What Photoshop Elements 3.

0 Does
Correct

and enhance your photos

Create collages by adding multiple images
Add text, graphics and artistic effects
Organize photos
Exhibit photos via slideshow, greeting
card, postcards, calendars, etc

You can change what Elements goes to

when you start up

Helpful Shortcuts
Undo

= control + z
Cut = control + x
Copy = control + c
Paste = control + v

The Work Area in 3.0

Document Pane
System Menu
Menus
Standard Toolbar

Toolbox

Photo Bin
Status & Information Bar

Palettes

Quick Fix
The

Photoshop Elements Quick Fix dialog

box gathers several image correction tools
in one spot.
Go to Enhance>Quick Fix . . .
Straighten
Crop
Tonality
Colors
Sharpness

Misalignment
Open

Red-Eye Dog3in.jpg
Choose Image > Rotate > Straighten
Choose Image > Rotate > Straighten
and Crop
Choose Image > Rotate

Red Eye
You

can fix the red eye of a person or the

green or white eyes of a dog with the red
eye removal tool. Click this tool and either
click

red part or
draw rectangle and release mouse

Sharpen
Choose

Filter > Sharpen

Or choose Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp
Mask

Tonality
Open

reunion graphic
Choose Enhance > Adjust Smart Fix
Undo

Choose

Enhance > Adjust Contrast

Undo

Choose
Undo

Enhance>Levels

Adjust Color
Choose

Enhance>Adjust Color>Hue
Saturation

Or

choose Enhance> Adjust Color

Variations

Standard Edit
Click

Standard Edit
Standard Editor has more extensive
features
If you decide you always want to start in
Editor-what do you do?
At bottom of Welcome screen>Start Up In allows you
to choose whether you start with Welcome Screen, in
the Editor, or in the Organizer

Manipulating Backgrounds
Open

waterfront.tif photo
Choose autosmart fix
Undo
Select magnetic lasso tool and select the
sky
Choose paint bucket and fill with blue
green
Choose Enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust Hue
/Saturation

Healing Brush

The Healing Brush fixes larger areas of imperfections

when you drag over them. You can remove objects from
a uniform background; for instance, you can remove an
object in a field of grass.

In the Editor, select the Healing Brush tool .

Choose a brush size from the options bar and set

healing brush options:

Mode. Determines how the source or pattern blends with

existing pixels. Normal lays new pixels over the original
pixels. Replace mode preserves film grain and texture at
the edges of the brush stroke.

Healing Brush

Source. Sets the source to use for repairing pixels.

Sampled uses pixels from the current image. Pattern
uses pixels from a pattern. If you chose Pattern, select a
pattern from the Pattern palette.

Aligned. Samples pixels continuously, without losing the

current sampling point, even if you release the mouse
button. Deselect Aligned to continue using the sampled
pixels from the initial sampling point each time you stop
and resume painting.

Use All Layers. Samples data from all visible layers.

Deselect Use All Layers to sample only from the active
layer.

 Open

cactusfloyd.jpg
Click on the Text Tool in the Toolbox
Type a caption
Make the font black and 72pt Courier
Click on pencil and draw a straight line by
holding down shift as you draw the line.
Resample Down to a 3 photo at 72dpi

Panorama

Specify the photos for a panorama.

Choose File > New > Photomerge Panorama. Then click

Browse and navigate to the cars_pano folder in the
Tutorials folder located inside the Adobe Photoshop
Elements application folder. Open the folder and select all
the image files. (Hold the Shift key and click on each image
to select all files.)

Click Open to add the images to the Source Files list in the
Photomerge dialog box.

When the images are added to the Photomerge dialog box,

click OK.

Panorama

View the composition.

To change your view of the composition, use the

Navigator. Position the pointer in the red box in the
Navigator thumbnail. Drag the red box over the area
of the composition you wish to view. Use the zoom out
or zoom in button, or drag the slider bar to adjust the
magnification of your composition in the work area.

