User Guide
© 2002 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 2.0 User Guide for Windows® and Macintosh If this guide is distributed with software that includes an end-user agreement, this guide, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license.
iii Contents Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Installing Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ......................1 Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 ......................1 Using Web resources Customer support ..........................................3 .............................................4 An Overview of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.
iv CONTENTS Chapter 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos About this chapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 About digital images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Getting photos from a scanner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Importing photos from a digital camera Getting images from video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
v Creating a layered image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Specifying opacity and blending options Using adjustment and fill layers Creating grouped layers Editing layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 Managing layered images Chapter 7 . . . . . . . .
vi CONTENTS Improving performance with filters and effects Choosing a filter Applying special color effects to images Chapter 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186 Creating Shapes and Text About vector graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 About shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 Editing shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
vii Chapter 14 Printing Printing images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237 Setting print options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .237 Positioning and scaling images Setting output options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .238 Choosing a print encoding method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 elcome to the Adobe® Photoshop® Elements application, an easyto-use, yet powerful image-editing, photo-retouching, and Web-graphics solution. Photoshop Elements offers robust features designed specifically for amateur photographers, hobbyists, and business users who want to create professional-quality images for print and the Web.
2 Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 The user guide assumes you have a working knowledge of your computer and its operating conventions, including how to use a mouse and standard menus and commands. It also assumes you know how to open, save, and close files. For help with any of these techniques, please see your Microsoft Windows or Mac OS documentation. Using online Help The Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 3 User Guide Using tool tips Using Adobe Online The tool tips feature lets you display the names of tools, buttons, or controls. Adobe Online is constantly changing, so you should update it before you use it. Updating Adobe Online updates its bookmarks and buttons so you can access the most current content available. You can set preferences to automatically update Adobe Online daily, weekly, or monthly.
4 Installing and Learning Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 Note: To use Adobe Online, you must have an Internet connection and an installed Web browser. 2 Do any of the following: • Click Updates to access updated files. Customer support on Adobe Online Adobe Online provides access to the Support Knowledgebase, where you can find troubleshooting information that provides solutions to common problems. • Click Preferences to specify how often Adobe Online checks for updates.
5 An Overview of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 dobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 makes digital imaging a breeze. Use Photoshop Elements to create high-quality images for print, e-mail, and the Web. A With a broad set of features, Photoshop Elements gives you endless ways to explore your creativity — restore old photographs, adjust color and lighting, create a new image by combining photographs, apply artistic effects, and prepare photos for sending via email or posting on the Web.
6 An Overview of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 WIA Support (Windows only) Easily acquire Web photo gallery Quickly and easily create a photos from Windows Image Acquisition (WIA) enabled digital cameras, scanners, and other devices. Web photo gallery featuring your pictures. Choose from a variety of templates that includes holiday, sports, and business themes, an old-fashioned slide show, and many other cool designs.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 7 User Guide PDF Slideshow Create PDF slide shows, complete Liquify Create surreal effects by interactively with transitions that you can share with anyone who has Adobe Acrobat Reader—even on Palm and Pocket PC devices. twisting and pulling an image, or use Liquify as a touch-up tool to make subtle enhancements. Picture package printing Lay out multiple pictures in various sizes on the same page for highquality printouts from your home inkjet printer.
9 Quickly Fix Photographs Photoshop Elements Quick Fix 1. Open the Quick Fix dialog box. f you are new to digital photography or experienced at digital imaging, you’ll find the tools you need to correct and enhance your photos in Photoshop Elements. In this tutorial you’ll learn about basic tools and techniques to make your photos look their best. Be sure to look under the Help menu to read additional tutorials. With the file you want to fix open, choose Enhance > Quick Fix.
10 Quickly Fix Photographs To straighten an image that was captured at an angle, or for more rotation options, choose Image > Rotate rather than Quick Fix. 3. Correct the color and contrast. The photograph in our example has a blue color cast, and it needs a little more contrast. We can fix both of these problems using Auto Color. Choose Color Correction from Select Adjustment Category, select Auto Color, and then click Apply. 5. Accept the changes. If you are satisfied with the adjustments click OK.
11 Chapter 1: Looking at the Work Area elcome to Adobe Photoshop Elements. Photoshop Elements gives you an efficient work area and user interface to create and edit images for both print and the Web. W editing images. (See “Using the tools” on page 12.) Menu bar The menu bar contains menus for performing tasks. The menus are organized by topic. For example, the Layers menu contains commands for working with layers.
12 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Using the tools • Press the tool’s keyboard shortcut. The You use tools in the toolbox to select, edit, and view images; other tools let you paint, draw, and type. You can view information about any tool in the toolbox by positioning the pointer over it. The name of the tool appears below the pointer—this is called the tool tip. Additional information about the tool appears in the Hints palette. (See “Using the Hints palette” on page 16.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 13 User Guide A B C D E Options bar for lasso tool A. Gripper bar B. Tool icon C. Active tool D. Hidden tools E. Tool options To use the options bar: 1 Select a tool. (See “Using the tools” on page 12.) 2 Look in the options bar to see the available options. For more information on setting options for a specific tool, search for the tool’s name in online Help.
14 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To use a palette in the palette well: Click the palette’s tab. The palette remains open until you click outside it or click the palette’s tab. Note: Drag a palette out of the palette well if you want to keep it open. To display a palette: To store palettes in the palette well: Do one of the following: Do one of the following: • Click its tab.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 15 User Guide To group palettes together: 1 Display the palettes you want to group together. If the palettes are in the palette well, drag at least one of them into the work area. 2 Drag a palette’s tab onto the body of the target palette. A thick line appears around the body of the target palette when the pointer is over the correct area. Note: Entire palette groups cannot be docked together at once, but you can dock the palettes from one group to another, one at a time.
16 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To use a pop-up slider: Do one of the following: • Position the pointer over the triangle next to the setting, hold down the mouse button, and drag the slider or angle radius to the desired value. • Click the triangle next to the setting to open the pop-up slider box, and drag the slider or angle radius to the desired value. Click outside the slider box or press Enter or Return to close the slider box. To cancel changes, press the Escape key (Esc).
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 17 User Guide To use the Hints palette: Using the Info palette 1 Display the Hints palette by clicking its tab. If the Hints palette isn’t showing in the palette well or the work area, choose Window > Hints to display the palette. The Info palette provides feedback as you use a tool. Make sure the Info palette is visible in your work area if you want to view information while dragging in the image.
18 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area The percentage of change in width (W) and height (H) as you scale a selection, layer, or shape. Using the status bar The angle of horizontal skew (H) or vertical skew (V) as you skew a selection, layer, or shape.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 19 User Guide • Document Dimensions to display the document size of the image. (See “Changing the print dimensions and resolution of an image” on page 78.) Using context menus In addition to the menus at the top of your screen, context-sensitive menus display commands that are relevant to the active tool, selection, or palette. • Scratch Sizes to display information on the amount of RAM and scratch disk used to process the image.
20 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Using the Welcome window To zoom in: The Welcome window provides options for acquiring images, as well as links to online Help and tutorials. Do one of the following: To display the Welcome window: Choose Window > Welcome. Deselect Show this screen at startup if you don’t want the Welcome window to appear when you restart Photoshop Elements. • Select the zoom tool , and click the Zoom In button in the options bar. Click the area you want to magnify.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 21 User Guide • Enter the desired magnification level in the Zoom text box in the status bar (See “Using the status bar” on page 18) or in the Navigator palette. • Click the Zoom Out button on the Navigator palette bar. Return. To change the view to fit the screen: Do one of the following: • Double-click the hand tool .
22 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Navigating the view area If you have enlarged your image, you can navigate to bring another area of the image into view. To view another area of an image: Do one of the following: • Use the window scroll bars. • Select the hand tool and drag to pan over the image. To use the hand tool while another tool is selected, hold down the spacebar as you drag in the image.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 23 User Guide To open multiple views of the same image: Duplicating images Choose View > New View. Depending on the position of the first window, you may have to move the second window to view both simultaneously. Duplicating lets you experiment with and compare multiple versions of the same image. You can duplicate an entire image into available memory without saving to disk.
24 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To read a Digimarc watermark: To show or hide the grid: 1 Choose Filter > Digimarc > Read Watermark. If the grid isn’t visible, choose View > Grid. Choose the command a second time to hide the grid. If the filter finds a watermark, a dialog box displays the Digimarc ID, copyright year (if present), and image attributes. 2 Click OK.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 25 User Guide Some layout programs use the column width setting to specify the display of an image across columns. The Image Size and Canvas Size commands also use this setting. (See “Changing the print dimensions and resolution of an image” on page 78 and “Changing the size of the work canvas” on page 80.) 4 Click OK.
26 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Reverting to any state of an image The Undo History palette lets you jump to any recent state of the image created during the current working session. Each time you apply a change to pixels in an image, the new state of that image is added to the palette. For example, if you select, paint, and rotate part of an image, each of those states is listed separately in the palette.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 27 User Guide To delete one or more states of an image: Do one of the following: • Click the name of the state, and choose Delete from the Undo History palette menu to delete that change and those that came after it. A • Drag the state to the Trash button to delete that change and those that came after it. • Choose Clear Undo History from the palette B C Undo History palette A. Undo History state slider B. History state C.
28 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area Presets are stored in separate library files that can be found in the Presets folder in the Photoshop Elements application folder. To select a preset in a pop-up palette: 1 Click the triangle in the upper right area of a pop-up palette. 2 Choose a preset. Using pop-up palettes Pop-up palettes appear in the options bar and provide access to libraries of brushes, swatches, gradients, patterns, layer styles, and custom shapes.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 29 User Guide Note: Using the Load command will add the brush library to the brushes you have available. If you choose a preset library of brushes, the preset library will replace your current set of brushes. To replace the current set of brushes, gradients, or patterns in a pop-up palette: Do one of the following: • Choose the Replace command from the pop-up palette menu. Then select the library file you want to use, and click Load.
30 CHAPTER 1 Looking at the Work Area To restore the default library or replace the currently displayed libraries: Click the More button , and choose a command from the pop-up menu: • Reset to restore the default library for that type. • Replace to replace the current library with the contents of another library. To save a subset of a library: 1 Shift-click to select multiple presets. Only the selected presets will be saved to the new library. 2 Click Save Set, then enter a name for the library.
