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Better photos are a breeze with the latest version of Photoshop Elements and Dummies Amateur photographers and photo enthusiasts turn to Photoshop Elements for a powerful but simpler way to edit and retouch their snapshots. Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies is the perfect guide for helping every shutterbug add a touch of creativity to their images. Learn how to find your way around the Elements interface and its new features; create, edit, fix, and organize your photos; add type and interesting effects to your images; and share them with the world. Full color pages bring the techniques to life and make taking great photos fun and easy. * Introduces you to the tools, menus, options, and work area * Shows you how to import and upload images * Reviews ways to view, find, organize, and manage your photos * Details how to modify your photos to your specifications * Distills working with layers, contrast, color, clarity, filter, effects, styles, and type * Explains how to print your creations, create a slide show, and optimize images for the web Whatever you want your images to be, the sky's the limit with Photoshop Elements 11 For Dummies close at hand.

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Photoshop® Elements 11 For Dummies®

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Table of Contents

Introduction
About This Book
Conventions Used in This Book
How This Book Is Organized
Part I: Organizing and Editing Images
Part II: Managing Media
Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos
Part IV: Exploring Your Inner Artist
Part V: Printing, Creating, and Sharing
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Icons Used in This Book
Where to Go from Here
Part I: Organizing and Editing Images
Part I: Chapter 1: Getting Your Images
Organizing Photos and Media on a Hard Drive
Launching Photoshop Elements
Adding Images to the Organizer
Adding files from folders and removable media
Downloading images from your camera with the Elements Downloader
Importing additional photos from folders
Understanding the Media Browser
Viewing images in the Media Browser
Adding people in the Media Browser
Using a Scanner
Understanding image requirements
Using scanner plug-ins on Windows
Scanning on the Macintosh
Scanning many photos at a time
Grabbing Photos from iPhoto (Macintosh Only)
Phoning In Your Images
Part I: Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Editing Work Areas
Launching the Photo Editor
Examining the Photo Editor
Examining the image window
Moving through the menu bar
Uncovering the contextual menus
Using the Tools panel
Selecting from the Tool Options
Playing with panels
Using the Photo Bin
Creating images from scratch
Using the Quick Mode
Using Guided Mode
Retracing Your Steps
Using the Undo History panel
Reverting to the last save
Getting a Helping Hand
Part I: Chapter 3: Getting Ready to Edit
Controlling the Editing Environment
Launching and navigating preferences
Checking out all the preferences panes
Controlling the Organizer Environment
Navigating Organizer preferences
Setting preferences in all the panes
Customizing Presets
Getting Familiar with Color
Getting Color Right
Color the easy way
Calibrating your monitor
Choosing a color workspace
Understanding how profiles work
Part I: Chapter 4: Working with Resolutions, Color Modes, and File Formats
Grappling with the Ubiquitous Pixels
Understanding resolution
Understanding image dimensions
The Art of Resampling
Changing image size and resolution
Understanding the results of resampling
Choosing a Resolution for Print or Onscreen
Go Ahead — Make My Mode!
Converting to Bitmap mode
Converting to Grayscale mode
Converting to Indexed Color mode
Saving Files with Purpose
Using the Save/Save As dialog box
Saving files for the web
Understanding file formats
File formats at a glance
Audio and video formats supported in Elements
Part II: Managing Media
Part II: Chapter 5: Tagging Photos and Creating Albums
Touring the Organizer Window
Organizing Groups of Images with Keyword Tags
Creating and viewing a keyword tag
Adding icons to keyword tags
Working with custom keyword tags
Working with default keyword tags
Working with keyword tag sub-categories
Creating Albums
Rating images
Adding rated files to an album
Editing an album
Exploring album benefits
Creating a Smart Album
Part II: Chapter 6: Viewing and Finding Your Images
Cataloging Files
Using the Catalog Manager
Working with catalogs
Backing up your catalog
Backing up photos and files (Windows)
Backing up photos on a second hard drive
The Many Faces of the Organizer
Using the View menu
Viewing photos in a slideshow (Full Screen view)
Comparing the Organizer on Windows and the Macintosh
Placing Pictures on Maps
Working with Events
Using Search Options
Using Advanced Search Options
Searching by date
Searching for untagged items
Searching captions and notes
Searching by history
Searching metadata
Searching similarities
Grouping Files That Get in the Way
Marking files as hidden
Stacking ’em up
Creating versions
Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos
Part III: Chapter 7: Making and Modifying Selections
Defining Selections
Creating Rectangular and Elliptical Selections
Perfecting squares and circles with Shift and Alt or Option
Applying Marquee options
Making Freeform Selections with the Lasso Tools
Selecting with the Lasso tool
Getting straight with the Polygonal Lasso tool
Snapping with the Magnetic Lasso tool
Working Wizardry with the Magic Wand
Talking about Tolerance
Wielding the Wand to select
Modifying Your Selections
Adding to a selection
Subtracting from a selection
Intersecting two selections
Avoiding key collisions
Painting with the Selection Brush
Painting with the Quick Selection Tool
Resizing Smartly with the Recompose Tool
Working with the Cookie Cutter Tool
Eliminating with the Eraser Tools
The Eraser tool
The Background Eraser tool
The Magic Eraser tool
Using the Magic Extractor Command
Using the Select Menu
Selecting all or nothing
Reselecting a selection
Inversing a selection
Feathering a selection
Refining the edges of a selection
Using the Modify commands
Applying the Grow and Similar commands
