Sunday, January 29, 2012

Elements 10 Tutorial - The 10 Greatest Functions Manual For Newbies

By David Peters




1. The File Browser The File Browser inside Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 is a remarkable improvement over the "original" File Browser, offering several brand-new time-saving features.

The File Browser (on the Mac), for example, has its very own menus: File, Edit, Automate, Sort, and View. Every single menu contains a lot of choices for working with images right inside the File Browser, while not impelling you to open any of the graphics first.

Currently, to automatically produce a slide show, contact sheet, or perhaps Web gallery, you may select a few pictures at once and simply select Pdf file Slide Show, Contact Sheet II, or even Web Picture Gallery with the Automate menu.

The File Browser also helps you "flag" images for simpler viewing and seeking. This is a good thing for people taking a lot of images due to the fact now you can choose to view solely those photographs that you've flagged. You may also search for just flagged photos, which makes it faster to locate just the photo you're searching for.

Oh, didn't I mention that there's a search function in the new File Browser? Yes, you are able to apply key phrases to an picture and then utilize the File menu's Search function to find just about all the images together with those keywords and phrases.

And that's not all! Within the new File Browser, you can also access and work with meta-data-File properties, IPTC, and Camera Data (Exif) may all be seen or discovered.

2. Camera Raw Support Adobe Elements 10 today supports the Camera Raw format from high-end digital digital cameras allowing for the sort of advanced image enhancing previously only available in Adobe CS.

To be able to edit this "digital negative" inside Adobe Elements 10, just double-click a Raw file in the File Browser. The Camera Raw dialog will certainly open, with a ton of selections for adjusting the white balance, exposure, shadows, saturation, sharpening, and more. It can save you your Camera Raw options and easily apply them to other Raw images. Cool.

3. Shadows/Highlights One of our former top 10 Photoshop CS characteristics is now within Photoshop Elements 10: Shadows/Highlights. This command (found beneath Enhance--Adjust Lighting) is placed by default to be able to lighten the shadows by 50 percent and to depart the highlights alone, however, you can easily alter these configurations. This tool is a good solution for times when a person wished you'd utilized a fill flash or simply any time you'd like to see just what the image would certainly look like when the shadows had been a little light.

4. Healing Brush and Spot Healing Brush Have you noticed a craze yet? Numerous of our favorite Photoshop CS characteristics have quietly slipped in to Adobe Elements 10. In this case, it's the Healing Brush, an ideal tool for covering up issues in an picture without messing with the underlying textures. Elements gets a leg up upon Adobe CS, however, along with the Spot Healing Brush-kind of any "one-step" healing tool.

5. Auto Smart Fix Normally, I'm not just a big fan of computerized image changes, but this one works very well. And if it doesn't appear to help, you can always undo it and try Change Smart Fix, a more interactive version of Smart Fix that permits you to use a percentage slider to adjust the image (both option is found in the Enhance menu).

Smart Fix is particularly helpful if you first replicate the Background layer and apply Smart Fix to the copy. Then you can lower the Opacity of the duplicated layer inside the Layers palette to lessen the effect of Smart Fix.

6. Cookie Cutter If you've always wanted to have a photo cut in to the shape of the butterfly, a coronary heart, or a paw print, right now it's possible-and incredibly simple. (OK, that serves to never have desired to do this, but I'm sure you'll locate ways to use this kind of tool, once you see what it does.)

Just choose the condition, click-and-drag, resize if required, then hit Enter and you're done. Really, I would definitely advise duplicating the Background layer first and hiding it. Next, apply the Blameless , shape to the top (duplicated) layer. Like that, you'll still get the effect of the Cookie Cutter, yet you'll have a built-in back-up program in case you change your mind.

7. Organizer A Windows-only function, Organizer lets you organize images and instantly create Net galleries and glide shows, including presentations that can be shown on your DVD player. Related in many ways in order to the File Browser in phrases of photo organizing, but with numerous added characteristics, Organizer includes integrated access to work schedule and email features.

8. Duplicate Layer Command OK, so that it may seem like a pretty lame thing to put on a high 10 list, but to me, it's grounds to celebrate. The keyboard magic formula for the Replicate Layer command has come back. Again, it may not seem like a lot, but considering the number of occasions that I get started by duplicating the Background layer, the ability to simply press Control-J (Mac: Command-J) is really a godsend.

9. Photograph Filter Adjustment Layer Photo Filter adjustment layers, one more feature borrowed from Adobe CS, simulate traditional screw-on camera filters, such as warming up and cooling filter systems. You can pick from a pop-up checklist or choose your own colour and adjust the denseness. Since it's a good adjustment layer, you can easily double-click the layer to improve its configurations or simply lessen its opacity to be able to lower the effect.

10. Printing I'm sorry, but because I was right down to my last nominee, I included together several things and called them "printing." In general, printing is just better than it was in Photoshop Elements 9. An improved printer interface makes highly accurate printing much simpler and there's better control within the printing layouts, as well as features such as Picture Package.




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