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Chapter 2: Getting Ready to Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Controlling the Editing Environment...........................................................29
Launching and navigating Preferences..............................................30
Checking out all the Preferences panes ............................................31
Controlling the Organizing Environment ....................................................32
Understanding the Photoshop Elements Organizer ........................32
Navigating Organizer preferences......................................................33
Setting preferences in all the panes...................................................34
Customizing Presets ......................................................................................35
Getting Familiar with Color...........................................................................36
Introducing color channels.................................................................36
Understanding bit depth .....................................................................37
Getting Color Right ........................................................................................39
Calibrating your monitor.....................................................................39
Choosing a color workspace...............................................................40
Understanding how profiles work......................................................42
Chapter 3: Working with Resolutions, Color Modes,
and File Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
The Ubiquitous Pixels....................................................................................43
Understanding resolution ...................................................................44
Understanding image dimensions......................................................45
The Art of Resampling...................................................................................46
Changing image size and resolution ..................................................46
Understanding the results of resampling..........................................48
Choosing a Resolution for Print or Onscreen.............................................49
Go Ahead — Make My Mode!........................................................................50
Converting to bitmap mode................................................................51
Converting to grayscale mode............................................................53
Converting to indexed color mode ....................................................56
Saving Files with Purpose .............................................................................56
Using the Save/Save As dialog box.....................................................57
Saving files for the Web .......................................................................58
Understanding file formats..................................................................58
File formats at a glance........................................................................64
Audio and video formats supported in Elements ............................66
Part II: Getting Organized............................................67
Chapter 4: Getting Your Images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Digital Cameras versus Scanners and Film Cameras.................................70
Grabbing Images from Your Camera............................................................71
Choosing a file format..........................................................................71
Using the Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard............................72
Using Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0 – Photo Downloader .........73
Resizing images from digital cameras ...............................................76
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