It's common to shoot an image that isn't completely straight or has too many details that, well, you just don't need. In those circumstances a good understanding of how to straighten and crop a photograph will be the difference between living with it and doing something about it.
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Many of us have several thousand photos in our collections so when it's time to find one it can literally be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Thankfully, the Organiser in Photoshop Elements has our back. Once we've assigned tags to each photo, we can add them to albums which work much like a standard photo album you may have tucked away in the draw at home, a smart album which is sensitive to certain criterion and dynamically changes as you reorganise your photos, and star ratings to represent your best and worst photographs.
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In this video I'll introduce my 'Beginner's Guide to Photoshop Elements 9' series available on this site. I'll use the time to set out the course, discuss what I'll teach and help you understand the overall objective and aim of the series. This is the 1st and shortest video out of the 86 available.
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Today I’m pleased to announce the release of my 10 hour video series ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Elements 9’ via digital download with a DVD version coming in the next few days.
The course focuses on all the key Elements of the software, right from importing and tagging images in the Organiser to printing and exporting in the Full Edit Mode. To browse the course, view sample videos or purchase the download/DVD please click the link below.
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Over the past few months I’ve been thinking about re-recording my popular video series ‘A Beginner’s Guide to Photoshop Elements’, updating it from version 6 to 9. It’s a lot of work so it wasn’t a decision I could take lightly, as not only would I need to update parts of the course that had changed through the versions, but also add additional content on other essential commands and new features that came along with version 9.
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Every image taken on a digital camera contains some degree of noise, or random variations of pixels. Mostly evident in low light images, noise can affect a photograph in the same way as a bad reception can affect a television set. It's distracting and while impossible to remove completely, can be reduced through the affective use of the Reduce Noise Filter in Photoshop Elements. In this tutorial I'll show you what noise is, and how to tackle it.
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If you’re a photographer, or a regular user of the levels command in Photoshop, you’ll be familiar with a histogram. Photographers know how to read the tone of the shot from it, ensuring the right balance of shadows, midtones and highlights. Users of the levels command will tell of a similar use, but rather than it balancing out the tone before a photograph, they’ll tell an equally important story of using it once the photograph is taken and the image downloaded to their computer. Yes, the story of post processing.
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If you have a wide-angle lense you'll know all about the appeal of panoramas to make for spectacular photographs, luckily, you don't need any specialised kit to make your own. In this tutorial I'll show you how to use the photomerge command to create your own, and as you'll bear witness - it works rather well!
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If you don't have Photoshop, or are contemplating an upgrade, the best path to take is a fully functional trial version. If you're not sure if Photoshop, Photoshop Elements or even Photoshop Lightroom is going to serve your purpose, or you want to compare and balance out which variation best suits your specific needs, or even if you just want to play around and figure out if image editing is for you - my top tip would be to download a trial version. In this article I'll show you how it's done, completely legally and with Adobe's blessings.
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A few weeks ago I stepped down from my position of moderator at photoshopforums.com to focus on other things including writing and recording more tutorials for this site. During my 27 months at PhotoshopForums.com I wrote 13 quick-fire tutorials for the Tutorials and Featured Tips section, some of them, I'm pleased to say, receiving over 5000 views. |
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