A Quick Tour of Photoshop Elements
- Feb 13, 2009
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- A Quick Tour of Photoshop Elements
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- Animating Layers in After Effects CS3
- Keying in After Effects CS3
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- Using Garbage Masks in Adobe After Effects CS4
- Applying Selection Techniques in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Stitching a Panorama in Adobe Photoshop CS4
- Using Adobe After Effects CS4: Creating Compositions in Device Central
- Guidelines for Creating Print-Ready PDF Files in Adobe Acrobat 9
- Keyframing a Motion Path in Adobe After Effects CS4
- Reviewing Images in Lightroom 2
- Working with 3D Content in Adobe Acrobat 9
- Applying a Gradient to a Layer in Adobe Photoshop CS4
- Converting Web Pages to Adobe PDF
- Getting to Know the After Effects CS3 Workflow
- Working with Bookmarks in Adobe Acrobat 9
- Using Adobe ConnectNow to Collaborate in Online Meetings
- Replacing Colors in an Image in Adobe Photoshop CS4
- Working with the Color Guide Panel in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Using Adobe Creative Suite 4: Presenting the Prototype Website to the Client
- Reshaping Text with an Envelope Warp in Adobe Illustrator CS4
- Using Adobe Creative Suite 4 to Add Interactive Elements to an Online Document
- Managing Media in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
- Controlling Movie Clip Properties with ActionScript 3.0
- Creating Tables in Dreamweaver CS4
- Exploring the InDesign CS4 Workspace
- Positioning Flash CS4 Objects in 3D Space
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- Using a Tapeless Workflow in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4
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- Animating Text in Adobe After Effects 7.0
- Getting to Know the LiveMotion Work Area
- Adding Transitions in Premiere
- Designing Adobe GoLive Web Pages
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Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 Classroom in a Book
This lesson will familiarize you with the Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 workspace and provide you with an overview of the tools and procedures you’ll use to capture and edit your digital images.
As you work through the exercises in this lesson you’ll be introduced to the following basic skills and concepts:
- Working with the Organizer and the Editor
- Attaching media
- Using the Photo Downloader
- Reviewing and comparing photos
- Sending photos in e-mail
- Using Photoshop Elements Help
You’ll probably need between one and two hours to complete this lesson.
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How Photoshop Elements works
Photoshop Elements has two primary workspaces: the Organizer and the Editor. You’ll use the Organizer to locate, import, manage, and share your photos and media files, and the Editor for editing and adjusting your images and for creating presentations to showcase them.
About the Photoshop Elements workspaces
Once you’ve imported and selected a photo in the Organizer, you can open it in the Editor workspace by clicking the Editor
button (
) located near the top right corner of the Organizer window, and then choosing Quick Fix, Full Edit, or Guided Edit from the
menu.
While you’re working in the Editor, click the Organizer button (
) located near the top right corner of the Editor window to open the Organizer workspace.
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Once both the Organizer and the Editor windows are open, you can also move quickly between the two workspaces by clicking on the corresponding buttons in the Windows task bar at the bottom of your screen.
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The Organizer workspace
In the Organizer workspace, the main work area is the Photo Browser pane where you can find, sort, and organize your photos and media files and preview the presentations you create to share them. At the right of the Organizer window is the Task pane, including the Organize, Fix, Create, and Share panels.
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The Photo Browser pane can display a single photo or media file or show thumbnails of all the files in your catalog arranged in a variety of ways. Display your files sorted by import batch, folder location, or keywords—or if you prefer viewing your photos and media files by date, the Organizer includes a Date View workspace that lets you work with your files in a calendar format.
The Photo Browser makes it easy to browse through all the photos and assets in your catalog in one comprehensive window. It can even show previews of files that you keep stored remotely—on a CD or other removable media.
In the Organize panel of the Task pane you can sort and manage your photos by applying keyword tags and arranging them in albums. The Fix panel offers tools for the most common photographic editing tasks, such as color correction and red eye removal. (For more complex editing tasks, you’ll switch to the Editor workspace by choosing Quick Fix, Full Edit, or Guided Edit from the Editor menu.) Use the Create panel to put together projects and presentations—from greeting cards to slide shows—and the Share panel to share your files with friends, family, clients or the world at large by burning a CD or DVD, sending your photos as e-mail attachments or photo mail layouts, or creating an online album.
The Editor workspace
In the Editor you’ll focus on editing, adjusting, and correcting your images and creating projects and presentations to showcase them. You can choose between the Full Edit mode—with tools for color correction, special effects, and image enhancement—the Quick Fix mode with simple tools and commands to quickly fix common image problems, and the Guided Edit mode, which provides step-by-step instructions for editing tasks.
If you are new to digital imaging, the Quick Fix and Guided Edit modes make a good starting point for adjusting and correcting your photos.
If you’ve worked with image editing software before, you’ll find that the Full Edit mode provides a more powerful and versatile image editing environment, with commands for correcting exposure and color and tools to help you make precise selections and fix image imperfections. The Full Edit tool bar also includes painting and text editing tools. You can arrange the Full Edit workspace to suit the way you prefer to work by moving, hiding, and showing palettes or arranging them in the Palette Bin. You can zoom in or out of a photo and set up multiple windows and views.
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Using the Palette Bin
In the Full Edit workspace, the Palette Bin of provides a convenient location to store and manage the palettes you use for image editing tasks. By default, only the Effects and Layers palettes are placed in the Palette Bin. Other palettes that you choose from the Window menu are opened in the work area. These are known as floating palettes. You can decide which palettes float and which will be stored in the Palette Bin.
To add floating palettes to the Palette Bin- Choose Window > [palette name] to open the palette you wish to place in the Palette Bin.
- Drag the palette to the Palette Bin by its name tab. Dragging the palette by the bar across the top of the palette window simply repositions the palette without placing it in the Palette Bin.
Another way to add a floating palette to the Palette Bin is to choose Place In Palette Bin When Closed from the palette menu (accessed by clicking the triangle circled in the illustration below}, and then close the palette window.
To remove palettes from the Palette Bin or close palettes)
- Remove a palette from the Palette Bin by dragging the it into the main work area by its title bar.
- Open the palette menu and disable the option Place In Palette Bin When Closed.
- To close a palette, choose Window > [palette name], or click the close box (
) in the top right corner of a floating palette. When a palette is visible, a check mark is displayed adjacent to the palette’s
name in the Window menu; selecting a palette name that shows a check mark causes the palette window to be closed.
Adjust the size of palettes in the Palette Bin by doing either or both of the following:
- Drag the triangle in the left border of the Palette Bin to adjust its width.
- Drag the separator bars between palettes up or down to adjust the height of a palette.
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