Photoshop Elements 3 Solutions

Mikkel Aaland is an award--winning photographer and author of eight books, including Shooting Digital, Digital Photography, Photoshop for the Web, and Photoshop Elements 2 Solutions. His photography has been published in Wired, Newsweek, and several European periodicals. He is a regular contributor on digital photography to Popular Science magazine and a columnist for Practical Photography magazine (UK). Aaland has served as a non--paid advisor to Adobe's Photoshop Elements product development group.

Chapter 1: Importing and Organizing Digital Images. Importing Digital Images into Photoshop Elements. Managing Files with the Organizer (Windows Only). Managing Files with the File Browser (Mac and Windows). Chapter 2: Your Images: Global Solutions. Choosing an Editing Workspace. Deciding What Comes When. Setting Proper Orientation. Making Dull Images Shine. Correcting Color. Tinting Images. Eliminating or Diminishing Dust, Scratches, and Electronic Noise. Converting Color Images to Black--and--White. Cropping to the Essential Parts. Resizing. Sharpening. Chapter 3: Better Faces. What Comes First. Working the Eyes. Working the Lips. Whitening and Fixing Teeth. Selectively Removing Wrinkles and Blemishes with the Healing Brush. Diminishing and Straightening the Nose. Making People Glow. Creating a Grainy 35mm Black--and--White Look. Creating a Digital Fill Flash. Making Distorted Faces Normal. Fixing Hair. Getting Rid of Glasses Glare. Chapter 4: Better Outside Shots. Intensifying the Sky. Changing the Time of Day. Making Weather. Working with the Midday Sun. Adding Lighting Effects. Removing Unwanted Objects. Adding Selective Focus. Creating a Large--Scale Digital Fill Flash. Chapter 5: Better Product Shots. Separating a Product from Its Background. Changing a Product's Color. Changing a Product's Texture. Adding Motion Blur. Changing Scale and Perspective. Fixing Keystoning. Improving the Background. Adding Depth. Creating Lighting Effects. Softening Highlights and Glare. Adding a New Label. Making a Product Smile. Simplifying a Product Shot. Chapter 6: Making Photo--Realistic Composites. Adding Yourself (or Anyone) to a Group Shot, Combining Different Resolutions. Swapping Kids. Expanding Your Image. Seamlessly Pasting. Cloning Elements from Multiple Images. Pre--visualizing a Scene. Chapter 7: Exteriors and Interiors. Straightening a Slanted Looking Facade. Transforming a Kitchen. Removing a Construction Sign. Smart--Blurring a Background. Balancing the Light. Creating a Warm and Inviting Atmosphere. Removing Wires. Chapter 8: Creating Panoramics with Photomerge. Photomerge Dos. Creating a Precious View. Creating an Interior Panoramic. Creating an Epic Panoramic. Making a Handheld Vertical Panoramic. Showing Baseball's Big Picture. Photomerging a Collage. Chapter 9: Taking Type Further. Adding a Photo Credit. Adding a Copyright Watermark. Making Headline Type. Making Type More Readable. Using Shape Tools to Accent Type. Warping Type. Filling Type with an Image. Adding Effects to Type. Applying Liquify to Type. Chapter 10: Preparing Images and Graphics for the Screen. Choosing a File Format. Making Great JPEGs. Optimizing Digital Images for JPEG Compression. Converting GIFs to JPEGs. Making TIFFs. Making GIFs. Building Web Page Backgrounds. Creating Navigational Graphics. Chapter 11: Using Camera Raw and Other Advanced Techniques. Using Adobe's Camera Raw. Working in 16--Bit Mode. Extending Dynamic Range with Photomerge. Using Layer Adjustments with Masks. Using a Gradient Mask to Combine Multiple Images. Converting a Photo to a Painting. Chapter 12: Sharing and Auto--Processing Images. Printing from the Organizer (Windows Only). Printing from the Editor (Windows) or Application (Mac). Creating and Sharing with the Organizer (Windows Only). Processing Multiple Files (Windows and Mac). Creating and Printing on the Mac OS. Appendix A: Reference to the Tools and Features of Photoshop Elements . Setting Preferences. Customizing and Organizing the Work Area. Histograms. All about Layers. Effects. Selection Tools. Viewing and Navigation Tools. Brushes. Index. What's on the CD--ROM.