Saving and loading selections
Part III: Chapter 8: Working with Layers
Getting to Know Layers
Anatomy of the Layers panel
Using the Layer and Select menus
Working with Different Layer Types
Image layers
Adjustment layers
Fill layers
Shape layers
Type layers
Tackling Layer Basics
Creating a new layer from scratch
Using Layer via Copy and Layer via Cut
Duplicating layers
Dragging and dropping layers
Using the Paste into Selection command
Moving a Layer’s Content
Transforming Layers
Adding Layer Masks
Flattening and Merging Layers
Flattening layers
Merging layers
Part III: Chapter 9: Simple Image Makeovers
Cropping and Straightening Images
Cutting away with the Crop tool
Cropping with a selection border
Straightening images
Recomposing Images
Employing One-Step Auto Fixes
Auto Smart Fix
Auto Levels
Auto Contrast
Auto Color Correction
Auto Sharpen
Auto Red Eye Fix
Editing in Quick Mode
Fixing Small Imperfections with Tools
Cloning with the Clone Stamp tool
Retouching with the Healing Brush
Zeroing in with the Spot Healing Brush
Lightening and darkening with Dodge and Burn tools
Smudging away rough spots
Softening with the Blur tool
Focusing with the Sharpen tool
Sponging color on and off
Replacing one color with another
Part III: Chapter 10: Correcting Contrast, Color, and Clarity
Editing Your Photos Using a Logical Workflow
Adjusting Lighting
Fixing lighting with Shadows/Highlights
Using Brightness/Contrast
Pinpointing proper contrast with Levels
Adjusting Color
Removing color casts automatically
Adjusting with Hue/Saturation
Eliminating color with Remove Color
Switching colors with Replace Color
Correcting with Color Curves
Adjusting skin tones
Defringing layers
Correcting with Color Variations
Adjusting color temperature with photo filters
Mapping your colors
Adjusting Clarity
Removing noise, artifacts, dust, and scratches
Blurring when you need to
Sharpening for better focus
Working Intelligently with the Smart Brush Tools
Part IV: Exploring Your Inner Artist
Part IV: Chapter 11: Playing with Filters, Effects, Styles, and More
Having Fun with Filters
Applying filters
Corrective or destructive filters
One-step or multistep filters
Fading a filter
Selectively applying a filter
Working in the Filter Gallery
Distorting with the Liquify filter
Correcting Camera Distortion
Exploring New Filters
Creating a comic
Getting graphic
Using the Pen and Ink filter
Dressing Up with Photo and Text Effects
Adding Shadows, Glows, and More
Applying layer styles
Working with layer styles
Mixing It Up with Blend Modes
General blend modes
Darken blend modes
Lighten blend modes
Lighting blend modes
Inverter blend modes
HSL blend modes
Using Photomerge
Photomerge Panorama
Photomerge Group Shot
Photomerge Scene Cleaner
Photomerge Exposure
Photomerge Style Match
Part IV: Chapter 12: Drawing and Painting
Choosing Color
Working with the Color Picker
Dipping into the Color Swatches panel
Sampling with the Eyedropper tool
Getting Artsy with the Pencil and Brush Tools
Drawing with the Pencil tool
Painting with the Brush tool
Creating your own brush
Using the Impressionist Brush
Filling and Outlining Selections
Fill ’er up
Outlining with the Stroke command
Splashing On Color with the Paint Bucket Tool
Working with Multicolored Gradients
Applying a preset gradient
Customizing gradients
Working with Patterns
Applying a preset pattern
Creating a new pattern
Creating Shapes of All Sorts
Drawing a shape
Drawing multiple shapes
Specifying Geometry options
Editing shapes
Part IV: Chapter 13: Working with Type
Understanding Type Basics
Tools
Modes
Formats
Creating Point Type
Creating Paragraph Type
Creating Path Type
Using the Text On Selection tool
Using the Text On Shape tool
Using the Text On Custom Path tool
Specifying Type Options
Editing Text
Simplifying Type
Masking with Type
Stylizing and Warping Type
Adjusting type opacity
Applying filters to your type
Painting your type with color and gradients
Warping your type
Part V: Printing, Creating, and Sharing
Part V: Chapter 14: Getting It on Paper
Getting Pictures Ready for Printing
Working with Color Printer Profiles
Printing a photo with the printer managing color
Printing a photo with Elements managing color
Getting Familiar with the Print Dialog Box
Using Page Setup
Using More Options
Exploring Other Print Options
Part V: Chapter 15: Sharing Your Work
Getting Familiar with the Elements Sharing Options
Planning ahead
Understanding Adobe Revel
Understanding some common setup attributes
Creating an Online Photo Album
Understanding export options
Exporting to Photoshop Showcase
Using Photoshop Showcase
Viewing Photoshop Showcase galleries
E-Mailing Photos
Working with Adobe Premiere Elements
Sharing Your Photos on Social Networks
Sharing photos on Flickr and Facebook
Using other online services
Part V: Chapter 16: Making Creations
Getting a Grip on Creations
Grasping Creation-Assembly Basics
Creating a Slide Show (Windows Only)
Creating a Slide Show project (Windows)
Exporting to slides and video
Making Additional Creations
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Part VI: Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Composing Better Photos
Find a Focal Point
Use the Rule of Thirds
Cut the Clutter
Frame Your Shot
Employ Contrast
Use Leading Lines
Experiment with Viewpoints
Use Light
Give Direction
Consider Direction of Movement
Part VI: Chapter 18: Ten More Project Ideas
Screen Savers
Flyers, Ads, and Online Auctions
Clothes, Hats, and More
Posters
Household and Business Inventories
Project Documentation
School Reports and Projects
Blogs
Wait — There’s More
Cheat Sheet

Photoshop® Elements 11 For Dummies®

by Barbara Obermeier and Ted Padova

Photoshop® Elements 11 For Dummies®

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About the Authors

Barbara Obermeier is the principal of Obermeier Design, a graphic design studio in Ventura, California. She is the author of Photoshop CS6 All-in-One For Dummies and has contributed as author or coauthor on over two dozen books on Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, PowerPoint, and digital photography for Wiley Publishing, Peachpit Press, and Adobe Press. She is currently a faculty member in the School of Design at Brooks Institute.

