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Teach Yourself Photoshop Elements

An introduction to Photoshop Elements • Find out how the Elements tools and interface work, and learn how to import, tag and sort your photographs

Organise your images in Elements • Discover how to sort and catalogue your shots into a fully organised image library using the Elements Organizer

Introducing the Elements editing modes • Learn about the three modes for editing photos in Photoshop Elements

An overview of the Toolbox and Tool Options • Customise the powerful array of tools in Elements with Tool Options

The menu bar options in the Expert mode • Access filters, effects and more via the drop-down menu options

A simple workflow • Take your pictures from camera to finished image: the six stages of photo processing explained

Get started fast in Photoshop Elements • Import your photos and make quick edits, or have Elements enhance them for you automatically

Import photos from your memory card • Copy images from your camera's memory card to the safety of the Photoshop Elements Organizer

Apply quick fixes to your photos • Fix common problems with colours, tones and composition, courtesy of the Organizer's Instant Fix panel

Set up your workspace in Expert mode • Customise the Elements Expert editing mode workspace

Enhance your images automatically • Correct common photo problems quickly using automatic enhancement tools such as the powerful Auto Smart Tone

Organising photos • Find any photo in seconds by grouping your pictures according to who's in them and where they were shot

Sort your images by rating them • Find your favourite photos quickly by assigning star ratings in the Organizer

Find and tag your people pictures • Use Photoshop Elements' face-recognition feature to tag your shots according to who's in them and then place them in Groups

Geo-tag your photographs • Discover how to organise your photos in Elements 14 by where they were captured so you can explore your holiday snaps on a map

Keyword your images • Discover how to find any shot with ease in the future by adding keyword tags to the image metadata

Create a new Event • Elements 14 introduces a whole new way to browse and organise your images using Events. Here's how it works

The most important things you'll ever do to a photo • Discover the best ways to fix exposure problems, colour casts, compositional errors and more

Fix exposure errors • Fix over- or under-exposed images by adjusting their levels to create healthier looking histograms

Fix exposure errors with more control • Manually re-map the levels in a photograph to create a healthier spread of tones

Get perfect colours • Reveal a scene's true colours by removing colour casts caused by an incorrect or ineffective white balance setting

Discover the best way to sharpen a photo • Use Photoshop Elements to sharpen soft-looking details while keeping artefacts at bay

Improve the composition of a photo with a crop • Use the Crop tool to improve composition and resize photographs to specific dimensions and ratios

Add mood & emotion to your photos • Help your pictures evoke a particular atmosphere through the creative use of colours and filters

Advanced image editing skills • Learn how to make an image composite by adding or removing elements from a scene without leaving traces

Make rough and ready selections • Select areas quickly by mastering the Marquee and Lasso tools

Use intelligent selection tools • Modify the shapes of selections to help the...