Photoshop Elements 14 For Dummies E-Book

Barbara Obermeier

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 533

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The bestselling book on Photoshop Elements--now in a new edition Getting great photos is easier than you think--it just takes some know-how and a tool like Adobe's Photoshop Elements. Photoshop Elements 14 For Dummies is a fun and easy-to-follow guide for photographers and photo enthusiasts who want to make their snapshots picture perfect. In no time, you'll tackle the basics of Photoshop Elements and find out how to execute hundreds of tasks, like using special effects and drawing tools, working with layers, improving your color and clarity, and so much more. Photoshop Elements is the #1 selling consumer photo editing software, and Adobe continues to add innovative features that allow professional and self-made digital photographers to do it all. Written by veteran authors Barb Obermeier and Ted Padova, this full-color guide shows you how to make the most of the latest version of the software in a fun and friendly way that makes learning feel like play. Even if you have no digital image editing experience at all, this hands-on guide shows you how to take your photos from 'meh' to 'wow'--and have a blast along the way! * Get instant results using one-click editing options * Apply pro techniques to correct photo color and clarity * Show off your artsy side with special effects and filters * Find tips for improving edits and creative projects The power and simplicity of Photoshop Elements makes it easy to turn out photos worth bragging about--and this no-nonsense guide will get you there in a flash.

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Photoshop® Elements 14 For Dummies®

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Photoshop® Elements 14 For Dummies®

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Table of Contents

Cover

Introduction

About This Book

Icons Used in This Book

Beyond the Book

Where to Go from Here

Part I: Getting Started with Photoshop Elements 14

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Image Editing

Launching the Photo Editor

Making Basic Edits in Quick Mode

Sharing a Photo

Creating Images from Scratch

Retracing Your Steps

Getting a Helping Hand

Saving Files with Purpose

Chapter 2: Basic Image-Editing Concepts

Grappling with the Ubiquitous Pixels

The Art of Resampling

Choosing a Resolution for Print or Onscreen

Go Ahead — Make My Mode!

