Photoshop Elements 7 in easy steps

The number one selling image editing software goes from strength to strength and Photoshop Elements 7 in easy steps shows how to use it to edit, display and share images in some truly stunning and original ways.

Editing digital images is at the heart of Elements 7 and this book covers it in depth. It looks at obtaining images, color enhancements and techniques such as skin tone adjustment, cloning and removing flaws and blemishes. There are also sections on quick fixes and new features such as quickly selecting and editing areas of a photo and also removing unwanted objects in any scene.

Elements 7 is in a league of its own when it comes to sharing images creatively and this book covers its stunning features including, improved effects, color-coordinated layouts, animated slideshows, dynamic online galleries, photo emails and fun flip-books. It also shows how to use Photoshop.com, an exciting new online service, to enhance, store and share images.

Organizing images can sometimes be a chore, but this book shows how Elements 7 simplifies the process through the use of tags, collections, face recognition, Smart Albums and placing images on a map where they were taken.

Photoshop Elements 7 in easy steps puts the fun into working with digital images and enables you to expand your creative horizons once you've captured the images.

Nick Vandome is an IT writer and trainer who specialises in digital imaging and web authoring subjects. In addition to his writing, he also works designing websites and runs training courses. Before he started working with computers he wrote books about working and travelling abroad.

1. Introducing Elements
   • About Elements
   • Welcome Screen
   • Editor mode
   • Photo Bin
   • Quick Fix mode
   • Guided Edit mode
   • Organizer mode
   • Create mode
   • Share mode
   • Menu bar
   • Toolbox
   • Options bar
   • Palettes
   • Preferences
   • Getting help
2. Organizing images
   • Obtaining images
   • Photo Browser
   • Full Screen View
   • Full Screen Compare
   • Stacks
   • Version sets
   • Tagging images
   • Tagging faces
   • Searching for images
   • Albums
   • Smart Albums
   • Date View
   • Map View
   • Opening and saving images
3. First digital steps
   • Color enhancements
   • Cropping
   • Cloning
   • Pattern cloning
   • Healing Brush
   • Spot Healing Brush
   • Rotating
   • Transforming
   • Magnification
   • Eraser
4. Quick wins
   • Removing red-eye
   • Adjusting skin tones
   • Straightening an image
   • Dividing scanned images
   • Quick Fix options
   • General Quick Fixes
   • Lighting Quick Fixes
   • Color Quick Fixes
   • Sharpening Quick Fixes
   • Touch Up Quick Fixes
   • Cleaning up scenes
   • Changing to black and white
   • Combining group shots
   • Combining faces
   • Panoramas
5. Beyond the basics
   • Hue and saturation
   • Histogram
   • Levels
   • Color curves
   • Pegging points
   • Filter adjustments
   • Unsharp Mask
   • Fixing camera distortion
   • Importing RAW images
   • Image size
   • Resampling images
6. Selecting areas
   • About selections
   • Marquee tools
   • Lasso tools
   • Magic Wand tool
   • Selection Brush tool
   • Quick Selection tool
   • Smart Brush tool
   • Inverting a selection
   • Feathering
   • Editing selections
7. Layers
   • Layering images
   • Layers palette
   • Adding layers
   • Fill layers
   • Working with layers
   • Blending layers
   • Opacity
   • Saving layers
8. Text and drawing tools
   • Adding and formatting text
   • Distorting text
   • Text and shape masks
   • Adding shapes
   • Layer Styles
   • Paint Bucket tool
   • Gradient tool
   • Brush and Pencil tools
   • Impressionist Brush tool
   • Working with color
9. Content and Effects
   • About Content and Effects
   • Artwork
   • Themes
   • Special Effects
   • Text Effects
   • Filtering content
10. Sharing images
    • Saving images for the Web
    • Creatively emailing images
    • Online Albums
    • Joining Photoshop.com
    • Using Photoshop.com
11. Getting creative
    • About Create mode
    • Photo Books
    • Slide Shows
    • VCDs
    • Flipbooks
12. Printing images
    • Calibrating your monitor
    • Print size
    • Print Preview
    • Printing multiple photos
    • Print Layouts
    • Online prints
    • Creating PDF files