Thursday, 3 January 2013

Digital Photography: Photoshop Elements 10 Ideas

By Darnell Garcia Austria


Use Another lmage's Colors

When you've got a picture captured at some point during the day and you want to provide it with the look of a special time of the day or varied simple coloring manner, you can do so by borrowing the colors from another photograph. PSE 10 comes with a selection of images you may use shades from but you can also use your own. To start, open your image and choose File - New - Photo Merge Style Match. With the Style Bin at the foot of the page you will see many pictures. Opt for the one that's closest in style and colors with the picture you want to create. Also consider to select the "+" icon and choose Add Style Images From Hard Disk and search to pick out pictures to add to the Style Bin.

To borrow the shades from the image, enable the Transfer Tones check box, than set the Clarity, Details and intensity sliders to alter the outcome. This way you can, as an example, take a photo which had been shot on a good daylight and provide it a warm gleam of a nice setting sun by borrowing the colors originating from a sunset picture.

Avoid Filter Bloopers

Many of Photoshop's filters specifically Distort and Sketch utilize the currently specified forefront and background colors to color the photo but not anywhere will Photoshop Elements notify you this is actually the case. Consequently, if you've got blue and red picked out as your foreground and background colors, and you utilize a filter like the Diffuse Glow filter, the image will be colored blue or red and look horrible.

Instead, before applying a filter, select the wished-for colors, the Diffuse Glow filter works well with white as the background color and black as the foreground color, you could set these by hitting the shortcut key D that sets the standard hues. Then choose Filter - Distort - Diffuse Glow and you will bring an appealing grainy light with the picture.

Batch Resize Multiple Files

If you have a variety of images you want to measure down to a fixed dimension choose File - Process Multiple Files. Click the Browse button and pick a folder of images to resize. Select the destination folder by clicking on the second of the Browse buttons and locate a folder where the resized images will be saved. Click on the Resize lmages option, select Constrain Proportions so that the photos aren't skewed out of shape and then enter either the Height or the Width to your images to be resized to. When you are finished, click on OK so the pictures will likely be opened, resized and saved in the folder you have chosen. If you would like to resize portrait and landscape photos to various measurements, separate those into different folders before using the batch resize to each folder in turn.

Cut Text From An lmage

To cut text coming from a photo so you have text that is filled up with an image, first open up the photo to use. Hit the Text tool and enter a few words onto it by using a thick font will show the image detail more evidently, the color of the text is unimportant as it will likely not display later on. Click the Move tool and select the textual content to pick then resize the text to suit and drag it into position within the photo.

Double click the background layer and click on OK to change it to a normal layer then move the background layer over the text layer. At this point, with the photo layer chosen in the Layer palette, select Layer - Create Clipping Mask. This clips the photo to the shape of the text.

Now you may, if you wish, click the photo layer and move the photo around until you obtain an interesting section of the photo right behind the text. You can add a plain or gradient-filled layer underneath the text layer to fill up the backdrop. You may also give a layer layout to the text by Choosing Effects - Layer Styles - Drop Shadows and then apply a drop shadow to the picture.




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