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74 CHAPTER 3 Working with Color 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 in the Color Picker is the beginning color for the range. When you click OK, the Color Picker reappears so that you can choose the last color in the range. The colors you selected in the Color Picker are placed in the range you selected in the Color Table dialog box. 5 Click Preview to view the results of the changes you have made to the image. 6 Click OK in the Color Table dialog box to apply the new colors to the indexed-color image. To assign transparency to a single color: 1 Choose Image > Mode > Color Table. 2 Select the eyedropper, and click the desired color in the table or in the image. The sampled color is replaced with transparency in the image. 3 Click OK to close the color table. To use a predefined color table: 1 Choose Image > Mode > Color Table. 2 Select an option from the Table menu: Black Body Displays a palette based on the different colors a blackbody radiator emits as it is heated-from black to red, orange, yellow, and white. Grayscale Displays a palette based on 256 levels of gray-from black to white. Spectrum Displays a palette based on the colors produced as white light passes through a prism- from violet, blue, and green to yellow, orange, and red. System (Windows) Displays the standard Windows 256-color system palette. System (Mac OS) Displays the standard Mac OS 256-color system palette. To save a color table for use with other images: Click the Save button in the Color Table dialog box. (See "Using the Swatches palette" on page 76 for information on saving color tables.) To load a saved color table: Click the Load button in the Color Table dialog box. Once you load a color table into an image, the colors in the image change to reflect the color positions they reference in the new color table. Note: You can also load saved color tables into the Swatches palette. (See "Using the Swatches palette" on page 76.) Choosing foreground and background colors Photoshop Elements uses the foreground color to paint, fill, and stroke selections and shapes, and the background color to make gradient fills and fill in the erased areas of an image. The foreground and background colors are also used by some special effects filters.

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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CHAPTER 3

Working with Color

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 in the Color Picker is the

beginning color for the range. When you click OK,

the Color Picker reappears so that you can choose

the last color in the range.

The colors you selected in the Color Picker are

placed in the range you selected in the Color Table

dialog box.

Click Preview to view the results of the changes

you have made to the image.

Click OK in the Color Table dialog box to apply

the new colors to the indexed-color image.

To assign transparency to a single color:

Choose Image > Mode > Color Table.

Select the eyedropper, and click the desired

color in the table or in the image. The sampled

color is replaced with transparency in the image.

Click OK to close the color table.

To use a predeﬁned color table:

Choose Image > Mode > Color Table.

Select an option from the Table menu:

Black Body

Displays a palette based on the

different colors a blackbody radiator emits as it

is heated—from black to red, orange, yellow,

and white.

Grayscale

Displays a palette based on 256 levels of

gray—from black to white.

Spectrum

Displays a palette based on the colors

produced as white light passes through a prism—

from violet, blue, and green to yellow, orange,

and red.

System (Windows)

Displays the standard

Windows 256-color system palette.

System (Mac OS)

Displays the standard Mac OS

256-color system palette.

To save a color table for use with other images:

Click the Save button in the Color Table

dialog box. (See “Using the Swatches palette” on

page 76 for information on saving color tables.)

To load a saved color table:

Click the Load button in the Color Table dialog

box. Once you load a color table into an image, the

colors in the image change to reﬂect the color

positions they reference in the new color table.

Note:

You can also load saved color tables into the

Swatches palette. (See

“

Using the Swatches palette

”

on page 76.)

Choosing foreground and

background colors

Photoshop Elements uses the

foreground

color to

paint, ﬁll, and stroke selections and shapes, and

the

background

color to make gradient ﬁlls and ﬁll

in the erased areas of an image. The foreground

and background colors are also used by some

special effects ﬁlters.