PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5
ABOUT THIS BOOK CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS BOOK HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED PART I: GETTING STARTED PART II: GETTING ORGANIZED 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 GETTING AROUND IN FULL EDIT MODE JUMPING TO FULL EDIT MODE EXAMINING THE IMAGE WINDOW MOVING THROUGH THE MENU BAR UNCOVERING THE CONTEXT MENUS USING THE TOOLS PALETTE PLAYING WITH PALETTES SELECTING TOOL OPTIONS FROM THE OPTIONS BAR JUGGLING ALL YOUR INTERFACE OPTIONS LOOKING AT THE SHORTCUTS BAR CHANGING WORKSPACES USING QUICK FIX MODE USING CREATION WIZARDS USING THE PHOTO BIN CREATING DIFFERENT VIEWS OF AN IMAGE HIDING THE PHOTO BIN RETRACING YOUR STEPS USING THE UNDO HISTORY PALETTE REVERTING TO THE LAST SAVE GETTING A HELPING HAND USING HELP USING PDFS FROM THE INSTALLATION CD USING TOOLTIPS USING THE HOW TO PALETTE TAKING CHARGE WITH SHORTCUTS CONTROLLING THE EDITING ENVIRONMENT LAUNCHING AND NAVIGATING PREFERENCES CHECKING OUT ALL THE PREFERENCES PANES CONTROLLING THE ORGANIZING ENVIRONMENT (WINDOWS ONLY) UNDERSTANDING THE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS ORGANIZER NAVIGATING ORGANIZE & SHARE PREFERENCES SETTING PREFERENCES IN ALL THE PANES CUSTOMIZING PRESETS GETTING FAMILIAR WITH COLOR INTRODUCING COLOR CHANNELS UNDERSTANDING BIT DEPTH GETTING COLOR RIGHT CALIBRATING YOUR MONITOR CHOOSING A COLOR WORKSPACE UNDERSTANDING HOW PRO?LES WORK 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 ON-SCREEN 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 ?LES FOR THE WEB UNDERSTANDING ?LE FORMATS FILE FORMATS AT A GLANCE AUDIO AND VIDEO FORMATS SUPPORTED IN ELEMENTS DIGITAL CAMERAS VERSUS SCANNERS AND FILM CAMERAS GRABBING IMAGES FROM YOUR CAMERA CHOOSING A ?LE FORMAT USING THE MICROSOFT SCANNER AND CAMERA WIZARD (WINDOWS) USING ADOBE PHOTO DOWNLOAD MANAGER RESIZING IMAGES FROM DIGITAL CAMERAS USING A SCANNER PREPARING BEFORE YOU SCAN UNDERSTANDING IMAGE REQUIREMENTS USING SCANNER PLUG-INS SCANNING MANY PHOTOS AT A TIME GETTING FILES FROM STORAGE MEDIA USING ONLINE SERVICES PHONING IN YOUR IMAGES CREATING IMAGES FROM SCRATCH EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT CAMERA RAW UNDERSTANDING CAMERA RAW ACQUIRING CAMERA RAW IMAGES THE MANY FACES OF THE ORGANIZER ADDING ?LES TO THE DEFAULT ORGANIZER VIEW VIEWING PHOTOS IN A SLIDESHOW (FULL SCREEN VIEW) MOVING AROUND THE IMAGE WINDOW ZOOMING IN AND OUT OF IMAGES VIEWING MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS USING PAN AND ZOOM USING THE NAVIGATOR PALETTE SORTING YOUR PHOTOS USING SORT COMMANDS SORTING MEDIA TYPES USING SEARCH OPTIONS SEARCHING BY DATE SEARCHING FOR UNTAGGED ITEMS SEARCHING COLLECTIONS SEARCHING CAPTIONS AND NOTES SEARCHING BY HISTORY SEARCHING METADATA SEARCHING FACES ORGANIZING GROUPS OF IMAGES WITH COLLECTIONS CREATING A NEW COLLECTION WORKING WITH COLLECTIONS CATALOGING FILES SPLITTING A BIG CATALOG INTO SMALLER CATALOGS IMPORTING PHOTOS TO A NEW CATALOG SWITCHING TO A DIFFERENT CATALOG TAG — YOU’RE IT! CREATING NEW TAGS CREATING NEW CATEGORIES CREATING NEW SUBCATEGORIES ASSIGNING AND MANAGING TAGS HIDING FILES THAT GET IN THE WAY STACK ’EM UP CREATING VERSIONS STICKING DIGITAL NOTES ON YOUR PHOTOS AUTOMATING YOUR ORGANIZATION AUTOMATING COMMON TASKS WHEN YOU EXPORT RENAMING ?LES