Photoshop^? Elements 3 Solutions: The Art of Digital Photography

by Mikkel Aaland

• ISBN13: 9780782150711
• ISBN10: 0782150713
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2006-02-01
• Publisher: Sybex

Summary

Transform the Ordinary into the ExtraordinaryWith Photoshop Elements 3, Adobe has introduced substantial new features for digital photographers-including RAW support, organizing tools, Healing Brushes, and much more. As the software has become easier for digital photography enthusiasts to use and more compelling for serious digital photographers who seek the finest results, so has this acclaimed guide.In Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions, award-winning photographer and author Mikkel Aaland has extensively revised his best-seller to include all of version 3's smart new features plus many fresh techniques and examples. Whether working with digital images is a hobby or part of your livelihood, Aaland's practical solutions, stunning color images, and reader-friendly approach will guide you to a higher level of expertise.Inside, Aaland shows you the ins and outs of Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows and the Macintosh, including: Organizing and managing your digital images Touching- up faces to make people glow Enhancing product images so they stand out Transforming outdoor and real-estate shots Fusing photos into priceless panoramics Combining images into realistic composites Working with the Camera RAW format and advanced digital photo techniques Optimizing photos for the Web, screen, and e-mail transmission Creating PDF slide shows and professional-looking picture packages And more...

Table of Contents

Importing and Organizing Digital Images

Importing Digital Images into Photoshop Elements

Managing Files with the Organizer (Windows Only)

Managing Files with the File Browser (Mac and Windows)

Your Images: Global Solutions

Choosing an Editing Workspace

Deciding What Comes When

Setting Proper Orientation

Making Dull Images Shine

Correcting Color

Tinting Images

Eliminating or Diminishing Dust, Scratches, and Electronic Noise

Converting Color Images to Black-and-White

Cropping to the Essential Parts

Resizing

Sharpening

Better Faces

What Comes First

Working the Eyes

Working the Lips

Whitening and Fixing Teeth

Selectively Removing Wrinkles and Blemishes with the Healing Brush

Diminishing and Straightening the Nose

Making People Glow

Creating a Grainy 35mm Black-and-White Look

Creating a Digital Fill Flash

Making Distorted Faces Normal

Fixing Hair

Getting Rid of Glasses Glare

Better Outside Shots

Intensifying the Sky

Changing the Time of Day

Making Weather

Working with the Midday Sun

Adding Lighting Effects

Removing Unwanted Objects

Adding Selective Focus

Creating a Large-Scale Digital Fill Flash

Better Product Shots

Separating a Product from Its Background

Changing a Product's Color

Changing a Product's Texture

Adding Motion Blur

Changing Scale and Perspective

Fixing Keystoning

Improving the Background

Adding Depth

Creating Lighting Effects

Softening Highlights and Glare

Adding a New Label

Making a Product Smile

Simplifying a Product Shot

Making Photo-Realistic Composites

Adding Yourself (or Anyone) to a Group Shot,Combining Different Resolutions

Swapping Kids

Expanding Your Image

Seamlessly Pasting

Cloning Elements from Multiple Images

Pre-visualizing a Scene

Exteriors and Interiors

Straightening a Slanted Looking Facade

Transforming a Kitchen

Removing a Construction Sign

Smart-Blurring a Background

Balancing the Light

Creating a Warm and Inviting Atmosphere

Removing Wires

Creating Panoramics with Photomerge

Photomerge Dos

Creating a Precious View

Creating an Interior Panoramic

Creating an Epic Panoramic

Making a Handheld Vertical Panoramic

Showing Baseball's Big Picture

Photomerging a Collage

Taking Type Further

Adding a Photo Credit

Adding a Copyright Watermark

Making Headline Type

Making Type More Readable

Using Shape Tools to Accent Type

Warping Type

Filling Type with an Image

Adding Effects to Type

Applying Liquify to Type

Preparing Images and Graphics for the Screen

Choosing a File Format

Making Great JPEGs

Optimizing Digital Images for JPEG Compression

Converting GIFs to JPEGs

Making TIFFs

Making GIFs

Building Web Page Backgrounds

Creating Navigational Graphics

Using Camera Raw and Other Advanced Techniques

Using Adobe's Camera Raw

Working in 16-Bit Mode

Extending Dynamic Range with Photomerge

Using Layer Adjustments with Masks

Using a Gradient Mask to Combine Multiple Images

Converting a Photo to a Painting

Sharing and Auto-Processing Images

Printing from the Organizer (Windows Only)

Printing from the Editor (Windows) or Application (Mac)

Creating and Sharing with the Organizer (Windows Only)

Processing Multiple Files (Windows and Mac)

Creating and Printing on the Mac OS

Reference to the Tools and Features of Photoshop Elements

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