How to do Everything with Photoshop Elements

Make image-editing magic by mastering the professional-level tools available in this innovative application. Learn to retouch, repair, publish, and add effects to digital photos and graphics. Add visual punch with a vast array of artistic enhancements, or make surgically precise changes to perfect existing images. Add drama to your images with photography techniques including lighting, composition, and cropping. Create images and backgrounds by combining simple edits, textures, or portions of existing images, as well as using filters and other menu items. How To Do Everything with Photoshop Elements will teach you to transform digital images into works of art.

• Get immediate results from digital image-enhancing features
• Remove red-eye, dust, and scratches from treasured photos
• Use Filter, Enhance, Layer, Select, and other menu items to make quick improvements
• Import and batch images for quick transformations
• Add text to an image, edit, apply effects, or write on a curved line
• Remove unwanted details, delete or replace backgrounds, and create new images from old ones
• Import, customize, and publish PDFs, digital or scanned photographs, downloaded graphics, and more
• Adjust the focal point of images and draw attention to specific areas
• Perform projects throughout the book to help learn and retain skills and techniques

Get acquainted with Photoshop elements

• Get to know Photoshop elements
• Prepare to use Photoshop elements
• Open, find, and organize your images

• Easy fixes for entire images
• Easy spot edits for images
• Quick times for better images

• Combine images
• Use color to change how your images look
• Use filters to changes images

• Add and edit text
• Create dynamic text objects

• Enhance your images with drawings
• Put simple shapes to work

• Save and export images
• Print your images
• Prepare graphics for Web use