PROTECTING YOUR PHOTOS DE?NING SELECTIONS CREATING RECTANGULAR AND ELLIPTICAL SELECTIONS PERFECTING SQUARES AND CIRCLES WITH SHIFT AND ALT (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 MAGIC SELECTION BRUSH 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 USING THE MODIFY COMMANDS APPLYING THE GROW AND SIMILAR COMMANDS SAVING AND LOADING SELECTIONS GETTING TO KNOW LAYERS ANATOMY OF A LAYERS PALETTE 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 FLATTENING AND MERGING LAYERS MERGING LAYERS FLATTENING LAYERS CROPPING AND STRAIGHTENING IMAGES CUTTING AWAY WITH THE CROP TOOL CROPPING WITH A SELECTION BORDER STRAIGHTENING IMAGES USING THE DIVIDE SCANNED PHOTOS COMMAND EMPLOYING ONE-STEP AUTO FIXES AUTO SMART FIX AUTO LEVELS AUTO CONTRAST AUTO COLOR CORRECTION AUTO SHARPEN AUTO RED EYE FIX EDITING WITH QUICK FIX 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 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 ?LTERS MAPPING YOUR COLORS ADJUSTING CLARITY REMOVING NOISE, ARTIFACTS, DUST, AND SCRATCHES BLURRING WHEN YOU NEED TO SHARPENING FOR BETTER FOCUS HAVING FUN WITH FILTERS APPLYING ?LTERS CORRECTIVE OR DESTRUCTIVE ?LTERS ONE-STEP OR MULTISTEP ?LTERS GIVING A ?LTER AN ENCORE FADING A ?LTER SELECTIVELY APPLYING A ?LTER WORKING IN THE FILTER GALLERY DISTORTING WITH THE LIQUIFY FILTER CORRECTING CAMERA DISTORTION 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 PANORAMA CHOOSING COLOR WORKING WITH THE COLOR PICKER DIPPING INTO THE COLOR SWATCHES PALETTE 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 UNDERSTANDING TYPE BASICS CREATING POINT TYPE CREATING PARAGRAPH TYPE SPECIFYING TYPE OPTIONS EDITING TEXT SIMPLIFYING TYPE MASKING WITH TYPE STYLIZING AND WARPING TYPE ADJUSTING TYPE OPACITY APPLYING ?LTERS TO YOUR TYPE PAINTING YOUR TYPE WITH COLOR AND GRADIENTS WARPING YOUR TYPE GETTING PICTURES READY FOR PRINTING WORKING WITH COLOR PRINTER PRO?LES UNDERSTANDING HOW ELEMENTS USES COLOR PRO?LES CONVERTING COLOR TO A PRINTER PRO?LE PRINTING TO EPSON INKJET PRINTERS AUTOMATIC PRO?LE SELECTION FOR EPSON PRINTERS SELECTING A PRINTER PRO?LE PRINTING WITH A CUSTOM PRO?LE PRINTING TO HP INKJET PRINTERS PRINTING TO HP PRINTERS IN WINDOWS PRINTING TO HP PRINTERS ON THE MACINTOSH PRINTING TO CANON PRINTERS PRINTING TO CANON PRINTERS IN WINDOWS PRINTING TO CANON PRINTERS ON THE MAC SUBMITTING FILES TO SERVICE CENTERS USING ONLINE PRINTING SERVICES EXPLORING OTHER PRINT OPTIONS GETTING FAMILIAR WITH THE ELEMENTS SHARING AND PRINTING OPTIONS CREATING A SLIDE SHOW CREATING A PROJECT EXPORTING TO SLIDES AND VIDEO OPENING MULTIPAGE PDF ?LES IN ELEMENTS WRITING CREATIONS TO CDS AND DVDS CREATING A FLASH GALLERY FLIP ’EM OVER WITH FLIPBOOKS GETTING A GRIP ON ASSEMBLING CREATIONS CREATING THE FAMILY PHOTO ALBUM GREETINGS! CALENDARS CREATING PERSONAL POSTAGE STAMPS CREATING CD AND DVD LABELS SPREADING THE LOVE THROUGH SHARING ORDERING PRINTS ONLINE E-MAILING CREATIONS FIND A FOCAL POINT USE THE RULE OF THIRDS CUT THE CLUTTER FRAME YOUR SHOT EMPLOY CONTRAST USING LEADING LINES EXPERIMENT WITH VIEWPOINTS USE LIGHT GIVING DIRECTION CONSIDER DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT WALLPAPER AND SCREEN SAVERS FLYERS, ADS, AND ONLINE AUCTIONS CLOTHES, HATS, AND MORE POSTERS HOUSEHOLD AND BUSINESS INVENTORIES PROJECT DOCUMENTATION SCHOOL REPORTS AND PROJECTS WAIT — THERE’S MORE