PHOTOGRAPHIC PROBLEMS
Chapter 1 Importing and Organizing Digital Images 1 Importing Digital Images into Photoshop Elements 2 Managing Files with the Organizer (Windows Only) 10 Managing Files with the File Browser (Mac and Windows) 21 Chapter 2 Your Images: Global Solutions 26 Choosing an Editing Workspace 28 Deciding What Comes When 30 Setting Proper Orientation 31 Making Dull Images Shine 33 Correcting Color 40 Tinting Images 44 Eliminating or Diminishing Dust, Scratches, and Electronic Noise 45 Converting Color Images to Black-and-White 50 Cropping to the Essential Parts 51 Resizing 54 Sharpening 57 Chapter 3 Better Faces 60 What Comes First 62 Working the Eyes 62 Working the Lips 73 Whitening and Fixing Teeth 73 Selectively Removing Wrinkles and Blemishes with the Healing Brush 75 Diminishing and Straightening the Nose 78 Making People Glow 79 Creating a Grainy 35mm Black-and-White Look 81 Creating a Digital Fill Flash 82 Making Distorted Faces Normal 83 Fixing Hair 84 Getting Rid of Glasses Glare 89 Contents Chapter 4 Better Outside Shots 90 Intensifying the Sky 92 Changing the Time of Day 94 Making Weather 101 Working with the Midday Sun 101 Adding Lighting Effects 102 Removing Unwanted Objects 104 Adding Selective Focus 107 Creating a Large-Scale Digital Fill Flash 108 Chapter 5 Better Product Shots 110 Separating a Product from Its Background 112 Changing a Product’s Color 119 Changing a Product’s Texture 123 Adding Motion Blur 128 Changing Scale and Perspective 130 Fixing Keystoning 132 Improving the Background 133 Adding Depth 138 Creating Lighting Effects 141 Softening Highlights and Glare 142 Adding a New Label 143 Making a Product Smile 144 Simplifying a Product Shot 146 Chapter 6 Making Photo-Realistic Composites 148 Adding Yourself (or Anyone) to a Group Shot 150 Combining Different Resolutions 152 Swapping Kids 157 Expanding Your Image 160 Seamlessly Pasting 164 Cloning Elements from Multiple Images 165 Pre-visualizing a Scene 167 Chapter 7 Exteriors and Interiors 170 Straightening a Slanted Looking Facade 172 Transforming a Kitchen 175 Removing a Construction Sign 177 Smart-Blurring a Background 179 Balancing the Light 181 Creating a Warm and Inviting Atmosphere 183 Removing Wires 184 Chapter 8 Creating Panoramics with Photomerge 188 Photomerge Dos 190 Creating a Precious View 190 Creating an Interior Panoramic 198 Creating an Epic Panoramic 200 Making a Handheld Vertical Panoramic 202 Showing Baseball’s Big Picture 203 Photomerging a Collage 204 Chapter 9 Taking Type Further 206 Adding a Photo Credit 208 Adding a Copyright Watermark 212 Making Headline Type 214 Making Type More Readable 215 Using Shape Tools to Accent Type 219 Warping Type 221 Filling Type with an Image 222 Adding Effects to Type 223 Applying Liquify to Type 224 Chapter 10 Preparing Images and Graphics for the Screen 226 Choosing a File Format 228 Making Great JPEGs 230 Optimizing Digital Images for JPEG Compression 237 Converting GIFs to JPEGs 242 Making TIFFs 242 Making GIFs 243 Building Web Page Backgrounds 259 Creating Navigational Graphics 263 Chapter 11 Using Camera Raw and Other Advanced Techniques 266 Using Adobe’s Camera Raw 268 Working in 16-Bit Mode 275 Extending Dynamic Range with Photomerge 276 Using Layer Adjustments with Masks 279 Using a Gradient Mask to Combine Multiple Images 283 Converting a Photo to a Painting 287 Chapter 12 Sharing and Auto-Processing Images 290 Printing from the Organizer (Windows Only) 292 Printing from the Editor (Windows) or Application (Mac) 296 Creating and Sharing with the Organizer (Windows Only) 301 Processing Multiple Files (Windows and Mac) 306 Creating and Printing on the Mac OS 308