The Photoshop Elements 4 Book for Digital Photographers - page 1
- THE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4 BOOK FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
- THE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 4 BOOK FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- READ THIS FIRST, BEFORE SOMETHING BAD HAPPENS
- I had no intentions of writing this book
- So now I had intentions
- How the book was developed
- New and improved (with the same great taste)
- This version has a secret weapon
- So what s not in this book?
- Is this book for you?
- Is this book for Windows users, Mac users, or both?
- How should you use this book?
- Wait, one more thing You can download the photos used in the book
- Chapter1.Organized Chaos: managing photos using the organizer
- Saving Your Digital Negatives
- Creating a Contact Sheet for Your CD
- Dealing with the Welcome Screen
- Importing Photos from Your Scanner
- Automating the Importing of Photos by Using Watched Folders
- Changing the Size of Your Photo Thumbnails
- Seeing Full-Screen Previews
- Sorting Photos by Date
- Adding Scanned Photos? Enter the Right Time and Date
- Finding Photos Fast by Their Month and Year
- Tagging Your Photos (Tags are Keywords)
- Tagging Images of People (Face Tagging)
- Tagging Multiple Photos
- Assigning Multiple Tags to One Photo
- Combining (Merging) Tags
- Sharing Your Tags (or Collections) with Others
- Collections: It s How You Put Photos in Order One by One
- Choosing Your Own Icons for Tags and Collections
- Deleting Tags (or Collections)
- Seeing Your Photo s Metadata (EXIF Info)
- Adding Your Own Info to Photos
- Finding Photos
- Finding Photos Using the Date View
- Seeing an Instant Slide Show
- Comparing Photos
- Comparing Photos by Zooming and Panning
- Reducing Clutter by Stacking Your Photos
- Chapter2.Raw Hide: mastering camera raw
- Editing Your RAW Images in Camera Raw
- Noise Reduction in Camera Raw
- Sharpening within Camera Raw
- Bracketing with Camera Raw
- Saving RAW Files in Adobe s Digital Negative (DNG) Format
- Working with 16-Bit Images
- Chapter3.Super Size Me: resizing and cropping
- Cropping Photos
- Cropping Using the Rule of Thirds
- Auto-Cropping to Standard Sizes
- Cropping to an Exact Custom Size
- Cropping into a Shape
- Cropping without the Crop Tool
- Using the Crop Tool to Add More Canvas Area
- Auto-Cropping Gang-Scanned Photos
- Straightening Photos with the Straighten Tool
- Straightening Crooked Photos
- Resizing Digital Camera Photos
- Resizing and How to Reach Those Hidden Free Transform Handles
- Making Your Photos Smaller (Downsizing)
- Rule-Breaking Resizing for Poster-Sized Prints
- Automated Saving and Resizing
- Chapter4.Color Me Badd: color correction for photographers
- Before You Color Correct Anything, Do This First
- Photo Quick Fix
- Getting a Visual Readout (Histogram) of Your Corrections
- Color Correcting Digital Camera Images
- Dave s Amazing Trick for Finding a Neutral Gray
- Studio Portrait Correction Made Simple
- Drag-and-Drop Instant Color Correction
- Adjusting Flesh Tones
- Warming Up (or Cooling Down) a Photo
- Color Correcting One Problem Area Fast
- Getting a Better Conversion from Color to Black and White
