by Barbara Obermeier and Ted Padova
Bring Out The Best in Your Photos Using Elements and This FULL COLOR Guides!
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| Photoshop Elements 5 For Dummies |
Barbara Obermeier: Barbara Obermeier is principal of Obermeier Design, a
graphics design studio in Ventura, California. She’s the author of Photoshop
CS2 All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies and has contributed as author
or coauthor on numerous books on Photoshop, Illustrator, and PowerPoint.
Barb is also a faculty member in the Visual Communication Department
at Brooks Institute of Photography.
Ted Padova: In addition to writing several books on Adobe Photoshop and
Adobe Illustrator, Ted is the world’s leading author of books on Adobe Acrobat.
He is also a coauthor of Adobe Creative Suite Bible and Adobe Creative Suite 2
Bible (Wiley), Color Correction For Digital Photographers Only (Wiley), and Color
Management for Digital Photographers For Dummies (Wiley). Ted spends most
of his time writing and speaking at conferences and expos nationally and internationally.
Authors’ Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank our excellent project editor, Kim Darosett,
who kept us and this book on track; Bob Woerner, our great Sr. Acquisitions
Editor; Andy Cummings, Dummies Royalty; Dennis Cohen, technical editing
wizard, who made what we wrote sound better; and all the dedicated production
staff at Wiley. Additionally, we would like to thank Don Mason of
Don Mason Photography (Bakersfield, California) for helping us out with
some tone corrections and for his expert advice on digital color correction.
Barbara Obermeier: A special thanks to Ted Padova, my coauthor, and
friend, who always reminds me there is still a 1-in-53-million chance that we can win the lottery.
Ted Padova: My first choice always in coauthoring a book is to do the job
with Barbara Obermeier. There’s no one I’d rather work with, and I thank
Barbara for initially putting together this project and asking me to join her.
Introduction
What was once a consumer-grade, low-level program for beginning image
editors and a junior cousin to the powerful Adobe Photoshop program
has evolved and matured to stand on its own merits now in version 5.0 for
Windows. As of this writing, Elements is available on the Mac in version 4.
You won’t find much comparison between Adobe Photoshop Elements and
Adobe Photoshop in this book, nor will you see any suggestions that you
should consider using Photoshop for one thing or another. We don’t make
suggestions, simply because Photoshop Elements is a powerful tool that satisfies
many needs of amateurs and professionals alike.
Who should buy Elements (and, ultimately, this book)? The range of people
who can benefit from using Elements is wide and includes a vast audience.
From beginning image editors to intermediate users to more advanced amateurs
and professionals, Elements has something for everyone. We’ll even stick our
necks out a little and suggest that many Photoshop users can benefit greatly
by adding Elements to their software tool cabinets. Why? Because Elements
offers some wonderful creation tools that Photoshop hasn’t yet dreamed of
supporting. For example, in Photoshop Elements 5 on Windows, you can
create post cards, greeting cards, calendars, and photo albums with just a
few mouse clicks. You can place orders with online service centers that professionally
print your photo creations. All these opportunities are available in
Elements, and we cover these and many more creation ideas in Chapters 15 and 16.
The downside to the Photoshop Elements program is that version 5 is supported
only in Windows. Adobe was a little late in releasing a Macintosh
version, which now is released only in version 4. Whether we see version 5
for the Mac is yet to be seen. You may find version 5 released by Adobe after
this book has been published. However, all the references to the Organizer
in this book apply only to Windows. Adobe left the file management options
to iPhoto in the Mac version, and you can expect a Photoshop Elements 5
version for the Mac to continue with iPhoto file handling. In the meantime,
we did our best to write this book with a cross-platform audience in mind.
To set your frame of mind to thinking in Photoshop Elements terms, don’t think
of the program as a scaled-down version of Adobe Photoshop. Those days are
gone. If you’re a digital photographer and you shoot your pictures in JPEG or
Camera Raw format, Elements has the tools for you to open, edit, and massage
your pictures into professional images. If you worry about color profile
embedding, forget it. Elements can handle the task for you, as we explain in
Chapter 4, where we talk about Camera Raw, and in Chapter 14, where we talk
about color profiling and printing. For the professional, Photoshop Elements
has just about everything you need to create final images for color printing and commercial printing.
