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Take multiple photos and put them together to create one stunning montage that shows them all off.
Take multiple photos and put them together to create one stunning montage that shows them all off.
Color is one of the most important components to modern day photography, something that we all interact with yet almost always don’t understand. Thanks to an Ask-Liz email from David Erickson all about color calibration, I thought I’d help y’all out and hopefully demystify what our computers are doing under the hood!
Follow along with Matt as he takes you through his complete editing process on a recent image, taken at The Racetrack Playa in Death Valley.
With so many images floating around your computer, the task of organizing can be daunting. In Jeff Carlson’s two-part article, he’ll help you get catalog your work using the Elements 11 Organizer and a few quick tips!
With so many images floating around your computer, the task of organizing can be daunting. In Jeff Carlson’s two-part article, he’ll help you get catalog your work using the Elements 11 Organizer and a few quick tips!
In Elements 11, the Camera Raw dialog has changed a few of its sliders. However, Matt shows you how these new changes make for the best camera raw settings yet!
In the new Elements 11, Matt takes you through the brand new selection techniques and how they all work.
Larry introduces you to a fantastic way of sharpening your images before printing them – using the High Pass filter!
Which of Elements’ many sharpening tools to use on your photo? We explain the differences and show you how to get the best results from each tool for crisp, clear details every time.
Photoshop Elements contains many custom shapes to play with, but did you know you can also add more? Karen takes you through how to download custom shapes and access them through Elements!
Karen shows you how to load and install custom brush sets inside of Photoshop Elements, on both a Mac and a PC.
In Part 2 of this three-part series, Matt takes you through editing a photo from start to finish and how to incorporate Elements in your Lightroom-based process.
Larry takes the confusion out of printing by offering up a step-by-step guide, including how to find your photo’s ideal Resolution and what’s important inside the Print dialog box.
Learn how to pick color with confidence—and quickly correct bad colors—by mastering the Color Picker dialog.
In Part 1 of this three-part series, Matt introduces you to how to integrate Photoshop Elements and Lightroom with a group of very important settings.
Learn how to get the look of a silhouette photo with the help of third-party brushes.
This is the sample file to follow along with “Selections Made Simple” from the May/June 2012 issue of Photoshop Elements Techniques.
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