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Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 Tool Tips
October 30, 2011 | 
Author Adobe Photoshop includes some very exciting tools that even Elements beginners can use to good effect. The top 3 tools that you need to get to grips with first are the Smudge, Blur, and Sharpen tools that are perfect for editing minor blemishes from a digital image.
The smudge tool function helps to add special background and foreground effects to an image, such as blurring the foreground into the background or by blurring the background into the foreground. This allows you to edit images that may be out of focus or if there is an irritating shadow that you need to get rid of. The blur tool can be located by right-clicking on the smudge icon, and allows you to slightly blur a photo should the image appear too sharp, just as the Sharpen Tool, located in the same way, can be used to make a photo sharper should it be blurred.
The burn tool allows you to edit an image to a darker tone, and will also help to reveal highlights and detail in an over exposed photo. The Dodge Tool is located by right-clicking the burn tool icon, but this tool will perform the exact opposite, by making a photo lighter, bringing out details in shadowed or under exposed parts of the image.
Another great editing tool that is also located by right-clicking the burn tool icon is the sponge tool, which allows you to saturate or de-saturate a photo. Saturation is making the image brighter and more colourful whereas de-saturation will dampen the color to make it a bit more dull. You are also able to switch foreground and background colors, for extra special effects that will make you digital photos look unique. This tool allows you to interchange the background color of an image to be the foreground color and vice versa.
With just the click of a button the Adobe Photoshop Elements software will change the colors around for you. You can play around with the colors to create some really awesome images, such as setting your background to red. Then you can write over part of the image in the same color, by simply clicking on the icon and Adobe Elements will change the colors around, allowing you to write in red on the image.
These are just a few of the basic tricks a tips that will help you get to grips with the basic tools of Adobe Elements software,
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Photoshop – A Home Appliance?
Okay! Photoshop is a lot of things but it is not a dishwasher. I’ll grant you that. But it can be very useful around the house. Maybe even indispensable.
Not long ago, I clicked my garage door opener and, after some screeching that sounded like derailing train, it shuttered to a stop in a painfully crooked position. Fast forward to the garage door installer showing my wife and me pictures of new garage doors. Lots of styles, lots of colors… and lots of indecision. But the solution was easy. I digitally scanned some contenders from the installer’s? brochures and albums and then took a digital picture of my garage from the outside. (I needed a picture for insurance anyway.)
Within minutes, we were in front of my computer and viewing images of our garage with all of the candidate doors. With a click of the mouse, we could switch between wood and aluminum, mocha and cayenne, and overpriced versus exorbitant.? So what magic allowed this to happen? The magic of Photoshop of course. I put the scan of each potential door on an individual layer in Photoshop.? Think a Photoshop layer as being a plastic sheet you can draw on (digitally speaking). Then I made a layer with my garage picture, erasing the existing, sickly door. When I erased the door, that area became transparent. So, one at a time, I had Photoshop display the garage door layer over each of the candidate door layers (after sizing them to just fit the opening). The result was very realistic and helped us to a quick decision. By the way, we went with the wood, cayenne, and exorbitant.
How often do we run across similar decisions where, if we could better visualize the outcome, our choice would be easy? Well around my house, it is pretty often. Planning a new photo wall? How many photos should you have? How should they be arranged? How about frame style? Photoshop can make quick work of of all of this. Take a picture of the frame or frames you like and another of the wall. Then gather up your favorite digital images. In Photoshop, you can paste one of those images into the frame in a frame image. Then you can paste the framed image onto the wall image. Then add more framed images to the wall, changing sizes and arrangement to suit your taste. You can even add perspective to your photo wall to see how it would look from? an angle (using the Vanishing Point filter). With Photoshop, you can see it all before the first nail pierces drywall.
The possibilities are endless. Do you want to redo some landscape? Take a digital camera to your local nursery and snap photos of all of the plants that might work. Then come home and digitally plant them in a image of your garden, all in Photoshop of course. (No watering required!) How about a new built-in bookcase? How many shelves and what kind of spacing? Take a picture of the planned location but include a ruler or something with a known dimension. Now you can use Photoshop to draw in your shelves, changing spacing and so forth, and then take measurements off the winning design (with the ruler as a guide). Take another picture of some books. (You have some, right? After all, you are building bookshelves…) Use this book image to fill up your shelves. (Yes it will look like you have twenty copies of War and Peace but you get the idea.) Check it all out and get it right before you even pull out a sawhorse.
So is Photoshop a home appliance? Well, maybe not. Maybe I should have titled this “Photoshop – A Marriage Counselor?”
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Simple step-by-step mahjog tutorial on how to create a web site banner and logo in Photoshop. The sample .psd and completed website are also included.
A banner or a header is a graphic that is found at the top of a web site which usually displays the company name and the logo. It is often the first thing a mahjog person sees when they open the website. The blending of colors should be attractive, informative, comfortable for the eye and help to convince the viewer to stay on your site.
Let’s start with our banner. Here we have a mahjog general banner and the colors used are soothing to the eyes. It can be used for a fashion and beauty banner or a personal mahjog or holiday banner as well.
Rollovers are another mahjog favorite. We try to use rollovers whenever possible – they are extremely simple and add a bit of class to a web site. If you don’t want to use too many images that will result in a slower load time make sure mahjog you use text rollovers (Our menu on the right is an example of simple text rollovers). Examples of rollover images we have designed mahjog can be seen in Business
If you have sub menus or complex navigation systems, use DHTML. They look neat and are again very simple to use. Many sites offer free DHTML scripts for menus, navigation systems, tip boxes and more. They give you detailed instructions on how to use these scripts so it is really very easy to install.
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