Ted Padova is the former chief executive officer and managing partner of The Image Source Digital Imaging and Photo Finishing Centers of Ventura and Thousand Oaks, California. He has been involved in digital imaging since founding a service bureau in 1990. He retired from his company in 2005 and now spends his time writing and speaking on Acrobat, PDF forms, LiveCycle Designer forms, and Adobe Design Premium Suite applications.

Ted has written more than 50 computer books and is the world’s leading author on Adobe Acrobat. He has written books on Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Reader, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Adobe Illustrator. Recent books published by John Wiley & Sons include Adobe Acrobat PDF Bible (versions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and X), Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Forms Bible, Adobe Creative Suite Bible (versions CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, and CS5), Color Correction for Digital Photographers Only, Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies, Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 For Dummies: Just the Steps, Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Forms, Teach Yourself Visually Acrobat 5, and Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Complete Course. He also coauthored Adobe Illustrator Master Class — Illustrator Illuminated and wrote Adobe Reader Revealed for Peachpit/Adobe Press.

Dedication

Don Mason was a coauthor for two books with Ted. One of the books was Color Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies. Sadly, Don passed away this year (2012).

Photo courtesy Teresa Harigian’Nielson

Don was an inspiration for both of us. He assisted a few times in reviewing images for our Photoshop Elements books, and we both considered him to be one of the best color correction experts in the industry.

Don was truly a generous individual who was always happy to offer assistance to all Photoshop Elements and Photoshop users. He was the premiere commercial photographer serving most of the graphic designers and advertising agencies in his hometown — Bakersfield, California.

Prior to the year 1998, Don never touched a computer keyboard. His graphic artist clients were all using Adobe Photoshop and frequently asked him questions about editing photos. When asked a question, Don typically said to his clients, “It must have some kind of manual. Why don’t you drop it off at my office on your way home?” Amazingly, and on several occasions, the next day Don walked his clients through steps, over the phone, to properly adjust brightness values using Adobe Photoshop. All this he did after reading a manual in one evening and never looking at a computer monitor.

In 1997 Don asked Ted about what a computer could do for him. He brought spectrometers to Ted’s service center, read books, and finally late in 1997 he purchased his first computer. In less than a year, Don became the master, and we both asked Don many technical questions.

Don was a true genius and moreover a wonderful human being. He will be missed by friends and many people in our industry.

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Barbara Obermeier: A special thanks to Ted Padova, my coauthor and friend, who always reminds me there is still a 1 in 53 million chance that we can win the lottery.

Ted Padova: As always, I’d like to thank Barbara Obermeier for her continued collaborations and lasting friendship. Also, a special thanks to Regis and Malou Pelletier; Curtis and Grace Cooper; Irene Windley; Mike Bindi; and my bridge buddies Stefan, George, and Richard for all their special modeling assistance.

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Introduction

Photoshop Elements is now in its eleventh version. The product has matured as a tool for both professional and amateur photographers who want to edit, improve, manage, manipulate, and organize photos and other media. Considering the power and impressive features of the program, Elements remains one of the best values for your money among computer software applications.

We live in a photo world. With more than 200 million Apple iOS devices, millions of smart phones, various tablets, netbooks, laptops, and computers, users are managing and editing photos routinely every hour and every day of the year. In order to manage and edit your photos, you need a program like Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Why should you buy Photoshop Elements (and, ultimately, this book)? The range of people who can benefit from using Elements is wide and includes a vast audience. From beginning image editors to intermediate users to more advanced amateurs and professionals, Elements has something for everyone. Hopefully this book can help guide you through the changes in Elements 11 and explain how to take charge of many of the editing features.

What’s so nice about this latest release is that the Adobe Development Team made many tasks much easier. Elements 11 has a brand new and simpler interface. Sharing your photos has been greatly simplified by using the free Photoshop Showcase online service and more parity exists between Windows and the Macintosh.

To set your frame of mind to thinking in Photoshop Elements terms, don’t think of the program as a scaled-down version of Adobe Photoshop; those days are gone. Consider the following:

If you’re a digital photographer, Elements has the tools for you to open, edit, and massage your pictures into professional images.

If you worry about color management, Elements can handle the task for you, as we explain in Chapters 4 and 14, where we talk about color profiling and printing. For the professional, Photoshop Elements has almost everything you need to create final images for color printing and commercial printing.

If you’re interested in displaying photos on online services or handheld devices, you’re in the right spot. We cover everything from uploading Facebook images to connecting to an iPhone or iPad. Look over Chapters 1 and 15 to find out more.

If you’re a beginner or an intermediate user, you’ll find that some of the Photoshop Elements quick-fix operations are a breeze to use for enhancing your images, as we explain in Chapters 9 and 10.

If you like to print homemade greeting cards and photo albums — whether you’re a beginner, an intermediate user, or a professional user — Elements provides you with easy-to-follow steps to package your creations, as we discuss in Chapters 15 and 16. In addition, the wonder- ful sharing services are your gateway to keeping family, friends, and clients connected to your photos, as we explain in Chapter 15.

About This Book

This book is an effort to provide as much of a comprehensive view of a wildly feature-rich program as we can. Additionally, this book is written for a cross-platform audience. If you’re a Macintosh user, you’ll find all you need to work in Elements 11 for the Macintosh, including support for placing photos on maps and more consistency with Windows features.

