Learning Photoshop Elements 15

Learn how to use Photoshop Elements 15 to import, organize, edit, and share photos. Explore ways casual photographers can achieve professional results using this app.

Organize, edit, and share your photos with Photoshop Elements 15, the less expensive version of Photoshop that's ideal for casual photographers who want to achieve professional results. Join Chad Chelius as he shows you everything from importing and correcting to making fun projects out of your pictures. First he shows how to manage your images using catalogs, tags, and face recognition. Next, he takes you through how to make slideshows and share images, like exporting and emailing your photos. He also demonstrates how to adjust tone, resize, crop, retouch, and sharpen photos by providing step-by-step instructions.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• Exercise files

1. Getting Familiar with Photoshop Elements 15

• The role of Photoshop Elements
• The Welcome Screen
• Components of Photoshop Elements 15

2. Working with the Elements Organizer

• What is a catalog?
• Creating a new catalog
• Importing photos
• Importing photos from a camera card
• Setting up watched folders
• The Elements Organizer interface
• Backing up your catalogs

3. Managing Photos in the Elements Organizer

• Using eLive
• Taking advantage of smart tags
• Hiding vs. deleting photos
• Viewing information about photos
• Adding basic information about photos
• Organize photos: Albums, places, and events
• Face recognition: Tag and find photos
• Adding keywords to photos
• Finding your photos
• Fixing photos using Instant Fix

4. Sharing Photos in the Elements Organizer

• Creating a slideshow from your images
• Exporting photos to other formats
• Sharing options in Elements Organizer
• Creating projects from your photos
• Emailing your photos

5. The Photoshop Elements Editor

• The Photoshop Elements Editor
• Utilizing the tools in the Quick Editor
• Quick Editor: Making fun photo edits

6. Photoshop Elements Guided Edits

• Getting familiar with the Guided mode
• Resizing a photo
• Creating an old-fashioned photo
• Making basic tonal adjustments
• Applying the Orton effect
• Creating a frame for your photo
• Creating photo text
• Motion blur with Speed Pan guided edit

7. Photoshop Elements Expert Mode

• The Expert Mode workspace
• Straightening and cropping a photo
• Editing a RAW image
• Using the Smart brush
• Removing haze from an image
• Adjust facial features
• Retouching photos in Expert mode
• Editing with Content-Aware features
• Sharpening images
• Removing camera shake
• Removing red eye and pet eye
• Resizing using the Recompose tool

8. Working with Layers

• An Introduction to layers
• Adding text to an image
• Adding graphics to an image
• Selections and the selection tools
• Using the Refine Selection brush
• Making the most of Adjustment Layers
• Nondestructive edits with Layer Masks

Conclusion

• Next steps