Adobe Photoshop Elements Tips

Brightening part of an image

Sometimes you only want to adjust part of an image. This technique allows you to brighten just a portion of an image leaving the remaining part unaltered. Two of the three faces in the left image below were brightened, the result is on the right.

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Filling text with an image

This technique allows you to create text filled with part of an image as shown below.

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Text filled with part of the image

Creating a Collage

Easily create an image from a selection of other images.


Improving a dark image - coming soon

Example "before" and "after" images are shown below.

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Printing specific sizes with Adobe Photoshop Elements- coming soon


Adding a 4" by 6" or other Option to the Print Layouts - coming soon

Photoshop Elements does not include an option for a 4" by 6" image. This will explain how to add this as well as other sizes.


Creative Cropping

This technique lets you crop an image to remove an artifact while leaving the image size unchanged.

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Create a shaped vignette - coming soon

With this technique, we can start with the heart drawing and image, and arrive at the final image on the right. This technique incorporates vector shapes and layer styles.

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