applied by the airbrush, smudge, blur, sharpen, and sponge tools. • Amount of exposure is used by the dodge and burn tools. To specify opacity, pressure, or exposure: Enter a value, or drag the slider for Opacity, Pressure, or Exposure in the options bar. Opacity, pressure, or exposure can range from 1% to 100%. For transparent paint or a weak effect, specify a low percentage value; for more opaque paint or a strong effect, specify a high value. If you have selected a tool without an opacity option in its options bar, press a number key to set the opacity in multiples of 10% (pressing 1 sets to 10%, pressing 0 sets to 100%). These stylus pressure options affect the magnetic lasso, magnetic pen, pencil, paintbrush, airbrush, eraser, clone stamp, pattern stamp, impressionist brush, smudge, blur, sharpen, dodge, burn, and sponge tools. To specify the effect of stylus pressure: Click the Brush Dynamics button ( ) in the options bar, and choose Stylus for each of the options you want to set: • Size to have increased pressure create a broader brush stroke. • Opacity/Pressure to have increased pressure make the paint more opaque or more intense. • Color if you want light pressure to paint with the background color, making a transition to the foreground color as the pressure increases. (This option is only available when using a tool that supports color.) Note: If the highest pressure of your stylus does not reach 100%, contact your tablet vendor. This problem is caused by the driver software, not Photoshop Elements. Specifying the effect of stylus pressure Photoshop Elements is compatible with most pressure-sensitive digitizing tablets such as the Wacom® tablets. With Control Panel software for your tablet installed, you can specify the type of effect that results when you vary stylus pressure. Specifying a paint fade-out rate If you don't have a stylus, you can still simulate actual brush strokes by setting the rates at which most of the drawing and painting tools fade out from their beginning strokes. You can specify which options dynamically change over the course of a brush stroke: opacity, size, and color can all be individually set.

Section	Page
Table of Contents	3
Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements	9
Registration	9
Installing Adobe Photoshop Elements	9
Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements	9
Using Web resources	11
Customer support	12
Overview	15
Digital Photography: Capture and Correct	15
Digital Photography: Explore and Create	17
Easy to Use and Affordable	18
Web Tools	20
Explore Your Creativity	21
Produce Outstanding Results	22
Looking at the Work Area	27
Getting familiar with the work area	27
Viewing images	32
Getting the most out of Photoshop Elements	36
Correcting mistakes	40
Reverting to any state of an image	41
Working with presets	43
Configuring Photoshop Elements	46
Closing files and quitting	50
Getting Images into Photoshop Elements	53
About bitmap images and vector graphics	53
About image size and resolution	54
Changing image size and resolution	56
Scanning images	59
Importing images from a digital camera	60
Importing images using WIA (Windows Image Acquisition) Support	61
Creating new images	62
Opening and importing images	63
Placing files	68
Working with Color	73
About color and computer graphics	73
Using color management	73
Calibrating your monitor	74
Describing color	75
Choosing a color mode	76
Choosing foreground and background colors	82
Using the Adobe Color Picker	85
Using other color pickers	87
Making Color and Tonal Corrections	91
About correcting images	91
Checking scan quality and tonal range	92
Adjusting tonal range	93
Adjusting color	99
Applying special color effects to images	103
Sharpening images	106
Selecting	111
About selections	111
Making pixel selections	111
Adjusting pixel selections	115
Softening the edges of a selection	116
Moving, copying, and pasting selections and layers	118
Deleting selections	121
Transforming and Retouching	125
Cropping images	125
Changing the size of the work canvas	126
Creating panoramic images using Photomerge	126
Using the Liquify filter	132
Rotating and straightening images	133
Transforming layers, selections, and shapes	134
Transforming objects in three dimensions	138
Retouching an image	140
Painting and Drawing	147
About painting and drawing	147
Using the painting tools	147
Erasing	148
Using the impressionist brush tool	150
Customizing brush libraries	151
Setting options for painting and editing tools	155
Using the gradient tools	158
Using the paint bucket tool	163
Drawing shapes	164
Editing shapes	165
Filling and stroking selections and layers	167
Creating and editing patterns	169
Using Layers	173
About layers	173
Using the Layers palette	174
Creating a layered image	178
Managing layered images	181
Using layer styles	183
Editing layers	185
Specifying opacity and blending options	187
Creating grouped layers	188
Using adjustment layers and fill layers	189
Applying Filters and Effects	197
Using filters	197
Using effects	200
Tips for applying special filter effects	200
Improving performance with filters	201
Choosing a filter effect	201
Artistic filters	203
Blur filters	204
Brush Stroke filters	205
Distort filters	205
Liquify filter	207
Noise filter	207
Pixelate filters	208
Render filters	209
Sharpen filters	210
Sketch filters	210
Stylize filters	211
Texture filters	213
Video filters	213
Other filters	214
Lighting Effects filter	215
About plug-in filters	218
Using Type	221
About type	221
Creating type	221
Working with type layers	222
Formatting characters	225
Setting options for Asian type	228
Optimizing Images for theWeb	233
About optimization	233
Using the Save For Web dialog box	233
Choosing a file format for optimization	235
Optimizing images	238
Making transparent and matted images	241
Previewing and controlling dithering	243
Creating animated GIFs	247
Previewing an image in a browser	248
Saving optimized images	248
Creating Web photo galleries	249
Saving Images	253
About file formats	253
Saving images	254
Saving images in specific formats	255
Adding file information	262
Setting preferences for saving files	262
Using the Batch command	264
Creating multiple-image layouts	265
Printing	269
Printing images	269
Positioning and scaling images	270
Setting output options	270
Printing part of an image	271
Choosing a print encoding method	271
Using color management when printing	272
Printing over the Web	274
Production Notes	293

