Photoshop Elements 2 Most Wanted Janee Aronoff Francine Spiegel Pete Walsh!!;i~@ D E S I G N E R T 0 0 E S I G N E R"'
... 4 Photoshop Elements 2 Most Wanted 2002 Apress Originally published by friends of ED in 2002 Ali rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any ferm or by any means. without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in criticat articles or reviews. The authors and publisher have made every effort in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information. However. the information contained in this book is sold without warranty. either express or implied. Neither the authors. friends of ED nor its dealers or distributors will be held liable lor any damages caused or alleged te be caused either directly or indirectly by this book. First Printed December 2002 Trademark Acknowledgements friends of ED has endeavored te provide trademark information about alt the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However. friends of ED cannot guarantee the accuracy of th is information. ISBN 978-1-59059-198-7 ISBN 978-1-4302-5119-4 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4302-5119-4 Credits Authors janee Aronoff Francine Spiegel Pete Walsh Additional Material Dan Caylor Reviewers Darlene Billmair Cerne van Dooren Nyree Costello Denis E. Graham Vicki Loader jason Morrison Dan Caylor lndexer Simon Collins Commissiong Editor Luke Harvey Editors Paul Thewlis Dan Squier Author Agent Chris Matterface Project Manager Simon Brand Managing Editor Chris Hindley Graphic Editors Katy Freer Chantal Hepworth Cover Design Katy Freer
.-------------------------- Welcome 1 Getting Started 2 Saving and Printing 3 Photo Restoration 4 Combining Photos 5 Faked Photos 6 Using Text 7 Starting with a Blank Canvas 8 Creating Art from Photos 9 Making Memories 10 Web Graphics: Buttons and Interfaces 11 Images for Rollovers, Web Page Backgrounds, and Animated GIFs 5 33 55 77 97 119 137 153 179 199 221 Appendix Appendix Index Hardware Configuration and Requirements File Formats 245 255 259
I arrived at this profession through the side door. I was first a teacher. working with high school students in geometry. I did much of my concept teaching through the use of art projects. and wrote about learning to visualize in 3D by building polyhedral solids for my Masters thesis. My students were the ones with crayons. scissors, glue, toothpicks, and marshmallows! Through an interesting and circuitous route, I discovered the world of digital art and Photoshop. As I learned new techniques and tools in Photoshop, I wrote them out in the form of tutorials, which I maintain, along with the Art Challenge, Message Board, and other digital art resources at www.myjanee.com. (Many of my tutorials are great for Elements, too!) Besides maintaining my online Photoshop education community, I do freelance graphics, fine art, and technical writing, with a specialty in Photoshop and Elements. I have been an author for other friends of ED books, including PS 7: Professional Photographic Techniques and PS 7: Trade Secrets. You can do amazing things with Elements! This is serious life-changing software, through which you can seek and find the artist within you. I cannot imagine a more exciting thing to do than to accompany you on your journey! Always me, Janee
ea Francine Spiegel is a painter and digital artist living in Los Angeles. During the past few years she has concentrated on airbrush painting, and digital work for print and video. Her work has been published in Vice and Spin Magazine and her personal work can be seen on tenderoni. com. She is currently getting back into drawing and is participating in a new milkyelephant.com CD-ROM with artists that inspire her very much. Pete Walsh sees kangaroos out of his office window and he's not hallucinating, he's Australian. He lives in the bush with his wife Selena, and two lovely daughters, Holi and lndi. They enjoy playing with crocodiles and riding in the front seat of roller coasters, not at the same time, of course. Pete's talents include graphic design and web development. His passion for photography started while touring the outback on a mountain bike. He now uses his amazing eye (and a camera) to take breathtaking panoramic photos of Oz. which you can see at www.spacou ntry.com.au.
