Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 A–Z Tools and features illustrated ready reference Philip Andrews AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Focal Press is an imprint of Elsevier Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Focal Press An imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 30 Corporate Drive, Burlington MA 01803 First published 2007 Copyright © 2007, Philip Andrews. 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Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 1 www.ElementsA-Z.com A–Z Accented Edges filter – Automation Tools 23 Background color – Burn tool 37 Calibrate monitor – Cutout filter 50 Darken blending mode – DVD menu templates, editing 73 Edit in Progress – Eyedropper tool 84 Facet filter – Full Screen view 92 Gaussian Blur filter – Grow, selection 107 Halftone Pattern filter – Hue/Saturation, adjust 113 ICC profiles – JPEG2000 120 Labels, print – LZW compression 125 Magic Eraser tool – Multi-select photos 141 Navigator – Note Paper filter 153 Ocean Ripple filter – Overlay blending mode 156 Page Setup – Quick Fix Editor 163 Radial Blur filter – Rulers 192 Sample Size, Eyedropper tool – Swatches palette 206 Tags – Type Masks 232 Underlining type – Unsharp Mask filter 242 Vanishing Point tool – Vivid Light blend mode 245 Wall Calendar – WYSIWYG font preview 249 ZigZag filter – Zoom tool 254 MNOPQRSTUVWXYZLHIJKFGEDCBA A–Z Entries Contents Step by Step Techniques 01 Importing photos into Elements 4 02 Changing brightness 4 03 Adjusting contrast 5 04 Removing color casts 6 05 Sharpening 6 06 Speeding up Elements 7 07 Incorporating texture 8 08 Tinting and toning pictures 9 09 Cropping your photos 10 10 Creating panoramas 11 11 Convert color to black and white 12 12 Color management 13 13 Simple line frame 14 14 E-mail photos 14 15 Elements’ animations 15 16 Web matting 15 17 Managing your photos 16 18 Adding color to black and white 17 19 Recreating motion 17 20 Vignetting 17 21 Selection techniques 18 22 Layer masks 20 23 The Liquify filter 20 24 Compositing 20 25 Retouching marks and blemishes 21 26 Elements’ brushes 22 27 Rough frames 22 CONTENTS Foreword 2 Introduction 2 How to use this book 3 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Photoshop Elements 5.0 A–Z 2 A–Z Foreword As much as the developers might try to create the perfect software, no application can be completely intuitive for every user. At some point you will need to seek help in completing a project or for accomplishing a task. The Help system that is included with Photoshop Elements 5.0 contains lots of good information (yes, you should always try there first), but it may not cover the entire breadth of the application as well as you’d like. Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 A–Z provides a valuable service for the digital editing newcomer or experienced hobbyist. It alphabetically covers all aspects of the entire application (including versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0) with easily accessible tabs and lots of explanatory graphics and screen shots. This book can be a quick reference for those times when you need to know ‘What does this tool do?’. It is very thorough and every section is cross-referenced to other similar tools to give you the information you need to make an informed decision. Why buy yet another book on Elements? Like its predecessors, Photoshop Elements 5.0 expands both your control and your capacity, and focuses on making the process of creating and sharing your digital photographs even easier. You can create multiple page photo creations documents based upon Introduction Now in its fifth release Photoshop Elements has developed into a sophisticated and complete photo-editing and photo- management program. It seems that the software’s popularity grows almost as quickly as its impressive list of editing and enhancement features. More and more digital photographers are awakening to the pure imaging power that hides beneath the deceptively simple front end. But rather than sitting back and basking in the reflected glory of the success of the first editions of Elements (versions 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0), Adobe has been hard at work improving what was already a great product. Version 5.0, just like the releases before it, is a state-of-the-art image-editing program full of the features and functions that digital photographers and desktop image makers desire the most. In fact, the program has become so comprehensive that producing an illustrated A–Z book like this one is not just a nicety, but has became a necessity. The software covers so provided templates, and modify all aspects of each page using the content from the revamped Artwork and Effects palette. For further control, you can now create custom Black and White images