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User Manual: adobe Photoshop Elements - 8.0 (Windows) - User Guide Free User Guide for Photoshop Software, Manual
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- Contents
- Chapter 1: Getting started with Adobe Photoshop Elements
- What to do first
- Using Help and getting support
- Converting a catalog from a previous version
- About backing up/synchronizing files
- Working in Elements Organizer and Photoshop Elements Editor
- Importing and organizing photos and video
- Creating photo projects
- Printing and sharing photos
- Fixing (editing) photos
- Troubleshooting tips
- Chapter 2: Photoshop Elements workspace
- Chapter 3: Working in the Editor
- Opening files in the Editor
- File information
- Viewing images in the Editor
- Guides, grids, and rulers
- Saving and exporting images
- Guided Edit
- Use the Guided Edit options
- The Crop Photo Guided Edit
- The Recompose 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 Distortion Guided Edit
- The Photomerge Group Shot Guided Edit
- The Photomerge Faces Guided Edit
- The Photomerge Scene Cleaner Guided Edit
- The Photomerge Exposure Guided Edit
- The Automated Action Player Guided Edit
- The Line Drawing Guided Edit
- The Old Fashioned Photo Guided Edit
- The Saturated Slide Film Effect Guided Edit
- Chapter 4: Using layers
- Chapter 5: Camera raw files
- Chapter 6: 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
- Frame an existing selection with a new selection border
- 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 7: Color and tonal correction
- Color and tonal correction basics
- Adjusting shadows and light
- Adjust color and tonality using the Smart Brush tools
- Apply the Smart Brush tools
- About Levels adjustments
- Improve shadow and highlight detail
- Adjust shadows and brightness using Levels
- Adjust brightness and contrast in selected areas
- Quickly lighten or darken isolated areas
- Quickly saturate or desaturate isolated areas
- Correcting color casts
- Adjusting color saturation and hue
- Adjustment filters
- Chapter 8: Cropping, resizing, retouching, and transforming photos
- Cropping
- Image size and resolution
- Retouching
- Sharpening
- Transforming
- Recomposing
- Stitching together panoramas
- Chapter 9: Understanding color
- Chapter 10: Filters, effects, styles, and artwork
- Chapter 11: Painting
- Chapter 12: Adding text and shapes
- Chapter 13: Creating projects in the Editor
- Chapter 14: Optimizing for the web
- Chapter 15: Printing and sharing photos
- Chapter 16: Photoshop Elements Editor keyboard shortcuts
- 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 panel
- Keys for using blending modes
- Keys for the Info panel
- Keys for the Color Swatches panel
- Keys for showing or hiding panels (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 17: Glossary