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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 227 User Guide • Standard Windows Color to view the image with color adjusted to simulate a standard Windows monitor. • Standard Macintosh Color to view the image with color adjusted to simulate a standard Macintosh monitor. • Photoshop Compensation to view the image with color adjusted as it appears in a Photoshop Elements document window, which is different from the Save For Web dialog box. No color profile information is applied to the display in Save For Web. Note: These options adjust color display only. No changes are made to pixels in the image. Choosing a file format for optimization The file format you choose for an optimized image is determined by the color, tonal, and graphic characteristics of the original image. In general, continuous-tone images, such as photographs, should be compressed as JPEG files. Illustrations with flat color or sharp edges and crisp detail, such as type, should be compressed as GIF or PNG-8 files. PNG-24 file format is suitable for continuous-tone images. However, PNG-24 files are often much larger than JPEG files of the same image. PNG-24 format is recommended only when working with a continuous-tone image that includes multilevel transparency. (Multilevel transparency is supported by the PNG-24 format but the JPEG format does not support any transparency. See "Making transparent and matted images" on page 233.) A photograph suitable for compression as a JPEG or PNG-24 image, and artwork suitable for compression as a GIF or PNG-8 image Choose a format that contains sufficient pixel depth to display the color information in the image. PNG-8 and GIF files support 8-bit color, which means that they can display up to 256 color values. JPEG and PNG-24 files support 24-bit color, which means that they can display roughly 16 million color values. Depending on the format, you can specify image quality, background transparency or matting, color display, and downloading method. The appearance of an image on the Web also depends on the computer platform, color display system, operating system, and browser used to display the image. Preview images in different browsers on different platforms to see how the images will appear on the Web.

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

•

Standard Windows Color to view the image

with color adjusted to simulate a standard

Windows monitor.

•

Standard Macintosh Color to view the image

with color adjusted to simulate a standard

Macintosh monitor.

•

Photoshop Compensation to view the image

with color adjusted as it appears in a Photoshop

Elements document window, which is different

from the Save For Web dialog box. No color proﬁle

information is applied to the display in Save

For Web.

Note:

These options adjust color display only.

No changes are made to pixels in the image.

Choosing a ﬁle format for

optimization

The ﬁle format you choose for an optimized image

is determined by the color, tonal, and graphic

characteristics of the original image. In general,

continuous-tone images, such as photographs,

should be compressed as JPEG ﬁles. Illustrations

with ﬂat color or sharp edges and crisp detail,

such as type, should be compressed as GIF or

PNG-8 ﬁles.

PNG-24 ﬁle format is suitable for continuous-tone

images. However, PNG-24 ﬁles are often much

larger than JPEG ﬁles of the same image. PNG-24

format is recommended only when working with a

continuous-tone image that includes multilevel

transparency. (Multilevel transparency is

supported by the PNG-24 format but the JPEG

format does not support any transparency. See

“Making transparent and matted images” on

page 233.)

A photograph suitable for compression as a JPEG or PNG-24

image, and artwork suitable for compression as a GIF or

PNG-8 image

Choose a format that contains sufﬁcient pixel

depth to display the color information in the

image. PNG-8 and GIF ﬁles support 8-bit color,

which means that they can display up to 256 color

values. JPEG and PNG-24 ﬁles support 24-bit

color, which means that they can display roughly

16 million color values. Depending on the format,

you can specify image quality, background trans-

parency or matting, color display, and

downloading method.

The appearance of an image on the Web also

depends on the computer platform, color display

system, operating system, and browser used to

display the image. Preview images in different

browsers on different platforms to see how the

images will appear on the Web.