Elements is overflowing with features, and we try to offer you as much as possible within a limited amount of space. We begged for more pages, but alas, our publisher wants to get this book in your hands in full color and with an attractive price tag. Therefore, even though we may skip over a few little things, all you need to know about using Photoshop Elements for designing images for print, sharing, the web, versatile packaging, e-mailing, and more is covered in the pages ahead. If you still crave more, take a look at our Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 All-in-One For Dummies (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), where you can find more comprehensive coverage of Photoshop Elements 11.

As we said, Photoshop Elements has something for just about everyone. Hence, we know that our audience is large and that not everyone will use every tool, command, or method described in this book. Therefore, we added a lot of cross-references in the text, in case you want to jump around. You can go to just about any chapter and start reading; and, if some concept needs more explanation, we point you in the right direction for getting some background when it’s necessary.

Conventions Used in This Book

Throughout this book, we point you to menus where commands are accessed frequently. A couple of things to remember are the references for where to go when we walk you through steps in a procedure. For accessing a menu command, you may see a sentence like this one:

Choose File⇒Get Photos⇒From Files and Folders.

When you see commands like this one, we’re asking you to click the File menu to open the drop-down menu, click the menu command labeled Get Photos, and then choose the command From Files and Folders from the submenu that appears.

Another convention we use refers to context menus. A context menu jumps up at your cursor position and shows you a menu similar to the menu you select at the top of the Elements workspace. To open a context menu, right-click the mouse (Control-click on the Macintosh if you don’t have a two- button mouse).

A third item relates to using keystrokes on your keyboard. When we mention that some keys need to be pressed on your keyboard, the text looks like this:

Press Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S (Option+Shift++S on the Macintosh).

In this case, you hold down the Alt key on Windows or the Option key on the Macintosh, the Shift key, and the Control key on Windows or the key on the Macintosh, and then press the S key. Then, release all the keys at the same time.

How This Book Is Organized

This book is divided into logical parts where related features are nested together in chapters within six different parts of the book.

Part I: Organizing and Editing Images

There are two major components in Photoshop Elements. The Organizer is where you manage all your media — not just photos, but also video, music, PDFs, and projects you create in Elements. The other component is the Photo Editor where you edit photos in a vast number of ways.

We begin Part I with importing photos and performing some tasks in the Organizer. We then introduce you to the Photo Editor in Chapter 2. After all, once you have photos in the Organizer, one of the next things you’ll want to do is edit your photos. We continue in Chapters 3 and 4 with the Photo Editor and talk about essential file attributes you need to know for editing, printing, and sharing your files.

Part II: Managing Media

In Part II we return to the Organizer and talk about the many ways you can search and find media in the Media Browser. We explore the Find menu and talk about metadata and adding captions and notes to your media. We also cover viewing files in the Organizer in many ways, such as after sorting media and viewing media in slideshows. We conclude this part by talking about albums that help you further organize your media, including both regular albums and Smart Albums.

Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos

Part III relates to creating and manipulating selections. There’s a lot to making selections in photos, but after you figure it out (by reading Chapter 7), you can cut out a figure in a picture and drop it into another picture, drop different backgrounds into pictures, or isolate an area that needs some brightness and contrast adjustment. In Chapter 8, we talk about layers and how to create and manage them in Elements. In many other chapters, we refer you to Chapter 8 because you need to work with layers for many other tasks you do in Elements.

In Chapter 9, we talk about fixing image flaws and problems. That picture you took with your digital camera may be underexposed or overexposed, or it may need some work to remove dust and scratches. Maybe it needs a little sharpening, or another imperfection requires editing. All the know-how and how-tos are in this chapter.

In Chapter 10, we cover how to correct color problems, brightness, and contrast. We show you ways to quickly fix photos, as well as some methods for custom image corrections.

Part IV: Exploring Your Inner Artist

This part is designed to bring out the artist in you. Considering the easy application of Elements filter effects, you can turn a photo image into a drawing or apply a huge number of different effects to change the look of your image. Find out all about them in Chapter 11.

In Chapter 12, we talk about drawing and painting so that you can let your artistic expression run wild. We follow up in Chapter 13 by talking about adding text to photos so that you can create your own layouts, posters, cards, and more.

Part V: Printing, Creating, and Sharing

You may find yourself printing fewer photos than ever with all the online opportunities and the display devices available to you. However, when it comes time to print a photo, we provide you information on how to produce good color on your desktop color printer in Chapter 14.

If screen viewing is of interest to you, we cover a number of different options for viewing your pictures onscreen and sharing photos in Chapter 15. For web-hosted images, animated images, photo viewing on your TV, and sending files to social networks, this chapter shows you the many ways you can view your Elements images onscreen.

We wrap up this part with Chapter 16, in which we describe how to make creations for both printing to your desktop printers and sharing photos.

Part VI: The Part of Tens

The last part of the book contains the Part of Tens chapters. We offer ten tips for composing better images and give you ten more project ideas to try with Elements.

Icons Used in This Book

In the margins throughout this book, you see icons indicating that something important is stated in the respective text.

This icon informs you that the item discussed is a new feature in Photoshop Elements 11.

Pay particular attention when you see the Warning icon. This icon indicates possible side-effects or damage to your image that you might encounter when performing certain operations in Elements.

This icon is a heads-up for something you may want to commit to memory. Usually, it tells you about a shortcut for a repetitive task, where remembering a procedure can save you time.

A Tip tells you about an alternative method for a procedure, by giving you a shortcut, a workaround, or some other type of helpful information related to working on tasks in the section being discussed.

Elements is a computer program, after all. No matter how hard we try to simplify our explanation of features, we can’t entirely avoid the technical information. If we think that a topic is on the technical side, we use this icon to alert you that we’re moving into a complex subject. You won’t see many of these icons in the book because we try our best to give you the details in nontechnical terms.