For more info go to Help>Tutorial>Photomerge

Panorama

Digitization
Process

of converting image or audio

information into a digital format

Three Types of Resolution

Image

resolution
Printer resolution
Monitor resolution

Image Resolution
Graphic File Formats
A file

containing data
which represents
visual information
Pixels (picture
elements)
Different graphic
formats represent
images w/ varying
degrees of accuracy
& compression

Photo: 72 x 72
pixels
(72 dpi)

(Photo enlarged 3x)

Graphic File Formats

File format (suffix)

Characteristics:

Best used for:

TIFF (.tif)

Tagged Image File Format Large files generally saved

with a great deal of data information (color range, resolution,
etc.);

Initial image capture,

hard-copy publication
photos, images

BMP (.bmp)

Bitmap Used for Windows images; Format inefficient, but

standardized enough to be reliable;

Rudimentary Windows
graphics, Windows
icons

An Apple Macintosh picture file format;

Image capture, still

video image capture

GIF (.gif)

Graphics Interchange Format Limited to 256 colors or

less; Displays single color areas best; File sizes not good for
large images; Supports transparency;

Diagrams, Clip Art,

Maps, Limited colorrange images

JPEG (.jpg)

Joint Photographic Experts Group Best for photo

display; Image compression user-defined, but image quality
can suffer;

Photographic images

PNG (.png)

Portable Network Graphic format Lossless format;

Works best with Windows browser applications; Displays 24bit color AND supports transparency; Scales within
windows;

Browser images

PSD (.psd)

Native Photoshop file format;

format; Can be imported into other
image manipulation programs;

PICT (.pct)

Image manipulation

Image Resolution
The number of pixels displayed per unit of
measure (usually dots per inch - dpi)

High resolutions result in slower imaging & printing times, larger file sizes

Most monitors cannot display more than 96 dpi, no matter what resolution
the image is

 Web

72 dpi
Print 300 dpi+
Hi Quality Images 600+ dpi

Resampling
Open

capGown.jpg
Go to Image>Resize>Image Size
Change dpi to 300 pixels /inch (Resample Up)
Can you fix it with the healing brush?
Go to Window>Undo History
Undo History back to Open
Go to Image>Resize>Image Size
Change to 3 inches

Resampling
Refers

to changing the pixel dimensions

(and thus the display size) of an image
Downsampling:

decreasing the # of pixels,

i.e. information deleted from image;
Resampling Up: new pixels added based on
color values of existing pixels;

Bit Depth
a)
b)
c)
d)

1-bit (threshold)
4-bit (grayscale)
8-bit (indexed)
24-bit (RGB)

Bit Depth

Bit Depth

Modes
With

cap.Gown.jpg . . .
Go to Image>Mode>Indexed Color
Undo
Go to Image>Mode>Grayscale
Undo
Go to Image>Mode>Bitmap

Resampling Resolution
Original photo:
72 dpi, 150px X
150px
Print size: approx. 2
File size: 25 KB

Resampling Resolution
Original photo:

Resampled Up:

Downsampled:

72 dpi, 150px X
150px

150 dpi, 312px X

312px

35 dpi, 73px X 73px

Print size: approx. 2

Print size: approx. 2

File size: 25 KB

File size: 44 KB

Print size: approx. 2

File size: 6 KB

Resampling Bit Depth

Original photo24-bit RGB:
300 dpi, 146px X
146px
Print size: approx. 2
File size: 67 KB

Downsampled to
8-bit Indexed
Color
(256 colors):
300 dpi, 146px X
146px
Print size: approx. 2
File size: 28 KB

Downsampled to
4-bit grayscale:
300 dpi, 146px X
146px
Print size: approx. 2
File size: 25 KB

Printer Resolution
The quality of the images
on a printed page.

A higher resolution results in sharper,

more detailed images usually >300 dpi.
Web images, <72 dpi, are usually not
acceptable for publication or printed
page.

A Layers Exercise
1.

Open the Start.psd file in the Tutorials folder

By default, the Layers palette should show in the Palette Bin. If not,
choose Window > Show Layers.

The Layers palette displays all the layers in your document with the
layer name and a thumbnail of the layers image. You can view or
hide a layer using the eye icon.
2.

