Thursday, November 12, 2009

How To Use Adobe Photoshop Elements Software And Discover Photoshop Elements 7

By David Peters

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.

Why use Adobe Elements? The Adobe Elements are analogous to the full version in many ways. However it is a bit easier to comprehend and learn. If you have started learning Adobe Photoshop, then it would be better if you have to learn something that contains simpler features. With the help of Adobe Elements you can brighten a photograph that is very dark to look at. For this all you have to do is open the picture in the program and then go to ?enhance? option in the menu. Under that select first select ?adjust lighting? and then select ?brightness/contrast?. After making necessary adjustments save the picture. You can even restore a discolored photo with the help of Adobe Elements.

Can I find tutorials for Adobe Elements? Regardless of whether you decide to use Photoshop or Elements you may wish to view tutorials in order to get started on the right foot. You can find a variety of tutorials available in all sorts of mediums, including online tutorials, DVD's or CD-Rom. Tutorials a great ways to learn about the tools available (and how to find them) as well as showing you various keyboard shortcuts to the various tools. You can find different tutorials that focus on a variety features and you should expect to learn how to use text in combination with your images as well as using special effects, masks, layers, as well as a variety of other thing.

Adobe Elements tools: Regardless of whether you want to restore an old photograph or crop out unwanted items in your photographs, the tools available in Adobe Elements will allow you to accomplish your goals. Unfortunately photos that were taken years ago will discolor or get worn out from handling, the built in tools, including the blur and sharpen tools, can help you restore your cherished momentos and keep them for future generations. Another common problem is having red eyes staring back out at you. Regardless of your skill or the expense of your camera red-eye is a problem that even professionals experience. With a simple click of the mouse you can eliminate red eye not only from people but from our four-legged friends as well.

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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