The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital

Edit images like a pro in this Photoshop Elements 4 handbook for digital photographers from best - selling author Scott Kelby.

Scott Kelby is Editor and Publisher of Photoshop User magazine, Editor-in-Chief of Nikon's digital software magazine, Publisher of Layers magazine (the how-to magazine for everything Adobe), and is Executive Editor of the Photoshop Elements Techniques newsletter.

Organized Chaos Managing Photos Using the Organizer

1

(48)

Saving Your Digital Negatives

2

(4)

Creating a Contact Sheet for Your CD

6

(6)

Dealing with the Welcome Screen

12

(2)

Importing Photos from Your Scanner

14

(1)

Automating the Importing of Photos by Using Watched Folders

15

(1)

Changing the Size of Your Photo Thumbnails

16

(1)

Seeing Full-Screen Previews

17

(1)

Sorting Photos by Date

18

(1)

Adding Scanned Photos? Enter the Right Time and Date

19

(1)

Finding Photos Fast by Their Month and Year

20

(1)

Tagging Your Photos (Tags are Keywords)

21

(3)

Tagging Images of People (Face Tagging)

24

(2)

Tagging Multiple Photos

26

(1)

Assigning Multiple Tags to One Photo

27

(1)

Combining (Merging) Tags

28

(1)

Sharing Your Tags (or Collections) with Others

29

(1)

Collections: It's How You Put Photos in Order One by One

30

(1)

Choosing Your Own Icons for Tags and Collections

31

(1)

Deleting Tags (or Collections)

32

(1)

Seeing Your Photo's Metadata (EXIF Info)

33

(1)

Adding Your Own Info to Photos

34

(1)

Finding Photos

35

(3)

Finding Photos Using the Date View

38

(2)

Seeing an Instant Slide Show

40

(2)

Comparing Photos

42

(2)

Comparing Photos by Zooming and Panning

44

(2)

Reducing Clutter by Stacking Your Photos

46

(3)

Raw Hide Mastering Camera Raw

49

(18)

Editing Your Raw Images in Camera Raw

50

(8)

Noise Reduction in Camera Raw

58

(1)

Sharpening within Camera Raw

59

(1)

Bracketing with Camera Raw

60

(4)

Saving Raw Files in Adobe's Digital Negative (DNG) Format

64

(1)

Working with 16-Bit Images

65

(2)

Super Size Me Resizing and Cropping

67

(38)

Cropping Photos

68

(3)

Cropping Using the ``Rule of Thirds''

71

(3)

Auto-Cropping to Standard Sizes

74

(2)

Cropping to an Exact Custom Size

76

(3)

Cropping into a Shape

79

(3)

Cropping without the Crop Tool

82

(2)

Using the Crop Tool to Add More Canvas Area

84

(2)

Auto-Cropping Gang-Scanned Photos

86

(1)

Straightening Photos with the Straighten Tool

87

(3)

Straightening Crooked Photos

90

(3)

Resizing Digital Camera Photos

93

(3)

Resizing and How to Reach Those Hidden Free Transform Handles

96

(1)

Making Your Photos Smaller (Downsizing)

97

(2)

Rule-Breaking Resizing for Poster-Sized Prints

99

(2)

Automated Saving and Resizing

101

(4)

Color Me Badd Color Correction for Photographers

105

(38)

Before You Color Correct Anything, Do This First!

106

(2)

Photo Quick Fix

108

(5)

Getting a Visual Readout (Histogram) of Your Corrections

113

(1)

Color Correcting Digital Camera Images

114

(8)

Dave's Amazing Trick for Finding a Neutral Gray

122

(2)

Studio Portrait Correction Made Simple

124

(2)

Drag-and-Drop Instant Color Correction

126

(3)

Adjusting Flesh Tones

129

(3)

Warming Up (or Cooling Down) a Photo

132

(2)

Color Correcting One Problem Area Fast!

