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3 | (1) |
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Conventions Used in This Book |
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4 | (1) |
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4 | (1) |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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5 | (1) |
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Part I: Element-ary School |
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5 | (1) |
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5 | (1) |
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Part III: Realer Than Life |
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5 | (1) |
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Part IV: Unreality Programming |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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6 | (1) |
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7 | (2) |
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Part I: Element-ary School |
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9 | (82) |
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11 | (12) |
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The Bland but Benevolent Dr. Jekyll |
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12 | (1) |
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The Dynamic but Dastardly Mr. Hyde |
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13 | (1) |
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The Two Elements of Photoshop Elements |
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13 | (4) |
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Painting without the mess |
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14 | (1) |
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Editing existing image detail |
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15 | (2) |
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Psychiatric Help: The Doctor Is Built In |
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17 | (6) |
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17 | (2) |
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19 | (1) |
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20 | (3) |
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23 | (14) |
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Giving Elements the Electronic Breath of Life |
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23 | (3) |
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26 | (1) |
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Switching between Elements and Macintosh Finder |
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27 | (1) |
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Maneuvering through Menus |
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28 | (2) |
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Talking Back to Dialog Boxes |
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30 | (2) |
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Playing Around with Palettes |
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32 | (2) |
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34 | (2) |
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36 | (1) |
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37 | (18) |
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Don't Just Sit There---Open Something! |
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37 | (6) |
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Opening with the File Browser |
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38 | (3) |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (1) |
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43 | (2) |
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The Screen Is Your Digital Oyster |
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45 | (7) |
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46 | (1) |
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47 | (1) |
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Zooming in and out on your work |
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47 | (3) |
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50 | (2) |
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Tools for the Terribly Precise |
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52 | (3) |
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52 | (1) |
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53 | (1) |
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53 | (2) |
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Pixels: It's Hip to Be Square |
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55 | (20) |
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55 | (1) |
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Screen Pixels versus Image Pixels |
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56 | (2) |
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Image Size, Resolution, and Other Tricky Pixel Stuff |
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58 | (8) |
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59 | (2) |
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Changing pixel dimensions |
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61 | (2) |
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Changing the physical dimensions of the image |
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63 | (1) |
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Keeping things proportionate |
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64 | (1) |
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Using the Image Size dialog box safely |
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64 | (2) |
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What Does This Canvas Size Command Do? |
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66 | (2) |
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Trimming Excess Gunk Off the Edges |
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68 | (5) |
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The sharp edges of the crop tool |
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68 | (3) |
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More good news about cropping |
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71 | (1) |
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The Divide Scanned Photos command |
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72 | (1) |
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73 | (2) |
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Over (and Under) the Rainbow |
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75 | (16) |
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Looking at Color in a Whole New Light |
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76 | (2) |
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Managing Photoshop Elements Color |
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78 | (4) |
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79 | (2) |
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Choosing your color settings |
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81 | (1) |
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Choosing Color the Mix-and-Match Way |
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82 | (6) |
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Juggling foreground and background colors |
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82 | (1) |
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83 | (5) |
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88 | (3) |
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89 | (1) |
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A few more tips in black and white |
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90 | (1) |
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91 | (102) |
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Get Organized (Before It Gets You) |
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93 | (28) |
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Getting Photos into Organizer |
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95 | (5) |
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Importing existing photos |
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96 | (3) |
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99 | (1) |
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Organizing your cell phone photos |
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99 | (1) |
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Getting photos from an online sharing service |
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100 | (1) |
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100 | (7) |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (3) |
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105 | (1) |
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105 | (1) |
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106 | (1) |
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Viewing and Finding Photos |
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107 | (8) |
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Reviewing and comparing photos |
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108 | (3) |
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111 | (2) |
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Searching by tags and collections |
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113 | (1) |
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Searching by caption or note |
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114 | (1) |
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114 | (1) |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (1) |
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115 | (2) |
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117 | (2) |
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118 | (1) |
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Making copies or moving files |
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118 | (1) |
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119 | (2) |
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121 | (18) |
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Save an Image, Save a Life |
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121 | (4) |
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Saving for the very first time |
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122 | (2) |
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Joining the frequent-saver program |
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124 | (1) |
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The Elemental Guide to File Formats |
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125 | (4) |
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What is a file format, anyway? |
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125 | (1) |
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TIFF: The great communicator |
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125 | (2) |
