- The Welcome Screen
What is Photoshop Elements?
What is the Welcome Screen and how does it work?
- Importing & Organising Photos
Create your own Catalogue
Import Photographs
Tagging files with keywords
Building image stacks
Creating version sets
Albums Vs Smart albums
Creating Smart Albums
Rotating images
Adjusting preview size of images and files
Moving & collapsing panels
Organizing with the date view
Organizing with the map view
Exploring metadata
Adding GPS data to an image
Viewing larger versions of images
Using the slide show feature
- Touring the Quick Fix and Guided Modes
Opening the Quick Fix & Guided modes
Basic navigational skills
Understanding the workspaces
Basic explanation of the adjustment tools (such as adjusting color, tones and sharpness)
- The Quick Fix Mode in Action
The zooming & panning tools
Using the Smart Fix sliders
Working with the lighting sliders to adjust shadows, midtones & highlights
Adjusting colours with the hue, saturation, tint & temperature sliders
Improving the focus with the sharpening sliders
Comparing the original and improved images side-by-side
Saving into a version set
- Touring the Full Edit Mode
Overview of the full edit workspace
Best practices for viewing images
Understanding the options bar
How the toolbox works
Working with the colour picker
Locating & opening palettes
Understanding how layers work
Using the paintbrush
Undoing (& redoing) mistakes with history
Photoshop’s unlimited effects
- Making Photo’s Look Their Best
Brightening a dark photo using the shadow/highlights command
The meaning of contrast
Using levels to increase contrast and brightness
Using levels to improve the colours in a photograph
Saturating the colours of a image
Creating & using masks to effect sections of an image
Using a soft paintbrush
Understanding adjustment layers
- Selecting, Extracting, Moving, Transforming & Blending
Opening multiple images from the Organizer
Making basic selections
Adding, subtracting and intersecting an existing selection outline
Using the Marquee tools for basic selections
Selecting with the Lasso Tools
Quickly selecting with the Quick Selection Tool
Using the Magic Extractor
Moving selected elements to another image
Moving with the Move Tool
Using Free Transform to change size
Using the blending modes
Erasing unwanted parts of an image
Replacing colour with the Colour Replacement Tool
Changing the opacity of layers
- Retouching, Cropping & Adding Text
Removing image defects using the healing brush
Retouching to separate layers
Cropping an image down to size
The basics of adding text
Resizing a text layer
- Adding Effects & Sharpening
Duplicating layers
Contracting, feathering & inversing a selection outline
Adding a filter to an image
Adding an effect to text
Manually adjusting effects
The basics of sharpening
What to sharpen (what not to sharpen)
Merging visible layers to a new layer
Applying sharpening to the image
- Saving, Sending, Printing & Backing Up
Saving a layer composition as a PSD
Saving a flattened image as a JPEG
Using the ‘Save As’ command
Saving images for the web
Sending an image via email
Changing image size and resolution
The importance of the Image Size dialogue box
Setting up for printing
Final checks for printing
Why colour settings make a difference
Backing up a catalogue for safe keeping
Restoring a catalogue
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The original images as taken from a digital camera and downloaded to a computer. In this series we'll look at correcting colours, tones and contrast as well as extracting the Gorilla and placing him into the same image as the Lion.
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The final composition with improved colours, a better tonal range and styled text as well as a host of other improvements. Watch the series to see how I did it!
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