134

(3)

Getting a Better Conversion from Color to Black and White

137

(6)

The Big Fixx Digital Camera Image Problems

143

(34)

Compensating for ``Too Much Flash'' or Overexposure

144

(2)

Removing Digital Noise

146

(2)

Focusing Light with Digital Dodging and Burning

148

(4)

Opening Up Shadow Areas That Are Too Dark

152

(2)

Fixing Areas That Are Too Bright

154

(2)

Fixing Photos Where You Wish You Hadn't Used the Flash

156

(3)

When You Forget to Use Fill Flash

159

(3)

Fixing Underexposed Photos

162

(2)

Automatic Red-Eye Removal

164

(2)

Instant Red-Eye Removal

166

(2)

Removing Red Eye and Recoloring the Eye

168

(4)

Repairing Keystoning

172

(5)

The Mask Selection Techniques

177

(26)

Selecting Square, Rectangular, or Round Areas

178

(5)

Saving Your Selections

183

(1)

How to Select Things That Aren't Round, Square, or Rectangular

184

(2)

Softening Those Harsh Edges

186

(2)

Selecting Areas by Their Color

188

(2)

Making Selections Using a Brush

190

(1)

Selecting Everything on a Layer at Once!

191

(1)

Getting Elements to Help You Make Tricky Selections

192

(2)

Easier Selections with the Magic Selection Tool

194

(2)

Removing Backgrounds

196

(7)

Head Games Retouching Portraits

203

(48)

Quick Skin Tone Fix

204

(2)

Removing Blemishes

206

(4)

Lessening Freckles or Facial Acne

210

(3)

Removing Dark Circles under Eyes

213

(2)

Removing or Lessening Wrinkles

215

(3)

Whitening the Eyes

218

(3)

Making Eyes that Sparkle

221

(3)

Enhancing Eyebrows and Eyelashes

224

(4)

Colorizing Hair

228

(2)

Whitening and Brightening Teeth

230

(3)

Removing Hot Spots

233

(3)

Digital Nose Job

236

(3)

Transforming a Frown into a Smile

239

(3)

Glamour Skin Softening

242

(3)

Slimming and Trimming

245

(3)

Removing Love Handles

248

(3)

Take Me Away Removing Unwanted Objects

251

(20)

Cloning Away Unwanted Objects

252

(5)

Removing Things in a Straight Line

257

(2)

Covering Unwanted Elements

259

(3)

Removing Spots and Other Artifacts

262

(2)

Removing Distracting Objects (Healing Brush)

264

(7)

38 Special Photographic Special Effects

271

(44)

Creating Drama with a Soft Spotlight

272

(3)

Burned-In Edge Effect (Vignetting)

275

(3)

Using Color for Emphasis

278

(2)

Soft Focus Effect

280

(2)

Changing an Object's Color

282

(3)

Replacing the Sky

285

(3)

Neutral Density Gradient Filter

288

(4)

Putting One Photo Inside Another

292

(2)

Simple Depth-of-Field Effect

294

(2)

Creating Photo Montages

296

(3)

Creating the Classic Vignette Effect

299

(3)

Fake Duotone

302

(2)

Getting the Polaroid™ Look

304

(4)

Photo to Sketch in 60 Seconds Flat

308

(3)

Automated Pano Stitching with Photomerge

311

(4)

Get Back Photo Restoration Techniques

315

(24)

Colorizing Black-and-White Photos

316

(4)

Repairing Washed-Out Photos

320

(3)

Removing Spots and Other Little Junk

323

(3)

Removing Lots of Specks, Dust, and Scratches

326

(3)

Repairing Damaged or Missing Parts

329

(5)

Repairing Rips and Tears

334

(5)

Sharp Dressed Man Sharpening Techniques

339

(18)

Basic Sharpening

340

(7)

Creating Extraordinary Sharpening

347

(3)

Luminosity Sharpening

350

(3)

Edge Sharpening Technique

353

(4)

The Show Must Go On Showing It to Your Clients

357

(38)

Watermarking and Adding Copyright Info

358

(6)

Creating Your Own Custom Copyright Brush

364

(2)

Poster Presentation

366

(5)

Creating a Digital Frame

371

(5)

Putting Your Photos Up on the Web

376

(5)

Getting One 5x7``, Two 2.5x3.5'', and Four Wallet-Size Photos on One Print

381

(5)

Using Picture Package Layouts with More Than One Photo

386

(2)

Creating a PDF Presentation for a Client

388

(4)

How to Email Photos

392

(3)

Create (or Die) How to Make Presentations with Your Photos

395

(34)

Creating with Your Photos

396

(2)

Making Full-Blown Slide Shows

398

(8)

Creating Postcards or Greeting Cards

406

(4)

Creating Photo Album Pages

410

(5)

Creating Calendars

415

(3)

Creating a Video CD

418

(2)

Creating Your Own Photo Website

420

(4)

Ordering Prints with Just One Click

424

(5)

Index

429

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