31 Chapter 2: Setting Up Photoshop Elements A dobe Photoshop Elements can be customized to your working environment. When an image has a color profile assigned to it, each device recognizes the profile, and displays colors according to the settings in the profile. This way, colors should look the same with all the devices. About color management Color management allows you to get consistent color between digital cameras, scanners, monitors, and printers.
32 CHAPTER 2 Setting Up Photoshop Elements Calibrating your monitor Your monitor will display color more reliably if you use color management and accurate ICC (International Color Consortium) profiles. Using an ICC monitor profile helps you eliminate any color cast in your monitor, make your monitor grays as neutral as possible, and standardize image display across different monitors. On Windows, you can use the Adobe Gamma software (installed with Photoshop Elements) to create a monitor profile.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 33 User Guide 2 Do one of the following: Setting preferences • To use a version of the utility that will guide you Preferences settings control how Photoshop Elements displays images, cursors, and transparencies, saves files, and uses plug-ins and scratch disks. You set most of these options in the Preferences dialog box from the Edit menu. through each step, select Step by Step, and click OK. This version is recommended if you’re new to color management.
34 CHAPTER 2 Setting Up Photoshop Elements In Mac OS, hold down Option+Command+Shift immediately after launching Photoshop Elements. Click Yes to delete the Adobe Photoshop Elements settings file. The Other Cursors options control the pointers for the marquee, lasso, magic wand, crop, eyedropper, gradient, paint bucket, shape, hand, and zoom tools. New preferences files are available the next time you start Photoshop Elements.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 35 User Guide Using plug-in modules Plug-in modules are software programs developed by Adobe Systems and other software developers to add functionality to Photoshop Elements. A number of importing, exporting, and specialeffects plug-ins come with your program; they are in folders inside the Photoshop Elements Plug-ins folder. You can select an additional plug-ins folder to use compatible plug-ins stored with another application.
36 CHAPTER 2 Setting Up Photoshop Elements To prevent a plug-in or folder of plug-ins from loading: Add a tilde character (~) at the beginning of the plug-in name, folder, or directory. That file (or all files in the folder) is ignored by the application when you restart it. To view information about installed plug-ins: Choose Help > About Plug-In and select a plug-in from the submenu (Windows) or choose Apple menu > About Plug-In and select a plug-in from the submenu (Mac OS).
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 37 User Guide To change the scratch disk assignment: About Web access 1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins & Scratch So that you can use all of the Web-related features in Photoshop Elements, including Online Services, make sure that you’ve set up your computer to send e-mail and browse the Web. Refer to any documentation provided by your preferred e-mail or Internet provider for setting up Web access. Disks.
39 Chapter 3: Acquiring and Opening Photos ou can acquire digital images from a variety of sources—you can create new images, import them from another graphics application, or capture them using a digital camera. Often you will begin by scanning a photograph, a slide, or an image. Y About this chapter Before you begin working with your photos, it’s helpful to understand a few things about digital images.
40 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos Getting photos from a scanner Importing photos using a TWAIN device Before you scan a photo, make sure that the software necessary for your scanner has been installed. Scanner drivers are provided and supported by scanner manufacturers, not Adobe Systems Incorporated. If you have problems with scanning, make sure that you are using the latest version of the appropriate scanner driver.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 41 User Guide To import images from a scanner using WIA Support: 10 The scanned image will be saved in the .bmp 1 Choose File > Import > WIA Support. file format. 2 Choose a destination on your computer to save image files to. 3 Click Start. 4 Make sure Open Acquired Images in Photoshop Elements is checked. If you have a large number of images to import, or if you want to edit the images at a later time, deselect it.
42 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos 4 Save the imported image as a Photoshop Elements file. 4 Save your photos as .psd files on your computer so you can edit them in Photoshop Elements. (See “Saving images” on page 225.) Importing photos from digital cameras mounted to your computer If you’re using Windows XP, you can set up your computer so Photoshop Elements is automatically launched as soon as photos are detected after your digital camera is connected.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 43 User Guide 6 Select the digital camera from which you want to import images. Note: If the name of your camera does not appear in the submenu, verify that the software and drivers were properly installed and that the camera is connected. 7 Choose the image or images you want to import: • Click the image from the list of thumbnails to import the image. • Hold down Shift and click on multiple images to import them at the same time.
44 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos 4 To import a frame of the video as a still image, click the Grab Frame button or press the space bar when the frame is visible on the screen. You can move forward and backward in the video to capture additional frames. Note: Some video formats don’t support rewinding or fast-forwarding. In these cases, the Rewind and Fast Forward buttons are grayed out. 5 When you have all the frames you want, click the Done button. 6 Save the still files in Photoshop Elements.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 45 User Guide A Opening files from File Browser File Browser helps you quickly locate image files and open them in the work area. You can also rotate images and view file information in the File Browser. To open a file: Select the file or files you want to open, and do one of the following: • Double-click the file. • Drag the selected file or files into the work area. • Choose Open from the File Browser menu. • Press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).
46 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos • EXIF to view image information imported from 2 Do one of the following: your digital camera. (See “Viewing file information” on page 23). • Click the Trash button. • Drag the files to the Trash button . Working with files and folders • Press the Delete key. Using File Browser, you can manage your folders and files. You can select files and folders, sort them by different criteria, and move, copy, and delete files.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 47 User Guide • For File Naming, choose elements from the pop-up menus or enter text into the fields. The specified elements and text will be combined to create the new filename. • For Compatibility, select the operating systems with which you want renamed files to be compatible. The current operating system is selected by default, and you cannot deselect it. To purge the cache: Choose Purge Cache from the File Browser menu.
48 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos 3 (Mac OS) Click Show Preview to preview the selected file. This option requires the Apple QuickTime extension. Note: Previews display faster if they are saved with the file. Select Always Save for Image Previews in the Saving Files preferences to always save a preview; select Ask When Saving to save previews on a fileper-file basis. 4 Click Open. In some cases, a dialog box appears, letting you set format-specific options.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 49 User Guide To open a PDF file: 1 Choose File > Open. 2 Select the name of the file, and click Open. You can change which types of files are shown by selecting an option from the Files of Type (Windows) or Show (Mac OS) pop-up menu. 3 If you are opening a Generic PDF file, do the following: • If the file contains multiple pages, select the page you want to open, and click OK. • Indicate the desired dimensions, resolution, and mode.
50 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos it is rasterized—the mathematically defined lines and curves of the vector artwork are converted into the pixels or bits of a bitmap image. You can also bring PostScript artwork into Photoshop Elements using the Place command, the Paste command, and the drag-and-drop feature. (See “Placing files” on page 52, “Using drag-and-drop to copy between applications” on page 124, and “Using the Clipboard to copy between applications” on page 124.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 51 User Guide 2 Choose Raw from the file format list, and click Open. 3 For Width and Height, enter values for the dimensions of the file. 4 To reverse the order of the width and height, click Swap. 5 Enter the number of channels. 6 Select Interleaved if the file was saved with an interlaced data option. The Anti-aliased PICT dialog box indicates the current file size and dimensions. To change the image dimensions, enter new values for Width and Height.
52 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos Opening images in EPS TIFF or EPS PICT Preview format These formats let you open images saved in file formats that create previews but are not supported by Adobe Photoshop Elements (such as QuarkXPress®). An opened preview image can be edited and used like any other low-resolution file. EPS PICT Preview is available only in Mac OS.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 53 User Guide • In the options bar, enter a value for X to specify the distance between the center point of the placed artwork and the left edge of the image. Enter a value for Y to specify the distance between the center point of the placed artwork and the top edge of the image. 8 Set the Anti-alias option in the options bar as desired. To blend edge pixels during rasterization, select the Anti-alias option.
54 CHAPTER 3 Acquiring and Opening Photos • Click No (Windows) or Don’t Save (Mac OS) for each open file to close the file without saving it. Choosing an image mode Photoshop Elements provides several image modes for displaying and printing images. The image mode you choose determines the number of colors that can be displayed in an image and can also affect the file size of the image. About image modes Photoshop Elements provides four image modes: RGB, Bitmap, Grayscale, and Indexed color.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 55 User Guide Consequently, before converting images, it’s best to do the following: • Edit as much as possible in RGB mode. • Save a backup copy before converting. Be sure to save a copy of your image that includes all layers in order to edit the original version of the image after the conversion. • Flatten the file before converting it. The inter- action of colors between layer blending modes will change when the mode changes.
57 Chapter 4: Fixing Your Photos ou can fix photos in Adobe Photoshop Elements by using the retouching, editing, and color adjusting features. You can correct an entire image, or portions of an image. Y About fixing your photos You may need to correct the color and tone of an image for several reasons. The original photograph may have a color cast caused by the film, lighting, or aging. Or the scan may have been imperfect—scanners can introduce color casts or artifacts.
58 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos For more information, see “Checking scan quality and tonal range” in online Help. Adjust the tonal range Begin tonal corrections by adjusting the values of the extreme highlight and shadow pixels in the image, setting an overall tonal range that allows for the sharpest detail possible throughout the image. This process is known as setting the highlights and shadows or setting the white and black points.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 59 User Guide 2 Do one of the following: • Choose Enhance > Auto Levels. • Choose Enhance > Adjust Brightness/ Contrast > Levels. In the Levels dialog box, click Auto, and then click OK. Using the Auto Contrast command The Auto Contrast command adjusts the overall contrast and mixture of colors in an image automatically. Because it does not adjust each color channel (red, green, and blue) individually, Auto Contrast does not introduce or remove color casts.
60 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos Original image, and Backlighting applied Original image, and Fill Flash applied To use the Adjust Backlighting command: To use the Fill Flash command: 1 Do one of the following: 1 Do one of the following: • To make adjustments to your entire image, • To make adjustments to your entire image, choose Select > Deselect to make sure nothing is selected. If your image has multiple layers, select a layer to adjust in the Layers palette.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 61 User Guide Quick Fix dialog box 1 Do one of the following: 3 Select an Adjustment Category in the first step of the Quick Fix dialog box: • To make adjustments to your entire image, • Brightness lets you adjust your photo’s contrast, To use the Quick Fix command: choose Select > Deselect to make sure nothing is selected. If your image has multiple layers, select a layer to adjust in the Layers palette.
