Elizabeth shows you two noise reduction techniques – one inside of the Camera Raw dialog and another inside of Elements.
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Elements Tools and Menus
In-depth looks at the different tools inside Elements, as well as the different features found in the menus.
Matt shows you how to use the Spot Healing Brush and Elements’s Invert command to clean up sensor dust spots that can appear in your digital photos.
One-click vignette; clear away red eyes; using the Eyedropper Tool’s sampling option; resize brushes the fast way (MAC).
Using a torn–and worn–photograph, Matt walks through how to use the various clone and healing tools in Photoshop Elements.
Our latest entry in the “Quick Video Tips” series walks you through the different options found inside Elements’ Color Picker.
Mike Rodriguez offers a basic introduction and guide to printing your images from Photoshop Elements.
Elements 10′s Guided Edit Mode has a few new options, including a Depth of Field lens effect, a version of the popular Orton look, and Photo Stack, which breaks a single image into a group of collage of four, eight or 12 “snapshots.”
Photoshop Elements 10 adds three overlay options to the Crop tool: a Grid, the Rule of Thirds, and the Golden Mean. Here’s how they work.
The Smart Brush tool, introduced in Photoshop Elements 7, gets a bunch of new options, including some new texture and toning features.
With Version 10, Adobe adds three new tools for manipulating text on a path, shape or selection.
Following up on a recent video, “Working with Multiple Text Layers,” Dave offers up some useful tips for working with layers.
The Diffuse Glow filter (found under Filter > Distort) can add a soft, dreamy quality to family photos, portraits, or even landscapes.
Matt shows you how to save images for the web in Elements, touching upon the settings in the Save for Web dialog box, as well as the differences between JPG and PNG formats.
The Enhance menu is full of commands that will automatically correct lighing, color and contrast.
Take an inside look at one of Elements’ most versatile tools, which is used for everything from creating backgrounds to darkening skies.
This is a companion to Diana Day’s “Grasp the Gradient Tool” article from the May/June 2011 issue of Photoshop Elements Techniques.
Here are a few exercises you can follow to learn more about the Gradient tool and some of the things you can do with it.
This short video shows how to access the nested tools in the Elements Toolbox. (Includes a Toolbox Shortcuts PDF.)
Part Quick Selection tool, part adjustment layer magic, the Smart Brush makes dramatic changes to your photos without requiring you to be a pro.
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