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Photoshop Elements 2025 For Dummies
Ignite your creativity with Photoshop ElementsIntroducing the latest edition of Photoshop Elements 2025 For Dummies, updated for the newest version of Adobe's affordable and beginner-friendly photo editing software. With this comprehensive guide at your fingertips, you'll unlock the potential of Elements, turning ordinary photos into extraordinary images.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 10-01-2024
As you edit images in Photoshop Elements, you need to know your way around the editor workspace and the tools panel — especially the selection tools.Check out the visual reference to the photo editor and the tools panel keyboard shortcuts, as well as the table of Photoshop Elements selection tricks.Having these references by your side will help you edit images in Elements quickly and easily.
Photoshop Elements 2024 For Dummies
Get in touch with your creative side using Photoshop Elements Photoshop Elements 2024 For Dummies covers the newest version of Adobe’s beginner-friendly photo editing software. With the help of this Dummies guide, you’ll discover the ins and outs of Photoshop Elements, so you can transform your images from ordinary to extraordinary.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 11-17-2022
As you edit images in Photoshop Elements, you need to know your way around the editor workspace and the tools panel — especially the selection tools.Check out the visual reference to the photo editor and the tools panel keyboard shortcuts, as well as the table of Photoshop Elements selection tricks.Having these references by your side will help you edit images in Elements quickly and easily.
Article / Updated 08-16-2022
In Photoshop Elements, you can use the Albums panel to create an album to organize your photos. You might want to organize an album for sharing photos with others on Photoshop online, assemble an album and rate each photo with a range from one to five stars, create a slide show, or just use the Albums panel to further segregate images within different categories.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-25-2022
This Cheat Sheet is handy to keep nearby when you're working in Photoshop as a quick reference to selection tricks, layer-merging tricks, filter gallery colors, and troubleshooting tips.Troubleshooting in Photoshop CCWhen you run into a problem with Photoshop CC, like the program won’t do what you want it to, or Photoshop simply won’t do anything, try these quick fixes to troubleshoot: When Photoshop tools don’t work Deselect.
Article / Updated 03-08-2022
When cleaning up photos in Photoshop CC, large challenges sometime require drastic measures, such as duplicate layers and layer masks. Take a look at the following figure. At the top left, you see the “before” photo: at the top right, the “after” image. Below are images from three key steps in the process.Here are the steps taken to remove the boy from the group photo: Decide what needs to go and how best to cover it.
Article / Updated 01-07-2022
Sometimes in Photoshop CC you need to copy/paste over something that needs to be removed from a photo. The Clone Stamp tool is usually faster and easier than working with selection. One of the keys to using the Clone Stamp tool is keeping an eye on your work.Zoom in close so you can work precisely, but choose Window→Arrange→New Window for [filename].
Article / Updated 01-06-2022
Painting certainly has a place in your arsenal of Photoshop skills, even if you never create an image from scratch. Painting. The word evokes images of brushes and palettes and color being precisely applied to canvas. Or, perhaps, images of drop cloths, ladders, rollers, and buckets — color being slopped on a wall and spread around.
Article / Updated 01-06-2022
The Brush Settings panel in Photoshop CC, like the Layer Style dialog box, has a column on the left that lists options. Like the Layer Style dialog box, you mark the check box to activate the feature, but you have to click the name to open that pane in the panel.As you can see in this figure, the Brush Settings panel menu offers very few commands, whereas the Brush panel menu includes variations in how to display the panel content, some housekeeping commands for resetting/loading/saving brushes, and a list of brush sets in the bottom half of the menu.