If you’re a beginner or an intermediate user, you’ll find some of the Photoshop
Elements quick-fix operations a breeze to use to help you enhance your images,
as we explain in Chapters 9 and 10. And, when it comes time for you to print
some homemade greeting cards, calendars, and photo albums — whether
you’re a beginner, an intermediate user, or a professional user — Elements
provides you with easy-to-follow steps to package your creations,
as we cover in Chapters 15 and 16.
About This Book
This book is an effort to provide, in about 400 pages, as much of a comprehensive
view of a wildly feature-rich program as we can. There’s a lot to
Elements, and we try to offer you as much as possible within our limited
amount of space. We begged for more pages, but alas, our publisher wants
to get this book in your hands in full color and with an attractive price tag.
Therefore, even though we may skip over a few little things, all you need to
know about using Photoshop Elements for designing images for print, sharing,
Web hosting, versatile packaging, e-mailing, and more is covered in the pages ahead.
As we said, Photoshop Elements has something for just about everyone.
Hence, we know that our audience is large and that not everyone will use
every tool, command, or method described in this book. Therefore, we added
a lot of cross-references in the text, in case you want to jump around. You can
go to just about any chapter and start reading; and, if some concept needs more explanation,
we point you in the right direction for getting some background when it’s necessary.
Conventions Used in This Book
Throughout this book, we point you to menus where commands are accessed
frequently. A couple of things to remember are the references for where to go
when we detail steps in a procedure. For accessing a menu command, you
may see a sentence like this one:
Choose File➪Get Photos➪From Files and Folders.
When you see commands like this one mentioned, we’re asking you to click
the File menu to open the drop-down menu, click the menu command labeled
Get Photos, and then choose the command From Files and Folders from the
submenu that appears.
Another convention we use refers to context menus. A context menu jumps
up at your cursor position and shows you a menu similar to the menu you
select at the top of the Elements workspace. To open a context menu, click
the right mouse button. On the Mac, press the Control key and click the
mouse to open a context menu.
A third item relates to using keystrokes on your keyboard. When we mention
that some keys need to be pressed on your keyboard, the text is described
like this:
Press Alt+Shift+Ctrl+S (Option+Shift+Ô+S on the Mac).
In this case, you hold down the Alt key on Windows (or the Option key on
the Mac), the Shift key, and the Control key in Windows (or the Ô key on the
Mac) and then press the S key. Then release all the keys at the same time.
How This Book Is Organized
This book is divided into logical parts where related features are nested
together in chapters within six different parts of the book:
Part I: Getting Started
If you just bought a digital camera and you’re new to image editing in a program
like Photoshop Elements, you’re probably tempted to jump into fixing
and editing your pictures. The essentials usually aren’t the most exciting
part of any program or book. That’s true with this book, too: The more mundane
issues related to understanding some basics are assembled in the first
three chapters. Although some bits of information aren’t as exciting as in
many other chapters, you must understand them before you start editing
images. Be sure to review the first three chapters before you dive into the other chapters.
In Part I, we talk about the tools, menus, commands, preferences, workspaces,
and features that help you move around easily in the program.
The more you pick up in the preliminary chapters, the more easily you can
adapt to the Elements way of working.
Part II: Getting Organized
In Part II, we talk about getting photos in Elements, organizing your files,
searching for files, and grouping your photos, and we give you much more
information related to the Photoshop Elements Organizer. The Organizer is
your central workplace, and knowing a great deal about using the Organizer
window helps you move around much faster in the program.
Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos
Part III relates to creating and manipulating selections. There’s a lot to making
selections in photos, but after you figure it out (by reading Chapter 7), you
can cut out a figure in a picture and drop it into another picture, drop different
backgrounds into pictures, or isolate an area that needs some brightness
and contrast adjustment. In Chapter 8, we talk about layers and how to create
and manage them in Elements. In many other chapters, we refer you to
Chapter 8 because you need to work with layers for many other tasks you do in Elements.
In Chapter 9, we talk about fixing image flaws and problems. That picture you
took with your digital camera may be underexposed or overexposed, or it
may need some work to remove dust and scratches. Maybe it needs a little
sharpening, or some other imperfection requires editing. All the know-hows
and how-tos are in this chapter.
In Chapter 10, we cover how to correct color problems, brightness, and contrast.
We show you ways to quickly fix photos as well as some methods for
custom image corrections.
Part IV: Exploring Your Inner Artist
This part is designed to bring out the artist in you. Considering the easy application
of Elements filter effects, you can turn a photo image into a drawing or
apply a huge number of different effects to change the look of your image.