Where to Go from Here

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Part I

Organizing and Editing Images

In this part . . .

The first thing you want to do after opening the Photoshop Elements program is to access your photos from a digital camera, hard drive, iPad, iPod, iPhone, or scanner. In this part, we talk about how to access your pictures and get them into Elements for editing. After you load up images in the Organizer, you’re ready to make some edits on your picture, so Chapter 2 introduces you to the Photo Editor. In Chapters 3 and 4, we talk about essential image attributes you need to understand throughout the editing process.

Chapter 1: Getting Your Images

In This Chapter

Organizing your photos on your computer

Launching Photoshop Elements

Importing photos into the Organizer

Scanning photos and artwork

Working with online services

Acquiring photos from cell phones

Before you begin anything in Photoshop Elements, your first job is to handle organizing photos on your hard drive. We begin by looking at some options for organizing images before you first launch the program.

You can’t do much in Photoshop Elements until you bring in some pictures to work on. Therefore we begin by discussing importing images into the Elements Organizer. You have many different ways to import a picture into Elements, where you can play with it, experiment on it, and edit it. If you have a digital camera, you’re in the right place; we walk you through an easy method for importing images from cameras and card readers into the Organizer.

If you have a digital scanner, you’re in the right place, too, because we also talk about scanning photos. If you have CDs, sources of files on the Internet, some massive collection of images written to a DVD, or even a picture or two that you took with your cell phone, you’re still in the right place!

This chapter covers all you need to know about bringing images into Elements from all kinds of sources, and explains how to move around the workspaces to get your files into Elements.

Organizing Photos and Media on a Hard Drive

Several years ago, when we wrote the first edition of Photoshop Elements For Dummies, photos for the average user took up less space on hard drives and fewer images needed organizing. Over the past decade, photos and media have become the primary data source on the average consumer’s computer. We grab a ton of images with our digital cameras and smart phones, import videos from cameras and phones, and now we’re capturing both photos and other media with tablets. With Facebook claiming almost one billion users, you can easily understand how important photos are to computer users.

For many people, a single internal hard drive doesn’t offer enough space to store our cherished memories, whether in the form of pictures, videos, or sound and music files. We need more storage space and we need to organize our files, first on hard drives, and then later in Photoshop Elements.

Fortunately, the price of large-capacity drives is well within the reach of most people who own a computer, digital camera, and smart phone. One of the best things you can do to accommodate your photography collection is to invest in a 1 to 3TB USB drive and attach it to your computer. Use the drive only for your photos, videos, and other media, and don’t bother copying other data files to it. You can always disconnect a USB drive and use another drive for other kinds of data files.

Even if you store photos on your computer’s internal hard drive, organizing the photos in folders will help you manage them efficiently before you get into the Elements Organizer. Regardless of whether you follow our advice for storing your photos on a separate drive, you should look at organizing files in folders first before you start working with Elements. How you label your folders is a personal choice. You may want to name the folders by years and use subfolders for organizing photos by events, locations, photo content, and so on. In Figure 1-1, you can see just one example of how you might organize your photos on a hard drive. After you organize your photos into folders, you can use the command to import files from folders, as we explain later, in the section “Adding files from folders and removable media.”

Figure 1-1: Organize photos and media in folders and subfolders on your hard drive.

As you learn in this chapter, your initial hard drive arrangement of folders and subfolders for your photos and media will make the enormous task of organizing content much easier in Photoshop Elements.

Launching Photoshop Elements

Photoshop Elements has two separate components: the Organizer and the Photo Editor mode. The Organizer is where you manage photos, and the Photo Editor mode is where you correct photos for brightness and color, add effects, repair images, and so on.

By default, the Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 icon appears on your desktop after installation; you can click the icon to launch the Photoshop Elements Welcome screen. In the Welcome screen, you can choose to visit the Organizer or the Photo Editor mode.

Note that you have two buttons on the Welcome screen. The first is labeled Organizer. The other button is labeled Photo Editor. Click the Organize button to open the Photoshop Elements Organizer. The Organizer is your central Photoshop Elements media file cabinet where all your imported images, videos, sound files, and PDF documents are displayed in the current catalog file. We talk more about catalog files in Chapter 2. The Photo Editor button is used to open Photo Edit mode. We talk more about this mode elsewhere, beginning in Chapter 4.

Look over the Welcome Screen and browse the information provided. Here you find links to information and help in using Photoshop Elements.

Both the Organizer and the Photo Editor are workspaces. In this chapter, you take a look at the Organizer. (In Chapter 2, you look at the Photo Editor that you enter when clicking the Photo Editor button.) You open a workspace from the Welcome screen. For the purposes of this chapter, click Organize to open the Photoshop Elements Organizer, shown in Figure 1-2.

Figure 1-2: The new Organizer User Interface.

If you’re new to Photoshop Elements, you see an empty Media Browser — this is the central panel in the Organizer window. If you are a new user, then you should be looking at a window containing no image thumbnails. You find out how to add images to the Organizer in the next section.

If you’re upgrading from a previous version of Photoshop Elements, you are prompted to convert a previous catalog. (We talk about catalogs in Chapter 6.)

If you already use a previous version of Elements, you know how to import images, so just skim this section to find out what’s new.

For those who have worked with Photoshop Elements prior to Elements 11, you’ll immediately see a completely new User Interface when you launch either the Organizer or the Photo Editor. Don’t be alarmed. Most of the tasks and features you’re used to are still available in Elements 11. However, accessing tools, panels, and menus have been scrambled a bit. We address the changes routinely throughout this book.

