What Photoshop Elements 3.0 Does

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What Photoshop Elements 3.0 Does
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• Correct and enhance your photos
• Create collages by adding multiple images
• Add text, graphics and artistic effects
• Organize photos
• Exhibit photos via slideshow, greeting card,
  postcards, calendars, etc

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You can change what Elements goes to when you
start up
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Helpful Shortcuts
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• Undo control z
• Cut control x
• Copy control c
• Paste control v

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The Work Area in 3.0
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Document Pane
Palettes
System MenuMenusStandard Toolbar
Toolbox
Photo Bin
Status Information Bar
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Quick Fix
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• The Photoshop Elements Quick Fix dialog box
  gathers several image correction tools in one
  spot.
• Go to EnhancegtQuick Fix . . .
• Straighten
• Crop
• Tonality
• Colors
• Sharpness

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Misalignment
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• Open Red-Eye Dog3in.jpg
• Choose Image gt Rotate gt Straighten
• Choose Image gt Rotate gt Straighten and Crop
• Choose Image gt Rotate

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Red Eye
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• You can fix the red eye of a person or the green
  or white eyes of a dog with the red eye removal
  tool. Click this tool and either
• click red part or
• draw rectangle and release mouse

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Sharpen
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• Choose Filter gt Sharpen
• Or choose Filter gt Sharpen gt Unsharp Mask

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Tonality
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• Open reunion graphic
• Choose Enhance gt Adjust Smart Fix
• Undo
• Choose Enhance gt Adjust Contrast
• Undo
• Choose EnhancegtLevels
• Undo

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Adjust Color
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• Choose EnhancegtAdjust ColorgtHue Saturation
• Or choose Enhancegt Adjust Color Variations

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Standard Edit
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• Click Standard Edit
• Standard Editor has more extensive features
• If you decide you always want to start in
  Editor-what do you do?
• At bottom of Welcome screengtStart Up In allows
  you to choose whether you start with Welcome
  Screen, in the Editor, or in the Organizer

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Manipulating Backgrounds
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• Open waterfront.tif photo
• Choose autosmart fix
• Undo
• Select magnetic lasso tool and select the sky
• Choose paint bucket and fill with blue green
• Choose EnhancegtAdjust ColorgtAdjust Hue
  /Saturation

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Healing Brush
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• The Healing Brush fixes larger areas of
  imperfections when you drag over them. You can
  remove objects from a uniform background for
  instance, you can remove an object in a field of
  grass.
• In the Editor, select the Healing Brush tool .
• Choose a brush size from the options bar and set
  healing brush options
• Mode. Determines how the source or pattern blends
  with existing pixels. Normal lays new pixels over
  the original pixels. Replace mode preserves film
  grain and texture at the edges of the brush
  stroke.

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Healing Brush
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• Source. Sets the source to use for repairing
  pixels. Sampled uses pixels from the current
  image. Pattern uses pixels from a pattern. If you
  chose Pattern, select a pattern from the Pattern
  palette.
• Aligned. Samples pixels continuously, without
  losing the current sampling point, even if you
  release the mouse button. Deselect Aligned to
  continue using the sampled pixels from the
  initial sampling point each time you stop and
  resume painting.
• Use All Layers. Samples data from all visible
  layers. Deselect Use All Layers to sample only
  from the active layer.

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• Open cactusfloyd.jpg
• Click on the Text Tool in the Toolbox
• Type a caption
• Make the font black and 72pt Courier
• Click on pencil and draw a straight line by
  holding down shift as you draw the line.
• Resample Down to a 3 photo at 72dpi

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Panorama

• Specify the photos for a panorama.
• Choose File gt New gt Photomerge Panorama. Then
  click Browse and navigate to the cars_pano
  folder in the Tutorials folder located inside the
  Adobe Photoshop Elements application folder. Open
  the folder and select all the image files. (Hold
  the Shift key and click on each image to select
  all files.)
• Click Open to add the images to the Source Files
  list in the Photomerge dialog box.
• When the images are added to the Photomerge
  dialog box, click OK.