62 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos 4 Select an adjustment type in the second step of the Quick Fix dialog box. The text in the Tip section provides helpful information and instructions about using the selected adjustment. Elements. Of all the features for adjusting tonal values, the Levels dialog box gives you the most precision. 5 Some adjustments give you options to set, and others have default options you can apply automatically.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 63 User Guide • Create a new Levels adjustment layer, or open an existing Levels adjustment layer. (See “Using adjustment and fill layers” on page 101.) 3 To adjust the values for the composite channels (RGB) or for a specific color channel (red, green, or blue), choose an option from the Channel menu.
64 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos • To make adjustments to a portion of your on the standard color wheel, expressed as a degree between 0 and 360. In common use, hue is identified by the name of the color such as red, orange, or green. image, make a selection in the document window. (See “Selecting pixels” on page 114.) 2 Do one of the following: • Choose Enhance > Adjust Brightness/ • Saturation, sometimes called chroma, is the strength or purity of the color.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 65 User Guide RGB model A large percentage of the visible spectrum can be represented by mixing red, green, and blue (RGB) colored light in various proportions and intensities. Where the colors overlap, they create cyan, magenta, yellow, and white. Because the RGB colors combine to create white, they are also called additive colors. Adding all colors together creates white—that is, all light is transmitted back to the eye.
66 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos Using the Color Variations command The Color Variations command lets you adjust the color balance, contrast, and saturation of an image by selecting previews that show the effect of different adjustments. This command is most useful for averagekey images that don’t require precise color adjustments. Note: You can’t use the Color Variations command with images in Indexed Color mode. • Saturation to change the vividness of color in the image.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 67 User Guide Using the Color Cast command The Color Cast command changes the overall mixture of colors to remove color casts in your image. To use the Color Cast command: 1 Do one of the following: • To make adjustments to your entire image, choose Select > Deselect to make sure nothing is selected. If your image has multiple layers, select a layer to adjust in the Layers palette. • To make adjustments to a portion of your image, make a selection in the document window.
68 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos • Create a new Hue/Saturation adjustment layer, or open an existing Hue/Saturation adjustment layer. (See “Using adjustment and fill layers” on page 101.) The two color bars in the dialog box represent the colors in their order on the color wheel. The upper bar shows the color before the adjustment; the lower bar shows how the adjustment affects all hues at full saturation.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 69 User Guide If you modify the adjustment slider so that it falls into a different color range, the name changes to reflect this. For example, if you choose Yellow and alter its range so that it falls in the red part of the color bar, the name changes to Red 2. You can convert up to six of the individual color ranges to varieties of the same color range (for example, Red through Red 6).
70 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos To use the Replace Color command: 1 Do one of the following: • To make adjustments to your entire image, choose Select > Deselect to make sure nothing is selected. If your image has multiple layers, select a layer to adjust in the Layers palette. • To make adjustments to a portion of your image, make a selection in the document window. (See “Selecting pixels” on page 114.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 71 User Guide If Aligned is deselected, the clone stamp tool applies the sampled area from the initial sampling point each time you stop and resume painting. This option is useful for applying multiple copies of the same part of an image to different areas within the same image or to another image.
72 CHAPTER 4 Fixing Your Photos 6 Increase the threshold gradually by dragging the slider to the lowest value that eliminates defects by entering a value between 1 and 255. 7 Click OK. • To use the default replacement color, click Default Colors. Note: Clicking Default Colors also resets the target color. Using the red eye brush Red eye occurs in photos when light from a camera flash reflects off the back of a person’s eye. You can easily remove red eye from an image using the red eye brush.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 73 User Guide print (dodging) or increase the exposure to darken areas on a print (burning). You can use the dodge tool to bring out details in shadows and the burn tool to bring out details in highlights. options bar, and drag the Size pop-up slider to set the brush size. 3 Select how to change the color: • Saturate to intensify the color’s saturation. To use the dodge or burn tool: 1 Select the dodge tool 2 Choose a brush from the pop-up palette in the or burn tool .
75 Chapter 5: Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images A djusting the resolution and size of your images is easy using the tools in Photoshop Elements. About image size and resolution When you take a photo with a digital camera, or scan a photo, you create an image that has specific number of pixels on each side. For example, your digital camera may make a photo that is 1024 pixels wide and 800 pixels high.
76 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images Your printer’s resolution is different from, but related to your image’s resolution. To print a high quality photo on an inkjet printer, an image resolution of about 300 ppi should provide very good results. Depending on the image, you can get acceptable results with a resolution of 240 ppi. Using the lower resolution will let you print a slightly larger photo—if you are willing to accept some image degradation.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 77 User Guide When you work in Photoshop Elements, you can change the image magnification on-screen, so you can easily work with images of any pixel dimensions. Changing image size and resolution Once you have scanned or imported an image, you may want to adjust its size. The Image Size command lets you adjust the pixel dimensions, print dimensions, and resolution of an image. Keep in mind that bitmap and vector data can produce different results when you resize an image.
78 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images Keep in mind that resampling can result in poorer image quality. For example, when you resample an image to larger pixel dimensions, the image will lose some detail and sharpness. 3 To maintain the current proportions of pixel Applying the Unsharp Mask filter to a resampled image can help refocus the image’s details. (See “Using the focus tools” on page 73.) 4 In Pixel Dimensions, enter values for Width and Height.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 79 User Guide If you turn on resampling for the image, you can change print dimensions and resolution independently (and change the total number of pixels in the image). If you turn resampling off, you can change either the dimensions or the resolution— Photoshop Elements adjusts the other value automatically to preserve the total pixel count. For the highest print quality, it’s generally best to change the dimensions and resolution first without resampling.
80 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images • To rotate the marquee, position the pointer outside the bounding box (the pointer turns into a curved arrow ), and drag. Note: You can’t rotate the crop tool marquee for an image in Bitmap mode. 6 Do one of the following to crop the image: • Click the OK button in the options bar. • Double-click inside the crop marquee. Using the crop tool to focus on the dog in the image. • Select a different tool in the toolbox.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 81 User Guide 2 Choose the units of measurement you want. To rotate or flip an entire image: The Columns option measures width in terms of the columns specified in the Units & Rulers preferences. Choose Image > Rotate, and choose one of the following commands from the submenu: 3 Enter the dimensions in the Width and Height boxes. 4 For Anchor, click a square to indicate where to position the existing image on the new canvas. 5 Click OK.
82 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images Straightening images Skewed images are a common by-product of the scanning process. For example, if you lay a photograph on the scanner at an angle, the image will appear rotated when you open it in Photoshop Elements. You can quickly correct a rotated image using one of the Straighten Image commands.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 83 User Guide Keep the camera level Although Photomerge can process slight rotations between pictures, a tilt of more than a few degrees can result in errors when automatically assembling the panorama. Using a tripod with a rotating head helps maintain camera alignment and viewpoint. When photographing a panoramic scene from a high place, the natural inclination is to keep the horizon level in the viewfinder.
84 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images 5 When you’ve added all the source files, click OK to create the Photomerge composition. The source files will open automatically, and will be processed. 6 Once the new panorama image appears in the Photomerge dialog box, you can work with individual source files and change your view of the work area. (See “Editing a Photomerge composition” on page 85.) If the panorama can’t be automatically assembled, a message appears on-screen.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 85 User Guide Editing a Photomerge composition To navigate in the Photomerge dialog box: You may need to reposition an individual source file, or rotate a file in your composition. The editing tools in the Photomerge dialog box help you work with your panorama. You can also zoom in and out to better see the alignment of each file. Do one or more of the following in the Photomerge dialog box: To reposition images in a composition: 1 Select the select image tool .
86 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images 2 Select the vanishing point tool , and click on an image in the work area to make it the vanishing point image. To apply Advanced Blending or Cylindrical Mapping: The vanishing point tool selects the vanishing point image, which changes the perspective of the composition. The middle image is the default vanishing point image (it has a blue border around it when selected). There can only be one vanishing point image in a composition.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 87 User Guide To preview changes to your Photomerge composition: To create a picture package from a single image: Click the Preview button. To return to edit mode, click Exit Preview. 1 Choose File > Print Layouts > Picture Package. 2 Specify the photos you want to use: • Frontmost Document to use the currently Creating multiple-image layouts You can export multiple images automatically as contact sheets and picture packages using Automate commands.
88 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images Customizing picture package layouts Note: The width and height of the document should not exceed the printable area of the paper. For example, if you plan to print on 11 x 17 paper, specify 10 x 16 as the document size. You can customize existing layouts or create new layouts using a text-editing application.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 89 User Guide Creating contact sheets By displaying a series of thumbnail previews on a single page, contact sheets let you easily preview and catalog groups of images. You can automatically create and place thumbnails on a page using the Contact Sheet command. Note: Make sure that the images are closed before applying this command. 5 Click OK to create the contact sheet. Creating PDF slideshows A great way to share your pictures is to export them as a PDF slideshow.
90 CHAPTER 5 Resizing, Cropping, and Laying Out Images 3 Select the files (Shift-click to select more than one file at a time) and then click Open. The filenames will appear in the PDF Slideshow dialog box. 5 In Slide Show Options, select from the following: If you want to remove a file from the list, select the filename and then click the Remove button. To rearrange the files, click and drag them into a new position.
91 Chapter 6: Using Layers ayers are the basis for creating and editing images in Photoshop Elements. Layers can help you customize your images, fix color and contrast, and give your images different artistic effects. Layers also make composing and managing different elements in an image much easier. L About layers You create and manage layers using the Layers palette and the Layers menu.
92 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers You can also create sophisticated visual effects with layers. Grouped layers use a base layer to define the image boundaries of a layer group, and you can use layers to create a Web animation. In addition, the Layer Styles palette lets you apply special visual effects to a layer. (See“About layer styles” on page 169.) In addition to pixel-based image layers, there are several other layer types. Fill layers are filled with a color gradient, solid color, or pattern.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 93 User Guide About layers in the Layers palette Except in the case of adjustment layers and some changes to linked layers, changes to an image affect only the selected or active layer, which appears highlighted in the Layers palette. To make a layer active, you can select a layer in the Layers palette. (See “Selecting layers” on page 95.) You can accomplish many tasks—such as creating, hiding, linking, locking, and deleting a layer—using the icons in the Layers palette.
