Working with ColorMost images imported from a digital camera or scanner will open in RGB mode. RGB is shorthand for red, green, and blue, the only three colors that your computer monitor actually displays. RGB combines the three colors in different proportions and intensities to create the thousands or milions of colors you see onscreen. RGB is Photoshop Elements' default color mode, and is the best mode to work in when making color and tonal corrections. Color cast refers to a shift of color to one extreme or another, and is sometimes introduced into digital photos or scanned images. The image at the top left has an unfortunate pinkish cast, which I removed by applying the Auto Color Correction command (below right). Use the Replace Color command to select a specific color, even if it appears in different areas of the same image, and then replace that color universally. Here, I changed the girls' coats from pink to a sunny yellow. When you convert an image to grayscale, the three RGB color channels are reduced to just one one grayscale channel. Although the color is removed, a grayscale image still retains all the subtle gradients and tonal value in the original color version. Blending ModesA complete gallery of the blending modes you can apply from the Layers palette Layer 1 and Background Normal Dissolve Darken Multiply Color Burn Linear Burn Lighten Screen Color Dodge Linear Dodge Overlay Soft Light Hard Light Vivid Light Linear Light Pin Light Hard Mix Difference Exclusion Hue Saturation Color Luminosity Layer Styles SamplerA sample gallery of the styles you can apply from the Layer Styles palette Layer 1 and Background Normal Simple Inner Bevel style Hard Edge Drop Shadow style Soft Edge Drop Shadow style Small Border Inner Glow style Low Inner Shadow style Noisy Stripes Inner Shadow style Color Target Complex style White Grid on Orange Complex style Rose Impressions Complex style Orange Glass Glass Button style Tile Mosaic Image Effects style Satin Sheets Patterns style Waves Patterns style Bumpy Patterns style Shiny Edge Wow Chrome style Textured Wow Chrome style Yellow On Wow Neon style Aqua Blue Plastic Wow Plastic style FiltersAdd artistic effects to your photos by applying these filters from the Filters menu or palette Artistic > Cutout No. of Levels: 8 Edge Simplicity: 2 Edge Fidelity: 2 Stylize > Wind Method: Blast Direction: From the Right Distort > Zig Zag Amount: 35% Ridges: 11 Style: Pond Ripple Brush Strokes > Spatter Spray Radius: 12 Smoothness: 5 Artistic > Dry Brush Brush Size: 4 Brush Detail: 10 Texture: 2 FiltersAdd artistic effects to your photos by applying these filters from the Filters menu or palette Pixelate > Crystallize Cell Size: 12 Stylize > Emboss Angle: 135° Height: 8 pixels Amount: 110% Artistic > Cutout (layer 1) No. of Levels: 3 Edge Simplicity & Fidelity: 4 Sketch > Stamp (layer 2) Light/Dark Balance: 25 Smoothness: 5 Combine both layers using the Soft Light blending mode. Render > Lens Flare Brightness: 135 Lens Type: 105mm Prime Creative TechniquesCreate a panorama with Photomerge
Web Photo GalleryYou can create an interactive gallery of your photos with the Web Photo Gallery feature. Using the Web Photo Gallery dialog box, you can organize your images and choose from a variety of Web page backgrounds and interfaces. When you're ready, Photoshop Elements automatically formats and copies your selected images to a single folder, and even generates the required HTML code for you. Creating Animated GIFs
You can also create animation from a still image by duplicating the image and placing the copies onto a series of layers. By slightly shifting the position of each layer either horizontally or vertically, the saved animation will create the illusion of a camera panning through your photograph. Compositing ImagesWhen you combine multiple images together to create a totally new image, that's called compositing. With the help of Photoshop Elements' flexible selection tools and powerful Layers palette, you can combine almost any number of images together to create fun effects.
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