Welcome The genesis for this book came from a simple resou rce: you. Well, people like you at any rate. It's the 'most wanted' uses and techniques for Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; each chapter is a different topic that covers a popular application of the program, and within those chapters you'll find practical easy to follow exercises that show you how to get the most from this powerful tool. We decided to create this new book in our Most Wanted series after following the birth of Photoshop Elements and witnessing the explosion of interest in digital imaging. The availability of low-cost image editing tools like Elements means that high quality home processing is no longer the preserve of the professional. More and more people are finding these products within their price range - yet their complexity means that you may need help getting to grips with all the features available, and this is where this book comes in. We don't take you through every tool and menu option. but provide straightforward, clearly explained examples to give you the skills you need to understand the processes and work more efficiently. The authors and our editorial team searched high and low to gather information on what you, the users of Photoshop Elements, most want to do with the program. We visited online forums, talked to owners of the first version, and chatted with Product Managers at Adobe, in order to find out the most popular applications for the program, and what you like to do with it. Unsurprisingly with this versatile program, there's a wide range of things people want to do, so we've put together a broad and diverse selection of tutorials that enable you to harness its incredible capabilities. From retouching family photos and saving them for future generations, to creating your own sophisticated artwork and letting your imagination run wild - there are clearly explained walkthroughs of every technique. Enjoy yourself and we're sure you'll be amazed at what you can achieve!
PHOTOSHOP ELEMEN S 2 MOST WANTED The CD This book comes fully equipped with everything you need to manipulate you r mini masterpieces. First off, if you don't have it already you'll want a copy of the software! On the CD you'll find a free 30-day trial of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 (for PC only- sorry Mac users, but there's only so much room on a single CD and we just couldn't squeeze the Mac version on there! You can get the free Mac trial version from www.adobe.com/products/tryadobel). Throughout the book. walk-through tutorials will help to reveal the power placed at your fingertips by Photoshop Elements. These tutorials are based around image files supplied by the authors, and every file can be found on the CD within individual chapter folders. If you have any problems with the CD don't hesitate to contact us at support friendsofed.com and we'll do our best to help you out. Files for download You'll probably find it useful to compare your finished results with the authors', so we've made all the authors' PSDs available for download at www.fricndsofcd.com/cod.html. Layout conventions We've tried to keep this book as clear and easy to understand as possible. So we've only used a few layout styles to avoid confusion. Walk-through tutorials will appear under headings in this style: This is a tutorial Some tutorials are divided into smaller stages with each stage under the following heading style: nts 1s a tutonal sub-headmg We also break tutorials down into numbered steps like this: 1. Do this 2. Now do this 3. And finally, do this We've included lots of helpful hints and tips. which have been highlighted in the following way: This is a real gem - take note!
WELCOME Throughout the book we've included all the keyboard shortcuts you'll need, these are written thus: To create a new layer use Ctrl+N. (Mac users should substitute Ctrl with Cmd) When you come upon an important word or tool for the first time it will be in bold type: Select the Move Tool. We've used different fonts to highlight filenames and URLs too: Picture. psd and www.friendsofecl.com And finally, all our menu commands are given in the following way: Image> Transform > Free Transform Support- we're here to help All books from friends of ED should be easy to follow and error-free. However, if you do run into problems, don't hesitate to get in touch -our support is fast, friendly and free. You can reach us at support@friendsofed.com, quoting the last four digits of the ISBN in the subject of the e mail (that's 4224), and if our dedicated support team are unable to solve your problem immediately, your queries will be passed on to the people who put the book together, the editors and authors, to solve. All our authors help with the support on their books, and will either directly mail people with answers. or (more usually) send their response to an editor to pass on. We'd love to hear from you, even if it's just to request future books, ask about friends of ED, or tell us how much you got out of Photoshop Elements 2.0 Most Wanted. To tell us o bit about yourself and make comments about the book, why not fill out the reply card at the back and send it to us! If your enquiry concerns an issue not directly concerned with book content, then the best place for these types of questions is our message board lists at www.friendsofecl.com/forums. Here. you'll find a variety of designers talking about what they do - they should be able to provide some ideas and solutions. For news, more books, sample chapters, downloads, author interviews and more, point your browser at www.friendsofed.com.