94 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers Using the Layers palette When you open Photoshop Elements for the first time, the Layers palette appears in the palette well. (See “Using the palette well” on page 13.) You can drag the palette out of the palette well to keep it on display. Using the Layers palette, you can control whether a layer is visible and whether Photoshop Elements displays a preview, or thumbnail, of a layer.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 95 User Guide 3 For Grid Colors, choose an option: • Light, Medium, or Dark to specify a gray pattern. • Any other color from the list to display the checkerboard in that color. • Custom to choose a color that does not appear in the list. Then click either of the color selection boxes to specify a custom color in the Color Picker. 4 Click OK.
96 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers • By using the type tool or by using a shape tool. (See “Creating text” on page 196 and “Creating shapes” on page 191.) • By duplicating an existing layer. See “Dupli- cating layers” on page 98. To create a new transparent layer with default options: Click the New Layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette. The layer uses Normal mode with 100% opacity and is named according to its order of creation.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 97 User Guide • Choose Layer > New > Layer from Background to convert the background to a layer. • Select the background, and choose Duplicate Layer from the Layers palette More menu to leave the background intact and create a copy of it as a new layer. 2 Rename the layer in the New Layer dialog box, and click OK. If you drag the background eraser tool on the background layer, the background is automatically converted to a regular layer, and erased areas become transparent.
98 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers • Send to Back to make the layer the bottommost layer in the image (except for the background). Note: By default, the Background layer cannot be moved from the bottom of the layer list. To move the background, first convert it to a layer. (See “Adding layers” on page 95.) To copy a layer between images: 1 Open the two images you want to use. 2 In the Layers palette of the source image, select the layer that you want to copy.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 99 User Guide 2 In the Layers palette, click in the column immediately to the left of any additional layers you want to copy. The link icon appears in the column. 3 Use the move tool to drag the linked layers from the source image to the destination image. To duplicate a layer into another image or a new image: 1 Open the source image. If you plan to copy a layer to an existing image, open the destination image too.
100 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers To link layers: 1 Select a layer in the Layers palette. 2 Click in the column immediately to the left of any layers you want to link to the active layer. The link icon appears in the column. To unlink layers: In the Layers palette, click the link icons to remove them. Specifying opacity and blending options Keep in mind that a layer’s opacity and blending mode interact with the opacity and mode of painting tools.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 101 User Guide To specify a blending mode for a layer: 1 Select the layer in the Layers palette. 2 Choose an option from the Blending Mode pop-up menu. Right after you choose a blending mode, you can press the up or down arrows on your keyboard to try other blending mode options in the menu. Filling a new layer with a neutral color Some filters (such as the Lighting Effects filter) cannot be applied to layers without opaque pixels.
102 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers To create an adjustment layer: 1 In the Layers palette, select the topmost layer you want to affect. 2 To confine the effects of the adjustment layer to a selected area, make a selection. 3 Do one of the following: • To affect all the layers below the adjustment layer, click the New Fill or Adjustment Layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette, and choose the adjustment type you want to create.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 103 User Guide Invert Invert adjustment layers don’t have options. (See “Using the Invert command” on page 186.) To create a fill layer: 1 In the Layers palette, select the layer you want the fill layer to be above. Threshold Specify a threshold level. (See “Using the Threshold command” on page 187.) 2 To confine the effects of the fill layer to a Posterize Specify the number of tonal levels for 3 Do one of the following: each color channel.
104 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers • Scale changes the size of the gradient. To edit an adjustment or fill layer: • Reverse flips the orientation of the gradient. 1 To open the adjustment or fill options • Dither reduces banding by applying dithering to the gradient. • Align With Layer uses the bounding box of the layer to calculate the gradient fill. dialog box: • Double-click the adjustment or fill layer’s leftmost thumbnail in the Layers palette. • Choose Layer > Layer Content Options.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 105 User Guide Editing a mask involves painting or erasing with black, white, or shades of gray. When you select an adjustment or fill layer in the Layers palette, the color swatches in the toolbox are black and white. To add to the mask, paint with black or erase with white. The mask defines areas that aren’t affected by an adjustment or fill layer. To subtract from the mask, paint with white or erase with black.
106 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers Merging adjustment layers You can merge an adjustment or fill layer in several ways: with the layer below it, with the layers in its own group of layers, with the layers it’s linked to, and with all other visible layers. You cannot, however, use an adjustment layer or fill layer as the base or target layer for a merge. Note that you can group only successive layers. The name of the base layer in the group is underlined, and the thumbnails for the overlying layers are indented.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 107 User Guide • Link together the desired layers in the Layers palette. (See “Linking layers” on page 99.) Then choose Layer > Group Linked. • When creating a new layer to group with an existing layer, select the existing layer in the Layers palette, and then choose New Layer from the Layers menu or the Layers palette menu. In the New Layer dialog box, select Group with Previous Layer, and click OK.
108 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers painting and editing are confined to opaque areas of the layer. For example, if you lock a layer’s transparency, you can edit an object without adding opaque pixels to the transparent area outside the object. To lock all layer properties: 1 Select the layer in the Layers palette. 2 Click the Lock All icon Layers palette.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 109 User Guide • To load the intersection of the pixels and an existing selection, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS), and either click the layer thumbnail in the Layers palette or if the layer has a mask, the mask thumbnail.
110 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers • Select the layer in the Layers palette, and choose Rename Layer from the Layer menu or the More menu in the Layers palette. Type a new name in the Layers Properties dialog box. Simplifying layers You can simplify a type layer, shape layer, solid color layer, gradient layer, pattern fill layer, or a layer set imported from Photoshop in order to convert the layer’s content into a raster image.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 111 User Guide 2 Do one of the following: • Drag the layer to the Delete Layers button at the bottom of the Layers palette. • Click the Trash button at the bottom of the Layers palette, and click Yes in the delete confirmation dialog box. To bypass this dialog box, press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you click the Trash button. • Choose Delete Layer from either the Layers menu or the Layers palette More menu, and click Yes.
112 CHAPTER 6 Using Layers 2 Select a layer in the Layers palette on which to merge all visible layers. To flatten an image: 3 Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option your image are visible. (Mac OS), and choose Merge Visible from either the Layers menu, or the Layers palette menu. Photoshop Elements merges a copy of all visible layers into the selected layer. 2 Choose Flatten Image from either the Layers 1 Make sure that the layers you want to keep in menu or the Layers palette menu.
113 Chapter 7: Selecting o modify or copy a specific area of an image in Adobe Photoshop Elements, you first select the area in the active layer. You can choose from a variety of specialized tools for creating selections. T About selections When you want to edit a particular area of your image without affecting other areas, you select the area you want to change. You also make selections when you want to copy or duplicate an area of your image.
114 CHAPTER 7 Selecting Selecting pixels Showing or hiding selection borders You can select pixels in an image by dragging with the marquee tools, lasso tools, selection brush tool, or by targeting areas with the magic wand tool. Making a new selection replaces the existing one, unless you’re using the selection brush tool, which adds to selections. You can also invert selections and expand or reduce the area of a selection. Selections are marked by a border of moving dashes.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 115 User Guide 4 If you chose the elliptical marquee, you can select Anti-aliased in the options bar to smooth the edges of your selection. (For more information on anti-aliasing, see “Softening the edges of a selection” on page 121.) 5 In the options bar, choose an option from the Style pop-up menu: By default, a selection border is created from one of its corners. To create a marquee from its center, press Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) while making the selection.
116 CHAPTER 7 Selecting 2 Drag to draw a freehand selection border. To use the magnetic lasso tool: 3 To draw a straight-edged selection border, 1 Select the magnetic lasso tool , and then select tool options in the options bar: hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS), and click where segments should begin and end. You can switch between freehand and straightedged segments. 4 To close the selection border, release the mouse button and Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Mac OS).
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 117 User Guide 3 Drag the pointer along the edge you want to trace. (You can also drag with the mouse button depressed.) As you move the pointer, the active segment snaps to the strongest edge in the image, based on the Width and Edge Contrast options. Periodically, the magnetic lasso tool adds fastening points to the selection border to anchor segments, using the rate set by the Frequency option.
118 CHAPTER 7 Selecting 5 To adjust the brush tip’s hardness, drag the 4 To define a smooth selection edge, select Anti- Hardness pop-up slider, or enter a number between 0 and 100. aliased. (See “Softening the edges of a selection” on page 121.) 6 If the Mode option is set to Mask, set the color and opacity of the overlay color: 5 To select only adjacent areas using the same • To set the color, click the Overlay Color swatch and select a color in the Color Picker.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 119 User Guide To move a selection border: 1 Using any selection tool, select New Selection in the options bar, and position the pointer inside an existing selection border. The pointer changes to indicate that you can move the selection . 2 Drag the border to enclose a different area of the image. You can drag a selection border partly beyond the canvas boundaries. You can also drag the selection border to another image window.
120 CHAPTER 7 Selecting • Hold down Alt+Shift (Windows) or Option+Shift (Mac OS) so that cross hairs appear next to the pointer, and select an area that intersects the existing selection. Adjusting selections numerically You can use commands in the Select menu to increase or decrease the size of an existing selection and to clean up stray pixels left inside or outside a color-based selection. To expand or contract a selection by a specific number of pixels: 1 Use a selection tool to make a selection.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 121 User Guide Note: The relationship between physical distance and the pixel distance depends on the resolution of the image. For example, 5 pixels is a longer distance in a 72-ppi print than in a 300-ppi print. (See “About image size and resolution” on page 75.) Softening the edges of a selection You can smooth the hard edges of a selection by anti-aliasing or feathering, or by using a softedged brush with the selection brush tool.
122 CHAPTER 7 Selecting Note: If you make a small selection with a large feather radius, Photoshop Elements displays the message “No pixels are more than 50% selected.” If you click OK, Photoshop Elements creates a selection with invisible edges. To avoid this situation, either decrease the feather radius, or increase the selection’s size. Moving pixel selections within an image The move tool lets you drag a pixel selection to a new location in the image.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 123 User Guide Copying with the move tool within a single image saves memory because the Clipboard isn’t used, but once you deselect the copied selection, you can’t move it again. The Paste command creates a new layer for the copied selection, which you can move freely at any time. Depending on your color management settings and the color profile associated copied data, Photoshop Elements may ask you how to convert copied colors.
