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1 Photoshop Elements for Genealogists Part 1 By Barry J. Ewell Topics Covered Photoshop Elements Workspace Exploring the Tools Quick Fix Preview

2 Photoshop Elements Workspace

3 Workspace File Edit Image Enhance Layer Select Filter View Window Help Take particular note that many of the commands have a keyboard shortcut that will enact that menu option immediately For example, Ctrl+S By holding down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and simultaneously pressing the S key will save your document

4 Workspace File Edit Image Enhance Layer Select Filter View Window Help File/Open You'll note that many menu commands are not available until you use this command to open an image

5 Workspace File Edit Image Enhance Layer Select Filter View Window Help File/New You can also create an empty canvas to compose a new image from scratch Try something about 500 x 500 pixels if you want to experiment

6 Workspace File Edit Image Enhance Layer Select Filter View Window Help Edit/Preferences You can reset most of the defaults here, so if you find yourself changing a particular option over and over again, this can help

7 Workspace File Edit Image Enhance Layer Select Filter View Window Help Edit/Undo (Ctrl+Z) Everyone makes mistakes Undo makes it as if your mistakes never happened

8 Workspace File Edit Image Enhance Layer Select Filter View Window Help Enhance The Enhance menu contains a number of tools for making digital photos look better

9 Workspace File Edit Image Enhance Layer Select Filter View Window Help Window If you can not find a palette, there is a list of all of them under this menu A check mark means it's already visible on the screen, so clicking it again will make it disappear

10 Workspace Shortcut 2 Menu

11 Workspace Options 3 Bar Auto Select Layer Show Bounding Box Show Highlight on Rollover Arrange Align Distribution

12 Workspace Tool Bar 4

13 Workspace Any tool with a triangle in the lower right corner will reveal variations on that tool if you click and hold or right click on it

14 Workspace When the mouse cursor is hovered over a tool, a tag will appear to show you the name of the tool

15 Workspace Most of the tags can also link to the explanation of the tool

16 Workspace Floating 5 Palette

17 Workspace Docked 6 Palettes

18 Workspace File Edit Image Enhance Layer Select Filter View Window Help All of the palettes can be opened under Window men

19 Workspace Effects Special effects that can be applied to an image. When used, they can make an image look like a sketch, or being

20 Workspace Effects When used, they can make an image look like a sketch, or being

21 Workspace Layers One of the most powerful features of both Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, the Layers palette allows you to control the order and interactions between layers

22 Exploring the Tools

23 Exploring the tools The Move Tool is used to move elements from one area to another

24 Exploring the tools When you hover over a tool, a tool tag will appear right below the selected tool The keyboard shortcut of the tool ( C" in this case) and a link will lead you to the help tips for the particular tool

25 Exploring the tools Click on your image using the Zoom Tool to zoom in one level.

26 Exploring the tools The Hand Tool is an alternative to the scroll bars

27 Exploring the tools The Eyedropper Tool takes whatever pixel is clicked on, measures the color there, and makes that color the foreground color

28 Exploring the tools The Marquee Tools are used to create selections Selections are a way of telling PSE that you want to act only on one particular area of the image

29 Exploring the tools The Magic Wand Tool makes selections using math and lets you select a similarly colored area

30 Exploring the tools The Quick Selection Tool will create selections in a more natural way than the other tools Use the Selection Brush Tool to make brush-like selections in an image

31 Exploring the tools The Type Tools are used to add text to the image

32 Exploring the tools The Crop Tool is used to discard excess image areas

33 Exploring the tools The Cookie Cutter Tool let's you cut out parts of your image in a particular shape

34 Exploring the tools The Straighten Tool is used to straighten a skewed image that is resulted from digital capture or scanning in an inappropriate angle

35 Exploring the tools The Red Eye Removal Tool allows you to select an area in the picture where there is a red eye

36 Exploring the tools The Healing Brush & Spot Healing Brush tools fix large and small areas of imperfections when you drag over them

37 Exploring the tools The Clone Tool behaves like a brush, but instead of painting the foreground color it paints pixels from elsewhere in the image

38 Exploring the tools The Eraser Tool will clear out pixels unless they are on the bottom layer

39 Exploring the tools The Brush Tool works just the way you would expect Click and drag on your image to paint the foreground color

40 Exploring the tools The Smart Brush Tools apply tonal and color adjustments to specific areas of the photo

41 Exploring the tools The Paint Bucket Tool works the same way as the magic wand, except that instead of selecting that area, it re-colors the area using your foreground color

42 Exploring the tools The Gradient Tool is used to apply a gradual change from one color to another

43 Exploring the tools The Shape Tools let's you create shapes on your image, everything from squares and circles to word balloons and animal shapes

44 Exploring the tools The Blur Tool will blur all the pixels below it This is a good tool for softening seams when trying to combine two images

45 Exploring the tools The Sponge Tool will pull the color and "life" out of a photograph

46 Exploring the tools The Color Chips are used to determine your foreground and background color

47 Correct Color in Quick Fix

48 Correct Color in Quick Fix Quick Fix conveniently assembles many of the basic photofixing tools in Photoshop Elements As you work in Quick Fix, limit the number of color and lighting controls that you apply to a photo

