Digital Imaging

7 th Grade Digital Literacy Digital Imaging: Photoshop Elements

Welcome to Photoshop Elements 6

Photoshop Basics: Organize
The Organizer mode displays all your media
You can organize media into albums, add tags and captions, and perform simple edits

Creating Albums and Album Groups
Media can be organized into albums
A collection of albums can be organized into an album group

Tagging Images
Keywords that describe an image and can be organized into categories and sub-categories
Face tagging automatically isolates and displays faces in photos so that you can quickly tag them.

Photoshop Basics: Edit
Photoshop Elements has three edit modes:
Guided Mode walks new users through the process of basic image editing
Quick Mode includes auto and manual adjustment options
Full Mode provides access to all of Photoshop’s editing tools

Guided Edit
Basic Photo Edits: Crop, rotate, straighten, and sharpen photos.
Lighting and Exposure: Lighten, darken, and adjust brightness and contrast.
Color Correction: Enhance colors, remove a color cast, and correct skin tone.
Guided Activities: Touch up scratches, blemishes, and tear marks, and guide photo editing.
Photomerge: Intelligently merge multiple images of group shots or faces.

Full Edit

Lighten and Darken Images

Replace Colors

Remove Red Eye Image courtesy of Texasdex: Creative Commons Attribution license

Spot Healing Touchup

Background Eraser and Layers

A Word About Size and Resolution
When you resize an image, be sure to pay attention to the resolution (pixels per inch)
For color printing, use a resolution of 300 ppi
For online viewing, use a resolution of 72 ppi

Photoshop Basics: Create
Photoshop Elements has two create modes :
Projects mode lets you create photo books, calendars, galleries, and more.
Artwork mode includes shapes, backgrounds, and frames for creating original compositions.

Photoshop Basics: Share
There are numerous options for sharing images
With a free Adobe Showcase account you can create online galleries

Additional Resources
The Digital School Collection includes lesson plans, assessment tips, and lesson accelerators
The Digital Kids Club has tips and lessons for digital photography, video, and multimedia presentations
Atomic Learning has video tutorials on Photoshop Elements and many other applications
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Digital Imaging

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