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Migrating To Photoshop Elements 7
Adobe Photoshop is the professional photographers secret tool to creating fantastic photographs yet can be a challenging program to learn. Given the learning curve that Photoshop demands many everyday photographers feel intimidated by the program. Because of this fact, Adobe has introducted Photoshop Elements, a "lite" version of their popular program. Adobe Elements contains many of the same tools and features as Photoshop yet is much easier to learn and master.
What are the benefits of Adobe Elements? Adobe Elements is similar to Photoshop in a variety of ways, including having many of the same tools that are used to manipulate and edit photographs. For instance, in both programs you can fix lighting problems, remove unwanted items, fix red-eye, and create a multitude of projects including scrapbooks, calendars and cards. These are only a few of the similarities between the programs. The main difference between the programs is that Adobe Elements is much easier to learn. This advantage allows the user a quicker start time so they can begin working with their photos almost immediately. With Adobe Photoshop you could spend months learning all the tools and features.
Adobe Elements tutorials: If you are new to this program, the best way to perfect at Adobe is via Adobe Photoshop tutorials easily available on CD-ROM, DVDs and several online video clips. In the tutorials look for the tools, commands, keyboard shortcuts that would acquaint you with the basic usage of Adobe. Learn the correct way to use the stylized fonts and text effects for creating flash effects for a website. You may look for tools like cropping, watermarks, channels and masks, re-touching and other advanced tools that would portray a web page at its best appeal.
Adobe Elements tools: The latest versions of Adobe Photoshop 5 and Adobe Photoshop 7 help in turning an old worn out picture into a colorful and vivid picture. The in built tools in the Photoshop would lead you to bring the best out of an old photograph worth discarding. Some of the few tools include, smudge tool used to add special effects to the foreground and background. Blur tool helps you lighten the part in the picture that is unclear or in a shadow. Sharpen tool is used to make a photograph sharper and clearer in case it appears blurred. Burn tool helps you to edit the image into a darker version and thus brings out its highlights clearly. Apart from these tools there are a number of other tools using which you could create beautiful colored images.
Adobe Elements tips: a) Use the Photo merge feature to combine multiple images to create a seamless panorama. You can further enhance it by using rotate, zoom and pan tools. b) You can easily flip through the various blend modes through ship+ to change to the next mode and shift - to go to the previous. These shortcuts would give you the ease of glancing all the modes quickly than separately clicking and viewing them. c) Remember to use the picture package option print all the pictures with different print size on one page.
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