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Lesson 1: Getting Familiar with Photoshop Elements

• Launch Photoshop Elements
• Creating a new catalog
• Getting photos from a digital camera or card reader
• Getting photos from files and folders
• Organizer vs. the Editor
• Viewing tags
• Viewing photos at full screen or side-by-side
• Creating a greeting card
• Capturing still frames from a video
• Using Adobe Photoshop Elements Help
• Using the How To palette

Lesson 2: Organizing and Sharing Photos

• Dragging photos from Windows Explorer
• Searching for photos to add
• Importing from a scanner
• Using watched folders
• Using Photo Browser view
• Using Date view
• Using stacks
• Creating Picture Packages
• Working with version sets
• To remove red eye in the Photo Browser
• Finding photos using details and metadata
• Viewing and managing files by their folder location
• Creating new categories and sub-categories
• Applying and editing category assignments
• Creating and applying tags to photos
• Converting tags and categories
• Using tags to find pictures
• Automatically finding faces for tagging
• Finding photos with visual similarity
• Using photo mail
• Sharing photos online
• Printing
• Printing a contact sheet
• Burning photos to CD or DVD

Lesson 3: Sharing Creations

• Using the Slide Show Editor
• Adding text, graphics, audio, and narration to photos in the slide show
• Applying transitions
• Panning and zooming
• Reordering slides
• Choosing an output option for your slideshow
• Saving your slideshow

Lesson 4: Adjusting Color in Images

• Quick Fix multiple files as a batch
• Adding the corrected files to the Organizer
• Opening image files for Quick Fix editing
• Use Smart Fix
• Applying other automatic fixes
• Duplicating an image file
• Automatically fixing color
• Applying further changes to automatically fixed images
• Combining automatic fix and manual image corrections
• Comparing results
• Adjusting skin tones
• Fixing red eye
• Darkening reflective animal eyes
• Using the Navigator palette
• Restoring surface highlights
• Using the Selection Brush Tool
• Editing a saved selection
• Using the Magic Selection Brush Tool
• Setting up layers
• Saving a selection
• Replacing color
• Saving and organizing finished files
• Setting up color management

Lesson 5: Fixing Exposure Problems

• Brightening an underexposed image
• Using blending modes to fix a faded image
• Adjusting shadows and highlights manually
• Adjusting brightness and contrast manually
• Adjusting levels
• Creating adjustment layers for lighting
• Applying an adjustment layer to a limited area
• Comparing results
• Creating a selection
• Refining and saving a selection
• Correcting an overexposed areas of the image
• Correcting an underexposed area with other blending modes
• Adding more intensity

Lesson 6: Repairing and Retouching Images

• Straightening an image
• Using the Magic Extractor to remove a background
• Merging photos into a panorama
• Cropping images
• Using the Healing Brush Tool
• Using the Spot Healing Brush Tool
• Using the Blur Tool
• Removing specs and scratches in your photo
• Using the Clone Stamp Tool

Lesson 7: Working with Text

• Using the Organizer to find and open tagged files
• Adding an uneven border
• Adding a decorative border
• Formatting and adding a text layer
• Editing text
• Saving your work file
• Drawing custom shapes
• Adding text over a custom shape
• Creating a new document
• Adding embossed text to images
• Saving images for Web use
• Warping and styling text
• Simplifying and applying a pattern to text
• Hiding and revealing layers to review versions
• Using Layer Styles to create animations
• Adding effects to text
• Merging layers
• Animating layers

Lesson 8: Combining Multiple Images

• Copying from one image into another
• Cropping to synchronize dimensions of two photos
• Combining pictures and resizing the canvas
• Using rulers and grids
• Erasing areas of image layers
• Using a gradient clipping path
• Applying the clipping path to a layer
• Creating a clean edge with defringing

Lesson 9: Advanced Editing Techniques

• Adjusting exposure
• Using histograms to adjust shadows and highlights
• Using Set Gray Point
• Applying the Unsharp Mask filter
• Creating effects with the filter gallery