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Find out what you can do with the Elements 12 Quick mode

September 29, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Find out what you can do with the Elements 12 Quick mode

Elements 12 is designed to be all things to all people, offering simple image fixes for beginners, Guided edits for those who want to try something more ambitious and learn about the Elements editing tools at the same time, and Expert mode, where you have full manual control and can achieve many of the effects you can get in Photoshop. The Quick … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Adobe, Photoshop Elements, Software Tagged With: Quick fixes

A quick guide to Elements RAW conversions

September 21, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

A quick guide to Elements RAW conversions

Photoshop Elements can open just as many different RAW file formats as Photoshop itself, since it too comes with the Adobe Camera Raw converter. The version you get with Elements doesn't have all tools you get in the Photoshop version, but Elements RAW conversions do let you optimise your images very effectively before you open them in … [Read more...]

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Create a two-shot Elements Photomerge panorama!

September 15, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Create a two-shot Elements Photomerge panorama!

When you hear the word 'panorama', you usually think of sweeping, letterbox-shaped vistas which are about ten times wider than they are high. Panoramas this wide, however, are very difficult to print and display effectively, and often lack the visual impact you meant them to have. In fact, traditional 'panoramic' cameras didn't always go this … [Read more...]

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How to boost contrast in Photoshop Elements with overlay mode

September 7, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

How to boost contrast in Photoshop Elements with overlay mode

Photoshop Elements does not have the curves feature found in Photoshop itself and many other image-editing programs, and many people cite this as one of its limitations. I don't really agree. There's always more than one way to do anything, including modifying the contrast, and I find this 'overlay' method so quick and useful I often use it in … [Read more...]

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Filed Under: Adobe, Photoshop Elements, Software Tagged With: Blend modes, Contrast

Try this five-second fix with a gradient and color burn blend mode in Elements

August 31, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Try this five-second fix with a gradient and color burn blend mode in Elements

You can't always choose the lighting you shoot in, and sometimes it's just so flat that your pictures don't have any depth or intensity. It doesn't help that most digital cameras lean slightly towards overexposure in these conditions too. That's why I wanted to have a go at 'relighting' some shots I took in Paris a few years ago on a basic Nikon … [Read more...]

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Did you know you can save and combine selections in Elements?

August 24, 2013 by Rod Lawton Leave a Comment

Did you know you can save and combine selections in Elements?

Photoshop Elements is usually seen as the poor relation to Photoshop itself, but it offers many of the same high-end features if you know where to look! Photoshop has alpha channels, but Elements has 'saved selections'... You can get by perfectly well most of the time just working with one selection at a time, but there are situations where you … [Read more...]

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