In Chapter 12, we talk about drawing and painting so that you can let your
artistic expression run wild. We follow up in Chapter 13 by talking about
adding text to photos so that you can create your own layouts, posters, cards, and more.
Part V: Printing, Creating, and Sharing
One critical chapter in this book is Chapter 14, where we talk about printing
your pictures. If your prints don’t look the way they do on your monitor, you
need to read and reread this chapter.
If screen viewing is of interest to you, we cover in Chapter 15 a number of
different options for viewing your pictures on-screen. For slide shows,
Web-hosted images, animated images, photo viewing on your TV, and even
creating movie files, this chapter shows you the many ways you can view
your Elements images on-screen.
We wrap up this part with Chapter 16, in which we describe how to make creations
and share files. You have a number of different options for making
creations to share or print.
Part VI: The Part of Tens
We wrap up this book with the Part of Tens chapters. We offer ten tips for
composing better images and give you ten more project ideas to try with Elements.
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Contents at a Glance
Introduction
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Work Area
Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Edit
Chapter 3: Working with Resolutions, Color Modes, and File Formats
Part II: Getting Organized
Chapter 4: Getting Your Images
Chapter 5: Viewing and Finding Your Images
Chapter 6: Organizing and Managing Your Photos
Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos
Chapter 7: Making and Modifying Selections
Chapter 8: Working with Layers
Chapter 9: Simple Image Makeovers
Chapter 10: Correcting Contrast, Color, and Clarity
Part IV: Exploring Your Inner Artist
Chapter 11: Playing with Filters, Effects, Styles, and More
Chapter 12: Drawing and Painting
Chapter 13: Working with Type
Part V: Printing, Creating, and Sharing
Chapter 14: Getting It on Paper
Chapter 15: Showing It On-Screen
Chapter 16: Making Creations and Sharing
Part VI: The Part of Tens
Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Composing Better Photos
Chapter 18: Ten More Project Ideas
Index
Table of Contents
Introduction.......
About This Book.........
Conventions Used in This Book ....
How This Book Is Organized.............
Part I: Getting Started ............
Part II: Getting Organized .....
Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos ..
Part IV: Exploring Your Inner Artist ...
Part V: Printing, Creating, and Sharing ....
Part VI: The Part of Tens ............
Icons Used in This Book.........
Where to Go from Here....
Part I: Getting Started .....................7
Chapter 1: Getting to Know the Work Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Getting Around in Full Edit Mode.................................................................10
Jumping to Full Edit mode...................................................................10
Examining the Image window .............................................................10
Moving through the menu bar............................................................14
Uncovering the context menus...........................................................15
Using the Tools palette ........................................................................16
Playing with palettes............................................................................17
Selecting tool options from the Options bar ....................................17
Juggling all your interface options.....................................................17
Looking at the Shortcuts bar ..............................................................18
Changing Workspaces....................................................................................19
Using Quick Fix mode ..........................................................................19
Using Creation Wizards .......................................................................21
Using the Photo Bin .......................................................................................22
Creating different views of an image..................................................22
Hiding the Photo Bin............................................................................23
Retracing Your Steps .....................................................................................23
Using the Undo History palette ..........................................................23
Reverting to the last save....................................................................24
Getting a Helping Hand..................................................................................25
Using Help .............................................................................................25
Using PDFs from the installation CD ..................................................26
Using ToolTips ......................................................................................26
Using the How To palette ....................................................................26
Taking Charge with Shortcuts ......................................................................27
Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Controlling the Editing Environment...........................................................29
Launching and navigating Preferences..............................................30
Checking out all the Preferences panes ............................................31
Controlling the Organizing Environment (Windows only)........................32
Understanding the Photoshop Elements Organizer ........................33
Navigating Organize & Share preferences.........................................33
Setting preferences in all the panes ...................................................34
Customizing Presets ......................................................................................35
Getting Familiar with Color...........................................................................36
Introducing color channels .................................................................36
Understanding bit depth .....................................................................37
Getting Color Right ........................................................................................39
Calibrating your monitor.....................................................................39
Choosing a color workspace...............................................................40
Understanding how profiles work......................................................41
Chapter 3: Working with Resolutions,
Color Modes, and File Formats . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
The Ubiquitous Pixels....................................................................................44
Understanding resolution ...................................................................44
Understanding image dimensions......................................................46
The Art of Resampling...................................................................................46
Changing image size and resolution ..................................................46
Understanding the results of resampling..........................................49
Choosing a Resolution for Print or On-Screen ...........................................50
Go Ahead — Make My Mode!........................................................................50
Converting to bitmap mode................................................................51
Converting to grayscale mode............................................................53
Converting to indexed color mode ....................................................56
Saving Files with Purpose .............................................................................57
Using the Save/Save As dialog box.....................................................57
Saving files for the Web .......................................................................58
Understanding file formats..................................................................58
File formats at a glance........................................................................64
Audio and video formats supported in Elements ............................66
Part II: Getting Organized.........................67
Chapter 4: Getting Your Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Digital Cameras versus Scanners and Film Cameras.................................70
Grabbing Images from Your Camera............................................................71
Choosing a file format..........................................................................71
