Photoshop^® Elements 2 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography

by Mikkel Aaland

• ISBN13: 9780782141405
• ISBN10: 0782141404
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Sybex

Summary

Photoshop Elements is Adobe's newest image-editing software. Based on the immensely popular, and much more expensive Photoshop, Elements provides low-cost ($99 or less), powerful, easy-to-use tools for creating professional-quality digital images. Photoshop Elements X Solutions gives any Elements user solutions for frequently encountered problems. Its stunning full-color imagery will teach and inspire. Topics include: making the most of new Photoshop Elements X features; improving portraits, landscapes, real estate, and product shots; creating panoramas; working with type; and creating the best prints.

Author Biography

Mikkel Aaland is a photographer, Web producer, and author of 7 books, including Digital Photography, Photoshop for the Web, and Still Images for Multimedia. Aaland has served as a non-paid advisor to Adobe's Elements product development group. He has contributed text and photography to numerous periodicals including Wired, Newsweek, and Publish.

Table of Contents

Up and Running with Photoshop Elements	p. 1
Setting Preferences	p. 2
Customizing and Organizing the Work Area	p. 9
Changing the Image Orientation	p. 14
Knowing Your File Size	p. 14
Using Contact Sheet II to Organize Images	p. 15
What Do You Do When You Mess Up?	p. 16
Where Do You Go for Help?	p. 18
Your Images: Global Solutions and Considerations	p. 20
Deciding Which Tasks Come First	p. 22
Cropping to the Essential Parts	p. 23
Straightening Crooked Scans	p. 25
Making Dull Images Shine	p. 26
Correcting Color Casts	p. 35
Tinting an Image	p. 39
Eliminating or Diminishing Dust, Scratches, and Electronic Noise	p. 40
Converting Color Images to Black-and-White	p. 43
Sharpening	p. 44
Resizing	p. 46
Framing Your Image	p. 49
Better Faces	p. 50
What Comes First	p. 52
Intensifying and Changing Eyes	p. 52
Working on Lips	p. 58
Whitening and Fixing Teeth	p. 59
Selectively Reducing Wrinkles	p. 61
Diminishing and Straightening the Nose	p. 62
Making People Glow	p. 64
Creating a Grainy 35mm Black-and-White Look	p. 66
Using Digital Fill Flash	p. 67
Making Distorted Faces Normal	p. 68
Fixing Hair	p. 70
Getting Rid of Glasses Glare	p. 75
Better Outside Shots	p. 76
Intensifying the Sky	p. 78
Changing the Time of Day	p. 81
Working with the Midday Sun	p. 86
Adding Lighting Effects	p. 87
Making a Bluer Pond and Greener Grass	p. 89
Removing Unwanted Objects	p. 90
Adding Selective Focus	p. 92
Using Statue Fill Flash	p. 94
Better Product Shots	p. 96
Separating a Product from Its Background	p. 98
Changing a Product's Color	p. 105
Changing a Product's Texture	p. 109
Adding Motion Blur	p. 113
Changing Scale and Perspective	p. 115
Fixing Keystoning	p. 117
Improving the Background	p. 118
Adding Depth	p. 122
Creating Lighting Effects	p. 124
Softening Highlights and Glare	p. 126
Adding a New Label	p. 127
Making a Product Smile	p. 128
Simplifying a Product Shot	p. 130
Making Photo-Realistic Composites	p. 132
Adding Yourself (or Anyone) to a Group Shot	p. 134
Swapping Kids	p. 137
Expanding Your Image	p. 140
Seamlessly Pasting	p. 144
Pre-visualizing a Hotel	p. 146
Better Real Estate Shots	p. 148
Straightening a Slanted Looking Building	p. 150
Transforming a Kitchen	p. 153
Removing a Construction Sign	p. 155
Smart-Blurring a Background	p. 156
Balancing the Light	p. 158
Removing Wires	p. 159
Creating Panoramics with Photomerge	p. 162
Photomerge Dos and Don'ts	p. 164
Creating a Priceless View	p. 165
Creating an Interior Panoramic	p. 171
Creating an Epic Panoramic	p. 174
Making Handheld Panoramics	p. 175
Making Vertical Panoramics	p. 176
Showing Baseball's Big Picture	p. 179
Photomerging a Collage	p. 180
Taking Type Further	p. 182
Adding a Photo Credit	p. 184
Making Headline Type	p. 188
Making Type More Readable	p. 189
Using Shape Tools to Accent Type	p. 191
Warping Type	p. 192
Filling Type with an Image	p. 193
Making Volcano Type	p. 194
Adding Effects to Type	p. 196
Applying Liquify to Type	p. 196
Working with the Web in Mind	p. 198
Choosing GIF or JPEG	p. 200
Making GIFs	p. 203
Building Web Page Backgrounds	p. 219
Creating Navigational Graphics	p. 223
Creating Web Type	p. 226
Making a Web Photo Gallery	p. 227
Making Great JPEGs	p. 234
Understanding the JPEG Format	p. 236
Saving JPEGs	p. 237
JPEGing Specifically for E-mail Transmission	p. 242
Using the Attach to E-mail Command	p. 243
Optimizing a Digital Image for JPEG Compression	p. 244
Converting GIFs to JPEGs	p. 249
Sharing and Processing Images	p. 250
Using Desktop Printers	p. 252
Using Online Photography Services	p. 260
Using Picture Package	p. 260
Using Batch Processing	p. 264
Creating PDF Slide Shows for PCs and PDAs	p. 265
A Reference to the Tools and Features of Photoshop Elements	p. 268
All about Layers	p. 270
Effects	p. 275
Selection Tools	p. 276
Viewing and Navigation Tools	p. 280
Brushes	p. 282
Filters	p. 283
Liquify Filter	p. 284
Index	p. 286
About the Author	p. 300
What's on the CD-ROM	p. 302
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