Adobe Using Photoshop Elements 7 7.0 Instruction Manual Photoshopelements Eng
User Manual: adobe Photoshop Elements - 7.0 - Instruction Manual Free User Guide for Photoshop Software, Manual
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- Contents
- Chapter 1: Getting started
- Chapter 2: Photoshop Elements workspace
- About workspaces
- Context menus
- Tools
- Palettes and bins
- Undo, redo, and cancel
- Scratch disks and plug-ins
- Getting started with your Photoshop.com membership
- Using Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements together
- Chapter 3: Import photos and videos
- Chapter 4: Viewing and fixing photos in the Organizer
- Viewing photos in the Organizer
- About the Photo Browser
- Open the Photo Browser
- Set Photo Browser viewing preferences
- Photo Browser icons
- Select a Photo Browser view
- Hide and show photos in the Photo Browser
- View and manage files by folder location
- Specify media types to view
- Sort files in the Photo Browser
- Resize, refresh, or hide thumbnails
- Select items in the Photo Browser
- Display and edit photo details
- Viewing video and full-screen images
- Pinning photos to a map
- Viewing photos in Date view
- Fixing photos in the Organizer
- Viewing photos in the Organizer
- Chapter 5: Tagging and organizing photos
- Tagging photos
- Editing keyword tags, categories, and subcategories
- Change a keyword tag’s icon
- Edit a keyword tag category or subcategory
- Reorganize keyword tags, categories, and subcategories by dragging
- Change a keyword tag to a subcategory or vice versa
- Delete a category or subcategory
- Remove keyword tags from photos
- Write keyword tag information into your files
- Import and export keyword tags
- Set preferences for the Keyword Tags and Albums palettes
- Creating albums
- Creating and editing smart albums
- Editing albums and album groups
- Chapter 6: Finding photos in the Organizer
- Searching for photos in the Organizer
- Finding photos by keyword tags
- Finding photos by content, type, and metadata
- Find photos using a text search
- Find photos by caption or note
- Find photos by filename
- Find all version sets
- Find photos by visual similarity
- Find photos used in projects
- Find files by media type
- Find photos in an album or smart album
- Find photos by details (metadata)
- Find photos by history
- Find photos with unknown dates or times
- Finding photos using a map
- Chapter 7: Managing files and catalogs
- Managing catalogs
- Moving, copying, and renaming files
- Grouping photos in stacks
- Grouping photos in version sets
- Filenames and versions
- Adding captions and notes
- File information
- About file information (metadata)
- View or edit file information in the Organizer
- View or add file information in the Editor
- Use the Info palette in the Editor
- Display file information in the Info palette or status bar
- Save or delete metadata templates in the Editor
- Use a saved metadata template in the Editor
- Back up and synchronize albums and files
- Reconnecting files
- Chapter 8: Working in the Editor
- Opening files in the Editor
- Viewing images in the Editor
- Rulers and the grid
- Saving and exporting images
- Guided Edit
- Use the Guided Edit options
- The Crop Photo Guided Edit
- The Rotate and/or Straighten Guided Edit
- The Sharpen Photo Guided Edit
- The Lighten or Darken Guided Edit
- The Brightness and Contrast Guided Edit
- The Adjust Levels Guided Edit
- The Enhance Colors Guided Edit
- The Remove a Color Cast Guided Edit
- The Correct Skin Tone Guided Edit
- The Touch Up Photo Guided Edit
- The “Guide for Editing a Photo” Guided Edit
- The Fix Keystone Guided Edit
- The Photomerge Group Shot Guided Edit
- The Photomerge Faces Guided Edit
- The Photomerge Scene Cleaner Guided Edit
- The Automated Actions Guided Edit
- The Line Drawing Guided Edit
- The Old Fashioned Photo Guided Edit
- The Saturated Slide Film Effect Guided Edit
- Chapter 9: Using layers
- Chapter 10: Camera raw files
- Chapter 11: Selecting parts of an image
- Making selections
