Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

Click the down arrow next to Presets to force the printer to print on photo paper at a higher resolution (see Figure 9.20). 12 ...

CHAPTER 9 BASIC EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS AND iPHOTO 129 FIGURE 9.21 Edit an image through your printer driver! Just be su ...

130 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY ■ Special Effects. Special filters such as “illustration look,” monochrome e ...

CHAPTER 9 BASIC EDITING WITH PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS AND iPHOTO 131 FIGURE 9.24 Print Preview ensures your image will print properly. ...

132 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY The Absolute Minimum Comparing Photoshop Elements and iPhoto is somewhat lik ...

10 In this chapter Introduction to Selection Tools The Photoshop Toolbox Introduction to Image Editing Color Balance 101 Editi ...

134 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 10.1 After you select part of an image, you can change it or its back ...

This chapter walks you through the most important selection tools: ■ Magic Wand. A fast way to select similar color pixels. ■ Re ...

As a reminder, the best Undo of all is to save a copy of any image before you work on it. This is especially important when work ...

Make a duplicate of the file so that the original file remains intact by choos- ing File, Save As (give the new file its own na ...

The Most Popular Selection Tools Selection tools let you extend photographic techniques such as burning and dodging that are use ...

■ Lasso tools.Click and drag Lasso tools to outline items and draw shapes freehand (see Figure 10.8). The regular Lasso enables ...

The following steps demonstrate a few ways to select an item, and then modify it without affecting the rest of the image. You ca ...

Selecting Anti-Aliased in the options bar smoothes the jagged edges of a selection and is useful when cutting, copying, and past ...

The Contiguous setting selects only adjacent pixels within the tolerance range. Otherwise, all pixels within the range, even on ...

Complete the loop to select the item and then release the mouse. To add more, click on the Add symbol in the Tool options bar a ...

You can click on the center of a subject and press down and hold the Alt key, then drag the cursor out to create a rectangle ar ...

Introduction to Image Editing Now that you have some idea how to select specific items in an image, why not edit something? The ...

Evaluate the image with Levels. Choose Image, Adjust, Levels to view a his- togram of the image, which enables you to evaluate ...

If the image is clipped (if data was never scanned because of a scanner error), scan it again or reshoot the image. Remember tha ...