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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS

User Guide

Specifying opacity, pressure, or exposure

You can specify opacity, pressure, or exposure for

a variety of tools:

•

Opacity is used by the gradient ﬁll, pencil, paint-

brush, clone stamp, pattern stamp, and impres-

sionist brush tools.

•

Pressure of action is applied by the airbrush,

smudge, blur, sharpen, and sponge tools.

•

Amount of exposure is used by the dodge and

burn tools.

To specify opacity, pressure, or exposure:

Enter a value, or drag the slider for Opacity,

Pressure, or Exposure in the options bar.

Opacity, pressure, or exposure can range from 1%

to 100%. For transparent paint or a weak effect,

specify a low percentage value; for more opaque

paint or a strong effect, specify a high value.

If you have selected a tool without an opacity

option in its options bar, press a number key to

set the opacity in multiples of 10% (pressing 1 sets to

10%, pressing 0 sets to 100%).

Specifying the effect of stylus pressure

Photoshop Elements is compatible with most

pressure-sensitive digitizing tablets such as the

Wacom

tablets. With Control Panel software for

your tablet installed, you can specify the type of

effect that results when you vary stylus pressure.

These stylus pressure options affect the magnetic

lasso, magnetic pen, pencil, paintbrush, airbrush,

eraser, clone stamp, pattern stamp, impressionist

brush, smudge, blur, sharpen, dodge, burn, and

sponge tools.

To specify the effect of stylus pressure:

Click the Brush Dynamics button (

) in the

options bar, and choose Stylus for each of the

options you want to set:

•

Size to have increased pressure create a broader

brush stroke.

•

Opacity/Pressure to have increased pressure

make the paint more opaque or more intense.

•

Color if you want light pressure to paint with the

background color, making a transition to the

foreground color as the pressure increases. (This

option is only available when using a tool that

supports color.)

Note:

If the highest pressure of your stylus does not

reach 100%, contact your tablet vendor. This

problem is caused by the driver software, not

Photoshop Elements.

Specifying a paint fade-out rate

If you don’t have a stylus, you can still simulate

actual brush strokes by setting the rates at which

most of the drawing and painting tools fade out

from their beginning strokes. You can specify

which options dynamically change over the course

of a brush stroke: opacity, size, and color can all be

individually set.