124 CHAPTER 7 Selecting • To offset the duplicate by 10 pixels, press Alt+Shift (Windows) or Option+Shift (Mac OS), and press an arrow key. When copying between images, drag the selection from the active image window into the destination image window. A border highlights the destination image window when you can drop the selection into it. To paste one selection into another selection border: 1 Use the Cut or Copy command to copy the part of the image you want to paste.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 125 User Guide To change the Export Clipboard preference: 1 Choose Edit > Preferences > General (Windows, Mac OS 9.x) or Photoshop Elements > Preferences > General (Mac OS X). 2 Select Export Clipboard to save copied data from Photoshop Elements on the Clipboard when you exit from Photoshop Elements. If this option is deselected, the contents are deleted when you exit from the application. 3 Click OK.
126 CHAPTER 7 Selecting • Add To Selection to add the current selection to the saved selection. • Subtract From Selection to subtract the current selection from the saved selection. • Intersect With Selection to replace the saved selection with the intersection between the current selection and the saved selection. • Subtract From Selection to subtract the saved selection from the current selection.
127 Chapter 8: Painting ou can paint, erase, and fill areas of your image with several different tools in Adobe Photoshop Elements. By customizing the options for these tools, you can create sophisticated effects. Other tools and commands let you transform and stylize an image. When you want to transform your image without adding new colors or patterns, a few tools allow you to change the image details with stylized brush strokes.
128 CHAPTER 8 Painting You can change the foreground or background color by using the eyedropper tool, the Swatches palette, the icons in the toolbox, or the Adobe Color Picker. Using the eyedropper tool In the toolbox, the current foreground color appears in the topmost color selection box; the current background color appears in the bottom box. The eyedropper tool samples color from an image to designate a new foreground or background color.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 129 User Guide 3 Select a color: • To select a new foreground color from an image, click the desired color in your image. To select a color that appears elsewhere on your computer screen, click inside your image and drag away from it. • To select a new background color from an image, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click (Mac OS) the color you want. To select a color that appears elsewhere on your computer screen, click inside your image and drag away from it.
130 CHAPTER 8 Painting To add a color to the Swatches palette: 1 Set the foreground color in the toolbox to the color you want to add. (For information on setting the foreground color, see “Using color settings in the toolbox” on page 128, or “Using the eyedropper tool” on page 128.) 2 Do one of the following in the Swatches palette: • Click the New Swatch button at the bottom of the Swatches palette. The color swatch is added and named Swatch.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 131 User Guide Using the Adobe Color Picker You can use the Adobe Color Picker to select the foreground or background color by choosing from a color spectrum or by defining colors numerically. In addition, you can select colors based on HSB or RGB color models, or choose to select only Web-safe colors. To display the Adobe Color Picker: In the toolbox, click the foreground or background color selection box. A B the selected color component (for example, R, G, or B).
132 CHAPTER 8 Painting To specify a color using numeric values: Using other color pickers Do one of the following: In addition to the default Adobe Color Picker, you can select colors by using the built-in color pickers on your system or a plug-in color picker. These color pickers appear in the General Preferences dialog box. For information on installing and using a plug-in color picker, see the documentation that came with the plug-in.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 133 User Guide Using the painting tools You can use the brush, pencil, pattern stamp, or smudge tool to paint color on an image. The impressionist brush and smudge tools can also paint using the existing colors in an image. The five tools create different effects: • The brush tool creates soft or hard strokes of color and can simulate airbrush techniques. • The pencil tool creates hard-edged freehand lines.
134 CHAPTER 8 Painting Using the impressionist brush tool The impressionist brush tool lets you re-create your image as if it were painted with stylized strokes. By experimenting with different style, area size, and tolerance options, you can simulate the texture of painting with different artistic styles. The impressionist brush tool doesn’t add new color or use the foreground and background colors.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 135 User Guide 4 Specify a blending mode and strength. (See “Setting options for painting and editing tools” on page 135.) 5 Choose a pattern from the Pattern pop-up palette in the options bar. 6 Select Finger Painting to smear the foreground To load additional pattern libraries, select a library name from the pop-up palette menu, or choose Load Patterns and navigate to the folder where the library is stored.
136 CHAPTER 8 Painting • The result color is the color resulting from the blend. To select a blending mode for a tool: Choose from the Mode menu in the options bar. Normal Edits or paints each pixel to make it the result color. This is the default mode. (Normal mode is called Threshold when you’re working with an image in Bitmap or Indexed Color mode.) Dissolve Edits or paints each pixel to make it the result color.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 137 User Guide Overlay Multiplies or screens the colors, depending on the base color. Patterns or colors overlay the existing pixels while preserving the highlights and shadows of the base color. The base color is mixed with the blend color to reflect the lightness or darkness of the original color. Soft Light Darkens or lightens the colors, depending on the blend color. The effect is similar to shining a diffused spotlight on the image.
138 CHAPTER 8 Painting Color Creates a result color with the luminance of the base color and the hue and saturation of the blend color. This preserves the gray levels in the image and is useful for coloring monochrome images and for tinting color images. Luminosity Creates a result color with the hue and To specify opacity, pressure, exposure, tolerance, or flow: In the options bar, enter a value, or drag the popup slider for Opacity, Pressure, Exposure, Tolerance, or Flow.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 139 User Guide Increasing the spacing makes the brush skip. Paint stroke without and with color jitter Fade Sets the number of steps until the paint flow fades to nothing. A low value makes the paint stroke fade away very quickly, and a value of zero creates no fading effect. Each step is equal to one mark of the brush tip. Possible values range from 0 to 9999. For example, entering 10 for Fade produces a fade in 10 increments.
140 CHAPTER 8 Painting Angle Specifies the angle by which an elliptical brush’s long axis is offset from horizontal. Type a value in degrees, or drag the arrowhead in the angle icon to mark the desired angle. tool properties based on the chosen Pen Pressure brush and the amount of pressure you apply with your stylus. To enable tablet support: 1 Select the brush tool in the toolbox. 2 In the options bar, click the More Options button, and select Tablet Support.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 141 User Guide To add a new brush to the brush library: 1 Click the inverted arrow next to the brush sample to display the pop-up palette in the options bar; choose a category from the Brushes pop-up menu, and then select a brush to modify in the brush list. 2 Use the options bar to modify the original brush and then click OK. (See “Setting options for painting and editing tools” on page 135.
142 CHAPTER 8 Painting Managing brush libraries The brush sizes and shapes available for painting and editing appear in the pop-up palette in the options bar for the painting and editing tools. You can customize the brushes and settings for each of the painting tools (airbrush, brush, eraser, and pencil) and editing tools (clone stamp, smudge, focus, toning, and red eye brush).
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 143 User Guide 6 Specify an opacity to define the strength of the erasure. An opacity of 100% erases pixels to complete transparency on a layer and to the background color on a locked layer. A lower opacity erases pixels to partial transparency on a layer and paints partially with the background color on a locked layer. 7 Click in the area of the layer you want to erase.
144 CHAPTER 8 Painting • Contiguous to erase areas that contain the sampled color and are connected to one another. 5 For Tolerance, enter a value or drag the slider. A low tolerance limits erasure to areas that are very similar to the sampled color. A high tolerance erases a broader range of colors. 6 Drag through the area you want to erase. The tool pointer for the background eraser is a brush shape with a cross hair indicating the tool’s hotspot .
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 145 User Guide 3 Choose Edit > Fill to fill the selection or layer. 4 In the Fill dialog box, choose one of the following options from the Use pop-up menu: • Foreground Color, Background Color, Black, 50% Gray, or White to fill the selection with the specified color. • Pattern to fill the selection with a pattern. Click the Custom Pattern pop-up menu, and then select a pattern from the pop-up palette.
146 CHAPTER 8 Painting 3 Enter a name for the pattern in the Pattern Name dialog box. 4 To deselect the rectangle, choose Select > Deselect. Note: If you apply a pattern from one image to another in a different color mode, Photoshop Elements converts the pattern’s color mode to the current image’s color mode. To use a preset pattern from the PostScript Patterns folder: 1 Choose File > Open.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 147 User Guide 8 Click OK to stroke the selection or layer. 7 To smooth the edges of the filled selection, select Anti-aliased. (See “Softening the edges of a selection” on page 121.) Using the paint bucket tool The paint bucket tool fills an area that is similar in color value to the pixels you click. You can fill an area with the foreground color or a pattern. Note: If you don’t want to fill transparent areas on a layer, lock the layer’s transparency in the Layers palette.
148 CHAPTER 8 Painting Applying a gradient fill Creating or editing gradient fills You fill an area with a gradient by dragging in the image or in a selection. The distance between the starting point (where you press and hold the mouse button) and ending point (where you release the mouse button) affects the gradient appearance, as does the gradient type. The Gradient Editor dialog box lets you define a new gradient by modifying a copy of an existing gradient.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 149 User Guide 4 To define the starting color of the gradient, click the left color stop under the gradient bar. The triangle above the stop turns black, indicating that you’re editing the starting color. 5 To choose a color, do one of the following: • Double-click the color stop, or click the color swatch below the gradient bar. Choose a color, and click OK. For information on choosing a color, see “Using the Adobe Color Picker” on page 131.
150 CHAPTER 8 Painting • Select the Vertical Type tool to enter vertical text. 1 Create a gradient as described in steps 1 2 Enter the type you want, and then in the options bar, click the Commit Text button commit changes to the text. To specify the gradient transparency: to through 10 of “Creating or editing gradient fills” on page 148. 2 To adjust the starting opacity in the Gradient vector text to a bitmap image.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 151 User Guide 8 To add an intermediate opacity, click above the 4 To set the roughness for the gradient, enter a gradient bar to define a new opacity stop. You can then adjust and move this opacity as you would a starting or ending opacity. To remove an intermediate opacity, drag its transparency stop up and off the gradient bar, or select the stop and click the Delete button. value, or drag the pop-up slider.
153 Chapter 9: Transforming and Distorting Images ou can transform a layer in many ways by making subtle changes to retouch an image, or by making drastic distortions to create an artistic effect. For example, you can scale, rotate, or apply perspective to a selection, and make areas of a layer look like they’ve been melted. Y Transforming layers, selections, and shapes You can scale, rotate, skew, distort, and apply perspective to entire layers, selected parts of layers, and shapes.