For those new to Photoshop Elements, you don’t have to be concerned about the changes in workspaces. We address the features available in both the Organizer and the Photo Editor in forthcoming chapters.

Adding Images to the Organizer

To edit photos in Photoshop Elements, you need to download your images from your camera to your computer’s hard drive and then import photos you want to edit into the Photoshop Elements Organizer.

You have several options for downloading photos from your camera and other sources to your computer:

Using AutoPlay Wizards for Windows and Assistants on the Mac

Importing photos directly from iPhoto if you use a Mac

Using the Photoshop Elements Downloader

The built-in downloaders from your operating system attempt to make your life easier, but in reality, it may be more difficult to struggle with a downloader application and later organize files in folders (as we recommend earlier in this chapter).

Perhaps the easiest method for transferring photos from a camera or card reader is to cancel out of the operating system’s downloader application or any camera-specific applications and just stay with the tools that Photoshop Elements provides you.

This section introduces you to the tools available for adding images to the Organizer. If you’ve already organized images on your hard drive or other media into folders, the Get Files from Folders command (explained in the first section) can help. If images are still on your camera, the Elements Downloader enables you to download images from your camera into the folder where you want to keep the images, using whatever folder organization system you’ve created; the Elements Downloader also imports the images into the Organizer at the same time.

Adding files from folders and removable media

Most people have photos on their computer’s hard drive, as well as on removable media, such as CDs or maybe even a USB flash drive. Adding images from your hard drive is easy. If you have a source such as a USB flash drive or a CD, you copy files from the source to the drive where you store photos or you can copy files into the Organizer directly from the removable media.

The following steps explain how to import images from your hard drive into the Organizer Media Browser:

1. Choose File⇒Get Photos and Videos⇒From Files and Folders.

Or press Ctrl+Shift+G (+Shift+G on the Macintosh). The Get Photos and Videos from Files and Folders dialog box opens as shown in Figure 1-3.

Figure 1-3: Choose File⇒Get Photos and Videos⇒From Files and Folders to import photos into the Organizer.

2. Browse your hard drive for the photos you want to add.

You can elect to import individual images, a single folder of photos, or a folder and all its subfolders.

3. Select files or a folder and click Get Media.

When you add files to the Organizer, the image thumbnails are links to the files stored on your drive. They are not the complete image data. Your catalog in Elements grows as you add more images, but the growth is miniscule compared to the photo file sizes.

To copy files from CDs, DVDs, or a USB flash drive you can open the external device and drag photos to your hard drive. You can also use the Get Photos and Videos⇒From Files and Folders command and import photos directly from the external device. By default, the Get Photos and Videos from Files and Folders dialog box copies your media to your hard drive when you click the Get Media button. You can uncheck Copy Files on Import so that only thumbnail images will appear in the Media Browser. In order to edit a photo, you have to reconnect the CD or DVD to your computer. If you elect to copy the images, the photos are available for editing each time you start a new Elements session.

Downloading images from your camera with the Elements Downloader

Import photos from your camera to the Organizer as follows:

1. Insert a media card from a camera or attach a camera to your computer via a USB port.

We recommend using a media card instead of attaching your camera, in case the battery is low on your camera. (If the battery runs out, the import stops). If you have a media card for your camera, take it out and insert it into a card reader that you attach to your computer via a USB port.

2. If you see an Autoplay Wizard on Windows or a dialog box for importing photos into iPhoto on the Macintosh, cancel out of the dialog box and let Elements control your import.

3. In Elements, open the Organize workspace, and choose File⇒Get Photos and Videos from Camera or Card Reader, or press Ctrl+G (+G on the Macintosh).

The Photoshop Elements Organizer – Photo Downloader opens, as shown in Figure 1-4.

Figure 1-4: Choose File⇒Get Photos and Videos⇒From Camera or Card Reader, and the Elements Organizer – Photo Downloader opens.

4. In the Photo Downloader, open the drop-down menu at the top of the dialog box and choose your media card.

5. Click the Browse button and locate the folder on your drive to which you want to copy the photos.

If you don’t click the Browse button and select a folder all files copied to your hard drive are copied to the User Pictures folder. This is the default for Photoshop Elements. If you use an external hard drive to store your photos, you’ll want to copy photos to the external drive. When you select a folder, select the one that fits the overall folder organizational structure for your images, so your image files stay organized.

We recommend leaving the rest of the settings at the defaults. Don’t rename the photos here. You can take care of file renaming in the Organizer later. Don’t delete the photos from your card just in case you delete some photos in the Organizer and want to retrieve them. After you’re certain everything in Elements is to your liking, you can later delete photos using your camera.

There’s an Advanced dialog box for the Downloader that you access by clicking the Advanced Dialog button. In the Advanced settings, you can make choices for things like correcting for red-eye, creating photo stacks, and editing photo data that we call metadata (we explain this in Chapter 6). Because you can handle all these tasks in Elements, just leave the Advanced settings at their defaults.

6. Import photos by clicking the Get Media button in the Photo Downloader dialog box.

Importing additional photos from folders

Suppose you have your folders organized and photos copied to various folders. You take some more pictures of family members and want to add these photos to a folder you already have labeled as Family. To add pictures to a folder on your hard drive, follow these steps.

1. Copy photos from a CD, Media card, or external media drive to your hard drive.

In this example, we want to copy photos to a folder we have labeled Family.

2. In the Organizer choose Get Photos and Videos⇒From Files and Folders.

3. Select the folder on your hard drive where you copied the new photos.

In this case, we select the folder labeled Family.

4. Click Get Media.

5. Click OK in the Getting Media dialog box.

Photoshop Elements is smart enough to only import new images into the Organizer. Any images you previously imported from a given folder are listed in the Getting Media dialog box and you are informed that the old images will not be imported, as shown in Figure 1-5.