Click the eye icon on a layer. Notice that the icon

disappears and the layer is hidden. Click the empty icon box
again. Both the eye icon and the layers content reappear.

3.

Click all of the eye icons so that all of the Start.psd layers
are visible in your document.

Changing order of layers

Click

a layer and hold down the mouse button,

then drag the layer to a different stacking
position. Release the mouse button.

Adding a layer

Click the Create a New Layer icon in the Layers palette.

A new layer appears above the active layer in the Layers
palette. Youll also discover that creating type with the
type tool and using the shape tool will automatically add
a new layer.

Heres how to name a layer. Double-click a layer

thumbnail to open the Layer Properties dialog box. Type
the name of the layer in the text box, then click OK. Or,
you can just double-click the layer name in the Layers
palette and type a new name.

Adding artwork to existing image

Its no problem to add artwork from another Photoshop

Elements document to your current image. Photoshop
Elements layers can be moved from one file to another.

With the Start.psd file still open on your desktop, open

Hats.psd

Select the three hats layer in Hats.psd and hold down

the mouse button as you drag the layer to the document
window of Start.psd. Release the mouse button. Close
Hats.psd.

Edit artwork on a layer.

Click

the three hats layer in the Layers palette to

make it active. Then select the Move tool and
drag the artwork on the active layer. Notice that
only the artwork on the active layer is moved.
You can position a hat over the dummys head.

While

working on this tutorial, use the Undo

button to undo (Control + z) any action and
restore the artwork.

Erase artwork on a layer.

With

the three hats layer active, select the

Erase tool. Use the Erase tool to remove
two of the hats. Again, notice that only the
artwork on the active layer is affected.

Delete a layer.
You

can also remove artwork from your

document by deleting a layer. Make the
shoe layer active in the Layers palette,
then click the Delete Layer icon. Click Yes
to confirm you want to delete the selected
layer. Only the active layer and its artwork
are removed from the file.

Scale and rotate objects.

1. Open Basket.psd in the Tutorials folder
located inside the Adobe Photoshop Elements
application folder. Drag the basket layer to
Start.psd. Close Basket.psd. Make sure the
basket layer in Start.psd is active.
2. Choose Image > Transform > Free Transform.
A bounding box with handles appears around
the artwork youre modifying.

Scale and rotate objects.

3. To scale artwork, position the pointer over any edge of
the bounding box until you see a double-headed arrow.
Holding the Shift key constrains the proportions of the
image as you scale it. When youre happy with the new
size, click the Commit button .
4. To rotate the artwork, position the pointer outside the
transformation bounding box until you see a curved
double-headed arrow. Drag clockwise or
counterclockwise to rotate the artwork. Press Enter
(Windows) or Return (Mac OS), or click the Commit
button to apply the transformation changes.

Linking layers.

An efficient way to work with layers is to link two or more

of them together. By linking layers, you can move and
transform them together, maintaining their alignment
with each other.

With the Pants layer active in the Layers palette, click the
small box to the right of the eye icon in the Shirt layer. A
link icon appears in the box, indicating that the Shirt layer
is now linked to the Pants layer. Select the Move tool,
position it in the image window, and drag. Notice that the
artwork on the linked layers moves at the same time.

To unlink a layer, click the link icon in the linked layer. The
link icon disappears, and the layer is no longer linked to
the active layer.

Flatten layers to reduce file size.

When youve finished editing all the layers in your image,

you can flatten the files layers. This merges all the layers
into a single background layer, greatly reducing the file
size. Be aware that when you flatten an image and
save it you lose the layers. To preserve the layers,
save the image to another file name.

To flatten a file, choose Layer > Flatten Image.

To save the flattened image, choose File > Save As.

In the dialog box, type a new name for your flattened file,
select a file format if desired, and click Save.

Layers Review
The stacking order of the layers
a. means very little
b. affects what can be seen.
c. determines the importance of the images
d. means that whats at the bottom can
always be seen

Animation
Save As

Web allows you to save as an

animated gif.
Each layer will represent a frame
beginning with the bottom layer

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