Book On Adobe Elements Tools For Amateur Digital Photographers Now On CD

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Many people, both young and old, are looking at photography as a potential money making endeavor. Unfortunately many meet failure at the start. In part the failure is due to poor photo quality which fails to impress the potential photo buyers.

What many amateur photographers are unaware of is the tool that professionals use to make their photos always turn out perfectly. Most professional photographers use photo editing software programs such as Adobe Elements to make their ordinary photos extraordinary. Here is an overview of some of the tools that are available in this program which will help take your photos to the next level and potentially make them saleable.

Photo editing begins once you have finished taking the picture. When you open your photo inside Elements you always want to create a new layer from the options menu. This is important as you will be making any editing on the new layer and not on your original photo and in the end will make your job much simpler. If your photo is too dark or too bright you will next want to enhance this by using brightness and contrast. You can also accent the color scheme by using various brushes. You can choose from the paint, spray and air brush. You will want to play around with this until you achieve your desired effect.


Once you have selected the brush you want to also choose the stroke size as well as brush size. After choosing the brush tool from the menu press your right bracket key on your keyboard to increase its size and the left bracket key to decrease its size. If you want to not have to go through this process each time you use Elements you can select the sample size option to maintain the consistent size of the brush. The next step is to figure out how dark you want to your brush strokes to be.

This can be done by choosing the opacity tool which gives you the freedom of increasing and decreasing the darkness to improve the clarity of the picture. The opacity tool has a sliding option wherein you can increase or decrease the color intensity of your paint brush from 0% to 100%. Adobe gives you the provision of using varied color schemes till you find the best one. This can be done by experimenting with your colors in different layers and keep deleting them in case you are not satisfied.


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