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Photoshop Elements 6 In Easy Steps
Photoshop Elements 6 in easy steps shows how to edit, display and share images in some truly stunning and original ways.
Editing digital images is at the heart of Elements 6 and this book covers it in depth. It looks at obtaining images, color enhancements and techniques such as skin tone adjustment, cloning and removing flaws and blemishes.
There are also sections on quick fixes and new features such as creating perfect group shots, blending facial features and compiling stunning panoramas.
Elements 6 is in a league of its own when it comes to sharing images creatively and this book covers all of its stunning features including, improved effects, color-coordinated layouts, animated slideshows, dynamic Web galleries, photo emails and fun flip-books. It also shows how to print images creatively and produce items such as calendars, cards, photo albums and CD or DVD covers.
Organizing images can sometimes be a chore, but this book shows how Elements 6 simplifies the process through the use of tags, collections, face recognition, Smart Albums and placing images on a map where they were taken.
Photoshop Elements 6 in easy steps puts the fun into working with digital images and enables you to expand your creative horizons once you've captured the images.
CONTENTS:
chapter 1 Introducing Elements
* About Elements
* Welcome Screen
* Editor mode
* Photo Bin
* Quick Fix mode
* Guided Edit mode
* Organizer mode
* Create mode
* Share mode
* Menu bar
* Toolbox
* Options bar
* Palettes
* Preferences
* Getting help
chapter 2 Organizing images
* Obtaining images
* Photo Browser
* Full Screen View
* Full Screen Compare
* Stacks
* Version sets
* Tagging images
* Tagging faces
* Searching for images
* Albums
* Smart Albums
* Date View
* Map View
* Opening and saving images
chapter 3 First digital steps
* Color enhancements
* Cropping
* Cloning
* Pattern cloning
* Healing Brush
* Spot Healing Brush
* Rotating
* Transforming
* Magnification
* Eraser
chapter 4 Quick wins
* Removing red-eye
* Adjusting skin tones
* Straightening an image
* Dividing scanned images
* Quick Fix options
* General Quick Fixes
* Lighting Quick Fixes
* Color Quick Fixes
* Sharpening Quick Fixes
* Changing to black and white
* Combining group shots
* Combining faces
* Panoramas
chapter 5 Beyond the basics
* Hue and saturation
* Histogram
* Levels
* Color curves
* Pegging points
* Filter adjustments
* Unsharp Mask
* Fixing camera distortion
* Importing RAW images
* Image size
* Resampling images
chapter 6 Selecting areas
* About selections
* Marquee tools
* Lasso tools
* Magic Wand tool
* Selection Brush tool
* Magic Extractor tool
* Quick Selection tool
* Defringing selections
* Inverting a selection
* Feathering
* Editing selections
chapter 7 Layers
* Layering images
* Layers palette
* Adding layers
* Fill layers
* Adjustment layers
* Working with layers
* Blending layers
* Opacity
* Saving layers
chapter 8 Text and drawing tools
* Adding and formatting text
* Distorting text
* Text and shape masks
* Adding shapes
* Layer Styles
* Paint Bucket tool
* Gradient tool
* Brush and Pencil tools
* Impressionist Brush tool
* Working with color
chapter 9 Content and Effects
* About Content and Effects
* Artwork
* Themes
* Special Effects
* Text Effects
* Filtering content
chapter 10 Sharing images
* Saving images for the Web
* Creatively emailing images
* Emailing to a phone
* Sharing online
chapter 11 Getting creative
* About Create mode
* Photo Books
* Slide Shows
* VCDs
* Online Galleries
* Flipbooks
chapter 12 Printing images
* Calibrating your monitor
* Print size
* Print Preview
* Printing multiple photos
* Print Layouts
* Online prints
* Creating PDF files
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