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Panorama

• View the composition.
• To change your view of the composition, use the
  Navigator. Position the pointer in the red box in
  the Navigator thumbnail. Drag the red box over
  the area of the composition you wish to view. Use
  the zoom out or zoom in button, or drag the
  slider bar to adjust the magnification of your
  composition in the work area.
• For more info go to HelpgtTutorialgtPhotomerge
  Panorama

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Digitization

• Process of converting image or audio information
  into a digital format

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Three Types of Resolution

• Image resolution
• Printer resolution
• Monitor resolution

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Image ResolutionGraphic File Formats
Photo 72 x 72 pixels(72 dpi)

• A file containing data which represents visual
  information
• Pixels (picture elements)
• Different graphic formats represent images w/
  varying degrees of accuracy compression

(Photo enlarged 3x)
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Graphic File Formats
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File format (suffix) Characteristics Best used for
TIFF (.tif) Tagged Image File Format Large files generally saved with a great deal of data information (color range, resolution, etc.) Initial image capture, hard-copy publication photos, images
BMP (.bmp) Bitmap Used for Windows images Format inefficient, but standardized enough to be reliable Rudimentary Windows graphics, Windows icons
PICT (.pct) An Apple Macintosh picture file format Image capture, still video image capture
GIF (.gif) Graphics Interchange Format Limited to 256 colors or less Displays single color areas best File sizes not good for large images Supports transparency Diagrams, Clip Art, Maps, Limited color-range images
JPEG (.jpg) Joint Photographic Experts Group Best for photo display Image compression user-defined, but image quality can suffer Photographic images
PNG (.png) Portable Network Graphic format Lossless format Works best with Windows browser applications Displays 24-bit color AND supports transparency Scales within windows Browser images
PSD (.psd) Native Photoshop file format Can be imported into other image manipulation programs Image manipulation
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Image Resolution
The number of pixels displayed per unit of
measure (usually dots per inch - dpi)

• High resolutions result in slower imaging
  printing times, larger file sizes
• Most monitors cannot display more than 96 dpi, no
  matter what resolution the image is

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• Web 72 dpi
• Print 300 dpi
• Hi Quality Images 600 dpi

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Resampling

• Open capGown.jpg
• Go to ImagegtResizegtImage Size
• Change dpi to 300 pixels /inch (Resample Up)
• Can you fix it with the healing brush?
• Go to WindowgtUndo History
• Undo History back to Open
• Go to ImagegtResizegtImage Size
• Change to 3 inches

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Resampling
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• Refers to changing the pixel dimensions (and thus
  the display size) of an image
• Downsampling decreasing the of pixels, i.e.
  information deleted from image
• Resampling Up new pixels added based on color
  values of existing pixels

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Bit Depth
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1. 1-bit (threshold)
2. 4-bit (grayscale)
3. 8-bit (indexed)
4. 24-bit (RGB)

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Bit Depth
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Bit Depth
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Modes

• With cap.Gown.jpg . . .
• Go to ImagegtModegtIndexed Color
• Undo
• Go to ImagegtModegtGrayscale
• Undo
• Go to ImagegtModegtBitmap

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Resampling Resolution
Original photo 72 dpi, 150px X 150px Print size
approx. 2 File size 25 KB
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Resampling Resolution
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Original photo 72 dpi, 150px X 150px Print size
approx. 2 File size 25 KB
Resampled Up 150 dpi, 312px X 312px Print size
approx. 2 File size 44 KB
Downsampled 35 dpi, 73px X 73px Print size
approx. 2 File size 6 KB
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Resampling Bit Depth
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Original photo-24-bit RGB 300 dpi, 146px X
146px Print size approx. 2 File size 67 KB
Downsampled to8-bit Indexed Color(256
colors) 300 dpi, 146px X 146px Print size
approx. 2 File size 28 KB
Downsampled to4-bit grayscale 300 dpi, 146px X
146px Print size approx. 2 File size 25 KB
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Printer Resolution
The quality of the images on a printed page.

• A higher resolution results in sharper, more
  detailed images usually gt300 dpi.
• Web images, lt72 dpi, are usually not acceptable
  for publication or printed page.

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A Layers Exercise
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• Open the Start.psd file in the Tutorials
  folder
• By default, the Layers palette should show in the
  Palette Bin. If not, choose Window gt Show Layers.
• The Layers palette displays all the layers in
  your document with the layer name and a thumbnail
  of the layers image. You can view or hide a
  layer using the eye icon.
• Click the eye icon on a layer. Notice that the
  icon disappears and the layer is hidden. Click
  the empty icon box again. Both the eye icon and
  the layers content reappear.
• Click all of the eye icons so that all of the
  Start.psd layers are visible in your document.

