Operation Manual

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Contents
The Missing Credits ........................................ ix
Introduction ..............................................xiii
Why Photoshop Elements? ......................................... xiii
What You Can Do with Elements 12 ................................. xiv
What’s New in Elements 12 ..........................................xv
Elements vs. Photoshop ...........................................xvii
The Key to Learning Elements ..................................... xviii
About This Book ................................................. xviii
About the Online Resources .......................................xxiv
Safari® Books Online ..............................................xxv
Part One: Introduction to Elements
CHAPTER 1: Finding Your Way Around Elements ....................... 3
Getting Started .....................................................3
Organizing Your Photos .............................................6
Editing Your Photos .................................................8
Getting Started in a Hurry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
CHAPTER 2: Importing, Managing, and Saving Photos ................. 27
Importing from Cameras ............................................27
Opening Stored Images. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Creating a New File ................................................37
Using the Organizer ................................................41
Searching for Photos ...............................................63
Saving Your Work ..................................................66
Backing Up Files ...................................................72
CHAPTER 3: Rotating and Resizing Photos ............................. 77
Straightening Scanned Photos .......................................77
Rotating Images ...................................................80
Straightening the Contents of an Image ..............................82
Cropping Pictures ..................................................87
Zooming and Repositioning Your View ...............................94
Changing the Size of an Image .....................................103
Resizing Images for Email and the Web. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103