Photoshop Elements 8 Digital Classroom

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by  AGI Creative Team

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Contents
Starting Up
About the Photoshop Elements 8
Digital Classroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .XXI
Prerequisites. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .XXI
System requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXII
Starting Adobe Photoshop Elements 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXII
Loading lesson fi les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXIII
Managing catalogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXIII
Creating a new catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXIV
Switching Catalogs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXIV
Reconnecting to missing fi les . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .XXV
Reconnect missing fi les window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .XXV
Working with the video tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXVI
Setting up for viewing the video tutorials. . . . . . . . . . . . XXVI
Viewing the video tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .XXVII
Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . XXVIII
Lesson 1: Importing your Photos into Adobe Photoshop Elements
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
How Photoshop Elements works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
The welcome screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3
Getting photos into the Organizer
using the Photo Downloader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
Getting photos from a camera or card reader . . . . . . . . . . . .4
The Photo Downloader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6
Get photos from a scanner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Get photos and videos by searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Setting a Watch Folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Adding fi les and folders to the Organizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Getting a still image from a video frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Workspaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Organizer basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
How to get help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Photoshop help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Support Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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The Inspiration Browser. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Lesson 2: Organizing Your Photos
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Understanding the Organizer workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Photo Browser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Options Bar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Timeline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Albums. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Keyword Tags. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Analyzing photos in the Organizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Rotating photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Hiding photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Reviewing photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Compare photos side by side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Stacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Organizing using albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Creating a new album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Creating album categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Creating a Smart Album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Tagging your photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Adding ratings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Adding keywords and categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
People Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Finding your photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Find photos by star rating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Find photos by keyword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Find photos using the keyword Tag Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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Lesson 3: Fixing Common Photographic Problems
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Welcome screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Understanding the Editor workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The Project Bin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
The Panel Bin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Editing modes: Full, Quick, and Guided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Using Quick Fix. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Using Auto Smart Fix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Auto Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Auto Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Correcting color automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Comparing images in Full Edit View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Using the Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
The Guided Edit mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Fixing an underexposed or dark image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Fixing an overexposed or light image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Using Full Edit mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Removing a color cast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Correcting skin tone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Photomerge Exposure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
The Toolbox. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Using tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Red Eye Removal tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Whitening teeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Enhancing blue skies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Sharpening. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Cropping images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Rotating images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Resizing images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Recompose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
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Lesson 4: Adjusting Exposure
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Welcome screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Understanding exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Exposure adjustments with blending modes. . . . . . . . . . . 99
Improving underexposed images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Improving faded or overexposed images . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Making adjustments manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Adjusting brightness and contrast manually . . . . . . . . . . 105
Adjusting shadows and highlights manually . . . . . . . . . . 106
Making tonal adjustments using Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Histogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Making tonal adjustments using Curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Comparing images in Full Edit view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Using adjustment layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Correcting selected parts of an image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Hue/Saturation adjustments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Working with selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Using the Quick Selection tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Saving selections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Moving selections to a new layer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Self study. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Lesson 5: Adjusting Color
Starting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Welcome screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Understanding color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
HSB color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
About image modes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Bitmap mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Grayscale mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Indexed Color mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Switching image modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Comparing methods of adjusting color . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Understanding Edit Guided. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
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