Understanding File Formats

Getting Familiar with Color

Getting Color Right

Chapter 3: Exploring the Photo Editor

Examining the Photo Editor

Using the Photo Bin

Finding Your Bearings in Guided Mode

Controlling the Editing Environment

Customizing Presets

Part II: Managing Media

Chapter 4: Navigating the Organizer

Organizing Photos and Media on a Hard Drive

Adding Images to the Organizer

Navigating the Media Browser

Using a Scanner

Phoning in Your Images

Setting Organizer Preferences

Chapter 5: Organizing Your Pictures

Touring the Organizer

Organizing Groups of Images with Tags

Rating Images with Stars

Adding Images to an Album

Adding People in the Media Browser

Placing Pictures on Maps

Working with Events

Chapter 6: Viewing and Finding Your Images

Cataloging Files

Switching to a Different View

Viewing Photos in a Slide Show

Searching for Photos

Grouping Files That Get in the Way

Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos

Chapter 7: Making and Modifying Selections

Defining Selections

Creating Rectangular and Elliptical Selections

Making Freeform Selections with the Lasso Tools

Working Wizardry with the Magic Wand

Modifying Your Selections

Painting with the Selection Brush

Painting with the Quick Selection Tool

Fine-Tuning with the Refine Selection Brush

Working with the Cookie Cutter Tool

Eliminating with the Eraser Tools

Using the Select Menu

Chapter 8: Working with Layers

Getting to Know Layers

Working with Different Layer Types

Tackling Layer Basics

Moving a Layer’s Content

Transforming Layers

Adding Layer Masks

Flattening and Merging Layers

Chapter 9: Simple Image Makeovers

Cropping and Straightening Images

Recomposing Images

Employing One-Step Auto Fixes

Editing in Quick Mode

Fixing Small Imperfections with Tools

Chapter 10: Correcting Contrast, Color, and Clarity

Editing Your Photos Using a Logical Workflow

Adjusting Lighting

Adjusting Color

Adjusting Clarity

Working Intelligently with the Smart Brush Tools

Part IV: Exploring Your Inner Artist

Chapter 11: Playing with Filters, Effects, Styles, and More

Having Fun with Filters

Correcting Camera Distortion

Exploring Element’s Unique Filters

Dressing Up with Photo and Text Effects

Adding Shadows, Glows, and More

Mixing It Up with Blend Modes

Using Photomerge

Chapter 12: Drawing and Painting

Choosing Color

Getting Artsy with the Pencil and Brush Tools

Filling and Outlining Selections

Splashing on Color with the Paint Bucket Tool

Working with Multicolored Gradients

Working with Patterns

Creating Shapes of All Sorts

Chapter 13: Working with Type

Understanding Type Basics

Creating Point Type

Creating Paragraph Type

Creating Path Type

Specifying Type Options

Editing Text

Simplifying Type

Masking with Type

Stylizing and Warping Type

Part V: Printing, Creating, and Sharing

Chapter 14: Getting It on Paper

Getting Pictures Ready for Printing

Working with Color Printer Profiles

Getting Familiar with the Print Dialog Box

Chapter 15: Sharing Your Work

Getting Familiar with the Elements Sharing Options

Using the Share Panel

Creating Facebook Cover Images

Chapter 16: Making Creations

Checking Out the Create Panel

Grasping Creation-Assembly Basics

Creating a Slide Show

Creating a PDF Slide Show

Making Additional Creations

Part VI: The Part of Tens

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

Experiment with Viewpoints

Use Leading Lines

Use Light

Give Direction

Consider Direction of Movement

Chapter 18: Ten (Or So) 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

About the Authors

Cheat Sheet

Advertisement Page

Connect with Dummies

End User License Agreement

Guide

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Introduction

We live in a photo world. And Photoshop Elements has become 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.

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 Mac user, you’ll find all you need to work in Elements 14 for the Mac, including support for placing photos on maps and more consistency with Windows features.

As each software product is upgraded to a newer version, you sometimes find a whole bunch of new features that dazzle you and sometimes you find not so many new features but much more improved performance. Photoshop Elements 14 is focused on the latter. Do you remember Adobe Flash? Well, Flash is dying and much of the interface construction that was formerly based on Adobe Flash is now completely recoded. What this means for you is that you’ll find faster and better performance because Adobe has abandoned old code and given us all new code from the ground up. You’ll find performance and stability much improved, which means faster responses as you whiz through tasks that took more time to perform in earlier versions of Elements.

In terms of features, this version of Elements brings you some nifty enhancements, such as improved face recognition and much better geotagging. Face recognition is now based on clusters or groups, even when you don’t ask Elements to recognize a person in a photo. Elements sort of guesses at similar faces and groups them together. You tag one face in a cluster and all the faces are tagged with the same name. With geotagging, you’ll find it much easier to place people in geographic locations on maps.

Elements 14 continues with improvements such as bulk importing, which makes it easier for you to bring in a bunch of media from different locations in one click. After the media is imported, you find an improved view in the Media Browser where the Adaptive Grid (viewed when you show Details) displays information about your photo. Just mouse over an image and Elements shows you a tooltip displaying important information about your photos and videos. Additionally there have been some enhancements to the Refine Selection tool. You’ll find using this tool very helpful when you want to select a photo with a person having hair blowing in the wind. The Refine Selection tool now in Elements 14 does a much better job of selecting those strands of hair floating around.

You also find a completely new user interface when working with Guided Edits. The Photo Editor offers a new look to Edited Edits where options are listed in categories and you find images with examples for each edit. Photomerge has been moved to the Guided Edits panel to help you step by step bring together panorama scenes. Elements continues to make your job easier when performing a vast array of editing tasks.

The Photoshop Elements Editor also provides you some very nice new features. One of our favorites is the new Shake Reduction command. Try applying shake reduction to a photo and you’ll be surprised to find that some photos were taken with an unsteady hand. There are also other new additions such as auto effects and the capability to straighten photos while in Quick Edit mode, and image dehazing.

