Lesson 1: Getting Familiar with Photoshop Elements
- Launch Photoshop Elements
- Creating a new catalog
- Getting photos from a digital camera or card reader
- Getting photos from files and folders
- Organizer vs. the Editor
- Viewing tags
- Viewing photos at full screen or side-by-side
- Creating a greeting card
- Capturing still frames from a video
- Using Adobe Photoshop Elements Help
- Using the How To palette
Lesson 2: Organizing and Sharing Photos
- Dragging photos from Windows Explorer
- Searching for photos to add
- Importing from a scanner
- Using watched folders
- Using Photo Browser view
- Using Date view
- Using stacks
- Creating Picture Packages
- Working with version sets
- To remove red eye in the Photo Browser
- Finding photos using details and metadata
- Viewing and managing files by their folder location
- Creating new categories and sub-categories
- Applying and editing category assignments
- Creating and applying tags to photos
- Converting tags and categories
- Using tags to find pictures
- Automatically finding faces for tagging
- Finding photos with visual similarity
- Using photo mail
- Sharing photos online
- Printing
- Printing a contact sheet
- Burning photos to CD or DVD
Lesson 3: Sharing Creations
- Using the Slide Show Editor
- Adding text, graphics, audio, and narration to photos in the slide show
- Applying transitions
- Panning and zooming
- Reordering slides
- Choosing an output option for your slideshow
- Saving your slideshow
Lesson 4: Adjusting Color in Images
- Quick Fix multiple files as a batch
- Adding the corrected files to the Organizer
- Opening image files for Quick Fix editing
- Use Smart Fix
- Applying other automatic fixes
- Duplicating an image file
- Automatically fixing color
- Applying further changes to automatically fixed images
- Combining automatic fix and manual image corrections
- Comparing results
- Adjusting skin tones
- Fixing red eye
- Darkening reflective animal eyes
- Using the Navigator palette
- Restoring surface highlights
- Using the Selection Brush Tool
- Editing a saved selection
- Using the Magic Selection Brush Tool
- Setting up layers
- Saving a selection
- Replacing color
- Saving and organizing finished files
- Setting up color management
Lesson 5: Fixing Exposure Problems
- Brightening an underexposed image
- Using blending modes to fix a faded image
- Adjusting shadows and highlights manually
- Adjusting brightness and contrast manually
- Adjusting levels
- Creating adjustment layers for lighting
- Applying an adjustment layer to a limited area
- Comparing results
- Creating a selection
- Refining and saving a selection
- Correcting an overexposed areas of the image
- Correcting an underexposed area with other blending modes
- Adding more intensity
Lesson 6: Repairing and Retouching Images
- Straightening an image
- Using the Magic Extractor to remove a background
- Merging photos into a panorama
- Cropping images
- Using the Healing Brush Tool
- Using the Spot Healing Brush Tool
- Using the Blur Tool
- Removing specs and scratches in your photo
- Using the Clone Stamp Tool
Lesson 7: Working with Text
- Using the Organizer to find and open tagged files
- Adding an uneven border
- Adding a decorative border
- Formatting and adding a text layer
- Editing text
- Saving your work file
- Drawing custom shapes
- Adding text over a custom shape
- Creating a new document
- Adding embossed text to images
- Saving images for Web use
- Warping and styling text
- Simplifying and applying a pattern to text
- Hiding and revealing layers to review versions
- Using Layer Styles to create animations
- Adding effects to text
- Merging layers
- Animating layers
Lesson 8: Combining Multiple Images
- Copying from one image into another
- Cropping to synchronize dimensions of two photos
- Combining pictures and resizing the canvas
- Using rulers and grids
- Erasing areas of image layers
- Using a gradient clipping path
- Applying the clipping path to a layer
- Creating a clean edge with defringing
Lesson 9: Advanced Editing Techniques
- Adjusting exposure
- Using histograms to adjust shadows and highlights
- Using Set Gray Point
- Applying the Unsharp Mask filter
- Creating effects with the filter gallery
- Using the Cookie Cutter Tool
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