154 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images 2 Choose Image > Rotate, and choose one of the following commands from the submenu: • Layer/Selection 90° Left to rotate counter- clockwise by a quarter-turn. • Layer/Selection 90° Right to rotate clockwise by a quarter-turn. • Layer/Selection 180° to rotate by a half-turn. • Flip Layer/Selection Horizontal to flip horizontally. • Flip Layer/Selection Vertical to flip vertically.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 155 User Guide To scale a layer, selection, or shape: 1 Select the layer, area, or shape you want to scale. (See “Specifying what to transform” on page 153.) in any direction; applying perspective makes things appear to go backward or forward in threedimensions. 2 Choose Image > Resize > Scale. 3 Do one of the following: • To maintain the relative proportions as you scale, click the Maintain Aspect Ratio button in the options bar, and then drag a corner handle.
156 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images • To give your image perspective, choose Image > Transform > Perspective, and drag a corner handle to apply perspective to the bounding box. If you are transforming a shape with the shape tool selected, choose Image > Transform Shape > Perspective. 3 Do one of the following: • To commit the transformation, double-click inside the bounding box, click the Commit button in the options bar, or press Enter (Windows) or Return (Mac OS).
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 157 User Guide • To apply perspective, press Ctrl+Alt+Shift (Windows) or Command+Option+Shift (Mac OS), and drag a corner handle. When positioned over a corner handle, the pointer becomes a gray arrowhead . To undo the last handle adjustment, choose Edit > Undo. include anything from simple objects, such as a can of soup, to more complex shapes, such as a bottle or a lamp. You can create and manipulate any grouping of cubes, spheres, and cylinders in the same image.
158 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images To transform and manipulate an object in three dimensions: 1 Select the layer, area, or shape you want to transform. Note: The wire frame turns red if you try to make a wire frame that is impossible to re-create in three dimensions. 2 Choose Filter > Render > 3D Transform.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 159 User Guide • To rotate the object in any direction, click the trackball tool , and drag the object. • With any of the bottom four tools selected in the dialog box, enter a value between 0 and 99 for Dolly Camera. Alternatively, drag the slider to the left to magnify the transformed object, to the right to shrink it. This has the same effect as dollying, or moving, the camera further from or closer to the image.
160 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images Using Distort filters to transform an image Many of the Distort filters let you apply 3D effects to a layer and reshape a layer or selection in your image. You work with a preview of the filter’s effect on your image to set the filter options. Using the Liquify filter The Liquify filter makes it easy to manipulate areas of an image as if those areas had been melted.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 161 User Guide • The twirl clockwise tool to rotate pixels clockwise as you hold down the mouse button or drag. • The twirl counterclockwise tool to rotate pixels counterclockwise as you hold down the mouse button or drag. • The pucker tool to move pixels toward the center of the brush area as you hold down the mouse button or drag. • The bloat tool to move pixels away from the center of the brush area as you hold down the mouse button or drag.
162 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images To use Displace: 1 Choose Filter > Distort > Displace. 2 To define the magnitude of the displacement, enter a value between –999 and 999 in the Horizontal and Vertical Scale text boxes. 3 Drag the slider to the right, into positive values, to pinch a selection inward toward its center; or to the left, into negative values, to shift a selection outward. 4 Click OK.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 163 User Guide Applying the Spherize filter Applying the Wave filter The Spherize filter gives objects a 3D effect by wrapping a selection around or inside a spherical shape, distorting and stretching the image. The Wave filter creates an undulating pattern on a layer or selection. You can set the wave pattern type, and fine tune various wave properties. For more options and control, use the 3D Transform filter. See “Using the 3D Transform filter” on page 157.
164 CHAPTER 9 Transforming and Distorting Images Applying the ZigZag filter 5 Choose a displacement option from the Style The ZigZag filter distorts a selection radially, depending on the radius of the pixels in your selection. pop-up menu: To apply the ZigZag filter: 1 Select the layer or area you want to affect. 2 Choose Filter > Distort > ZigZag. 3 Drag the Amount slider to set the level and direction of distortion.
165 Chapter 10: Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles photographer can place filters over a camera lens to create interesting visual effects. Adobe Photoshop Elements provides filters, layer styles, and effects you can use to enhance your photos, simulate photographic effects, and create visual effects beyond the bounds of traditional photography. A Glow category from the Layer Styles palette with Neon Nights from the Image Effect category in the Effects palette.
166 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles • Click the Filters, Layer Styles, or Effects tab in the palette well. mode, or any filters on images in Bitmap or Indexed Color mode. To change categories in the Filters, Layer Styles, or Effects palettes: Choose a category from the pop-up menu at the top of the palette.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 167 User Guide 4 To set filter options and preview the filter, select Filter Options at the top of the Filters palette. Or, to apply the preset filter settings deselect Filter Options. (Filter Options and preview windows are not available for all filters.) 5 To apply the filter to your image, double-click the filter, drag the filter into the image, or click Apply in the Filters palette. 6 If a dialog box appears, enter values or select options.
168 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Tips for applying filters Using effects Try the following techniques to create special visual effects with filters. The Effects palette lets you quickly create different looks for your images. Feather the filter edges If you’re applying a filter If an effect name is followed by (Selection), (Layer), or (Type), the effect can only be applied to a selected portion of your image, to a selected layer, or to a type layer, respectively.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 169 User Guide Note: In some cases, when applying an effect to an image with multiple layers, you are prompted to flatten the image first. Frames effects Frames effects apply a variety of effects to the edges of a selected layer, or to a portion of a layer. The Vignette effect, for example, creates a separate layer from a selected portion of an image. Using any selection tool, select a portion of the image and apply the Vignette effect.
170 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Layer styles are cumulative, which means that you can create a complex effect by applying multiple styles to a layer. You can also change a layer’s style settings to adjust the final effect. You can also drag the style to the image, where it is applied to the selected layer. To hide or show all layer styles in the image: 1 Choose one of the following: Applying layer styles • Layer > Layer Style > Hide All Effects.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 171 User Guide Outer Glow Size Specifies the size of a glow that To remove a layer style: emanates from the outside edges of the layer’s content. 1 In the Layers palette, select the layer containing the style you want to remove. Inner Glow Size Specifies the size of a glow that 2 Do one of the following: emanates from the inside edges of the layer’s content. • Choose Layer > Layer Style > Clear Layer Style.
172 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles • Adjust filter settings to make memory-intensive filters less complex. Memory-intensive filters include Lighting Effects, Cutout, Stained Glass, Chrome, Ripple, Spatter, Sprayed Strokes, and Glass. (For example, to reduce the complexity of the Stained Glass filter, increase cell size. To reduce the complexity of the Cutout filter, increase Edge Simplicity, decrease Edge Fidelity, or both.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 173 User Guide Paint Daubs Makes an image look painted. You can set the brush size, image sharpness, and brush types in the filter options. Palette Knife Reduces detail in an image to give Sponge Paints a layer with highly textured areas of contrasting color. You can set the brush size, image definition, and edge smoothness in the filter options. the effect of a thinly painted canvas that reveals the texture underneath.
174 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Gaussian Blur Quickly blurs a selection by an adjustable amount. Gaussian refers to the bellshaped curve that Photoshop Elements generates when it applies a weighted average to the pixels. The Gaussian Blur filter adds low-frequency detail and can produce a hazy effect. You can set the blur radius in the filter options to determine how far the filter searches for dissimilar pixels to blur.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 175 User Guide Spatter Replicates the effect of a spatter airbrush. You can set the spray radius, and smoothness in the filter options. Sprayed Strokes Repaints a layer using its dominant colors with angled, sprayed strokes of color. You can set the stroke length, spray radius, and stroke direction in the filter options. Sumi-e Redraws a layer with a Japanese style, as if with a wet brush full of black ink on rice paper. The effect is soft blurry edges with rich blacks.
176 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Pixelate filters The Pixelate filters sharply define an image or selection by clumping pixels of similar color values. Color Halftone Simulates the effect of using an enlarged halftone screen on the layer. The filter divides the image into rectangles and replaces each rectangle with a circle. The circle size is proportional to the brightness of the rectangle.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 177 User Guide To generate a starker cloud pattern, hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) as you choose Filter > Render > Clouds. Difference Clouds Uses randomly generated values that vary between the foreground and background color in the toolbox to produce a cloud pattern. The first time you choose this filter, portions of the image are inverted in a cloud pattern. Applying the filter several times creates rib and vein patterns that resemble a marble texture.
178 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles • Material determines whether the light or the object on which the light is cast reflects more light. Plastic reflects the light’s color; Metallic reflects the object’s color. • Exposure increases the light (positive values) or decreases the light (negative values). A value of 0 has no effect. • Ambience diffuses the light as if it were combined with other light in a room, such as sunlight or fluorescent light.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 179 User Guide To adjust the angle and height of the Spotlight using the preview window: Do any of the following: • To move the light, drag the center circle. • To increase the light angle, drag the handle at the end of the line to shorten the line. To decrease the light angle, drag to lengthen the line. • To stretch the ellipse or rotate the light, drag one of the handles. Shift-drag to keep the angle constant and change only the size of the ellipse.
180 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Sharpen Edges and Unsharp Mask Find the areas To use Unsharp Mask to sharpen an image: in the image where significant color changes occur and sharpen them. The Sharpen Edges filter sharpens only edges while preserving the overall smoothness of the image. Use this filter to sharpen edges without specifying an amount.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 181 User Guide Sketch filters Filters in the Sketch submenu add texture to images, often for a 3D effect. These filters are also useful for creating a fine-art or hand-drawn look. Many of the Sketch filters use the foreground and background color as they redraw the image. Bas Relief Transforms an image to appear carved in low relief and lit to accent the surface variations. Dark areas of the image take on the foreground color, light areas use the background color.
182 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Note Paper Simulates the texture of handmade Water Paper Uses blotchy daubs that appear to be paper by combining the effects of the Emboss and Grain filters. Dark areas of the image appear as holes in the top layer of paper, revealing the background color. You can set the image balance, graininess, and relief in the filter options. painted onto fibrous, damp paper, causing the colors to flow and blend.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 183 User Guide After using filters like Find Edges and Trace Contour that highlight edges, you can apply the Invert command to outline the edges of a color image with colored lines or a grayscale image with white lines (see “Using the Invert command” on page 186.) Glowing Edges Identifies the edges of color and adds a neon-like glow to them. You can set the edge width, brightness, and smoothness in the filter options.
