Photoshop Elements Solutions : The Art of Digital Photography

by Aaland, Mikkel

• ISBN13: 9780782129731
• ISBN10: 0782129730
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Summary

Author tackles common and not so common digital imaging problems and shows elements users how to fix them. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

Table of Contents

Up and Running with Photoshop Elements	1	(18)
Setting Preferences	2	(6)
Customizing and Organizing the Work Area	8	(4)
Getting Digital Images into Photoshop Elements	12	(1)
Changing the Image Orientation	13	(1)
Knowing Your File Size	14	(1)
Using Contact Sheet II to Organize Images	14	(2)
What Do You Do When You Mess Up?	16	(1)
Where Do You Go for Help?	17	(1)
Your Images: Global Solutions and Considerations	18	(30)
Deciding Which Tasks Come First	20	(1)
Cropping to the Essential Parts	21	(2)
Straightening Crooked Scans	23	(1)
Making Dull Images Shine	24	(8)
Correcting Color Casts	32	(4)
Tinting an Image	36	(1)
Eliminating or Diminishing Dust, Scratches, and Electronic Noise	37	(3)
Converting Color Images to Black-and-White	40	(1)
Sharpening	41	(2)
Resizing	43	(2)
Framing Your Image	45	(3)
Better Faces	48	(26)
What Comes First	50	(1)
Intensifying and Changing Eyes	51	(5)
Working on Lips	56	(1)
Whitening and Fixing Teeth	57	(2)
Selectively Reducing Wrinkles	59	(1)
Diminishing and Straightening the Noise	60	(2)
Making People Glow	62	(2)
Creating a Grainy 35mm Black-and-White Look	64	(1)
Using Digital Fill Flash	65	(1)
Making Distorted Faces Normal	66	(3)
Fixing Hair	69	(4)
Getting Rid of Glasses Glare	73	(1)
Better Outside Shots	74	(22)
Intensifying the Sky	76	(3)
Changing the Time of Day	79	(6)
Working with the Midday Sun	85	(1)
Adding Lighting Effects	86	(1)
Working around a Difficult Angle	87	(2)
Making a Bluer Pond and Greener Grass	89	(1)
Removing Unwanted Objects	90	(3)
Adding Selective Focus	93	(1)
Using Statue Fill Flash	94	(2)
Better Product Shots	96	(36)
Separating a Product from Its Background	98	(8)
Changing a Product's Color	106	(3)
Changing a Product's Texture	109	(5)
Adding Motion Blur	114	(2)
Changing Scale and Perspective	116	(2)
Fixing Keystoning	118	(1)
Improving the Background	119	(5)
Adding Depth	124	(2)
Creating Lighting Effects	126	(1)
Softening Highlights and Glare	127	(1)
Adding a New Label	128	(1)
Making a Product Smile	129	(1)
Simplifying a Product Shot	130	(2)
Making Photo-Realistic Composites	132	(16)
Adding Yourself (or Anyone) to a Group Shot	134	(3)
Swapping Kids	137	(3)
Expanding Your Image	140	(4)
Seamlessly Pasting	144	(2)
Pre-visualizing a Hotel	146	(2)
Better Real Estate Shots	148	(14)
Straightening a Slanted Looking Building	150	(3)
Transforming a Kitchen	153	(2)
Removing a Construction Sign	155	(1)
Smart-Blurring a Background	156	(2)
Balancing the Light	158	(1)
Removing Wires	159	(3)
Creating Panoramics with Photomerge	162	(20)
Photomerge Dos and Don'ts	164	(1)
Creating a Priceless View	165	(7)
Creating an Interior Panoramic	172	(2)
Creating an Epic Panoramic	174	(1)
Making Handheld Panoramics	175	(1)
Making Vertical Panoramics	176	(3)
Showing Baseball's Big Picture	179	(1)
Photomerging a Collage	180	(2)
Taking Type Further	182	(16)
Adding a Photo Credit	184	(4)
Making Headline Type	188	(1)
Making Type More Readable	189	(2)
Using Shape Tools to Accent Type	191	(2)
Warping Type	193	(1)
Filling Type with an Image	194	(1)
Making Volcano Type	195	(1)
Adding Effects to Type	196	(1)
Applying Liquify to Type	196	(2)
Working with the Web in Mind	198	(32)
Choosing GIF or JPEG	200	(3)
Making GIFs	203	(16)
Building Web Page Backgrounds	219	(4)
Creating Navigational Graphics	223	(3)
Creating Web Type	226	(1)
Making a Web Photo Gallery	227	(3)
Making Great JPEGs	230	(14)
Understanding the JPEG Format	232	(1)
Saving JPEGs	233	(5)
Optimizing a Digital Image for JPEG Compression	238	(5)
Converting GIFs to JPEGs	243	(1)
From Hard Copy to Many Copies: Sharing and Processing Images	244	(12)
Using Desktop Printers	246	(7)
Using Online Photography Services	253	(1)
Using Picture Package	253	(2)
Using Batch Processing	255	(1)
Appendix A Reference to the Tools and Features of Photoshop Elements	256	(16)
All about Layers	258	(5)
Effects	263	(1)
Selection Tools	264	(2)
Viewing and Navigation Tools	266	(2)
Painting Tools	268	(2)
Filter	270	(1)
Liquify Filter	270	(2)
About the Team	272	(2)
Index	274	(14)
What's on the CD-ROM	288