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- Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
- Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
- Sprache: Englisch
Photoshop Elements lets you edit and enhance your digital photographs and images with professional quality tools. Whether you're a professional photographer or a beginner, Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies gives you the scoop on using this full-featured photo-editing program. You'll find out how to transform your ordinary photos into visually stunning creations. This book gives you the tools to enhance your images, fix flaws, share pictures online, correct small problems with Quick Fix, keep track of images with the Project Bin, take charge with Shortcuts, present your photos as a slideshow, use Web hosting, animate images, and create movie files. You'll also learn to: * Use the Organizer to move around efficiently in Elements * Correct color, brightness, contrast, and exposure * Use Adobe's free Photoshop.com service * Streamline your work using shortcuts * Work with bitmap, grayscale, and indexed color modes * Create albums and import images * Follow creative applications for filters and effects * Prepare images for printing * Turn your photos into postcards, calendars, greeting cards, and photo albums * Straighten crooked lines, crop for effect, or fix color, sharpness, red-eye, and contrast Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies shows you how to use all the Elements of great image editing, management, and photo fun. Whether you're concerned about color profile embedding or just want to put your kid's photo on a calendar, you'll learn how with this book!
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Photoshop Elements 7 For Dummies®
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Photoshop® Elements 7 For Dummies®
by Barbara Obermeier and Ted Padova
Photoshop® Elements 7 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 CS3 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies and has contributed as author or coauthor on numerous books on Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, and PowerPoint. She is currently a faculty member in the Graphic Design Department 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, and LiveCycle Designer forms.
Ted has written more than 30 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 and Sons includeAdobe Acrobat PDF Bible, Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer Forms Bible, Adobe Creative Suite Bible, Color Correction for Digital Photographers Only, Color Correction for Digital Photographers For Dummies, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 For Dummies — Just the Steps.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank our excellent project editor, Kim Darosett, who kept us and this book on track; Bob Woerner, our great Executive Editor; Andy Cummings, Dummies Royalty; Dennis Cohen, technical editing wizard; Laura Miller, copy editor, who made what we wrote sound better; and all the dedicated production staff at Wiley. Additionally, we would like to thank Don Mason of Don Mason Photography, Bakersfield California for helping us out with some tone corrections and his expert advice on digital color correction.
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: My first choice always in coauthoring a book is to do the job with Barbara Obermeier. There’s no one I’d rather work with, and I thank Barbara for initially putting together this project and asking me to join her.
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Introduction
What was once a consumer-grade, low-level program for beginning image editors and a junior cousin to the powerful Adobe Photoshop program has evolved and matured to stand on its own merits now in version 7.0 for Windows and (as is often the case with the release of this program) later on the Macintosh. As of this writing, Elements is available on the Mac only in version 6. However, Adobe’s history with Photoshop Elements is that the Mac version typically follows several months after the Windows release.
You won’t find much comparison between Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Photoshop in this book, nor will you see any suggestions that you should consider using Photoshop for one thing or another. We don’t make suggestions simply because Photoshop Elements is a powerful tool that satisfies many needs of amateurs and professionals alike.
Why should you buy 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. We’ll even stick our necks out a little and suggest that many Photoshop users can benefit greatly by adding Elements to their software tool cabinets. Why? Because Elements offers some wonderful creation and sharing tools that Photoshop hasn’t yet dreamed of supporting. For example, in Photoshop Elements 7, you can create postcards, greeting cards, and photo albums with just a few mouse clicks. You can place orders with online service centers that professionally print your photo creations. All these opportunities are available in Elements, and we cover these and many more creation ideas in Chapters 15 and 16.
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. If you’re a digital photographer and you shoot your pictures in JPEG or Camera Raw format, Elements has the tools for you to open, edit, and massage your pictures into professional images. If you worry about color profile embedding, forget it. Elements can handle the task for you, as we explain in Chapter 4, where we talk about Camera Raw, and in Chapter 14, where we talk about color profiling and printing. For the professional, Photoshop Elements has just about everything you need to create final images for color printing and commercial printing.
If you’re a beginner or an intermediate user, you’ll find some of the Photoshop Elements quick-fix operations a breeze to use to help you enhance your images, as we explain in Chapters 9 and 10. And, when it comes time for you to print some 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 cover in Chapters 15 and 16. In addition, the wonderful new sharing services available free to you on Photoshop.com are your gateway to keeping family, friends, and clients connected to your photos, as we explain in Chapter 16.