from color photos, or use the new Adjust Color Curves dialog to fine-tune your photos. Anything you create you can easily share, either by printing online, or by sharing with friends using various online gallery options. The new map feature allows you to add a new dimension to your presentations. Those of you familiar with Photoshop Elements may need some help coming up to speed with all the new features of the Organizer. Conversely, those of you who started out with Photoshop Album may not be aware of all the image correction and creation features of the Editor. With Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 A–Z at your side, you’ll be up to speed in no time. Don Day Photoshop Elements QE Adobe Systems Inc. many areas that Elements users need a quick ready reference guide to all the major tools and features. Here I provide such a guide but I don’t stop at simply describing the tool or feature, I accompany the text with illustrations of the software in action together with before and after pictures of the applied changes. All entries include shortcut keys, menu locations and are cross-referenced to other related Elements features. New for this edition is a Fast Techniques section that provides step-by-step guides to most regularly used features and extended visual examples of the effects of using different settings on your pictures. Keep this ready reference handy for all those occasions when you ask yourself ‘What does that do?’. But most of all keep enjoying your digital photography! Philip Andrews FOREWORD/INTRODUCTION Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 3 www.ElementsA-Z.com A–Z How to use this book Fragment fi lter Menu: Editor: Filter > Pixelate > Fragment Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Filters The Fragment fi lter, as one of the group Feature summary Before and after examples The before and after examples illustrate how features, tools and techniques can be used to change the way that your pictures look. Step by step 1 1 After Before Levels Menu: Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Levels Shortcut: Ctrl L OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Levels Adjust Color Curves Menu: Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Color Curves Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 5 See also: Adjust Color Curves 03 ADJUSTING CONTRAST ADJUSTING CONTRAST Step-by-step application There is a brand new section containing step-by-step guides to using selected features and undertaking daily editing and enhancing tasks. These mini- tutorials can be used to extend your understanding as well as build your edit- ing and enhancement skills. Edge tabs The colored edge tabs change for each letter section. They can be used in conjunction with the contents page to quickly thumb through the book to locate a particular group of entries. Online extensions Don’t forget about the book’s website – www.elementsa-z.com. Here you will fi nd video tutorials on how to use the top new features in Photoshop Elements 5.0, the example pictures used in the step-by- step guides, links to all the featured plug- in vendors and much more. Tips and Reminders Important ideas and techniques are highlighted with the Remember icon and the tips and tricks used by working professionals are noted with the ‘Pro’s Tip’ ticked box. Each feature and tool entry is headed with a summary table that details the menu where the feature can be found, any keyboard shortcuts associated with the tool, the version of Photoshop Elements that contains the feature and any other features that are linked to the feature. In order to make the most of this book, take a couple of minutes to read the following. This will let me introduce a few of the special features that I have included to help you fi nd the information that you need fast. Apart from the basic A–Z structure that lists the topics, features and tools alphabetically, I have also used the following design devices to make ‘search and locate’ missions speedier and more productive. Frame and photo editing Menu: – Shortcut: – OS: Windows Version: 5 See also: Frame layers New feature entries Those features that are new to Elements 5.0, or have undergone a revision for the new edition, now get their own red colored heading for locating quickly. HOW TO USE THIS BOOK Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Step by step Photoshop Elements 5.0 A–Z 4 Finally, choose what action Elements will take after downloading the fi les via the Delete Options menu. It is a good idea to choose the Verify and Delete option as this makes sure that your valuable pictures have been downloaded successfully before they are removed from the card. Clicking the Get Photos button will transfer your pictures to your hard drive. 