Book Description
Philip Andrews shares his in-depth knowledge of Elements in this advanced guide ensuring that you can achieve optimum results from this powerful package. Once you've mastered the basics of Photoshop Elements, this is the book to further develop your skills to get professional results!
Beyond exploring techniques, Philip addresses how to manage the digital workflow in general, covering scanner and camera capture techniques, advanced image changes, providing detailed information on how to produce darkroom techniques digitally with Elements, as well as graphics capabilities and explaining how they all fit together.
The associated website, www.adv-elements.com includes images featured in the book, so you can easily put these new found skills into practice.
Superbly illustrated in color throughout, written in Philip's trademark no-nonsense style, this guide will ensure you stay ahead of the rest. This is definitely the book for the digital photographer who wants to stand out from the crowd!
Table of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Picture credits
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 The Next Level
- Elements basics
- Basic Elements workflow
- 2 Scanner and Camera Techniques
- The basics – resolution
- 2.01 How many pixels do I need?
- The basics – color depth
- 2.02 More colors equals better quality
- Digital shooting technique
- 2.03 Exposure Compensation
- Frame-by-frame control
- 2.04 Contrast
- 2.05 Color saturation
- 2.07 White balance control
- 2.08 Applying fine-tuning automatically
- 2.09 Customizing your white balance
- 2.10 Shooting RAW for ultimate control
- 2.11 Shooting workflows
- Film and print scanners
- 2.12 Scanning resolution
- 2.13 Color depth
- 2.14 Multi-sample
- 2.15 Highlight and shadow capture
- 2.16 Color cast correction
- 2.17 Dust and scratches
- 2.18 Noise reduction technologies
- 2.19 Color regeneration features
- 2.20 Scanning workflow
- Fixing common shooting problems
- Fixing common scanning problems
- 3 Image Changes – Beyond the Basics
- Advanced selection techniques
- 3.01 Adding to and subtracting from selections
- 3.02 Saving and loading selections
- 3.03 Modifying selections
- 3.04 Transformimg a selection
- 3.05 Precise control of selection size
- Understanding layers
- Masking techniques
- 3.06 Painting masks with the Selection Brush
- 3.07 Fill and adjustment layer masks
- 3.08 Using selections with layer masks
- Converting color to black and white
- 3.10 Changing the mode to grayscale
- 3.11 Desaturate the color file
- Advanced dodging and burning-in
- 3.12 Using selections to change tone
- 3.13 Erase back through tonal layers
- Enhance your poorly exposed pictures
- 3.14 Screening image layers to enhance tones
- 3.15 Adding detail to highlights and shadows
- Tinted monochromes
- 3.16 Using Hue and saturation to tone your pictures
- Split toning
- 3.17 Select and tone
- 3.18 Two-layer erase
- Black and white and color
- 3.19 Layer mask and gradient map
- Border techniques
- 3.20 Simple borders
- 3.21 Sophisticated edges using grayscale masks
- Adding texture
- 3.22 Add Noise filter
- 3.23 Grain filter
- 3.24 Non-destructive textures
- 4 Darkroom Techniques on the Desktop
- 4.01 Diffusion printing
- 4.02 Instant film transfer effect
- 4.03 Using the Unsharp Mask filter to add contrast
- 4.04 Lith printing technique
- 4.05 Correcting perspective problems
- 4.06 Add emphasis with saturation
- 4.07 Restoring color to faded images
- 4.08 Cross-processing effects
- 4.09 Digital hand coloring
- 4.10 Realistic depth of field effects
- 4.11 Beyond the humble drop shadow
- 4.12 Ring flash shadow
- 4.13 Hidden ‘Curves’ features
- 4.14 Dust and scratches be gone
- 4.15 Combining images seamlessly
- 5 Making Better Panoramas
- Advanced shooting techniques
- 5.01 Positioning the camera
- 5.02 Camera support
- 5.03 Exposure
- 5.04 Focus and zoom
- 5.05 Depth of field
- 5.06 White balance
- 5.07 Timing
- 5.08 Ensuring consistent overlap
- 5.09 Dealing with the moving subject
- 5.10 Fixing misaligned picture parts
- 5.11 Coping with extremes of brightness
- 5.12 Creating artificially increased DOF
- 5.13 Correcting exposure differences
- 5.14 Adjusting for changes in color balance
- 5.15 Vertical panoramas
- 5.16 High resolution mosaics
- 5.17 Panoramic printing
- 5.18 Spinning panorama movies
- 5.19 Panorama workflow
- 6 Extending Your Web Abilities
- Building websites – the basics
- 6.01 Web Photo Gallery websites
- 6.02 Customizing Web Photo Gallery templates
- Creating individual web assets using Photoshop Elements
- 6.03 Optimizing photos for the web
- 6.04 Button creation
- 6.05 Effective headings
- 6.06 Making seamless backgrounds
- 6.07 Creating downloadable slide shows
- 6.08 Assembling the site
- 6.09 Uploading the site
- 7 Producing Effective Graphics
- Revisiting painting and drawing basics
- 7.01 Controlling brush characteristics
- 7.02 Changing an existing brush
- 7.03 Creating a new brush
- 7.04 Text
- 7.05 Adding styles to text layers
- 7.06 Customizing shapes
- 7.07 Adding pictures to shapes
- Text and pictures
- 7.08 Images in text
- 7.09 Text in images
- 7.10 Realistic text and image montages
- 7.11 Hand drawn logos
- 7.12 Reducing your picture’s colors
- 7.13 Posterized pictures
- 7.14 Kaleidoscopic images
- 7.15 Presentation backgrounds
- 8 Finely Crafted Output
- Printing basics
- The inkjet printer
- Laser
- Dye sublimation
- Other printing processes
- Image resolution vs printer resolution
- 8.01 Basic print steps
- 8.02 Creating contact sheets
- 8.03 Multiple prints on a page
- Ensuring color consistency between devices
- 8.04 Setting up a color managed workflow
- 8.05 Calibrating your screen – Adobe Gamma
- 8.06 Calibrating your screen – ColorVision Spyder
- Getting intimate with your printer
- 8.07 Calibrating your printer – resolution, color and tone tests
- 8.08 Calibrating your printer – ColorVision PrintFIX
- 8.09 Making great black and white prints
- 8.10 Preparing your images for professional outsourcing
- 8.11 Shoot small print big
- 8.12 Printing workflow
- Appendices
- Jargon buster
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Elements/Photoshop feature equivalents
- Index