49 Correct Color in Quick Fix Smart Fix Lighting Color Balance Detail

50 Correct Color in Quick Fix Generally, you use only one of the auto controls on a photo If that control doesn't achieve what you want, click the Reset button and try another one

51 Correct Color in Quick Fix You can also adjust your image using the slider controls, whether you've used an auto control or not Perform the Sharpening fix last on an image

52 Correct Color in Quick Fix Using the Auto Lighten Shadows adjustment in Quick Fix to instantly fix the photo

53 Quick Fix Preview

54 Quick Fix Preview Photoshop Elements enables you to preview how a photo looks after adjustments, before you apply the adjustment to the image Before After

55 Quick Fix Preview Use Quick Fix preview icon to preview how a photo looks after adjustments, before you apply the adjustment to the image Before After For example, you can preview a color change in an image before you apply the change

56 Quick Fix Preview In the Quick Fix panel, make the necessary adjustment using the sliders, and click the Quick Fix preview icon beside the slider You can view thumbnails of the variations available

57 Quick Fix Preview Click the Quick Fix preview icon beside the slider You can view thumbnails of the variations available

58 Quick Fix Preview original Hover the mouse over the thumbnails to preview the adjustment on the photo

59 Quick Fix Preview Click the thumbnail to apply the adjustment on the image temporarily

60 Quick Fix Preview Click the Commit button to save the adjustment, or Cancel to cancel the change

61 Quick Fix Preview To fine-tune a picture using a preview as the starting point, click and hold the mouse button, and then drag right or left

62 Quick Fix Preview Click and hold the mouse button, and then drag right or left

63 Quick Fix Preview Smart Fix Lighting The Quick Fix panel provides the following tools to refine your photos Color Balance Detail

64 Quick Fix Preview Smart Fix Adjusts lighting and color Smart Fix corrects overall color balance and improves shadow and highlight detail, if necessary

65 Quick Fix Preview Click the Auto button to apply this command

66 Quick Fix Preview Amount Drag the slider to vary the amount of the adjustment original

67 Quick Fix Preview Lighting Adjusts the overall contrast of an image, and sometimes affects its color

68 Quick Fix Preview Adjusts the overall contrast of an image, and sometimes affects its color. If your image needs more contrast and it has a color cast, you can use the following two options: Levels Contrast

69 Quick Fix Preview Original Levels (Auto) Contrast (Auto) These options work by individually mapping the lightest and darkest pixels in each color channel to monochrome To apply the settings, click the Auto button beside any of these options

70 Quick Fix Preview Lighting: Lighten Shadows Drag the slider to lighten the darkest areas of your photo without affecting the highlights Pure black areas are not affected

71 Quick Fix Preview Lighting: Lighten Shadows Drag the slider to lighten the darkest areas of your photo without affecting the highlights Pure black areas are not affected

72 Quick Fix Preview Original Mid Level Far Right

73 Quick Fix Preview Lighting: Darken Highlights Drag the slider to darken the lightest areas of your photo without affecting the shadows Pure white areas are not affected

74 Quick Fix Preview Original Mid Level Far Right

75 Quick Fix Preview Lighting: Midtone Contrast Adjusts the contrast within the middle tonal values (values that are about half way between pure white and pure black) It does not affect the extreme highlights and shadows

76 Quick Fix Preview Far left Mid Level Far Right

77 Quick Fix Preview Color Adjusts the color by identifying shadows, midtones, and highlights in the image rather than in individual color channels

78 Quick Fix Preview It neutralizes the midtones, and clips the white and black pixels using a default set of values Click the Auto button to apply this command

79 Quick Fix Preview Color : Saturation Drag the slider to make colors more vivid or more muted

80 Quick Fix Preview Far left Mid Level Far Right

81 Quick Fix Preview Color: Hue Shifts all colors in an image This control is best used in small amounts or with selected objects whose color you want to change

82 Quick Fix Preview Far left Mid Level Far Right

83 Quick Fix Preview Balance Adjusts the color balance of an image without affecting its contrast

84 Quick Fix Preview Balance: Temperature Drag the slider to make the colors warmer (red) or cooler (blue) Use this control to enhance sunsets or skin tones, or when the color balance set by your camera is off

85 Quick Fix Preview Far left Mid Level Far Right

86 Quick Fix Preview Balance: Tint Drag the slider to make the color more green or more magenta Use this control to fine-tune the colors after using the Temperature control

87 Quick Fix Preview Far left Mid Level Far Right

88 Quick Fix Preview Detail Adjusts the sharpness of your image Click Auto to use the default amount of sharpening

89 Quick Fix Preview Click Auto to use the default amount of sharpening

90 Quick Fix Preview Detail: Sharpen Drag the slider to vary the amount of sharpening Zoom your preview at 100% to get a more accurate view of the amount of sharpening you are trying to apply

91 Quick Fix Preview Far left Mid Level Far Right

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