3 After fi nding and selecting the source of the pictures adjust the Import Settings. Browse for the folder where you want the photographs to be stored and if you want to use a subfolder select the way that this folder will be named from the Create Subfolder drop-down menu. 2 Select the From Camera or Card Reader option from the File > Get Photos menu or from the list that pops up when you click the Get Photos button in the shortcuts bar. 1 Next search for the folder of fi les in the File Browser window that is displayed. There is no need to select all the fi les in a folder, just selecting the folder will let Elements know that you want to import all photos it contains. 2 To import pictures that already reside on your hard drive select the File > Get Photos > From Files or Folders option. 1 Fine-tune the import settings by setting the extra options in the bottom right of the dialog. Click the Get Photos button to start the import process. 3 01 IMPORTING PHOTOS INTO ELEMENTS From camera or card reader Menu: Organizer: File > Get Photos > From Camera or Card Reader Shortcut: Ctrl G OS: Mac, Windows Version: 3, 4, 5 See also: Get Photos From fi les or folders Menu: Organizer: File > Get Photos > From Files or Folders Shortcut: Ctrl Shft G OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Get Photos The new Adjust Color Curves feature provides three ways to brighten an image. Moving the Adjust Highlights, Midtone Brightness and Adjust Shadows options to the right lightens these areas of the photo. Adjust Color Curves Menu: Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Color Curves Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 5 See also: Adjust Color Curves 02 CHANGING BRIGHTNESS After IMPORTING PHOTOS INTO ELEMENTS Before Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 5 www.ElementsA-Z.com Step by step Holding the Alt key whilst moving these Input sliders will preview the pixels that are being converted to pure black or white (clipped). Move the sliders in until you see the fi rst few pixels and then adjust the sliders slightly to ensure no pixels are being clipped. 2 To increase contrast in a photograph move the Highlight and Shadow Input sliders in the Levels dialog towards the center of the histogram. 1 3 To add more contrast move the Adjust Highlights slider to the right and the Adjust Shadows slider to the left. Move these settings in the opposite direction if you want to decrease contrast in the picture. 3 You can fi ne-tune the sample setting by moving the Midtone Contrast slider to the right to increase contrast or to the left to lessen the effect. 2 The simplest way to increase contrast with the new Adjust Color Curves feature is to click on the Increase Contrast sample thumbnail. To decrease contrast in a photo click on the Backlight sample. 1 After Before Levels Menu: Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Levels Shortcut: Ctrl L OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Levels Adjust Color Curves Menu: Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Color Curves Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 5 See also: Adjust Color Curves 03 ADJUSTING CONTRAST ADJUSTING CONTRAST The Shadows/Highlight feature provides some brightness control using the Lighten Shadows slider. Moving this control to the right brightens the darkest portions of the image. Shadows/Highlights Menu: Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Shadows/Highlights Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Shadows/Highlights The Brightness/Contrast feature provides a quick and easy adjustment of the overall brightness of the image. Pushing the slider to the right lightens the midtones. Brightness/Contrast Menu: Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Brightness/Contrast Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Brightness/Contrast Moving the Midtone Input slider to the left increases the brightness of the photo. Levels Menu: Enhance > Adjust Lighting > Levels Shortcut: Ctrl L OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Levels Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Step by step Photoshop Elements 5.0 A–Z 6 05 SHARPENING The Auto Color Correction feature provides a handy one-click correction of many color cast problems. The Auto Levels option can also provide good results and you should try these options fi rst before moving onto more manual approaches if necessary. Using the Color Variations requires you to recognize the nature of the cast in your photos and then to click on a thumbnail sample that will help reduce the problem. In this example Decrease Red and Increase Green were both used to help correct the picture. The Amount slider is used to alter the degree of change applied when each thumbnail sample is pressed. Select the sharpening type from the Remove list. Choose Lens Blur for less halo effects at higher sharpening settings. 