Tips and advice to help beginners get started with Adobe Photoshop Elements, plus tutorials for learning about the tools and interface of Adobe Photoshop Elements. Explore these basic tutorials before moving on to more advanced projects and techniques.
Explore the Photoshop Elements workspace in this illustrated tutorial.
How to straighten a crooked image using the crop tool in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements.
Some Photoshop Actions can be used in Photoshop Elements, but they are accessed in a different way depending on the version of Photoshop Elements. Here you'll find tools to help you use Photoshop actions within Photoshop Elements, links to help you find Elements-compatible actions, and tips for Photoshop users who want to create actions that will work in Photoshop Elements.
There are hundreds of Web sites offering free Photoshop brushes, layer style effects, actions, shapes, patterns, gradients, and color swatch sets. All this free content can also be used in Photoshop Elements. Here's what to do with these files to get them working in Elements, along with links to where you can find these free goodies.
Learn how to simulate the layer mask function in Photoshop within Photoshop Elements.
Learn how to create a custom brush in Photoshop Elements, save it to your brushes palette, and then use that brush to create a border.
This is the index of lessons for the free online class "Organize your Photos with Photoshop Elements."
Does it annoy you how Photoshop Elements likes to "snap" to the document edges when using the crop tool, selection tools and so on? Learn how you can disable this snapping behavior.
Here are step-by step instructions for straightening a crooked photo or scan in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, plus a way to correct perspective at the same time.
A shortcut to the Type Tool.
How to rename a series of files with the file browser in Photoshop 7 and up or Photoshop Elements 2 and up.
How to move text without leaving the type tool.
How to cycle through the fonts list and hide text highlighting.
Save time with these fill tool shortcuts.
When zoomed in for detail work, it may be difficult to visualize your results at actual size. You can open a second window for the same document and set each window to a different Zoom level.
I often cannot see the cursor whenever I am in a grayish area of the image. Here's a trick for quickly finding it.
Try all the blend modes quickly with these shortcuts.
Use Add and Subtract Modes for Refining Selections
And, what to do when your cursor inexplicably changes.
This is a slight variation on red eye removal tips you may have seen elsewhere, but its very quick and very effective.
Learn about working with loayers by combining two different images in Photoshop Elements.