Using the Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard (Windows)........72
Using Adobe Photo Download Manager............................................73
Resizing images from digital cameras ...............................................76
Using a Scanner ..............................................................................................76
Preparing before you scan ..................................................................76
Understanding image requirements...................................................77
Using scanner plug-ins.........................................................................78
Scanning many photos at a time ........................................................79
Getting Files from Storage Media .................................................................80
Using Online Services....................................................................................81
Phoning In Your Images.................................................................................81
Creating Images from Scratch ......................................................................82
Everything You Want to Know about Camera Raw....................................85
Understanding Camera Raw................................................................85
Acquiring Camera Raw images ...........................................................86
Chapter 5: Viewing and Finding Your Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
The Many Faces of the Organizer ................................................................93
Adding files to the default Organizer view ........................................94
Viewing photos in a slideshow (Full Screen view)...........................95
Moving Around the Image Window............................................................100
Zooming in and out of images...........................................................100
Viewing multiple documents ............................................................103
Using Pan and Zoom ..........................................................................104
Using the Navigator palette ..............................................................105
Sorting Your Photos.....................................................................................105
Using sort commands........................................................................106
Sorting media types ...........................................................................106
Using Search Options ..................................................................................107
Searching by date ...............................................................................107
Searching for untagged items ...........................................................108
Searching collections.........................................................................108
Searching captions and notes...........................................................108
Searching by history..........................................................................109
Searching metadata............................................................................109
Searching faces ...................................................................................110
Chapter 6: Organizing and Managing Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Organizing Groups of Images with Collections ........................................112
Creating a new collection ..................................................................112
Working with collections ...................................................................113
Cataloging Files ............................................................................................114
Splitting a big catalog into smaller catalogs ...................................115
Importing photos to a new catalog ..................................................116
Switching to a different catalog ........................................................116
Tag — You’re It! ............................................................................................116
Creating new tags ...............................................................................118
Creating new categories ....................................................................119
Creating new subcategories..............................................................120
Assigning and managing tags............................................................121
Hiding Files That Get in the Way ................................................................122
Stack ’em up........................................................................................122
Creating versions................................................................................124
Sticking Digital Notes on Your Photos.......................................................125
Automating Your Organization...................................................................125
Automating common tasks when you export.................................125
Renaming files.....................................................................................129
Protecting Your Photos ...............................................................................129
Part III: Selecting and Correcting Photos ....................131
Chapter 7: Making and Modifying Selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133
Defining Selections.......................................................................................133
Creating Rectangular and Elliptical Selections.........................................134
Perfecting squares and circles with Shift and Alt (Option) ..........135
Applying marquee options................................................................136
Making Freeform Selections with the Lasso Tools...................................138
Selecting with the Lasso tool ............................................................138
Getting straight with the Polygonal Lasso tool ..............................140
Snapping with the Magnetic Lasso tool...........................................141
Working Wizardry with the Magic Wand...................................................143
Talking about tolerance.....................................................................143
Wielding the wand to select..............................................................144
Modifying Your Selections ..........................................................................145
Adding to a selection .........................................................................145
Subtracting from a selection.............................................................146
Intersecting two selections ...............................................................146
Avoiding key collisions ......................................................................146
Painting with the Selection Brush..............................................................146
Painting with the Magic Selection Brush ..................................................149
Working with the Cookie Cutter Tool ........................................................151
Eliminating with the Eraser Tools..............................................................152
The Eraser tool ...................................................................................153
The Background Eraser tool .............................................................153
The Magic Eraser tool........................................................................154
Using the Magic Extractor Command........................................................155
Using the Select Menu .................................................................................157
Selecting all or nothing ......................................................................157
Reselecting a selection ......................................................................158
Inversing a selection ..........................................................................158
Feathering a selection........................................................................158
Using the Modify commands ............................................................159
Applying the Grow and Similar commands.....................................159
Saving and loading selections...........................................................160
Chapter 8: Working with Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161
Getting to Know Layers ...............................................................................161
Anatomy of a Layers palette .............................................................163
Using the Layer and Select menus ...................................................166