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Photoshop PDF: The can-do kid |
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127 | (1) |
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BMP: The wallpaper glue for PC users |
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127 | (1) |
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What about Elements' native Photoshop format? |
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128 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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129 | (8) |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (1) |
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JPEG: The best choice for photos |
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131 | (2) |
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GIF: The choice of choosy Web designers |
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133 | (3) |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (1) |
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Good Night, Image --- and Don't Let the Programming Bugs Bite |
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138 | (1) |
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It's Perfect. No, Wait! Okay, Print |
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139 | (14) |
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140 | (4) |
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Exploring the Undo History palette in nine easy steps |
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140 | (2) |
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142 | (1) |
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142 | (2) |
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Abandoning Edits en Masse |
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144 | (1) |
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The Command Formerly (and Currently) Known as Print |
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144 | (1) |
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This May Be All You Need to Know about Printing |
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145 | (1) |
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Choosing a Printer in Windows |
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146 | (1) |
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Choosing a Printer on a Mac |
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147 | (1) |
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Getting Image and Paper in Sync |
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147 | (3) |
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Sending the Image to the Printer |
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150 | (3) |
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Making Selections on the Pixel Prairie |
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153 | (26) |
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Learning the Ropes of Selecting |
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154 | (14) |
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156 | (5) |
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161 | (2) |
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163 | (3) |
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166 | (1) |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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Saving and Loading Selections |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (1) |
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170 | (9) |
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Adding to and subtracting from a selection |
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170 | (1) |
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Intersecting a selection with a selection |
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171 | (2) |
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Avoiding keyboard collisions |
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173 | (1) |
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Automatic selection shifters |
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174 | (5) |
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Fifty Ways to Love Your Layer |
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179 | (14) |
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180 | (3) |
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Filling a selection with a selection |
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181 | (1) |
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Resizing an image to match its new home |
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181 | (2) |
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Excuse Me, but What's a Layer? |
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183 | (5) |
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Finding your way around the Layers palette |
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184 | (2) |
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Moving and manipulating layers |
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186 | (1) |
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Flattening and merging layers |
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187 | (1) |
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188 | (1) |
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Moving and Cloning Selections |
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188 | (2) |
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Transforming Layers and Selections |
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190 | (3) |
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Using the Image menu's commands |
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190 | (1) |
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191 | (1) |
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Ending your transformation |
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192 | (1) |
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Part III: Realer Than Life |
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193 | (64) |
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195 | (18) |
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196 | (7) |
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197 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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198 | (1) |
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Previewing the filter effects |
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199 | (2) |
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201 | (2) |
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Experimenting with the Highly Ethical Clone Stamp Tool |
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203 | (5) |
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203 | (2) |
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Performing more magic with the clone stamp tool |
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205 | (3) |
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Performing Miracles with the Healing Brushes |
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208 | (2) |
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208 | (2) |
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210 | (1) |
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210 | (3) |
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213 | (18) |
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Getting a Quick Fix for Your Image |
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214 | (1) |
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Touching Base with Retouching Tools |
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215 | (2) |
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Smudging Away Imperfections |
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217 | (2) |
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Light on the smudge, please |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (1) |
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Dodge? Burn? Those Are Opposites? |
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219 | (2) |
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Playing with the Color Knob |
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221 | (1) |
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222 | (1) |
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Sharpening Those Wishy-Washy Details |
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223 | (6) |
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The single-shot sharpeners |
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224 | (1) |
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Unsharp Mask: The filter with the weird name |
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225 | (2) |
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Some sharpening scenarios |
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227 | (2) |
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229 | (2) |
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231 | (26) |
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232 | (5) |
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232 | (2) |
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Further image enhancements |
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234 | (3) |
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237 | (3) |
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The Replace Color command |
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237 | (2) |
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The color replacement tool |
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239 | (1) |
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Fiddling with Adjustment Layers |
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240 | (4) |
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Using adjustment and fill layers |
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240 | (4) |
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244 | (1) |
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Color-Correcting Correctly |
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244 | (1) |
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Leveling the Contrast Field |
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245 | (6) |
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Making friends with the Levels dialog box |
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245 | (2) |
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247 | (1) |
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Brightness and contrast as they should be |
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247 | (4) |
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Variations on a Color Scheme |
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251 | (3) |
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Turning plain old color into Technicolor |
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251 | (2) |
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253 | (1) |
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Color Correcting in the Raw |