- About selections
- About the selection tools
- Use the Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee tools
- Use the Lasso tool
- Use the Polygonal Lasso tool
- Use the Magnetic Lasso tool
- Use the Magic Wand tool
- Use the Quick Selection tool
- Use the Selection Brush tool
- Use the Magic Extractor
- Delete a selected area
- Select and deselect areas using commands
- Modifying selections
- Move a selection border
- Invert a selection
- Add to or subtract from a selection
- Select an area that intersects an existing selection
- Expand or contract a selection by a specific number of pixels
- Add a border around an existing selection
- Include areas of similar color in a selection
- Remove stray pixels from a color-based selection
- Defringe a selection
- Smoothing selection edges with anti-aliasing and feathering
- Moving and copying selections
- Saving selections
- Making selections
- Chapter 12: Color and tonal correction
- Color and tonal correction basics
- Adjusting shadows and light
- Fixing lighting problems
- Adjust color and tonality using the Smart Brushes
- Apply the Smart Brush tools
- About Levels adjustments
- Adjust shadows and brightness using Levels
- Improve shadow and highlight detail
- Adjust brightness and contrast in selected areas
- Lighten or darken specific areas with Dodge and Burn tools
- Saturate or desaturate specific areas
- Correcting color casts
- Adjusting color saturation and hue
- Creating a sepia-tone image
- Adjust saturation and hue
- Adjust the color of skin tone
- Adjust saturation in isolated areas
- Change the color of an object
- Precisely convert to black and white
- Automatically convert to black and white
- Add custom presets for black and white conversion
- Add color to a grayscale image
- Adjustment filters
- Chapter 13: Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos
- Cropping
- Image size and resolution
- Retouching
- Precisely remove red eye
- Remove spots and small imperfections
- Fix large imperfections
- Clone images or areas in an image
- Replace colors in an image
- Blur or soften edges
- Correct camera distortion
- Combine group shots with Photomerge
- Combine facial features with Photomerge Faces
- Remove unwanted elements with Scene Cleaner
- Sharpening
- Transforming
- Chapter 14: Understanding color
- Chapter 15: Filters, effects, styles, and artwork
- Chapter 16: Painting
- Chapter 17: Adding text and shapes
- Chapter 18: Creating projects
- Projects overview
- Making photo projects
- Editing photo projects
- Making digital projects
- Creating slide shows
- Community resources about slide shows
- Create a slide show
- Reorder slides
- Add a new blank slide
- Edit and adjust a slide
- Add music to a slide show
- Add clip art graphics to a slide
- Add text to a slide
- Add narration to a slide
- Set pan and zoom
- Add an effect to a slide
- Add and edit transitions
- Adjust the display time of a slide
- Add photos or videos from your catalog to a slide show
- Set slide show preferences
- Publish a slide show
- Stitching together panoramas
- Chapter 19: Optimizing for the web
- Chapter 20: Printing and sharing photos
- Printing photos
- Print options
- Sharing through Photoshop.com
- Sharing photos using online services
- Sharing maps of photos
- Sharing photos by e-mail
- Viewing and sharing photos on Media Center computers
- Exporting photos
- Chapter 21: Keyboard shortcuts
- Shortcuts for the Organizer
- Shortcuts for the Editor
- Keys for viewing images (Full Edit)
- Keys for selecting tools
- Keys for selecting and moving objects
- Keys for the Magic Extractor dialog box
- Keys for transforming selections
- Keys for painting and brushes
- Keys for using text
- Keys for the Layers palette
- Keys for using blending modes
- Keys for the Info palette
- Keys for the Color Swatches palette
- Keys for showing or hiding palettes (Full Edit)
- Keys for the Filter Gallery
- Keys for the Liquify filter
- Keys for using Photomerge Panorama
- Keys for the Camera Raw dialog box
- Chapter 22: Glossary
- Index