User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Legal notices
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Photoshop Elements
- What's new in Photoshop Elements
- Automatically colorize your photos
- Select your subject with just one click
- Smooth skin automatically
- Enjoy new Auto Creations
- Add creative sparkle with patterns
- Make unwanted objects vanish
- Find new things to try
- Faster performance and expanded HEIF and HEVC support
- Order photo prints, gifts, and gear (U.S. only)
- System requirements | Photoshop Elements
- Photoshop Elements 2020
- Photoshop Elements 2019
- Photoshop Elements 2018
- Photoshop Elements 15.0
- Photoshop Elements 14.0
- Photoshop Elements 13.0
- Older versions
- Photoshop Elements 12.0
- Windows
- Mac OS
- Photoshop Elements 11.0
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- Mac OS
- Photoshop Elements 10.0
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- Photoshop Elements 9.0
- Windows
- Mac OS
- Photoshop Elements 8.0
- Windows
- Mac OS
- Languages
- Photoshop Elements 7.0
- Windows
- Languages
- Photoshop Elements 6.0
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- Languages
- Mac OS
- Languages
- Photoshop Elements 5.0
- Windows
- Mac OS
- Photoshop Elements 4.0
- Windows
- Mac OS
- Photoshop Elements 3.0
- Windows
- Mac OS
- Photoshop Elements 2.0
- Windows
- Mac OS
- Photoshop Elements 1.0
- Windows
- Mac OS
- Photoshop Elements manual (PDF)
- What's new in Photoshop Elements
- Chapter 2: Workspace and environment
- Get to know the Home screen
- Workspace basics
- Tools
- Panels and bins
- Open files
- Rulers, grids, and guides
- Enhanced Quick Mode
- File information
- Presets and libraries
- Multitouch support
- Scratch disks, plug-ins, and application updates
- Undo, redo, and cancel actions
- Viewing images
- Chapter 3: Fixing and enhancing photos
- Resize images
- Cropping
- Process camera raw image files
- Add blur, replace colors, and clone image areas
- Adjust shadows and light
- Adjust color and tonality using the Smart Brush tools
- Apply the Smart Brush tools
- About Levels adjustments
- Improve shadow and highlight detail
- Adjust shadows and brightness using Levels
- Adjust brightness and contrast in selected areas
- Quickly lighten or darken isolated areas
- Quickly saturate or desaturate isolated areas
- Retouch and correct photos
- Sharpen photos
- Transforming
- Auto Smart Tone
- Recomposing
- Using actions to process photos
- Chapter 4: Adding shapes and text
- Chapter 5: Guided edits, effects, and filters
- Filters
- Guided mode Photomerge edits
- Guided mode Basic edits
- Adjustment filters
- Effects
- Guided mode Fun edits
- Pattern Brush guided edit
- Double Exposure guided edit
- Effects Collage guided edit
- Meme Maker guided edit
- Multi-Photo Text guided edit
- Old Fashioned Photo guided edit
- Out of Bounds guided edit
- Painterly guided edit
- Partial Sketch guided edit
- Photo Text guided edit
- Picture Stack guided edit
- Pop Art guided edit
- Puzzle Effect guided edit
- Reflection guided edit
- Speed Effect guided edit
- Shape Overlay Effect guided edit
- Speed Pan guided edit
- Zoom Burst Effect guided edit
- Guided mode Special edits
- Replace Background guided edit
- Depth of Field guided edit
- Frame Creator guided edit
- Orton Effect guided effect
- Recompose guided edit
- Perfect Portrait guided edit
- Restore Old Photo guided edit
- Scratches and Blemishes guided edit
- Text and Border Overlay guided edit
- Tilt-Shift guided edit
- Watercolor Effect guided edit
- Artistic filters
- Guided mode Color edits
- Blur filters
- Brush Stroke filters
- Distort filters
- Other filters
- Noise filters
- Render filters
- Sketch filters
- Stylize filters
- Texture filters
- Chapter 6: Working with colors
- Understanding color
- Set up color management
- Color and tonal correction basics
- Choose colors
- Adjust color, saturation, and hue
- Fix color casts
- Using image modes and color tables
- Color and camera raw
- Chapter 7: Working with selections
- Make selections in Photoshop Elements
- Saving selections
- Modifying selections
- Move a selection border
- Invert a selection
- Add to or subtract from a selection
- Select an area that intersects an existing selection
- Expand or contract a selection by a specific number of pixels
- Frame an existing selection with a new selection border
- Include areas of similar color in a selection
- Remove stray pixels from a color-based selection
- Defringe a selection
- Move and copy selections
- Edit and refine selections
- Smooth selection edges with anti-aliasing and feathering
- Chapter 8: Working with layers
- Chapter 9: Creating photo projects
- Chapter 10: Saving, printing, and sharing photos
- Save images
- Printing photos
- Share photos online
- Optimizing images
- Optimizing images for the JPEG format
- Dithering in web images
- Guided Edits - Share panel
- Previewing web images
- Use transparency and mattes
- Optimizing images for the GIF or PNG-8 format
- Optimizing images for the PNG-24 format
- Chapter 11: Keyboard shortcuts
- Keys for selecting tools
- Keys for selecting and moving objects
- Keys for the Layers panel
- Keys for showing or hiding panels (expert mode)
- Keys for painting and brushes
- Keys for using text
- Keys for the Liquify filter
- Keys for transforming selections
- Keys for the Color Swatches panel
- Keys for the Camera Raw dialog box
- Keys for the Filter Gallery
- Keys for using blending modes
- Keys for viewing images (expertmode)
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Adding shapes and text
Last updated 11/5/2019
option, see About foreground and background colors.)
Paint stroke without and with color jitter
Hardness Controls the size of the brush’s hard center. Type a number, or use the slider to enter a value that’s a
percentage of the brush diameter.
Brush strokes with different hardness values
Scatter Brush scattering determines how brush marks are distributed in a stroke. A low value produces a denser stroke
with less paint scattering, and higher values increase the scattering area.
Brush stroke with low and high scatter values
Angle Specifies the angle by which an elliptical brush’s long axis is offset from horizontal. Type a value in degrees, or
drag the arrowhead of the angle icon to mark the desired angle.