Missing Manual

Sebastopol : : O'Reilly Media, , 2009.

1 online resource (592 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.. - Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual; About the Creative Team; Acknowledgements; The Missing Manual Series; Introduction; What You Can Do with Elements 6; What&s New in Elements 6; If You Have a Mac; Elements vs. Photoshop; The Key to Learning Elements; About This Book; Elemental Elements; Retouching; Artistic Elements; Sharing your images; Additional Elements; For Newcomers to Elements; The Very Basics; About → These → Arrows; About MissingManuals.com; Safari® Books Online; I. Introduction to Elements; Organizing Your Photos; Editing Your Photos; Panels, Bins, and Palettes. - Making Quick CDs/DVDs3. Rotating and Resizing Your Photos; Straightening Individual Photos; Rotating Your Images; Straightening the Contents of Your Image; Free Rotate; Cropping Pictures; Cropping Your Image to an Exact Size; Cropping with the Marquee Tool; Zooming and Repositioning Your View; The Zoom Tool; The Hand Tool; Changing the Size of Your Image; Resizing for Printing; Adding Canvas; II. Elemental Elements; The Quick Fix Control Panel; Different Views: After vs. Before and After; Editing Your Photos; Smart Fix; Adjusting Lighting and Contrast; Contrast; Shadows and Highlights; Color. - Managing LayersAdjusting Transparency; Locking Layers; Blend Mode; Rearranging Layers; Aligning and Distributing Layers; Grouping and Linking Layers; Grouping layers; Merging and Flattening Layers; Flattening an image; Fill and Adjustment Layers; Layer Masks; Moving Layers Between Images; III. Retouching; Fixing Major Exposure Problems; The Shadows/Highlights Command; Controlling the Colors You See; Choosing a Color Space; Using Levels; Adjusting Levels: The Eyedropper Method; Adjusting Levels: The Slider Controls; Removing Unwanted Color; Using Color Variations; Choosing the Color You Want. - The Eyedropper Tool. - The Palette binSpecial palettes; Getting Help; Escape Routes; Undo History palette; The one rule of Elements; Getting Started in a Hurry; 2. Importing, Managing, and Saving Your Photos; Opening Stored Images; Scanning Photos; Capturing Video Frames; Creating a New File; Choosing Resolution; Choosing Color Mode; Choosing Your File&s Background Contents; Using the Organizer; Creating Categories and Tags; Albums and Smart Albums; Searching for Photos; Using tags and categories to find photos; Searching by Metadata; Saving Your Work; About JPEGs; Changing the File Format; Backing Up Your Files. - Using the Color slidersSharpening; Quick Fix Suggested Workflow; Adjusting Skin Tones; 5. Making Selections; Selecting Rectangular and Elliptical Areas; Selecting Irregularly Sized Areas; Selecting with a Brush; The Selection Brush; The Magic Wand; The Lasso Tools; The Magnetic Lasso; The Polygonal Lasso; Removing Objects from an Image&s Background; Changing and Moving Selections; Making a Selection Larger or Smaller; Moving Selections; Saving Selections; 6. Layers: The Heart of Elements; The Background; Creating Layers; Deleting Layers; Duplicating a Layer; Copying and Cutting from Layers. - With Photoshop Elements 6, the most popular photo-editing program on Earth just keeps getting better. It's perfect for scrapbooking, email-ready slideshows, Web galleries, you name it. But knowing what to do and when is tricky. That's why our Missing Manual is the bestselling book on the topic. This fully revised guide explains not only how the tools and commands work, but when to use them. Photoshop Elements 6 is packed with new features. You get a new Quick Edit function, Windows Vista compatibility, improved RAW conversion, a handy Quick Selection Tool, and more. In fact, t

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