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Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 Digital Classroom is like having a personal instructor guiding you through each lesson, while you work at your own pace. This Photoshop Elements book with DVD includes 13 self-paced lessons helping you learn essential skills and explore new features and capabilities of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10.

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Starting Up

About the Photoshop Elements 10
Digital Classroom
Prerequisites
System requirements
Starting Adobe Photoshop Elements 10
Loading lesson files
Managing catalogs
Creating a new catalog
Switching catalogs
Reconnecting to missing files
Reconnect missing files window
Working with the video tutorials
Setting up for viewing the
video tutorials
Viewing the video tutorials
Additional resources

Lesson 1: Importing your Photos into Adobe Photoshop Elements

Starting up
How Photoshop Elements works
The welcome screen
Getting photos into the Organizer
using the Photo Downloader
Getting photos from a camera or
card reader
The Photo Downloader
Get photos from a scanner
Get photos and videos by searching
Setting a Watch Folder
Adding files and folders to the Organizer
Importing Images from iPhoto
Getting a still image from a video frame
Workspaces
Organizer basics
How to get help
Photoshop help
Support Center
The Inspiration Browser
Self study
Review

Lesson 2: Organizing Your Photos

Starting up
Understanding the
Organizer workspace
Media Browser
Options Bar
Timeline
Properties
Albums
Keyword Tags
Analyzing photos in the Organizer
Rotating photos
Hiding photos
Reviewing photos
Compare photos side by side
Stacks
Organizing using albums
Creating a new album
Creating album categories
Creating a Smart Album
Tagging your photos
Adding ratings
Adding keywords and categories
People Recognition
Finding your photos
Find photos by star rating
Find photos by keyword
Find photos using the
keyword Tag Cloud
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Lesson 3: Fixing Common Photographic Problems

Starting up
Welcome screen
Understanding the Editor workspace
The Project Bin
The Panel Bin
The Toolbox
The Menu bar and Options bar
Editing modes: Full, Quick, and Guided
Using Quick Fix
Using Auto Smart Fix
Auto Levels
Auto Contrast
Correcting color automatically
Comparing images in Full Edit View
Using the Navigator
The Guided Edit mode
Fixing an underexposed or dark image
Fixing an overexposed or light image
Using Full Edit mode
Removing a color cast
Correcting skin tone
Photomerge Exposure
The Toolbox
Using tools
Red Eye Removal tool
Whitening teeth
Enhancing blue skies
Sharpening
Cropping images
Rotating images
Resizing images
Recompose
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Lesson 4: Adjusting Exposure

Starting up
Welcome screen
Understanding exposure
Exposure adjustments
with blending modes
Improving underexposed images
Improving faded or
overexposed images
Making adjustments manually
Adjusting brightness and
contrast manually
Adjusting shadows and
highlights manually
Making tonal adjustments using Levels
Histogram
Making tonal adjustments using Curves
Comparing images in Full Edit view
Using adjustment layers
Correcting selected parts of an image
Hue/Saturation adjustments
Working with selections
Using the Quick Selection tool
Saving selections
Moving selections to a new layer
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Lesson 5: Adjusting Color

Starting up
Welcome screen
Understanding color
HSB color
About image modes
Bitmap mode
Grayscale mode
Indexed Color mode
Switching image modes
Comparing methods of adjusting color
Understanding Full Edit
Understanding Quick Edit
Understanding Guided Edit
Adjusting tonal range in Full Edit
Making a duplicate of a file
Restoring shadow and highlight detail
Correcting color in Full Edit
Correcting color casts using
Color Variations
Removing a color cast using Levels
Adjusting color curves in an image
Adjusting color saturation and hue
Adjusting saturation in specific areas
Making selections
The importance of selections
About the selection tools
Using the Selection Brush tool
Add to or subtract from a selection
Smoothing selection edges with
anti-aliasing and feathering
Blur the edges of a selection by feathering
Saving selections
Modifying a new selection with a
saved selection
Inverting a selection
Converting to Black and White
Adding color to areas of an image
Saving and exporting images
About saving images and file formats
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Lesson 6: Sharing Your Photos