3 Adjust the Radius slider to control the number of pixels surrounding an edge that is included in the effect. 2 Select Enhance > Adjust Sharpness. Adjust the Amount slider to control the strength of the fi lter. 1 04 REMOVING COLOR CASTS After Before Auto Color Correction Menu: Enhance > Auto Color Correction Shortcut: Shft Ctrl B OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Auto Color Correction Color Variations Menu: Enhance > Adjust Color > Color Variations Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Color Variations Adjust Sharpness Menu: Enhance > Adjust Sharpness Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Unsharp Mask fi lter, Adjust Sharpmess Before Choose the More Refi ned option for more precise sharpening results but longer processing times. 4 REMOVING COLOR CASTS When the dialog fi rst opens click on a section of skin tone to adjust the dialog’s default settings then use the Tan, Blush and Ambient Light sliders until the skin color (and the rest of the photos) is more natural. Adjust Color for Skin Tone Menu: Enhance > Adjust Color > Adjust Color for Skin Tone Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 3, 4, 5 See also: Adjust Color for Skin Tone This feature works well if there is a part of the problem picture that is meant to be a neutral gray or white. After selecting the feature you then use the eye dropper cursor to click on the neutral picture part. Elements will change the color at this point to even amounts of red, green and blue and then apply the same changes to the rest of the photo. Remove Color Cast Menu: Enhance > Adjust Color > Remove Color Cast Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Remove Color Cast Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. 7 www.ElementsA-Z.com Step by step Adjust the opacity of this layer to govern the level of sharpening. Sharpening using this technique means that you can remove or adjust the strength of the effect later by manipulating the fi ltered layer. 3 With the fi ltered layer still selected switch the blend mode to Hard Light. This mode blends both the dark and light parts of the fi ltered layer with the picture layer, causing an increase in contrast. 2 Make a copy (Layer > Duplicate Layer) of the picture layer that you want to sharpen. Filter the copied layer with the High Pass fi lter (Filter > Other > High Pass) and press OK. 1 Next apply the Find Edges fi lter (Filter > Stylize > Find Edges) to the grayscale layer and then invert the results (Filter > Adjustments > Invert). 2 The fi rst step to using the Find Edges fi lter to confi ne sharpening to just the edges of a picture is to make a copy of the back- ground layer (Layer > Duplicate Layer) and desaturate the color (Enhance > Adjust Color > Remove Color). 1 Create a new selection using the layer mask by Ctrl/Cmd clicking the thumbnail. With the selection still active, hide the marching ants (Ctrl/Cmd H) as well as the Levels and fi ltered layers (click on the Eye icon). Now choose the picture layer from the layer stack and apply the Unsharp Mask fi lter. The fi lter will be applied through the selection and as the selection is of the edges of the picture only then the sharpening effect will be restricted to these areas. 4 With the scratch disks now allocated click OK to close the window and then quit Elements as the changes will not take effect until you restart the program. Next time you use Elements you will be able to work with bigger fi les and perform more com- plex operations faster than ever before. 3 The Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks dialog has settings to allocate up to four different locations for use as extra RAM. It is best not to use the same location for Windows virtual memory. It is also worth selecting your fastest drive fi rst as the extra speed will also help increase performance. 2 The preferences settings for Elements are located under the Edit > Preferences menu. Here you will fi nd a series of settings that allow you to adjust the default workings of the program. To change or allocate scratch disks select the Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks option from the menu. 1 High Pass sharpening Menu: Filters > Other > High Pass Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Adjust Sharpness, Unsharp Mask fi lter Find Edges sharpening Menu: Filters > Stylize > Find Edges Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Adjust Sharpness, Unsharp Mask fi lter Scratch disks Menu: Edit > Preferences > Plug-ins & Scratch Disks Shortcut: – OS: Mac, Windows Version: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 See also: Preferences After 06 SPEEDING UP ELEMENTS Now select all of the fi ltered layer (Select > All) and copy the selection to memory (Edit > Copy). Create a new Levels adjustment layer (Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Levels) but make no adjustments and click OK. Select the thumbnail of the adjustment layer (Alt /Opt-Click) and then paste (Ctrl/Cmd V) the copied selection into the layer to create a layer mask. 3 SHARPENING Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. [...]