Photoshop Elements 2018 Tips, Tricks & Shortcuts in easy steps

by Nick Vandome

Overview

Over 1000 tips, tricks and shortcuts to help you get the most out of Adobe's Photoshop Elements 2018.

Photoshop Elements is well established as the premier consumer photo-editing software, and the latest release is Photoshop Elements 2018. This enhances the software's reputation as a powerful and easy-to-use option for photo-editing, with a range of features for editing and creating photo effects and also a powerful Organizer for managing your photos.

Photoshop Elements 2018 Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts in easy steps not only offers a comprehensive guide to getting up and running with the software, but goes further: providing a wealth of detail in ways to progress to more advanced photo-editing and also find some of the hidden secrets of the software.

Although the book looks at some of the ways you can expand your photo-editing exploits, it does not forget new users or anyone who wants to brush up on the basics.

Areas covered include:

Navigating around Elements and organizing images.

Using Quick Wins for removing unwanted objects, and Guided edits to create special effects.

Using Text and Drawing tools to add and edit text.

Sharing your photos in a range of formats, such as photo books or cards, and on social media.

New key features such as Auto Curate, Artistic Overlays, opening closed eyes, adding watercolor, and replacing backgrounds in your photos.

Layered images, reducing camera shake or haze, removing imperfections, creating impressive text, removing red-eye, and more.

Photoshop Elements 2018 Tips, Tricks and Shortcuts in easy steps has something for everyone: an in depth introduction for new users, and a range of options for those who want to take their photo-editing to the next level. Throughout, there are hundreds of tips and handy hints so that you will feel like an Elements expert in no time.

Covers versions for both PC and Mac users

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781840788037
Publisher:	In Easy Steps Limited
Publication date:	03/25/2018
Series:	In Easy Steps
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Nick Vandome is an IT writer and trainer who specializes in digital imaging and web authoring subjects. In addition to his writing, he also works designing websites and runs training courses. Before he started working with computers he wrote books about working and traveling abroad.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction Elements 7

About Elements 8

Welcome Screen 9

Photo Editor Workspace 10

Quick Edit Mode 12

Guided Edit Mode 13

Expert Edit Mode 14

Tool Options Bar 18

Menu Bar 20

Preferences 21

Organizer Workspace 22

Create Mode 24

Share Mode 26

Getting Help 28

2 Organizing Images 29

Obtaining Images 30

Media View 34

Stacks 38

Version Sets 39

People View 40

Places View 42

Events View 44

Tagging Images 46

Searching for Images 48

Albums 52

Folders 53

Auto Curate 54

Opening and Saving Images 55

Working with Video 56

3 First Digital Step 57

Color Enhancements 58

Cropping 61

Healing Brush 63

Cloning 64

Pattern Cloning 65

Rotating 66

Transforming 67

Magnification 68

Eraser 70

4 Quick Wins 71

Removing Red-Eye 72

Changing to Black and White 73

Quickly Removing Items 74

Moving Items in a Photo 76

Improving Expressions 78

Removing Haze 79

Opening Closed Eyes 80

Quick Edit Mode Options 82

Quick Edit Toolbox 83

Quick Edit Adjustments 84

Enhancing with Quick Edits 86

Adding Filters 88

Adding Graphics 89

Using Guided Edit Mode 90

Photo merge Effects 92

Creating Panoramas 93

5 Artistic Effects 95

Photo Text 96

Effects Collage 98

Painterly Effect 99

Speed Pan 100

Frame Creator 101

Artistic Overlays 102

Double Exposures 104

Watercolors 105

Replacing Backgrounds 106

6 Beyond Basic Color Editing 107

Hue and Saturation 108

Histogram 110

Levels 112

Adjustments with Levels 114

Color Curves 116

Remove Color Cast 118

7 Working with Selection 119

About Selections 120

Marquee Tools 121

Lasso Tools 122

Magic Wand Tool 124

Selection Brush Tool 125

Quick Selection Tool 126

Smart Brush Tool 127

Auto Selections 128

Feathering 129

Refining Selections 130

Editing Selections 132

8 Layers 133

Layering Images 134

Layers Panel 135

Adding Layers 136

Fill and Adjustment Layers 137

Working with Layers 139

Grouping Layers 140

Layer Masks 142

Opacity 145

Saving Layers 146

9 Text and Drawing Tools 147

Adding and Formatting Text 148

Customizing Text 150

Distorting Text 154

Text and Shape Masks 155

Paint Bucket Tool 157

Gradient Tool 158

Brush Tool Settings 160

Working with Color 162

10 Becoming an Elements Expert 163

Importing RAW Images 164

Editing Multiple Images 166

Applying Actions 169

Managing Catalogs 170

Viewing File Info 174

Save for Web 175

Image Size 176

Resampling Images 178

11 Printing Images 179

Print Size 180

Print Functions 182

Print Layouts 184

Creating PDF Files 186

Index 187