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Changing order of layers
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• Click a layer and hold down the mouse button,
  then drag the layer to a different stacking
  position. Release the mouse button.

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Adding a layer
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• Click the Create a New Layer icon in the Layers
  palette. A new layer appears above the active
  layer in the Layers palette. Youll also discover
  that creating type with the type tool and using
  the shape tool will automatically add a new
  layer.
• Heres how to name a layer. Double-click a layer
  thumbnail to open the Layer Properties dialog
  box. Type the name of the layer in the text box,
  then click OK. Or, you can just double-click the
  layer name in the Layers palette and type a new
  name.

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Adding artwork to existing image
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• Its no problem to add artwork from another
  Photoshop Elements document to your current
  image. Photoshop Elements layers can be moved
  from one file to another.
• With the Start.psd file still open on your
  desktop, open Hats.psd
• Select the three hats layer in Hats.psd and
  hold down the mouse button as you drag the layer
  to the document window of Start.psd. Release
  the mouse button. Close Hats.psd.

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Edit artwork on a layer.
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• Click the three hats layer in the Layers palette
  to make it active. Then select the Move tool and
  drag the artwork on the active layer. Notice that
  only the artwork on the active layer is moved.
  You can position a hat over the dummys head.
• While working on this tutorial, use the Undo
  button to undo (Control z) any action and
  restore the artwork.

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Erase artwork on a layer.
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• With the three hats layer active, select the
  Erase tool. Use the Erase tool to remove two of
  the hats. Again, notice that only the artwork on
  the active layer is affected.

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Delete a layer.
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• You can also remove artwork from your document by
  deleting a layer. Make the shoe layer active in
  the Layers palette, then click the Delete Layer
  icon. Click Yes to confirm you want to delete the
  selected layer. Only the active layer and its
  artwork are removed from the file.

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Scale and rotate objects.
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• 1. Open Basket.psd in the Tutorials folder
  located inside the Adobe Photoshop Elements
  application folder. Drag the basket layer to
  Start.psd. Close Basket.psd. Make sure the
  basket layer in Start.psd is active.
• 2. Choose Image gt Transform gt Free Transform. A
  bounding box with handles appears around the
  artwork youre modifying.

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Scale and rotate objects.
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• 3. To scale artwork, position the pointer over
  any edge of the bounding box until you see a
  double-headed arrow. Holding the Shift key
  constrains the proportions of the image as you
  scale it. When youre happy with the new size,
  click the Commit button .
• 4. To rotate the artwork, position the pointer
  outside the transformation bounding box until you
  see a curved double-headed arrow. Drag clockwise
  or counterclockwise to rotate the artwork. Press
  Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS), or click the
  Commit button to apply the transformation
  changes.

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Linking layers.
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• An efficient way to work with layers is to link
  two or more of them together. By linking layers,
  you can move and transform them together,
  maintaining their alignment with each other.
• With the Pants layer active in the Layers
  palette, click the small box to the right of the
  eye icon in the Shirt layer. A link icon appears
  in the box, indicating that the Shirt layer is
  now linked to the Pants layer. Select the Move
  tool, position it in the image window, and drag.
  Notice that the artwork on the linked layers
  moves at the same time.
• To unlink a layer, click the link icon in the
  linked layer. The link icon disappears, and the
  layer is no longer linked to the active layer.

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Flatten layers to reduce file size.
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• When youve finished editing all the layers in
  your image, you can flatten the files layers.
  This merges all the layers into a single
  background layer, greatly reducing the file size.
  Be aware that when you flatten an image and save
  it you lose the layers. To preserve the layers,
  save the image to another file name.
• To flatten a file, choose Layer gt Flatten Image.
• To save the flattened image, choose File gt Save
  As.
• In the dialog box, type a new name for your
  flattened file, select a file format if desired,
  and click Save.

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Layers Review
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• The stacking order of the layers
• a. means very little
• b. affects what can be seen.
• c. determines the importance of the images
• d. means that whats at the bottom can always
  be seen

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Animation
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• Save As Web allows you to save as an animated
  gif.
• Each layer will represent a frame beginning with
  the bottom layer

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