Figure 1-5: Only new photos added to a folder are imported in the Organizer.

Understanding the Media Browser

When you add photos to the Organizer, the photos and any additional media appear as thumbnails in the central portion of the Organizer window. This area is called the Media Browser.

If you use the Elements Photo Downloader, you may see several folders in the Import panel where the new photos are found on your hard drive. As you can see in Figure 1-6, Elements doesn’t provide you with a very good photo management system when you’re using the Photo Downloader. You may take 50 photos in one session and find that when the photos are imported from a media card, they may be copied to a dozen different folders.

Figure 1-6: After importing files, you need to click the All Media button in order to see all photos in your catalog.

As we recommended earlier in this chapter in the section “Copying files to folders,” our preference is to copy files to a hard drive, create the folder organization you want, place the photos in respective folders, then use the Get Photos and Videos⇒From Files and Folders command. This organization will make it much easier to locate photos than trying to find your images in a series of folders with date labels.

In this section, you learn basic tips for viewing images in the Media Browser and find out how to use the Elements face-recognition feature to tag people in your photos. Before the photos are scrambled around your catalog, you can also delete photos, assign ratings to them, add tags to the photos, or perform other organizational tasks that we discuss in Chapter 3.

Viewing images in the Media Browser

After files are imported into the Organizer, you see just those photos you imported in the Media Browser. To see all the photos in your catalog, click the Back button at the top of the Media Browser.

For those who are familiar with Photoshop Elements prior to version 11, you’ll notice that there is no Display menu where you can choose various display options. Prior to Elements 11 you had a menu command to display your pictures in a folder list.

In this version of Elements, folders appear by default in the left Import panel. You can collapse the panel to provide more viewing area in the Media Browser by clicking the Hide Panel button in the lower left corner of the Organizer workspace.

Adding people in the Media Browser

For many of us, the pictures we enjoy the most are those photos of family and friends. We take photos of landscapes and wonderful places, but quite often we ask someone to stand in front of the Coliseum, Louvre, Grand Canyon, or other notable landmark.

It’s people at home or remarkable places that we enjoy viewing and sharing with others. And, Photoshop Elements makes it easy for us to identify, sort, and view pictures with people in our catalogs.

You know that you can add folders of pictures to the Organizer to help manage photos. Once you add new pictures to the Organizer, you can select a folder in the Import panel and label all the people in the photos. Elements makes it easy to label people’s faces:

1. Add photos from a folder on your hard drive.

Copy photos to a folder and choose File⇒Get Photos and Videos⇒From Files and Folders.

2. Select the folder in the Import panel and click Add People at the bottom of the Organizer window.

3. If you have several photos in a folder, Elements prompts you in a dialog box to confirm your action. Click OK.

The People Recognition – Label People window opens as shown in Figure 1-7. You see the text Who is This? below each photo.

Figure 1-7: Select a folder and click Add People.

4. Click the Who Is This? text and type the name of the individual as shown in Figure 1-8.

Figure 1-8: Type the name of the individual below each photo.

That’s it! Elements provides you with easy methods for labeling people in your photos. Once the photos are labeled you can easily search, sort, and locate photos with specific people. You can even download your Facebook friends’ list to the Organizer to help simplify labeling people.

What happens if all people aren’t recognized by Elements? Elements is very good at recognizing people but it’s not perfect. Profile shots are particularly difficult for Elements to determine that the object in the photo is a person. To add people tags when you are not prompted to do so:

1. Click the Missing People button.

Elements adds a new rectangle that you can move and resize.

2. Move the rectangle to a person that hasn’t been tagged and click the Who Is This? text box.

3. Type the person’s name and click the check mark adjacent to the text box to confirm your action.

Using a Scanner

Scanners connect through the same ports as cameras and card readers. (The exception is a SCSI, or Small Computer Systems Interface device; SCSI is another type of connection port, almost nonexistent today.) Most scanners today use either USB or FireWire. Low-end scanners sold now are typically USB devices.

Even the lowest-end scanners provide 16-bit scans that help you get a little more data in the shadows and highlights. As with a digital camera, a scanner’s price is normally in proportion with its quality.

Understanding image requirements

All scanning software provides you with options for determining resolution and color mode before you start a new scan.

Resolution: An image’s resolution determines how many pixels it contains. Indeed, resolution is measured in ppi, or pixels per inch.

Images displayed on the web use low resolutions, because monitors don’t need lots of pixels to display images clearly. Also, images download faster the lower their resolutions are, and fast download times are ideal for the web. A good-looking print requires a higher resolution, because printers and paper require more pixels than monitors do in order to render an image clearly.

Color mode: RGB, Grayscale, or Bitmap (line art).

You should decide what output you intend to use and scan originals at target resolutions designed to accommodate a given output. Some considerations include the following:

Scan the artwork or photo at the size and resolution for the final output. If you have a 3-×-5 photo that needs to be 1.5 × 2.5 inches on a web page, scan the original with a 50-percent reduction in size at 72 ppi (the desired resolution for images on the web). (See Chapter 4 for information about resizing images.)

Size images with the scanner software. If you have a 4-×-6 photo that needs to be output for prepress and commercial printing at 8 × 12 inches, scan the photo at 4 × 6 inches at 600 ppi (a resolution that’s large enough to increase the image size to 200 percent and still have a 300 dpi image, which is the desired resolution for a print).

Scan properly for line art. Line art is 1-bit black and white only and should be used for scanning not only black and white artwork but also text. When you print line art on a laser printer or prepare files for commercial printing, the line art resolution should match the device resolution. For example, printing to a 600 dpi (dots per inch) laser printer requires 600 ppi for a 1-bit line-art image.