Starting up
Welcome screen
Sharing photos
Creating an online album
Sharing options for online albums
Stop sharing an online album
Viewing an online album
Sharing photos via e-mail
Attaching a photo to an e-mail
Sending a photo using Photo Mail
Setting up Adobe E-mail Service
Sharing photos using online services
Ordering prints
Ordering a printed photo book
Sharing Photos on Facebook
Printing photos
Printing photos in the Organizer
Adding photos using the Print
Photos dialog box
Printing a contact sheet
Printing a picture package
Setting page and printer options
Specifying measurement
units for printing
Backing up and synchronizing files
Backing up and synchronizing
files to Photoshop.com
About synchronized albums on Photoshop.com
Starting backup or synchronization
Stopping and restarting backup
or synchronization
Exporting photos
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Lesson 7: Working with Type

Starting up
Welcome screen
Placing text on a layer
Formatting a text layer
Editing a text layer
Making cartoon bubbles
Adding text over the cartoon bubble
Adding effects to type
Adding text to multiple images
Warping type
Adding a layer style to type
Creating an animation with text
Adding a stroke
Getting the layers ready for animating
Time to animate
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Lesson 8: Photo Retouching: Secrets of the Pros

Starting up
Working with what you have
Using the histogram
Working over the image
Improving your image
Making a selective change using
the adjustment layer's mask
Brushing on corrections
Using the Clone Stamp tool
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Lesson 9: The Art of Illusion: Photo Composites

Starting up
Welcome screen
What is a photo composite?
Understanding layers
Working with layers
Creating a new blank file
Creating a type layer
Combining images
About the Layers panel
Editing layers
Converting the Background
layer into a regular layer
Selecting a layer
Showing or hiding a layer
Changing the stacking order of layers
Locking or unlocking a layer
Deleting a layer
Using opacity and blending modes
About opacity and blending
options in layers
Specifying the opacity of a layer
Specifying a blending mode for a layer
Using the Magic Extractor
Flattening an image
Completing the composite
Working with clipping groups
About layer clipping masks
Creating a clipping mask
Using Layer styles
Working with layer styles
Hiding or showing all layer
styles in an image
Change the scale of a layer style
Copying style settings between layers
Removing a layer style
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Lesson 10: Making Photoshop Elements Creations

Starting up
Creating a panorama
Creating a slide show
Adding text to your slide show
Adding graphics
Applying transitions
Panning and zooming
Reordering slides
Setting the slide order
Drag and drop on the storyboard
Quick Reorder menu
Working with audio
Adding audio
Adding narration
Choosing an output option
Save as a file
Burn to disk
Edit with Premiere Elements
Creating a photo calendar
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Lesson 11: Photoshop Elements for Digital Photographers

Starting up
Working with Camera Raw files
Understanding the Camera Raw dialog box
Using the Camera Raw dialog box
Saving a DNG file
Vignetting a photo
The basics of filters
Sharpening an image with Unsharp Mask
Using Undo History for comparisons
Using the Blur filter to create depth of field
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Lesson 12: Photoshop Elements for Artists

Starting up
Creating a new document from scratch
Using brushes to add style
to your work
Creating texture with
brushes and gradients
The Impressionist brush
Using shapes creatively
Working with patterns
Creating patterns
Applying patterns
Scrapbooking made easier
Creating a texture
Creating a text effect
Adding text to the background
Add images and create a border
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Lesson 13: Creating Web and Video Graphics

Starting up
The differences between
print and the screen
Resolution and color for the Web and video
Preparing images for the Web
Web image formats
Saving files for the Web
Preparing images for video
Safe margins
Saving files for video
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Appendices

Appendix A - Tools
Appendix B - Keyboard Shortcuts
Appendix C - Understanding
Digital Files
Understanding Resolution
Understanding Color Modes & Bit Depth
Understanding File Formats

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