The Muvipix.com Guide to Photoshop Elements & Premiere Elements 15

Section 1: Elements 15

Chapter 1 Things You Need to Know...... 3 Principles of photo and graphic editing Pixels 4 Resolution 5 Raster vs. vector graphics 7 Image Size vs. Canvas Size 8 Selections 9 Layers 9 Alpha 10 RGB Color 10 The Tool Options Bin 11 What is a native PSD �le? 12

Chapter 2 Get to Know Photoshop Elements 15 ...... 13 What’s what and what it does Elements Live 13 The Welcome Screen 14 Bypass the Welcome Screen 14 The Editor workspace 15 The Expert Edit Workspace 16 Guides and Rulers 18 The Toolbox 18 The Panel Bin 18 The Photo Bin 20 What’s new in Photoshop Elements 15? 21 Need some Basic Training? 23

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Part i: Quick and Guided Photo Editing The Color Swatch panel 60 Additional Foreground/Background Chapter 3 Color options 61 Quick Fixes ...... 27 The Zoom Tool 61 Easy ways to touch up photos The Hand Tool 61 The Move Tool 61 The Quick Fix Toolbox 29 Add to and subtract from a selection 62 Adjustments, Effects, Textures and Frames 30 The Marquee Selection Tools 63 Make Quick Adjustments 30 Feathering 63 Add Quick Effects 31 Lasso Selection Tools 64 Apply Quick Textures 32 Quick Selection Tools 65 Add Quick Frames 32 The Re�ne Selection Brush and Push tool 66 Finalize your Quick Fix 32 The Red Eye Removal Tool 67 Chapter 4 The Spot Healing Brush Tool 67 Guided Edits...... 33 What is Anti-Aliasing? 67 Photo adjustments and cool tricks, one step at a time Content Aware Fill 68 The Healing Brush Tools 68 Basics 35 The Smart Brush Tools 69 Color Guided Edits 36 The Clone Stamp Tool 70 Black & White Edits 36 The Pattern Stamp Tool 70 Fun Edits 37 Blur, Smudge and Sharpen 71 The Painterly Guided Edit effect 38 The Sponge, Dodge and Burn Tools 72 The “Out of Bounds” Guided Edit effect 39 The Brush Tools 73 Create a Picture Stack 42 The Impressionist Brush 73 Create a Puzzle Effect 42 The Color Replacement Brush 73 Special Effects 44 Brush settings and options 74 The Depth of Field Guided Edit 45 Eraser Tools 75 Photomerge 46 The Eraser 75 Paste between photos with The Background Eraser Tool 75 Photomerge Compose 47 Advanced brush tool settings 76 Combine the best-lit elements from two photos with Photomerge Exposure 49 Tablet Settings 76 Manually align your photos for Photomerging 50 The Magic Eraser Tool 76 Combine photos with Photomerge Panorama 51 The Paint Bucket (Fill) Tool 77 The Actions panel 53 The Gradient Tool 77 The Shape Tools 78 The Rectangle Tool, Ellipse Tool Part II: The Expert Photo Editing Workspace and Rounded Rectangle Tool 79 Chapter 5 The Polygon Tool 79 Get to Know the Photoshop Elements Toolbox 57 The Line Tool 79 Typing Tools 80 Your main photo editing toolkit The Pencil Tool 80 The Tool Options 58 Cropping Tools 80 Access many tools under one button 58 The Color Picker 59 The Eyedropper/Sampler Tool 60 ii iii Table of Contents Table of Contents

The Crop Tool 81 Defringe Layer 115 The Cookie Cutter Tool 82 Adjust Lighting 116 The Perspective Crop Tool 83 Brightness/Contrast 116 The Recompose Tool 84 Shadows/Highlights 116 The Content Aware Move Tool 86 Levels 117 The Straighten Tool 87 Convert to Black and White 118 Haze Removal 118 Chapter 6 Adjust Sharpness 119 Select and Isolate Areas in Your Photos .....89 Unsharp Mask 119 Working with selections Adjust Facial Features 120 Why select and isolate? 90 Shake Reduction 121 Feathering 91 Work with Adjustment Layers 121 The Select menu 92 Use Levels to color correct a photo 123 Re�ne the edge of your selection 93 Chapter 9 Edge Detection 93 Work With Photoshop Elements Layers ... 125 Re�ne Edge Adjustments 94 Stacks of images Use a selection to protect an area 96 Cut and paste a selection into another photo 96 How layers work 126 Fill or stroke a selection 99 Select a layer to edit 127 The Layers panel 128 Chapter 7 Simplify or Flatten a Layer 130 Resize Your Images ...... 101 Copy layers from one image �le to another 131 Image and canvas sizes Add transparency with Layer Masks 132 Image Size vs. Canvas Size 102 Create non-square graphics 133 You can’t create pixels! 103 Use graphics that include alpha channels 133 Image Resizing 104 Create a backgroundless graphic in Photoshop Elements 134 Canvas Resizing 106 File formats that support alpha 135 Chapter 8 Correct Color and Lighting ...... 109 Chapter 10 Create and Edit Text ...... 137 Adjust and clean up your images Typing, sizing, coloring and shaping Auto Fixes 110 The Type Tools 138 Control what gets changed 111 Re-edit a text layer 139 Auto Smart Tone 112 The Type Tool Options Bin 140 Preview changes 113 Shape and resize your text 142 Adjust Color 113 Other transform options 143 Remove Color Cast 113 Type on a Selection, Shape or Path 143 Adjust Hue/Saturation 114 Type Text on a Selection 143 Remove Color 114 Type Text on a Shape 144 Replace Color 114 Type Text on a Custom Path 144 Adjust Color Curves 115 Adjust Color for Skin Tone 115

