PhotoDeluxe in easy steps

Contents

Introducing PhotoDeluxe

• Overview
• Obtaining PhotoDeluxe
• Installing
• System requirements
• Image issues
• Opening up
• Opening images
• Viewing images
• Menus
• File menu
• Help menu
• Edit menu
• Toolbars
• File formats
• Memory issues

• Obtaining images
• Digital formats
• Non-digital formats
• Images from the hard drive
• Images from My Photos
• Images from removable discs
• Floppy discs
• Zip discs
• Images from CD-ROMs
• Images from digital cameras
• Images from scanners
• Images from PhotoDeluxe

• Instant Fix
• Overall Instant Fix
• Instant Fix for individual colour elements
• Brightness and contrast
• From the toolbar
• From the Advanced Menus
• Colour balance
• Variations
• Cropping and trimming
• Noise
• Undoing edits

• Removing red-eye
• Sharpening
• Applying Sharpening
• Applying Sharpen More
• Applying Sharpen Edges
• Applying Unsharp Mask
• The Unsharp Mask dialog
• Cloning
• Removing blemishes
• Removing large objects
• Repairing old photographs
• Cloning between images
• Eliminating dust and scratches

• Uses for selections
• Making a selection
• Making symmetrical selections
• Selecting irregular objects
• Trace
• Polygon
• SmartSelect
• Color Wand tool
• Resizing a selection
• Inverting a selection
• Filling a selection
• Moving a selection
• Deleting a selection

• Layers defined
• The Layers palette
• Creating a new blank layer
• Creating layers from other images
• Selecting layers
• Resizing and rotating layers
• Deleting layers
• Showing and hiding layers
• Merging layers
• Setting opacity
• Blending layers
• Arranging layers

• Uses for text
• Inserting text
• Editing text
• Positioning text
• Dragging text
• Rotating text
• Resizing text
• Text stacking order
• Paint basics
• Using the Color Picker
• Setting Foreground and Background colours
• Brush tool
• Color Change tool
• Line tool
• Smudge tool
• Eraser tool
• Opacity and tolerance

• About special effects
• Artistic
• Fun
• Textures
• Accent Elements
• Re-Color Photo
• Edge Effects
• Collage

• Cards
• Calendars
• Pages & Certificates
• Labels & Frames
• 3-D Activities
• PhotoParade
• Playing a PhotoParade presentation
• Printing images
• Choosing a printer
• Printer resolution and speed
• Paper
• Ink
• Setting the print size
• Setting the size
• Using preset sizes
• Previewing images and multiple copies

• Printing multiple copies
• Page setup
• Printing
• Matching colours

• Sharing with PhotoDeluxe
• Email
• Web projects
• Share on Web
• About ActiveShare
• Creating albums
• Importing images
• Editing images
• Projects
• Naming and finding images
• Naming images
• Finding images
• Printing and faxing
• Sharing with ActiveShare
• Adding to an eCircle
• Emailing and other functions
• Send to PhotoDeluxe
• Back Up to Zip
• Using eCircles