About This Book
This book is an effort to provide, in about 400 pages, as much of a comprehensive view of a wildly feature-rich program as we can. There’s a lot to Elements, and we try to offer you as much as possible within our 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, Web hosting, versatile packaging, e-mailing, and more is covered in the pages ahead.
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 detail 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 mentioned, 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 (Shift-click on the Mac).
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 is described like this:
Press Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S
In this case, you hold down the Alt key, the Shift key, and the Control key 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: Getting Started
If you just bought a digital camera and you’re new to image editing in a program like Photoshop Elements, you’re probably tempted to jump into fixing and editing your pictures. The essentials usually aren’t the most exciting part of any program or book. That’s true with this book, too: The more mundane issues related to understanding some basics are assembled in the first three chapters. Although some bits of information aren’t as exciting as in many other chapters, you must understand them before you start editing images. Be sure to review the first three chapters before you dive into the other chapters.
In Part I, we talk about the tools, menus, commands, preferences, workspaces, and features that help you move around easily in the program. The more you pick up in the preliminary chapters, the more easily you can adapt to the Elements way of working.
Part II: Getting Organized
In Part II, we talk about getting photos in Elements, organizing your files, searching for files, and grouping your photos, and we give you much more information related to the Photoshop Elements Organizer. The Organizer is your central workplace, and knowing a great deal about using the Organizer window helps you move around much faster in the program.
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 some other imperfection requires editing. All the know-hows 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.
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
One critical chapter in this book is Chapter 14, in which we talk about printing your pictures. If your prints don’t look the way they do on your monitor, you need to read and reread this chapter.
If screen viewing is of interest to you, we cover a number of different options for viewing your pictures onscreen in Chapter 15. For slide shows, Web-hosted images, animated images, photo viewing on your TV, and even creating movie files, 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 and share files by using the new Photoshop.com service provided by Adobe Systems. You have a number of different options for making creations to share or print.
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 7.
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.
Pay particular attention when you see the Warning icon. This icon indicates possible side-effects 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.
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 complex, 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
As we say earlier in the Introduction, the first part of this book serves as a foundation for all the other chapters. Try to spend a little time reading through the three chapters in Part I. After that, feel free to jump around and pay special attention to the cross-referenced chapters, in case you get stuck on a concept.
When you need a little extra help, refer to Chapter 1, where we talk about using the online help documents available in Elements.
If you have some questions, comments, suggestions, or complaints, go to
http://support.wiley.com
We hope you have much success and enjoyment in using Adobe Photoshop Elements 7, 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
In this part . . .
Here you have it: a computer book specifically designed to help you get the most out of a computer software program — and not just any software program, but a powerful one with many complicated features. You probably want to jump in and perform some spiffy editing operations to get that prize photo looking the best you can. Inasmuch as we try to accommodate you in setting forth a how-to book in a nonlinear fashion, where you can freely move around and read about the techniques you want to use without having to read each chapter in order, you have to understand a few basics for editing your photos.
In this first part of the book, we talk about some essentials to help you fully understand all the parts ahead. We first talk about your Photoshop Elements working environment and describe the many tools and features you can use for all your Elements sessions. We also cover the very important task of getting color set for optimum viewing on your computer monitor and describe some essentials you need to know about color as it relates to photo images. Part I contains some important information that you should plan to carefully review and understand before going too far into all the Elements features. Don’t pass up this part. Turn the page and start getting acquainted with the Adobe Photoshop Elements basics.
Chapter 1
Getting to Know the Work Area
In This Chapter
Opening Photoshop Elements
Understanding the Elements workspace
Changing workspace views
Working with the Project Bin
Using the Undo History panel
Accessing Help documents
Using keyboard shortcuts
When you first launch Photoshop Elements, you arrive at a Welcome screen. The Welcome screen offers you several choices for opening up some different editing modes, special Elements tasks that you can perform, and an opportunity to sign up for an Adobe Web-hosted service.
When it comes to editing a photograph, you find quite a collection of tools, panels, buttons, and options in the Photoshop Elements Edit mode. Just a quick glance at the Elements workspace when you enter Full Edit mode shows you some of the power that Elements offers with just a click of your mouse. With all the possibilities, navigating the Elements workspaces and engaging in an editing session can be intimidating. To ease your introduction to the many options for editing your pictures, we break them down for you in this chapter.
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