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Chapter 11 Menu buttons can not overlap! 187 Add Photo Effects and Filters...... 145 Adding background video and audio 187 Use Photoshop Elements’ special effects The order of the layers in a Disc Menu Template 187 Naming conventions 188 The Filter/Adjustments menu 146 Movie Menu Thumbnails 190 The Filter Gallery 148 Photoshop Elements Preferences and Presets 191 The Effects, Filters and Styles panels 149 New File presets 192 The Effects panel 150 The Filters panel 151 Chapter 14 Render Filters, a close-up 152 Learn About Your Photoshop Elements File193 The Styles panel 154 Important information on your Photoshop Elements �le window

Part III: Advanced Photo Editing The Info Bar 194 Why does a “100% zoom” video �ll only Chapter 12 part of my computer screen? 195 Photoshop Elements Tricks...... 159 The Status Bar 197 The Info panel 198 Have fun with your photos File Info 199 Swap out a face 160 Swap out a background 163 Remove warts and blemishes 165 Section 2: Elements 15 Remove big things from your photos 166 Add things to your photos 167 Chapter 15 Get to Know Premiere Elements 15...... 203 Chapter 13 What’s what and what it does Advanced Photo Editing Tools ...... 169 Photoshop Elements extras Elements Live 203 Panels, pop-ups and the Toolbar 204 Scan your photos 170 The Monitor panel 205 Install the scanner plug-in on a Mac 170 The Timeline 205 Screen captures 172 Quick View and Expert View 206 Divide Scanned Photos 173 Customize your workspace 207 Why you should clear your camera’s memory regularly 174 Minimum screen resolution 207 Download photos from your digital camera 174 What’s a CTI? 207 Edit in Camera RAW 176 Basic editing moves 208 Process Multiple Files 178 What’s new in version 15? 217 Create Premiere Elements Movie Menu templates in Photoshop Elements 179 Menu templates are PSD �les 179 Part IV: Editing in Quick View and Guided Edits Naming and storing the �les 181 Chapter 16 The basic template �le structure 181 Assemble Your Video in Quick View ...... 223 Replace the background layer of a menu template 182 The drag-and-drop editing space Scene layer sets 184 Text layer sets 185 Add media to your Quick View timeline 225 Additional graphics 185 Zoom in or out of your timeline 226 Layer sets are scene buttons 186 Add transitions 226 Adding scene menu buttons to a template 186 vi vii Table of Contents Table of Contents

Trim or split your video 227 Chapter 19 Add audio to your Quick View timeline 228 Add Media to Your Project...... 249 The limitations of Quick View 229 Capturing video and importing video, audio and photos into your project Adjust your audio levels and mix your audio 230 Four ways to the Add Media option menu 250 Add titles 230 Methods for adding media 251 Chapter 17 Premiere Elements’ Add Media tools 252 Use Guided Edits...... 231 Add media from the Organizer 253 Simple, step-by-step editing Add video from AVCHD, Hard Drive, Flash Drive or SD Card 254 Get Started 233 Add video from Go Pro, Flip camcorders, iPads, Trim & Split 234 , smartphones and other portable devices 255 Add Transitions Between Clips 234 Capture video from or WDM Devices 255 Add a Title to Your Movie 234 Add video from and DVD Camcorders 256 Fix Brightness, Color & Contrast 234 Add video from DSLR still cameras Color Pop 235 and other devices 256 Animate Graphics 235 Add still photos from digital cameras and cell phones 256 Add an Adjustment Layer 236 Import photos, video, music and other audio Add Narration 236 �les that are already on your computer’s Add a Music Score 237 hard drive into your project 257 Add Video in a Title 237 Music and other audio clips 257 Create Slow or Fast Motion Effect 237 Use photos in Premiere Elements 258 Create a Picture-in-Picture (PIP) 238 Graphics and photo formats for Apply an Effects Mask to your video 238 Premiere Elements projects 259