Working with Different Layer Types ..........................................................167
Image layers ........................................................................................168
Adjustment layers ..............................................................................168
Fill layers .............................................................................................170
Shape layers........................................................................................172
Type layers..........................................................................................173
Tackling Layer Basics ..................................................................................173
Creating a new layer from scratch ...................................................173
Using Layer via Copy and Layer via Cut..........................................174
Duplicating layers...............................................................................174
Dragging and dropping layers...........................................................175
Using the Paste into Selection command........................................176
Moving a Layer’s Content............................................................................177
Transforming Layers....................................................................................177
Flattening and Merging Layers ...................................................................178
Merging layers ....................................................................................179
Flattening layers .................................................................................179
Chapter 9: Simple Image Makeovers . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . .181
Cropping and Straightening Images...........................................................181
Cutting away with the Crop tool.......................................................181
Cropping with a selection border.....................................................183
Straightening images..........................................................................183
Using the Divide Scanned Photos command ..................................185
Employing One-Step Auto Fixes .................................................................186
Auto Smart Fix ....................................................................................186
Auto Levels..........................................................................................187
Auto Contrast......................................................................................187
Auto Color Correction .......................................................................188
Auto Sharpen ......................................................................................189
Auto Red Eye Fix.................................................................................189
Editing with Quick Fix..................................................................................191
Cloning with the Clone Stamp Tool ...........................................................193
Retouching with the Healing Brush ...........................................................195
Zeroing In with the Spot Healing Brush ....................................................197
Lightening and Darkening with Dodge and Burn Tools...........................199
Smudging Away Rough Spots .....................................................................200
Softening with the Blur Tool .......................................................................202
Focusing with the Sharpen Tool.................................................................203
Sponging Color On and Off .........................................................................203
Replacing One Color with Another ............................................................205
Chapter 10: Correcting Contrast, Color, and Clarity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .207
Adjusting Lighting ........................................................................................208
Fixing lighting with Shadows/Highlights .........................................208
Using Brightness/Contrast ................................................................209
Pinpointing proper contrast with Levels ........................................210
Adjusting Color.............................................................................................212
Removing color casts automatically................................................213
Adjusting with Hue/Saturation .........................................................214
Eliminating color with Remove Color..............................................216
Switching colors with Replace Color ...............................................216
Correcting with Color Curves...........................................................219
Adjusting skin tones...........................................................................219
Defringing layers.................................................................................222
Correcting with Color Variations......................................................223
Adjusting color temperature with photo filters .............................225
Mapping your colors..........................................................................227
Adjusting Clarity...........................................................................................228
Removing noise, artifacts, dust, and scratches..............................229
Blurring when you need to................................................................230
Sharpening for better focus ..............................................................232
Part IV: Exploring Your Inner Artist ............................235
Chapter 11: Playing with Filters, Effects, Styles, and More . . . . . . . .237
Having Fun with Filters................................................................................237
Applying filters ...................................................................................238
Corrective or destructive filters .......................................................239
One-step or multistep filters .............................................................239
Giving a filter an encore.....................................................................239
Fading a filter ......................................................................................240
Selectively applying a filter ...............................................................240
Working in the Filter Gallery.......................................................................241
Distorting with the Liquify Filter................................................................243
Correcting Camera Distortion ....................................................................246
Dressing Up with Photo and Text Effects..................................................248
Adding Shadows, Glows, and More............................................................250
Applying layer styles..........................................................................250
Working with layer styles ..................................................................252
Mixing It Up with Blend Modes ..................................................................253
General blend modes .........................................................................253
Darken blend modes ..........................................................................254
Lighten blend modes .........................................................................254
Lighting blend modes ........................................................................255
Inverter blend modes.........................................................................257
HSL blend modes................................................................................257
Using Photomerge Panorama .....................................................................258
Chapter 12: Drawing and Painting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .261
Choosing Color.............................................................................................261
Working with the Color Picker..........................................................262
Dipping into the Color Swatches palette.........................................263
Sampling with the Eyedropper tool .................................................264
Getting Artsy with the Pencil and Brush Tools ........................................266
Drawing with the Pencil tool.............................................................266
Painting with the Brush tool .............................................................268