184 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles To use the Trace Contour filter: Mosaic Tiles Draws the image as if it were made 1 Either choose Filter > Stylize > Trace Contour, up of small chips or tiles and adds grout between the tiles. (In contrast, the Pixelate > Mosaic filter breaks up an image into blocks of differentcolored pixels.) You can set the tile size, grout width, and grout highlights in the filter options. or use the Filters palette to apply the Trace Contour filter.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 185 User Guide NTSC Colors Restricts the gamut of colors to those acceptable for television reproduction to prevent oversaturated colors from bleeding across television scan lines. For example, to multiply the brightness value of the pixel to the immediate right of the current pixel by 2, enter 2 in the text box to the immediate right of the center text box.
186 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles Minimum and Maximum The Minimum filter has the effect of applying a spread—spreading out black areas and shrinking white areas. The Maximum filter has the effect of applying a choke—spreading out white areas and choking in black areas. Like the Median filter, the Maximum and Minimum filters look at individual pixels in a selection.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 187 User Guide Using the Equalize command The Equalize command redistributes the brightness values of the pixels in an image so that they more evenly represent the entire range of brightness levels. When you apply this command, Photoshop Elements finds the brightest and darkest values in the composite image and remaps them so that the brightest value represents white and the darkest value represents black.
188 CHAPTER 10 Applying Filters, Effects, and Layer Styles 5 Reset the dialog box by pressing Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS). 6 Click Cancel to close the Threshold dialog box without applying changes to the image. Using the Posterize command The Posterize command lets you specify the number of tonal levels (or brightness values) for each channel in an image and then maps pixels to the closest matching level.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 189 User Guide 3 Select either, none, or both of the Gradient Options: • Dither adds random noise to smooth the appearance of the gradient fill and reduce banding effects. • Reverse switches the direction of the gradient fill, reversing the gradient map. 4 Click OK.
191 Chapter 11: Creating Shapes and Text A dobe Photoshop Elements lets you add text and shapes to images with flexibility and precision. About vector graphics In Photoshop Elements, shapes and text are vector graphics, which means they are made up of lines and curves defined by their geometric characteristics. Vector graphics are resolutionindependent—that is, they can be scaled to any size and printed at any resolution without losing detail or clarity.
192 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text In the options bar, you can choose the following options for the shape tools: 2 In the options bar, enter a pixel width for the line in the Weight text box. • Click the color swatch to choose the color with 3 Drag in your image to draw the line. which you want to fill the shape. (See “Using the Adobe Color Picker” on page 131.) • Set tool-specific options. (See “Setting shape tool options” on page 195.) To create a rectangle: 1 Select the rectangle tool .
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 193 User Guide To create multiple shapes in the same layer: 1 Select a shape layer in the Layers palette or create a new shape layer. 2 If you want to create a different type of shape, select a different shape tool. 3 Before you draw, select a shape area option to determine how shapes should overlap: to add an additional shape to the existing shape. The combined shape will cover the entire area of the shapes you drew using the Add option.
194 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text Transforming shapes Applying layer styles to shapes You can alter a shape by applying transformations to it. For example, you can scale, rotate, skew, distort, and apply perspective to a shape. You can apply effects—such as drop shadows and bevels—to shapes quickly and easily using layer styles. Keep in mind that a layer style is applied to all shapes on a layer.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 195 User Guide Setting shape tool options Each shape tool provides specific options; for example, you can set options that allow you to draw a rectangle with fixed dimensions or a line with arrowheads. Defined Proportions Renders a custom shape based on the proportions with which it was created. Defined Size Renders a custom shape based on the size at which it was created.
196 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text Creating text In Photoshop Elements, you use the horizontal and vertical type tools to create and edit text. Text appears directly on-screen so you can always see how it looks in your composition. You can also use type mask tools to create a selection in the shape of text. You can then create different effects and cut-outs with the text. When you select a type tool, you can choose from several settings in the options bar.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 197 User Guide Note: To apply the Perspective or Distort commands, or to transform part of the type layer, you must simplify the type layer, making the type uneditable. • Use layer styles. To change the orientation of a type layer: 1 Select the type layer in the Layers palette. 2 Do one of the following: • Select a type tool, and click the Flip Orientation button Editing text in type layers You can insert new text, change existing text, and delete text in type layers.
198 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text Because anti-aliasing greatly increases the number of colors in an image, you may want to turn antialiasing off when designing for the Web. In Web images, anti-aliasing can make file sizes larger and cause stray colors to appear along the edges of type. To avoid these issues, you may prefer to leave text with jagged edges.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 199 User Guide To unwarp type: 1 Select a type layer that has warping applied to it. 2 Select a type tool, and click the Warp button in the options bar; or choose Layer > Type > Warp Text. 3 Choose None from the Style pop-up menu, and click OK. Simplifying type layers Simplifying a type layer converts it to a regular, bitmap layer. Simplifying a type layer is necessary when you want to paint on type or apply filters to it.
200 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text Choosing a font A font is a set of characters— letters, numbers, or symbols—that share a common weight, width, and style. When you select a font, you can select the font family and its type style independently. A type style is a variant version of an individual font in the font family (for example, Regular, Bold, or Italic). The range of available type styles varies with each font.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 201 User Guide 2 Do one or both of the following in the options bar: to apply a line below horizontal type or on the left side of vertical type. Aligns the bottom edge of each type line in the layer to the initial cursor position. • Click the Underline button • Click the Strikethrough button to apply a line through the middle of the type.
202 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text 3 In Mac OS X, choose Photoshop > Preferences > Units & Rulers. 4 Select a unit of measurement for Type. Creating a text selection border When you use the horizontal type mask tool or vertical type mask tool , you create a selection in the shape of the type. Type selections appear on the active layer, and can be moved, copied, filled, or stroked just like any other selection. You can also warp the text created with the type mask tools.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 203 User Guide Adjusting tsume Tsume reduces the space around a character by a specified percentage value. The character itself is not stretched or squeezed as a result. Instead, the space around the character is compressed. When tsume is added to a character, spacing around both sides of the character is reduced by an equal percentage. The greater the percentage, the tighter the compression between characters.
204 CHAPTER 11 Creating Shapes and Text To turn on or turn off mojikumi: 1 If you’re working with an existing layer, select the type layer in the Layers palette and then select a type tool. 2 Click the Asian Text Options button options bar. 3 Select Mojikumi, and press the Enter or Return key.
205 Chapter 12: Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail dobe Photoshop Elements lets you optimize the display and file size of your images for effective Web publishing and for sharing through e-mail. A About creating images for the Web and e-mail Optimization is the process of compressing an image and setting display options for use on the World Wide Web or in e-mail. When you distribute images via these mediums, creating graphics with small file sizes is very important.
206 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail Viewing images during optimization 2 Drag in the view area to pan over the image. You use a dual-image window to see both your original and optimized images in the Save For Web dialog box. This view lets you compare the two images and determine which optimization settings work best. If some areas of an image aren’t visible, you can use the hand tool to bring those areas into view. You can also use the zoom tool to magnify or reduce the view.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 207 User Guide Viewing optimization information 2 Choose a display option: Underneath your image in the Save For Web dialog box, the annotation area provides valuable optimization information. The annotation for the original image shows the file name and file size. The annotation for the optimized image shows the current optimization settings, the size of the optimized file, and the estimated download time based upon the selected internet access speed.
208 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail includes multilevel transparency. (Unlike the PNG-24 format, the JPEG format doesn’t support transparency. See “Making transparent and matted images” on page 214.) A photograph suitable for compression as a JPEG or PNG-24 image, and artwork suitable for compression as a GIF or PNG-8 image Choose a format that contains sufficient bit depth to display the colors in the image.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 209 User Guide The JPEG format does not support animation or transparency. When you save an image as a JPEG file, transparent pixels are filled with the Matte color specified in the Save For Web dialog box. To simulate the effect of background transparency, you can match the Matte color to the Web page background color.
210 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail As with the GIF format, you can choose the number of colors in an image and select options to control how colors dither in a browser. The PNG8 format supports background transparency and background matting, in which you blend the edges of the image with a Web page background color. (See “Previewing and controlling dithering” on page 216.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 211 User Guide When you change the options in a predefined setting, the Settings menu displays the term “Custom.” You cannot save a custom setting; however, the current settings appear in the Save for Web dialog box the next time you display it. A B C Optimization options for JPEG format A. Optimization format B. Compression Quality pop-up menu C. Compression Quality slider To optimize an image in JPEG format: 1 Choose JPEG for the optimization format.
212 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail 4 Select Progressive to create an image that displays progressively in a Web browser. Progressive images display first at a low resolution, and then at progressively higher resolutions as the image downloads. If you chose Optimized to create a smaller file, the Progressive option won’t be available. areas of solid color while preserving sharp detail; however, not all Web browsers can display PNG-8 files. (See “About PNG-8 format” on page 209.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 213 User Guide 3 Choose a color reduction algorithm for gener- ating the color lookup table: • Perceptual to create a custom color table by giving priority to colors for which the human eye has greater sensitivity. • Selective to create a color table similar to the Perceptual color table, but favoring broad areas of color and the preservation of Web colors. This color table usually produces images with the greatest color integrity. (Selective is the default choice.
214 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail To optimize an image in PNG-24 format: 1 Choose PNG-24 for the optimization format. 2 Select Interlaced to create an image that displays at low-resolution in a browser while the fullresolution image is downloading. Interlacing can make downloading time seem shorter, and assures viewers that downloading is in progress.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 215 User Guide 4 For GIF and PNG-8 format, specify how to treat partially transparent pixels in the original image. You can blend these pixels with a matte color, or you can create hard-edged transparency. (See “Creating background matting in GIF and PNG images” on page 215, and “Creating hard-edged transparency in GIF and PNG-8 images” on page 215.) To create a matted GIF or PNG image: 1 Open or create an image that contains transparency, and choose File > Save for Web.
216 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail 2 In the Save For Web dialog box, select JPEG as the optimization format. 3 Select a color from the Matte pop-up menu: None, Eyedropper (to use the color in the eyedropper sample box), White, Black, or Other (to select a color using the color picker).
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 217 User Guide • Browser dither occurs when a Web browser using an 8-bit color display (256-color mode) attempts to simulate colors that aren’t in the 8bit color palette. Browser dither can occur with GIF, PNG, or JPEG images. In Photoshop Elements, you can control the amount of browser dither by shifting selected colors in the image to Web-safe colors. You can also specify Web-safe colors when choosing a color in the Adobe Color Picker.