Part V: Editing in Expert View Chapter 20 Explore the Project Assets Panel...... 261 Chapter 18 The parts that will form your movie Start a Premiere Elements Project ...... 241 Where are my Project Assets in Quick view? 262 Creating and opening your video projects Project Asset views 263 The Welcome Screen 242 Organize your media �les with folders 263 Bypass the Welcome Screen 242 Delete clips from your Project Assets panel 264 The Elements Organizer 243 Create color mattes, bars and tone Start a new project 243 and countdown leaders 265 Manually choose your Project Settings 244 Pre-trim your clips in the Clip Monitor 266 Premiere Elements 15 project preset options 246 Take a shortcut to “Add Media” 266 PAL presets 247 Valuable Project Assets panel right-click tools 268 Open an old project from the Welcome Screen 248 Create a slideshow in the Project Assets panel 269 Open a project from within the program 248 Chapter 21 Open a project created by a previous version of the program? 248 Edit Your Video in Expert View...... 271 Where your movie comes together Controlling the timeline’s “ripple” function 273 Smart Fix your clips 274 viii ix Table of Contents Table of Contents

Timeline views 275 Chapter 24 Open or closed video and audio tracks 275 Make Adjustments to Your Video and Audio319 Clips must be Auto Analyzed Correct and customize your clips’ levels in order to be Smart Fixed 275 Add clips to your timeline 276 Smart Fix 321 Trim or split your clips 276 The Shake Stabilizer 321 Add still photos to your project 278 Auto Smart Tone 322 Remove audio or video from your clip 278 Color 322 Fade in and out of your clip 278 Color (RGB) 323 Output a segment of your video Gamma Correction 323 using the Work Area Bar 279 Lighting 323 Use L-cuts, J-cuts and multiple tracks 280 Temperature and Tint 324 Render your timeline 282 Volume 325 Setting your Timeline Render quality 282 Balance 325 Valuable right-click tools on the timeline 283 Treble and Bass 325 Audio Gain 326 Chapter 22 Keyframe your Adjustments 326 Create an InstantMovie, Add Effects and Adjustments to your movie Video Story or a Video Collage ...... 285 with Adjustment Layers 328 Quick and easy ways to create movies Chapter 25 Make an InstantMovie 286 Add and Customize Transitions ...... 331 Create a Video Story 288 Cool ways to get from one scene to the next Build a Video Collage 292 Customize your transition 334 Video transitions 335 Part VI: The Premiere Elements Toolbar Fade in or out of a clip 335 Chapter 23 Audio transitions 336 Access the Premiere Elements Toolkit ...... 299 Set the Default Transition 336 Powerful tools on the Toolbar Apply a transition to several clips at once 337 Add a transition automatically 337 Mix and monitor your audio levels 301 How transitions work 338 Grab a Freeze Frame 302 Create custom transitions Add Narration 303 with the Gradient Wipe 339 Con�guring your microphone for Narration 303 Create a Pan & Zoom motion path 304 Chapter 26 Smart Mix your audio 306 Add Titles & Text ...... 341 Smart Trim your video 307 Using title templates and text Create cool Time Remapping effects 309 Safe Margins 343 Time Stretch your scenes 311 Create a quick title 344 Select Favorite Moments from your video clip 312 Customize your title in Title Adjustments 344 Follow an object or person with Motion Tracking 314 Edit your title’s Text 345 Add a graphic to your movie 317 Give your text a Style 345 Add a Text Animation 346 Add Shapes to your title 347 x xi Table of Contents Table of Contents