Creating your own brush...................................................................269
Using the Impressionist Brush .........................................................270
Filling and Outlining Selections..................................................................271
Fill ’er up..............................................................................................272
Outlining with the Stroke command ................................................273
Splashing On Color with the Paint Bucket Tool .......................................274
Working with Multicolored Gradients .......................................................274
Applying a preset gradient................................................................275
Customizing gradients .......................................................................276
Working with Patterns .................................................................................279
Applying a preset pattern..................................................................279
Creating a new pattern ......................................................................279
Creating Shapes of All Sorts........................................................................280
Drawing a shape .................................................................................281
Drawing multiple shapes...................................................................282
Specifying geometry options ............................................................282
Editing shapes.....................................................................................284
Chapter 13: Working with Type . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .285
Understanding Type Basics ........................................................................285
Creating Point Type .....................................................................................287
Creating Paragraph Type ............................................................................288
Specifying Type Options .............................................................................289
Editing Text ...................................................................................................293
Simplifying Type...........................................................................................293
Masking with Type .......................................................................................294
Stylizing and Warping Type ........................................................................297
Adjusting type opacity.......................................................................297
Applying filters to your type .............................................................297
Painting your type with color and gradients ..................................298
Warping your type..............................................................................299
Part V: Printing, Creating, and Sharing.......................301
Chapter 14: Getting It on Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
Getting Pictures Ready for Printing ...........................................................304
Working with Color Printer Profiles...........................................................304
Understanding how Elements uses color profiles..........................305
Converting color to a printer profile................................................305
Printing to Epson Inkjet Printers................................................................310
Automatic profile selection for Epson printers ..............................311
Selecting a printer profile..................................................................315
Printing with a custom profile ..........................................................317
Printing to HP Inkjet Printers......................................................................318
Printing to HP printers in Windows .................................................319
Printing to HP printers on the Macintosh .......................................319
Printing to Canon Printers ..........................................................................320
Printing to Canon printers in Windows...........................................320
Printing to Canon printers on the Mac............................................322
Submitting Files to Service Centers...........................................................322
Using Online Printing Services ...................................................................324
Exploring Other Print Options ...................................................................326
Chapter 15: Showing It On-Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327
Getting Familiar with the Elements Sharing and Printing Options ........327
Creating a Slide Show ..................................................................................328
Creating a project ...............................................................................329
Exporting to slides and video ...........................................................332
Opening multipage PDF files in Elements........................................333
Writing Creations to CDs and DVDs...........................................................334
Creating a Flash Gallery ..............................................................................336
Flip ’Em Over with Flipbooks......................................................................339
Chapter 16: Making Creations and Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .341
Getting a Grip on Assembling Creations ...................................................341
Creating the Family Photo Album ..............................................................343
Greetings! ......................................................................................................344
Calendars ......................................................................................................346
Creating Personal Postage Stamps ............................................................347
Creating CD and DVD Labels ......................................................................348
Spreading the Love Through Sharing ........................................................348
Ordering prints online .......................................................................348
E-mailing creations.............................................................................349
Part VI: The Part of Tens ................351
Chapter 17: Ten Tips for Composing Better Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .353
Find a Focal Point.........................................................................................353
Use the Rule of Thirds .................................................................................355
Cut the Clutter ..............................................................................................355
Frame Your Shot...........................................................................................357
Employ Contrast...........................................................................................357
Using Leading Lines .....................................................................................358
Experiment with Viewpoints.......................................................................358
Use Light........................................................................................................359
Giving Direction............................................................................................361
Consider Direction of Movement ...............................................................362
Chapter 18: Ten More Project Ideas . . . . . . . . . .363
Wallpaper and Screen Savers .....................................................................363
Flyers, Ads, and Online Auctions ...............................................................364
Clothes, Hats, and More ..............................................................................366
Posters...........................................................................................................366
Household and Business Inventories ........................................................367
Project Documentation ...............................................................................367
School Reports and Projects ......................................................................368
Wait — There’s More ...................................................................................368
Index........................................................................369
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