Scan grayscale images in color. In some cases, it doesn’t matter, but with some images and scanners, you can get better results by scanning in RGB (red, green, and blue) color and converting to grayscale by using the Hue/Saturation dialog box or the Convert to Black and White dialog box, as we explain in Chapter 4.

Scan in high bit depths. If your scanner is capable of scanning in 16- or 32-bit, by all means, scan at the higher bit depths to capture the most data. See Chapter 4 for more information about working with higher-bit images.

Using scanner plug-ins on Windows

Generally, when you install your scanner software, a standalone application and a plug-in are installed to control the scanning process. Plug-ins are designed to work inside other software programs, such as Photoshop Elements. When you’re using the plug-in, you can stay right in Elements to do all your scanning. Here’s how it works:

1.After installing a new scanner and the accompanying software, launch Elements and then open the Organizer by clicking Organize on the Welcome screen.

2.From the Organizer, open the Preferences dialog box by pressing Ctrl+K.

3.Click Scanner in the left column and adjust the Scanner preferences, as we describe in Chapter 5.

When the Preferences dialog box displays your scanner, you know that the connection is properly set up and you’re ready to scan. Here’s how to complete your scan:

1.To open the scanner software from within Elements, choose File⇒Get Photos⇒From Scanner.

You must be in the Organizer window on Windows to access the File⇒Get Photos⇒From Scanner menu command.

2. In the Get Photos from Scanner dialog box that appears (as shown in Figure 1-9), make your choices and click OK.

Figure 1-9: Make choices in the Get Photos from Scanner dialog box and click OK.

Here you can choose your scanner in the Scanner drop-down menu, a location on your hard drive for saving the scanned images, a quality setting, and an option to automatically correct red-eye.

Elements may churn a bit, but eventually your scanner software window appears atop the Organizer window, as you can see in Figure 1-10. The window is the scanner software provided by your scanner manufacturer. (Your window will look different from Figure 1-10 unless you use the same scanner we use.)

Figure 1-10: When you scan from within Elements, your scanner software window loads on top of the Elements workspace.

3.Preview the scan.

Regardless of which software you use, you should have similar options for creating a preview; selecting resolution, color mode, and image size; scaling; and other options. If you click the Preview button, you see a preview before scanning the photo(s).

4.Adjust the options according to your output requirements and the recommendations made by your scanner manufacturer.

5.When everything is ready to go, click the Scan button.

The final image drops into an Elements image window.

Scanning on the Macintosh

Photoshop Elements doesn’t support scanning on the Macintosh as it does for Windows. On the Mac, you have a few different options:

Scanner software. You can use your scanner software and open the resultant scan in the Elements Photo Editor.

Image Capture. With Image Capture, you can complete a scan and open the file directly in Elements. Image Capture provides options for saving scans as JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or PDF. Quite often you’ll find best results when saving as PNG.

Scanning many photos at a time

If you have several photos to scan, you can lay them out on the scanner platen and perform a single scan to acquire all images in one pass. Arrange the photos to scan on the glass and set up all the options in the scanner window for your intended output. When you scan multiple images, they form a single scan, as you can see in Figure 1-11.

Figure 1-11: You can scan multiple images with one pass.

After you scan multiple images, Elements makes it easy for you to separate each image into its own image window, where you can save the images as separate files. In Photo Editor mode, choose Image⇒Divide Scanned Photos to make Elements magically open each image in a separate window while your original scan remains intact. The images are neatly tucked away in the Photo Bin, where you can select them for editing, as shown in Figure 1-12. (For more information on using the Photo Editor and working with the Photo Bin, see Chapter 2).

When scanning multiple images and using the Divide Scanned Photos command, be sure to keep your photos on the scanner bed aligned vertically, horizontally, and parallel to each other as best you can. Doing so enables Elements to do a better job of dividing and straightening your photos.

Figure 1-12: After you choose Image⇒Divide Scanned Photos, the scan is split.

If you close one of the images that were divided, Elements prompts you to save the image. Only the scan was saved when you started the process. You still need to save the divided scans.

After dividing the images, choose File⇒Close All. Elements closes all files that have been saved and individually prompts you to save all unsaved images.

Grabbing Photos from iPhoto (Macintosh Only)

If you insert a media device and your photos are automatically loaded up in iPhoto on the Mac, you can easily import the iPhoto images into the Organizer. Unique to the Macintosh is the File⇒Get Photos and Videos⇒From iPhoto command. A dialog box opens where you can choose to import photos as iPhoto Events or convert imported photos to albums. You can convert Events or just simply import photos from your iPhoto library. All photos contained within iPhoto are imported into the Organizer unless you import photos as an Event (for more information on Events, see Chapter 6).

Phoning In Your Images

You can acquire images from cell phones, iPhone, iPods, iPads, and a variety of different handheld devices. As a matter of fact, you can do quite a bit with uploading, downloading, and preparing photos for handheld devices.

If you want to add images from a cell phone to the Organizer or open images in one of the editing modes, you need to copy files to your hard drive via a USB or Bluetooth connection or download an e-mail attachment of the photos if your phone is capable of using e-mail. Follow these steps after copying files to your hard drive:

1. Choose File⇒Get Photos and Video⇒From Files and Folders, or press Ctrl+G (+G on the Macintosh).

2. Locate the folder into which you copied the files and add them to your Organizer.

Or, you can open them in one of the editing modes.

With an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, you can use the Photo Downloader to transfer media.

3. Hook up the device with a USB cable.

The Photo Downloader automatically opens. In this particular case, you would use the Photoshop Elements Photo Downloader.

4. Click the Browse button to select a destination, as shown in Figure 1-13.