Great Adobe Elements 8 Tool Tips Tutorial And First Hand Look At 30 Elements Video Tutorials

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Adobe Elements 8 comes equipped with some very exciting tools that even Elements beginners can put to good use to achieve the desired effects. Before anything else, the top three tools you should familiarize yourself with first are: smudge, blur and sharpen. With the use of these 3 tools, you will be able to perfectly edit even the most minor of blemishes from a digital image.

Both the blur and sharpen tool function can be located by right-clicking the ’smudge’ icon. Through the use of the smudge tool function you will be able to add special background and foreground effects to an image of your choosing. The smudge tool function will allow you to blur the foreground into the background or blur the background into the foreground. With the use of the smudge tool, you are able to edit images that may be out of focus or have a shadow in them that you prefer to remove. Both the blur and sharpen tools can be used to either slightly blur a photograph should the image appear too sharp or make a photograph sharper if the image is too blurred.

The burn tool specifically allows you to edit an image to create a darker tone. In an over-exposed photograph, the burn tool can also help to reveal highlights and details that were missed (due to the over exposure). If you’re so inclined, the Dodge tool can be located by right-clicking the burn icon, but this particular tool will perform the exact opposite function of the burn tool: it will make your photographs lighter and bring out the details of shadows or under-exposed parts of the image.

Another great editing tool that can be located by right-clicking the burn icon, is the Sponge tool. This particular tool allows you to both saturate or de-saturate a photograph. By saturating a photograph, it can make the image brighter and more colorful, whereby the use of de-saturation will dampen the color in a photograph making it appear more dull. For additional special effects, you have the option to switch to both foreground and background colors which will make your digital photos look more unique. This particular tool will allow you to interchange the foreground color of an image to the background color and vise versa.

With another click of a button, the software for Adobe Photoshop Elements will change the colors in a photograph around for you. If you play around with the colors, you will be able to create some spectacular images like setting the background to red. If you then want to write over the image in the same color, you can click on the icon and Adobe Elements will change the colors around and then allow you to write in red on top of the image.

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