extra bits


crop your photos p. 30

  • Most of the Elements albums have built-in borders that frame your photos. The aspect ratio (ratio of width to height) for album borders is 4:3 (landscape) or 3:4 (portrait). This is a common ratio for digital cameras. If a photo has a different ratio, however, Elements' Album Creation wizard simply crops the photo. To keep control over what part of your photo appears in your album, crop photos to 3:4 yourself.

  • The No Borders style (for printing album pages on your own printer), accepts photos with any aspect ratio. You might expect that to be the case with No Borders Book and Full Bleed Book styles too, but as this Visual QuickProject went to press, that wasn't true. Photos in those styles get cropped to the 3:4 ratio. Adobe plans to update templates and give you more control over aspect ratio in these styles in the future (see Chapters 4 and 5).

  • By default, the cropping shield is black with 75 percent opacity. After you draw a cropping rectangle, you can choose a new color and opacity in the Options bar.


save your file p. 32

  • Although JPEG is not usually a suitable format for printed books, Elements translates photo album pages to PDF format for printing (see Chapter 5). Therefore, you don't need to change file formats when you save your edited photos. It's fine to change JPEG (.jpg) files to Photoshop (.psd) files if you prefer. If you edit a photo in Standard Edit mode and add layers, Elements automatically changes the file's format to .psd for you.

  • If you have access to an Epson printer that you might want to use for printing your photos, you can restore the P.I.M. warning when you're done with your album project. That way, the warning dialog pops up when you edit a photo that contains embedded Print Image Matching (P.I.M.) data. To restore the warning (and any others you've turned off), from the Organizer work area, choose Edit > Preferences > Editor Preferences. In the Preferences dialog that appears, click the Reset All Warning Dialogs button. If you are already working in the Editor work area, choose Edit > Preferences > General to open the dialog.


fix red eyes p. 34

  • For Pupil Size, enter no more than 50 % unless your want you subject to look as if he or she's just been to the eye doctor.

  • For Darken Amount, 100 % would look unnaturally dark.

  • Though the red-eye removal tool is a cross-hair cursor, and it lets you draw a selection rectangle, the tool works best if you just click once within a red pupil area. Only if that one click doesn't work should you try making a selection with the tool.


fix multiple flaws p. 36

  • It's important to apply only one Auto correction from the Quick Fix tools. Try one, then if it's not what you want, click the Reset button and try something else. Applying more than one Auto correction quickly degrades the quality of your photo.


fine-tune Smart Fix p. 37

  • The set of correction tools on the right side of the Quick Fix work area is divided into four sections. It's best to work in one section at a time; try a correction, then click the Cancel button if you want to try something else within the same section. Click the Commit button (or the Cancel button, if you decide not to make any change in that section) before moving on. If you've made slider adjustments in one section and then start adjusting sliders in a different section, Elements automatically commits the changes you made in the first section. The result may not be what you intended, in which case, you'll have to reset the photo and start all over again.


sharpen in Quick Fix p. 48

  • Sharpening is truly an art. The amount of sharpening to apply depends on the type of photo, the subject matter and original intent for focus, as well as the final delivery medium. The amount of sharpening you need for images on the Web is different from the amount of sharpening you need for printed photos. Sharpening for a small photo in an album is different from sharpening for a large poster-sized print. If you want to move beyond the automated sharpening in Quick Fix mode, you'll need to use filters. You can access filters in both Quick Fix and Standard Edit mode. ChooseFilter > Sharpen to see a full list of sharpening filter choices. The Unsharp Mask filter is the standard professional sharpening tool. Experiment with its settings and your photos. But remember, it may take some time (or some expert advice from the many excellent books on Photoshop Elements of Photoshop) to learn how to get the best results using the sharpening filters.




    Creating a photo album in photoshop elements for windows
    Creating a Photo Album in Photoshop Elements for Windows: Visual QuickProject Guide
    ISBN: 0321270819
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2005
    Pages: 110

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