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254 | (3) |
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Part IV: Unreality Programming |
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257 | (102) |
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259 | (18) |
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Using Layer Styles to Shine and Shadow |
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260 | (4) |
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Tending Your Many Splendid Blends |
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264 | (3) |
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Fooling with layer opacity |
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265 | (1) |
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Playing around with blending modes |
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266 | (1) |
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267 | (6) |
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Creating motion and puzzle pieces |
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268 | (1) |
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Giving your images that gritty, streetwise look |
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269 | (1) |
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Stamping your image in metal |
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270 | (1) |
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Merging colors in flaky images |
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271 | (2) |
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Making Taffy with the Liquify Filter |
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273 | (4) |
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If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words... Then Shut Up and Paint |
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277 | (26) |
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Doodling with the Pencil and Brush |
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278 | (3) |
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Performing Special Painting-Tool Tricks |
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281 | (1) |
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282 | (6) |
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282 | (1) |
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Exploring the other brush sets |
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283 | (1) |
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284 | (3) |
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287 | (1) |
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Going nuts with the brushes palette |
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287 | (1) |
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Exploring More Painting Options |
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288 | (4) |
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Experimenting with painting modes |
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289 | (2) |
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``Painting'' with the impressionist brush |
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291 | (1) |
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292 | (5) |
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Working with the regular of eraser tool |
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292 | (1) |
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Traying out the somewhat magic eraser |
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293 | (2) |
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Using the more magical background eraser |
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295 | (2) |
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Isn't Elements Just a Paint Program? |
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297 | (6) |
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297 | (3) |
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300 | (1) |
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300 | (3) |
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Painting with the Digital Stencil |
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303 | (16) |
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Painting within the Lines |
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303 | (2) |
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Dribbling Paint from a Bucket |
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305 | (1) |
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Applying Color to Selection Innards |
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306 | (1) |
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307 | (2) |
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307 | (1) |
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Mixing colors the wrong way |
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308 | (1) |
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Gradients: The Ever-Changing Color Sea |
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309 | (7) |
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Checking out the gradient tool |
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309 | (1) |
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Changing the way of the gradient |
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310 | (3) |
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Becoming a gradient wizard |
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313 | (3) |
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Taking on Borders with the Stroke Dialog Box |
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316 | (3) |
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How the border rides the track |
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317 | (1) |
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Mix your stroke after you press Enter (or Return) |
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318 | (1) |
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319 | (12) |
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Working with the Type Tools |
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319 | (2) |
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Putting Your Words On-Screen |
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321 | (4) |
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Typing what must be typed |
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321 | (1) |
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Changing how the type looks |
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322 | (2) |
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Warping type into strange and unusual shapes |
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324 | (1) |
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325 | (1) |
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326 | (1) |
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Declaring Open Season on Type Selection Outlines |
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327 | (4) |
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Can Photoshop Elements Do That? |
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331 | (28) |
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332 | (2) |
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Processing Multiple Files |
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334 | (2) |
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Converting a Multipage PDF File |
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336 | (1) |
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337 | (2) |
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Creating Panoramic Pictures with Photomerge |
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339 | (4) |
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Attaching a File to E-Mail |
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343 | (2) |
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345 | (4) |
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Creating a PDF slide show |
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345 | (2) |
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Creating a custom slide show in Windows |
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347 | (2) |
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Creating and Printing a Contact Sheet |
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349 | (3) |
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Creating and Printing a Picture Package |
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352 | (3) |
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Creating a Web Photo Gallery |
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355 | (4) |
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359 | (18) |
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Ten Shortcuts to Commit to Long-Term Memory |
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361 | (6) |
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Hiding Selection Outlines |
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362 | (1) |
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Displaying and Hiding the Palette Bin |
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362 | (1) |
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Changing an Option Box Value |
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362 | (1) |
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362 | (1) |
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363 | (1) |
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363 | (1) |
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Adding to, Subtracting from, and Reselecting Selection Outlines |
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364 | (1) |
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Moving, Nudging, and Cloning |
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365 | (1) |
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366 | (1) |
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Stepping through the Undo History Palette |
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366 | (1) |
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Ten Reasons Why You Might Want to Upgrade to Photoshop Someday |
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367 | (10) |
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368 | (1) |
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368 | (1) |
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369 | (1) |
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370 | (1) |
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370 | (1) |
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371 | (1) |
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Lights ... Camera ... Actions |
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372 | (1) |
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373 | (1) |
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374 | (1) |
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A Little Help to Get Your ImageReady |
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375 | (2) |
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