Saturday, March 7, 2009

Getting to grips with Adobe Photoshop Elements

By David Peters

The Elements Interface; As you know Elements doesn't have a single interface as you can launch the program in several modes. This all depends on what your doing; Organising your images, Full edit mode, Quick Fix, or a really cool feature is to create options to produce photo books.

Should you have the Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 version you may have seen some interesting features including email, burning to CD or DVD, and the uncluttered interface makes everything so more simplified, especially if you need to move images round the screen.

Quick Fix Guide Mode: The quick mode enables you to make very basic alterations to your images as you can alter the following; Lighting, colour, sharpen, and you also have the options to do a smart fix. Elements also gives you an auto fix button which can be found on the right hand side. Another way to access the adjustments buttons is through the Enhance menu.

Auto fixing is a real help if you're a complete novice at image editing and if you're after a quick fix to your image. Here are six great short tools and features.

1) Just hit the "Reset Button" on the after picture, if your editing changes are not going to plan. 2) To view the before and after photos you will find a drop down button which says "View" in the lower left hand corner, . 3) The tool box is located on the left hand side of the view screen. 4) You are able to zoom in from your photo here and a zoom button is located in the lower left hand corner. 5) On the right hand side of the screen you will find the time saving auto tab buttons. 6) The quick mode feature allows the option of using sliders, which you will find very useful.

The full edit mode provides the necessary tools to change any of your photo images. The majority of the tools and commands are to be found in the palettes.

With the introduction of Palettes you are able to manage your layers and apply wicked effects to your photos. The layers and effects palette are always displayed automatically when you open up Elements. The windows menu will give you more editing features and is found at the top of the screen. The palettes have a floating effect, so you can position them wherever you like on the screen.

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