Because Photoshop Elements has something for just about everyone, we know that our audience is large and also that not everyone will use every tool, command, or method we describe. We offer many cross-references throughout in case you want to jump around. You can go to just about any chapter and start reading. If a concept needs more explanation, we point you in the right direction for getting some background.

Throughout this book, especially in step lists, we point you to menus for keyboard commands. For accessing a menu command, you may see something like this:

Choose File ⇒ Get Photos ⇒ From Files and Folders.

You click the File menu to open its drop-down menu, click the menu command labeled Get Photos, and then choose the command From Files and Folders from the submenu that appears. It’s that simple.

We also refer to context menus, which jump up at your cursor position and show you a menu of options related to whatever you’re doing at the time. To open a context menu, just right-click the mouse, or Control-click on a Mac if you don’t have a two-button mouse.

When we mention that keys need to be pressed on your keyboard, the text looks like this:

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

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

Icons Used in This Book

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

This icon informs you that this item is a new feature in Photoshop Elements 14.

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, giving you a shortcut, a workaround, or some other type of helpful information.

Elements is a computer program, after all. No matter how hard we try to simplify our explanation of features, we can’t entirely avoid some technical information. If a topic is a little 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.

This icon points out online articles that expand on a topic in this book. To find all this great extra content, point your browser to www.dummies.com/extras/photoshopelements.

Beyond the Book

We have online content that you can enjoy in conjunction with this book:

Cheat Sheet:

The cheat sheet for this book includes a detailed look at the Elements photo editing workspace, Tool Panel shortcuts, tricks for selecting objects, and more. You can find it at

www.dummies.com/cheatsheet/photoshopelements

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Online articles: We couldn’t fit everything we wanted into this book, so you can find additional content here: www.dummies.com/extras/photoshopelements.

A few of the topics covered in the online articles are organizing and importing photos, dynamically updating saved searches, finding and loading actions, and adjusting brightness/contrast with the Smart Brush tool. But there’s much more than these few topics. Be sure to check these out.

Where to Go from Here

Try to spend a little time reading through the three chapters in Part I. After you know how to edit and save photos, feel free to jump around and pay special attention to the cross-referenced chapters, in case you get stuck on a concept. After exploring Elements’ Photo Editor, look over Part II, where we talk about organizing and searching photos. If you’re ready to jump into more advanced tasks, check out Parts III and IV, where you learn how to make selections; layer images and effects together; add filters and type; and much, much more.

We hope you have much success and enjoyment in using Adobe Photoshop Elements 14, and it’s our sincere wish that the pages ahead provide you with an informative and helpful view of the program.

Part I

Getting Started with Photoshop Elements 14

For Dummies can help you get started with lots of subjects. Visit www.dummies.com to learn more.

In this part …

Open the Photo Editor and make quick and easy edits to one of your photos in Quick mode.

Choose the right resolution for your image.

Select the best file format when you save your image.

Tour the Photo Editor interface so that you know how to switch among images and navigate the many panels and options.

Chapter 1

Getting Started with Image Editing

In This Chapter

Starting the Photo Editor

Opening, editing, sharing, and saving a photo

Creating a new document

Using Undo History

Finding help

Saving your files

Image editing is incredibly fun, especially with a tool like Photoshop Elements, which enables you to modify, combine, and even draw your own images to your imagination’s content. To get the most out of Elements, you need to understand some basic technical concepts, but like most people, you probably want to jump in, play around, and basically just get started right away.

You’re in luck: In Quick mode, Elements helps you make basic edits to your photos, like revealing your child’s face darkened by a baseball cap’s shadow or cropping out the gigantic trash can on the left edge of your otherwise perfect landscape shot. In this chapter, we help you jumpstart your image-editing skills by guiding you through Quick mode and how to share photos online, retrace your steps, save your edits, and more.