Volume 3 Number 3 | Photoshop Elements User

Volume 3 Number 3

Volume 3 Number 3
27 pages

Feature

Unlocking The Power of Layer Styles
With layer styles, you can quickly and easily add bevel, shadow, sepia, and even chrome effects to your images. Join us as we take a closer look at these little powerhouses.

Save For Web Simplified
Learn how to use the Save for Web command to optimize your images for use on the Web without the need for a Ph.D. in math.

Step by Step

Photo Cube
Remember those plastic photo cubes where you inserted your favorite photos of your dog and kids? Here’s the 2006 digital equivalent, made simple with 3D Transform.

Creating Stained Glass
Stained glass has been around for more than a thousand years, but never quite like this. With the Brush tool, Paint Bucket, and Filter Gallery, we'll create our own digital “window of light.”

Creating Text that Fits the Message
When trying to communicate a message to viewers, you can use type effects like the one we show you here to really reinforce your point.

Columns

Scrapbookers’ Workshop: Creating Corner Ribbons
Did you ever think you’d be using the Brick texture in the Texturizer filter to create grosgrain ribbons? We didn’t either -- but it works. Who knew?

Restoration Station: Adding a Burned-in Edge to a Vintage Photo
Add an artistic burned-in edge effect that will enhance your old photos and create an even more vintage appearance.

Essentials

From the Editor
Change is good. Sometimes “painful” when trying to alter a longtime habit, but ultimately, change is a good thing. As users of Photoshop Elements, we should always be ready to accept change as we learn about new techniques, new versions of the software, and new ideas for ways to work with our images. - Dave Cross, Editor-in-Chief.

Beginners' Workshop: Tool Time: Understanding Type, Pixels, and Resolution
...While most of the components that make up an image in Photoshop Elements are pixels, the program does understand the shape of letters...

Tips & Tricks
If you ever forget the shortcut for a particular tool, just move your cursor over the tool to view its shortcut symbol.

Feature: Save for Web

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