Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

108 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Formatting Flash Media Every version of Windows since Windows 98 uses the FA ...

You can change the formatting utility in Windows XP to FAT16 using a drop-down list under Windows Explorer, but even this is dic ...

In the Safely Remove Hardware dialog box, click on the flash media reader to highlight it. It might be listed simply as USB Mas ...

Image Editing PART III Basic Editing with Photoshop Elements and iPhoto......................... .113 Editing with Selection Too ...

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9 In this chapter Finding an Image on Your Computer Editing with Photoshop Elements Resizing an Image in Photoshop Elements Edi ...

Finding an Image on Your Computer Elements and iPhoto include file browsers, which provide a directory tree of your computer’s i ...

CHAPTER 9 BASIC EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS AND iPHOTO 115 FIGURE 9.2 Adobe Album, an optional image man- ager, might come i ...

Editing with Photoshop Elements Photoshop Elements is available for Mac and PC computers and includes features designed specific ...

The Image Size dialog box offers two very different ways to resize the image, depend- ing on whether the Resample Image check bo ...

Change the printing size of the image by typing a number in the Width, Height, or Resolution (pixels per inch) field. A change ...

CHAPTER 9 BASIC EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS AND iPHOTO 119 Rescan or Resample a Photo For photos that weren’t scanned in at ...

It’s usually best to scan photos and negatives at the highest resolution possible, then downsample later. There is a limit to th ...

CHAPTER 9 BASIC EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS AND iPHOTO 121 ■ Type values for the Document Size Width or Height. The number o ...

122 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY To correct perspective problems: Open your image and save it with a new nam ...

CHAPTER 9 BASIC EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS AND iPHOTO 123 FIGURE 9.11 Almost art. This image needs to be level. FIGURE 9.12 ...

You probably will need to crop the image a little to remove the empty, blank areas in the corners. Click the Crop tool (see Fig ...

The Free Transform tool is capable of all these actions, but it’s often more difficult to work with than a dedicated command. Fo ...

Editing with iPhoto iPhoto is not as capable as Photoshop Elements in terms of editing, but it is much more seamless. The streng ...

CHAPTER 9 BASIC EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS AND iPHOTO 127 FIGURE 9.17 iPhoto’s basic editing com- mands in the Edit menu. W ...