Color your shape or text 347 Chapter 30 Create rolling or crawling titles 348 Mix Your Audio and Add Music...... 389 Add a graphic to your title 349 Working with sounds and music Add a Motion Title to your movie 350 Audio View 390 Finish your title 353 Collapsed view vs. full view 390 Re-edit a title 353 Solo and Mute an audio track in Audio View 390 Duplicate a title 354 Adjust your audio levels at Render your title 354 speci�c points in your video 391 Chapter 27 Normalizing and raising your audio’s gain 392 Add Audio and Video Effects...... 355 Create custom music clips with Scores 393 Add Sound Effects to your movie 394 Bringing excitement to your movie Create custom-length musical clips Apply an effect to several clips at once 357 with Music Remix 395 Premiere Elements’ video effects 358 Detect beats in your music 397 Haze Removal 358 Additional Audio Tools 398 Apply a Hollywood Look to your video 360 Isolate an effect area with the Effects Mask 362 Part VIII: Export & Share Your Videos Close Up: The Three-Way Color Corrector 363 Close-Up: Chroma Key 364 Chapter 31 Close-up: Videomerge 366 Create Movie Menus ...... 401 Preset Effects 367 Authoring your DVDs and BluRay discs Create a custom preset 369 Add Menu Markers to your movie project 402 Audio effects 370 Add Menu Markers automatically 403 Add a Movie Menu 404 Chapter 28 Customize your menus 406 Adjust Applied Effects...... 373 Add a photo or video clip to a Customizing your effects’ settings menu page “Drop Zone” 409 Clip effects and properties 375 Overlapping scene buttons 410 Adjust an effect or property 376 Chapter 32 Disable or remove an effect 378 Types of effects settings 378 Export & Share Your Video Projects...... 411 Save a custom Preset 379 Outputting from Premiere Elements 15 Paste Effects and Adjustments 380 Quick Export 412 Output your movie for playback on a Chapter 29 computer, for posting online or Keyframing ...... 381 for use in another project 413 Animating effects and creating motion paths Working on a long project in short pieces 415 Output your movie for playback on a TV 416 Keyframing vs. adjusting an effect’s settings overall 383 Output your movie for a mobile phone or portable device 416 Open a keyframing session 384 Create a custom output preset 417 Create a simple motion path using keyframes 384 Output your video for use in a third-party Edit your keyframes 386 disc authoring program 418 Many applications for keyframing 387 Burn your movie to a DVD or BluRay Disc 419 xii xiii Table of Contents Table of Contents

The challenge with home-burned DVDs Resync media in or remove media and BluRays 420 from your Catalog 446 Burn your disc �les to an ISO image �le 421 Switch between Album and Folder Views 447 Why save your disc �les as an ISO? 421 Managed, Unmanaged and Watched Folders 448 Labeling discs 422 What is metadata? 448 Upload your video to Facebook, Add your own Metadata 450 Vimeo or YouTube 422 Auto Analyze your media 450 What if uploading directly to YouTube, Vimeo Search your catalog using Filters 452 or Facebook doesn’t work? 423 Assign your media �les to Albums 453 Output a still image of your current video frame 424 Manage your �les with Keyword Tags 454 Non-square pixels 424 Find People in your �les 455 Create a custom JPEG output preset 425 Add People to Groups 457 Video output formats 426 Manage your photos by Place 457 Interlaced video vs. progressive scan 428 Manage your media �les by Date or Event 459 Instant Fix a photo 460 Chapter 33 A Premiere Elements Appendix...... 429 Chapter 35 More things worth knowing Create Fun Pieces...... 463 Recommended “Real World” computer specs 429 The Organizer’s project templates Features not included in the Mac version 430 Create Photo Prints 464 Valuable free or low cost tools and Print Individual Prints on your local printer 464 utilities for Windows 431 Print a Picture Package or Contact Sheet FTP software 431 on your local printer 465 Disc burning software 431 Create a Photo Book 466 MiniDV and HDV video capture 431 Create a Greeting Card 468 Capture analog video through DV bridges Create a Photo Calendar 469 and pass-throughs 432 Create a Photo Collage 470 Burn a DVD or BluRay disc from an image �le 433 Create an InstantMovie 471 Unpack your ISO 435 Create a Video Story 471 Keyboard shortcuts for Premiere Elements 436 Create a DVD with Menu 471 Need some Basic Training? 438 Create a Facebook Cover 471 Create a CD Jacket 471 Section 3: The Elements Organizer Create a DVD Jacket 472 Print a CD/DVD Label 472 Chapter 34 Create an Organizer Slideshow 473 Manage Your Files with the Organizer...... 441 Create a Facebook cover page 475 Getting to Know the Media Browser Chapter 36 Adaptive Grid vs. Details View 443 Share Your Photos and Videos ...... 477 The Media Browser area 444 The Organizer’s output tools The Organizer Catalog 445 Share your photos and videos on Facebook 478 The Back or All Media buttons 445 Share your photos via e-mail 479 Manually add to and update Set up e-mail sharing for the Elements Organizer 479 your Organizer Catalog 446 Share your photos on Flickr 480 Import media �les into your Catalog 446 xiv xv Share your photos on Twitter 481 Share your photos in a SmugMug Gallery 481 Share your video on Vimeo 481 Share your video on YouTube 481 Create an Elements Organizer Contact Book 482 Burn a Video DVD or BluRay disc 482 Share as a PDF Slide Show 483