218 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail To preview browser dither: To add a browser to the Preview pop-up menu: Choose Browser Dither from the document panel menu in the Save For Web dialog box. (To view the menu, click the triangle near the upper right corner of the document panel.) 1 Create a shortcut (Windows) or alias (Mac OS) To preview browser dither in a browser: 1 Set your computer’s color display to 8-bit color (256 colors).
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 219 User Guide Setting up animated GIFs 2 Choose File > Save for Web, or click the Save for To create an animated GIF file, you work with layers. Each layer becomes a frame when Photoshop Elements generates an optimized animation. For more information about working with layers, see “About layers” on page 91. Web button in the shortcuts bar.
220 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail To preview an animation in the Save For Web dialog box: Do one of the following: • Click the Next Frame button to view the next Sizes pop-up menu. 3 To modify the banner size, enter new dimen- • Click the Previous Frame button to view the previous frame in the animation. to view the last frame in the animation. • Click the First Frame button 1 Choose File > New. 2 Choose 468 x 60 Web Banner from the Preset frame in the animation.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 221 User Guide 2 Choose a gallery style from the Styles pop-up menu. A preview of the home page for the chosen style appears on the right side of the dialog box. 3 To display your e-mail address in the gallery, enter your e-mail address in the textbox. Note: Some gallery styles don’t display e-mail addresses. 4 In the Folders section, click Browse (Windows) or Choose (Mac OS). Then select the folder containing the images that you want to appear in the gallery, and click OK.
222 CHAPTER 12 Optimizing Images for the Web and E-mail • If you chose the Simple, Table, or Wet gallery style in step 2, you can enter the number of columns and rows for the thumbnails in the Columns and Rows text boxes. • To create a border around each thumbnail, enter the width in pixels in the Border Size text box. • To label thumbnails, select options from the Titles Use options: Filename, Title, Caption, and Copyright Notice.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 223 User Guide Note: If you’ve made any changes to your image, Photoshop Elements prompts you to save your image before you e-mail it. 3 If your image is not in JPEG format, is larger than 1200 pixels in either dimension, or includes properties that aren’t supported by the JPEG format, the Attach To E-mail dialog box appears. Click one of the following: • Auto Convert to save a copy of your original image as a JPEG file with medium compression.
225 Chapter 13: Saving Images dobe Photoshop Elements supports a variety of file formats to suit a wide range of output needs. You can save or export your image to any of these formats. A To save changes to the current file: Choose File > Save, or click the Save button the shortcuts bar. in To save an image with a different name and location: Saving images Photoshop Elements can save images to various file formats. (See “Saving images in different file formats” on page 226.
226 CHAPTER 13 Saving Images Thumbnail (Windows) Saves thumbnail data for the file. In order to select or deselect this option, you must choose Ask When Saving for the Image Previews option in the Preferences dialog box. (See “Setting preferences for saving files” on page 233.) Image Previews options (Mac OS) Saves thumbnail data for the file. Thumbnails display in the Open dialog box. You can set these image preview options: • Icon to use the preview as a file icon on the desktop.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 227 User Guide Saving in BMP format To save a file in GIF format: BMP is a standard Windows image format on Windows-compatible computers. You can specify either Microsoft® Windows or OS/2® format and a bit depth for the image. For 4-bit and 8-bit images using Windows format, you can also specify RLE compression (see “About file compression” on page 232).
228 CHAPTER 13 Saving Images 2 Select the Layers as Frames option, specify a filename and location, and click Save. 4 Do one of the following to specify the image quality: When the Save for Web dialog box appears, set optimization options as described in “Optimizing Web images” on page 210. • Choose an option from the Quality menu. Saving in JPEG format Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format is commonly used to save photographs and other continuous-tone images.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 229 User Guide Saving in Photoshop EPS format Saving to PCX format You can use Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format to share Photoshop files effectively with many graphic, illustration, and page-layout programs. For best results, print documents with EPS images to PostScript-enabled printers. PCX is a bitmap format widely supported on a variety of platforms. To save a file in PCX format: 1 Choose File > Save As, and choose PCX from the format list.
230 CHAPTER 13 Saving Images 4 Select Save Transparency if you want to preserve transparency when the file is opened in another application that supports PDF transparency. 5 Select Image Interpolation if you want to anti-alias the printed appearance of a lowresolution image. 6 Click OK. Saving in PICT File format PICT File format is widely used among Mac OS graphics and page-layout applications to transfer images between applications.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 231 User Guide Saving in Raw format Raw format is a flexible file format for transferring images between applications and computer platforms. Raw format consists of a stream of bytes describing the color information in the image. You can specify the file extension (Windows), file type (Mac OS), file creator (Mac OS), and header information. You can save the image in an interleaved or noninterleaved order.
232 CHAPTER 13 Saving Images Image Compression Specifies a method for compressing the composite image data. (See “About file compression” on page 232.) ZIP and JPEG compression are only available when Enable Advanced TIFF Save Options is selected in the Saving Files preferences. (See “Setting preferences for saving files” on page 233.) Byte Order Photoshop and most recent applica- tions can read files using either byte order.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 233 User Guide CCITT is a family of lossless compression techniques for black-and-white images. CCITT is an abbreviation for the French spelling of International Telegraph and Telekeyed Consultive Committee. ZIP encoding is a lossless compression technique. Like LZW, ZIP compression is most effective for images that contain large areas of a single color.
234 CHAPTER 13 Saving Images To display a preview file icon (Windows only): • Caption to enter text that can be printed under 1 Save the file in Photoshop format with a an image or displayed in a Web browser’s title bar. To print the caption, choose File > Print Preview, and select Caption. Then print as usual. (See “Setting print options” on page 237 for more information.) thumbnail preview.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 235 User Guide Note: If the plug-in module for your camera or scanner does not support importing multiple images, it may not work optimally during batch-processing. Contact the plug-in’s manufacturer for further information. To batch-process files using the Batch command: 1 Choose File > Batch Processing. 2 For Files to Convert, specify which files you want to process: • Folder to process files already stored on your computer. Click Source to locate and select the folder.
237 Chapter 14: Printing etting up your image files for printing is easy with Adobe Photoshop Elements. You can adjust the positioning, scaling, and output options for your image. You can also use color management to help ensure a close match between on-screen and printed colors. S Note: By default, Photoshop Elements prints a composite of all visible layers. To print an individual layer, make it the only visible layer in the Layers palette before choosing the Print command.
238 CHAPTER 14 Printing 8 Select an Encoding method, if desired (see “Choosing a print encoding method” on page 239.) 9 Do one of the following: • Click Print. • Click OK to save the print options for the image. Positioning and scaling images You can adjust the position and scale of an image in the Print Preview dialog box to preview how the image will look when it’s printed. Scaling an image in the Print Preview dialog box changes the size and resolution of the printed image only.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0 239 User Guide Border prints a black border around an image. Binary encoding gives a one-byte value to each Type in a number and choose inches, millimeters (mm) or points to specify the width of the border. pixel of your image. Binary encoded files are smaller than ASCII files and print more quickly. However, binary data can be misinterpreted by some network printing protocols, which may cause a printer to respond slowly.
240 CHAPTER 14 Printing To color-manage an image while printing: Saturation is suitable for business graphics, where 1 Choose File > Print Preview. the exact relationship between colors is not as important as having bright saturated colors. Saturation creates vivid color at the expense of accurate color. 2 Make sure Show More Options (located below the image preview area) is checked. 3 Choose Color Management from the pop-up menu.
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242 INDEX Bas Relief filter 181 base layer 106 Batch command 234 browser dither about 217 Chalk & Charcoal filter 181 Batch Rename command 46 about 133 Change Layer Content command 104 Behind blending mode 136 More Options 138 Charcoal filter 181 Bicubic interpolation 78 Pen Pressure 140 chroma 64 Bilinear interpolation 78 brush tool Cascade command 23 brushes Chrome filter 181 CJK type binary encoding 239 creating and deleting 140 Bitmap 39 Define Brush command 141 composition options
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244 INDEX deleting layers 110 document size 78 tracking 110 Embed Color Profile.
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246 INDEX hard-edged transparency 215 colorizing 69 interlaced option 212 preserving transparency 214 converting to high-contrast black-and-white images 187 Hue blending mode 137 previewing animations 219 creating from color images 69 Hue mode 137 saving files in 227 definition of 54 Hue/Saturation setting options 212 Grayscale mode 54 transparency 213 grid 24, 94 using predefined settings 210 Group With Previous Layer option Web-safe color table 213 adjustment layers 102 Glass filter 16
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248 INDEX Levels command about 62, 67 Load Swatches command 130 Merge Visible command 111 loading merging adjusting color 67 brushes 28 adjustment or fill layers 106 adjustment layer 101 gradients 28 layers 111 Auto option 58 libraries 29 patterns 28 Lock Transparency option 126 swatches 130 locking layers 107 working with 29 lossless compression Lighten blending mode 136 GIF format 209 Lighting Effects filter LZW 232 Mezzotint filter 176 Midtones adjusting color 66 midtones adjusting
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250 INDEX creating 103 pattern stamp tool 135 about 133 creating patterns 145 patterns creating 145 select image tool 85 background matting in 215 source photographs 82 Interlace option 230 vanishing point tool 86 Photoshop compensation 207 Photoshop Elements 1 saving in 230 PNG-24 file format about 210 PNG-24 format filling selections with 147 Photoshop EPS format.
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252 INDEX changing 78 from layers 108 Select menu 114, 118 displaying 77 image with clone stamp tool 70 selecting document size 78 Resolution option 159 restoring images 25 saturation contiguous pixels 118 about 64 from all layers 118 adjusting 66, 67, 73 layers 95 Reticulation filter 182 Saturation blending mode 137 opaque areas 108 retouching images 70 Saturation rendering intent 240 pixels 114 Save As command 225 range of color 118 Reveal Location command 47 Save command 225 simil
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254 INDEX Tagged-Image File Format (TIFF). See TIFF format Tolerance option 118 toolbox 11 tolerance option tools Targa format 231 magic eraser tool 143 background eraser tool 143 Tate-Chuu-Yoko command 203 paint bucket tool 147 brush 133 text.
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256 INDEX using predefined optimization settings 210 wire frame 158 Z ZigZag filter 164 Web Banner preset size 220 wire frame.
