About This Book 1

Icons Used in This Book 2

Beyond the Book 3

Where to Go from Here 3

Part 1: Getting Started with Photoshop Elements 2024 5

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Image Editing 7

Getting Familiar with the Home Screen 7

Launching the Photo Editor 9

Making Basic Edits in Quick Mode 11

Sharing a Photo 13

Retracing Your Steps 15

Using the History panel 16

Reverting to the last save 17

Getting a Helping Hand 17

Saving Files with Purpose 19

Using the Save/Save As dialog box 19

Saving files for the web 21

Chapter 2: Basic Image-Editing Concepts 23

Grappling with the Ubiquitous Pixels 24

Understanding resolution 25

Understanding image dimensions 27

The Art of Resampling 27

Choosing a Resolution for Print or Onscreen 30

Working with File Formats 31

JPEG (*.jpg, *.jpeg, *.jpe) 32

PNG (*.png) 33

TIFF (*.tif, *.tiff) 33

Getting Familiar with Color 34

Getting Color Right 36

Color the easy way 36

Calibrating your monitor 36

Choosing a color workspace 37

Understanding how profiles work 38

Chapter 3: Exploring the Photo Editor 39

Examining the Photo Editor 39

Examining the image window 43

Uncovering the contextual menus 48

Selecting the tools 48

Selecting from the Tool Options 51

Playing with panels 51

Using the Photo Bin 55

Creating different views of an image 55

Viewing filenames 56

Using Photo Bin Actions 56

Using Some Creative Features 56

Using Guided Edits 57

Working with Adobe Stock images 58

Searching Guided Edits 60

Controlling the Editing Environment 61

Launching and navigating Preferences 62

Checking out all the Preferences panes 63

Perusing preset libraries 65

Part 2: Managing Media 67

Chapter 4: Navigating the Organizer 69

Organizing Photos and Media on a Hard Drive 70

Adding Images to the Organizer 72

Adding files from folders and removable media 72

Downloading camera images with the Elements Downloader 74

Importing additional photos from folders 76

Navigating the Media Browser 77

Using a Scanner 78

Understanding image requirements 79

Using scanner plug-ins (Windows) 79

Scanning on the Mac 80

Scanning many photos at a time 81

Phoning in Your Images 81

Setting Organizer Preferences 82

Chapter 5: Organizing Your Pictures 85

Touring the Organizer 85

Organizing Groups of Images with Tags 89

Creating and viewing a tag 89

Adding icons to tags 92

Working with custom tags 93

Working with default tags 94

Working with sub-categories 95

Sorting photos according to tags 96

Auto Generating Tags 96

Working with Auto Creations 97

Adding new Events 97

Rating Images with Stars 98

Adding Images to an Album 99

Creating an album 100

Using albums for temporary work 102

Editing an album 102

Finding out more about sharing your albums 103

Adding People in the Media Browser 103

Placing Pictures on Maps 105

Working with Events 107

Chapter 6: Viewing and Finding Your Images 109

Cataloging Files 109

Using the Catalog Manager 110

Working with catalogs 111

Backing up your catalog 112

Backing up photos and files 114

Switching to a Different View 114

Viewing Photos in Memories (Slideshow) 115

Searching for Photos 117

Using Search 117

Searching for untagged items 119

Searching captions and notes 119

Searching by history 120

Searching metadata 120

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