User manual ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2

[. . . ] User Guide © 2002 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 2. 0 User Guide for Windows® and Macintosh If this guide is distributed with software that includes an end-user agreement, this guide, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. Except as permitted by any such license, no part of this guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Please note that the content in this guide is protected under copyright law even if it is not distributed with software that includes an end-user license agreement. [. . . ] 3 In the Save Selection dialog box, choose New from the Selection pop-up menu. 4 Enter a name for the selection in the Name textbox, and then click OK. To modify a saved selection: which you want to paste the selection. 3 Choose Edit > Paste. 4 In the dialog box, select from the following options: · Paste as Pixels to rasterize the artwork as it is pasted. Rasterizing converts mathematically defined vector artwork to pixels. · Paste as Shape Layer to create a new shape layer 1 Make a selection in your image. 3 In the Save Selection dialog box, choose a selection name from the Selection menu. 4 Select one of the following operations: · Replace Selection to replace the saved selection that uses the path as a layer clipping path. with the current selection. 126 CHAPTER 7 Selecting · Add To Selection to add the current selection to · Subtract From Selection to subtract the saved the saved selection. · Subtract From Selection to subtract the current selection from the current selection. · Intersect With Selection to replace the current selection from the saved selection. · Intersect With Selection to replace the saved selection with the intersection between the current selection and the saved selection. 6 To invert the selected area, select Invert. 7 Click OK. To delete a saved selection: selection with the intersection between the current selection and the saved selection. 5 Click OK. To load a saved selection: 1 Choose Select > Delete Selection. 2 Choose a saved selection from the Selection 1 Open an image that contains a saved selection. 3 Choose the saved selection from the Selection menu, and click OK. menu. 4 To invert the selected area, select Invert. 5 Click OK. To modify a selection with a saved selection: Deleting selected areas To delete a selected area in your image, choose Edit > Clear, or press Backspace (Windows) or Delete (Mac OS). To cut a selection to the Clipboard, choose Edit > Cut. If you delete a selection on a background layer or a layer that uses the Lock Transparency option (located in the Layers palette), Photoshop Elements replaces the selected area with the current background color, which appears in the toolbox. 1 Open an image that contains a saved selection. 4 Choose a saved selection from the Selection menu. 5 Select one of the following operations: · Add To Selection to add the saved selection to the current selection. 127 Chapter 8: Painting ou can paint, erase, and fill areas of your image with several different tools in Adobe Photoshop Elements. By customizing the options for these tools, you can create sophisticated effects. Other tools and commands let you transform and stylize an image. Y When you want to transform your image without adding new colors or patterns, a few tools allow you to change the image details with stylized brush strokes. When you want to remove areas from your image, you can select from several different eraser tools. After you choose a painting or erasing tool, you can set tool options to control blending mode, opacity, brush style and size, and other options that are unique to each tool. About painting and drawing When you create graphics in Photoshop Elements, there is a distinction between painting and drawing. Painting involves changing the colors of pixels using a painting tool. Drawing involves creating shape layers, type layers, and fill layers. These layer types contain vector graphics, which are defined by geometric characteristics rather than by pixels. For example, if you draw a circle shape using the ellipse tool, the circle is defined by a specific radius, location, and color. To paint on these layers and apply certain layer effects to them, you must first convert the vector data to bitmap data by simplifying the layer (see "Simplifying layers" on page 110). [. . . ] For example, you'd use Absolute Colorimetric to reproduce the appearance of a sheet of newsprint onto a sheet of bright white paper. The bright white paper would be printed over with a dingy gray to simulate the actual newsprint appearance. Relative Colorimetric is useful when you want to to print the color of the image's color profile without converting it. This option will not take any printer profiles into account. · Choose Printer Color Management or PostScript Color Management if you want to manage color conversions using the print driver. [. . . ]