... 4, 5 See AdobeRGB, sRGB, also: Remove profile Installing Adobe Gamma in version 5.0: Adobe Gamma is not installed automatically with Photoshop Elements 5.0 To install it you will need to: 1.Copy it from the Goodies\Software\ Adobe Gamma folder on the CD to the C:Program Files\Common Files\ Adobe\ Calibration\ folder 2.Then right-click on the Adobe Gamma Loader.exe file in the Calibration folder and choose... OS: Windows, Macintosh See also: RAW file editor, RAW files When opening a raw file in Photoshop Elements, the picture is first displayed in the Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) dialog (1) This feature is Adobe s raw conversion utility and is common to both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements (although in slightly different forms) Adobe releases new versions of the feature on a regular basis to ensure that the utility... camera models The update needs to be downloaded from www .adobe. com (2) website and installed into the \Program Files \Adobe\ Photoshop Elements 5.0\ Plug-Ins\File Formats folder (3) To install simply drag the ‘Camera Raw.8bi’ file into the folder The next time Elements is started, and a raw file opened, the new version of ACR is used to display and convert the file Menu: – Shortcut: – Version: 4, 5 OS:... Settings\All Users\Application Data \Adobe\ Photoshop Elements\ 5.0\ OS: Windows See also: Artwork and Effects palette, The Artwork section of the Artwork and Effects palette contains backgrounds, picture frames, graphics and shapes that can be added to your photos (1) Backgrounds, graphics and shapes all create their own layers when added (2) Frames, on the other hand, are applied to existing layers... straightening the right-hand edge of the paragraph and leaving the left ragged Selecting the center text option will align the paragraph around a central line and leave both left and right edges ragged One of the strengths of Photoshop Elements as a drawing package is the flexibility of its brush engine Rather than just supplying a series of pre-made brushes Adobe includes the ability to create and save custom... Magnetic Lasso, Lasso tools To draw a freehand line, hold down the Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac) key and click and drag the mouse 3 To make a mask, change the mode to Mask and paint over the area outside the object with the mouse pointer 3 After selecting the tool, click-drag to draw the selection area by freehand Release the mouse button to join the beginning and end points and close the outline To... watermark 5.0 A–Z 32 Photoshop Elements aA ARTWORK AND EFFECTS PALETTE – FAVORITES Artwork and Effects palette – Special Effects Artwork and Effects palette – Text Menu: – Shortcut: – Version: 5 Menu: – Shortcut: – Menu: – Shortcut: – OS: Windows See also: Artwork and Effects palette, The Favorites section of the Artwork and Special Effects palette lists all the artwork, effects, themes and styles that... Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 5.0 A–Z 26 Photoshop Elements aA ADOBE CAMERA RAW – CAMERA UPDATES Gradient Map Invert Threshold Adobe Camera Raw – camera updates Posterize Photo Filter Continued from the previous page: To restrict the adjustment layer changes to the layer immediately beneath, add the adjustment layer and then click the border line between the two layers whilst... in the Organizer and drag them to the Collection heading in the Collections pane To add a single tag to multiple thumbnails, multi-select the thumbnails in the images and then drag the tag from the Tags pane onto one of the selected thumbnails 2 Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 5.0 A–Z 16 Photoshop Elements Step by step ADDING COLOR TO BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS... select the stationery to use as a background for the e-mail Add in your message and click OK When your e-mail program displays the new message, click Send to E-mail in the usual manner Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark 5.0 A–Z 14 Photoshop Elements Step by step ELEMENTS ANIMATIONS 15 ELEMENTS ANIMATIONS Frame 1 Frame 2 Animated GIF 16 WEB MATTING Frame 3 Animation . www.verypdf.com to remove this watermark. Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. 0 A–Z Tools and features illustrated ready reference Philip Andrews AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG. ISBN-13: 978 -0- 2 40 -52 06 1-2 ISBN- 10: 0- 2 40 -52 06 1 -0 For information on all Focal Press publications visit our website at: www.focalpress.com Printed and bound