The basics

308 ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
FREE FORM
PHOTO LAYOUTS
Choose paper size
Pick Layout design
(the design can be
customized later)
Photoshop Elements 5.0 has a range of great new tools designed to tease upgrade money from
the digital photographer’s wallet, none of which is more exciting than the new Photo Layout
feature. Far from being a ‘one trick pony’ the feature brings with it a host of new technologies
that will change the way that Elements users create picture montages and layouts for ever.
Adobe has created a new layer type, Frame layers, a new fi le format, the Photo Creations or
PSE format, a new design system that uses special matched frames and backgrounds sets called
Themes, a new set of Photo Creation projects that makes use of all this new technology and,
fi nally, a new layout workfl ow.
Select a Theme
(the theme can
be replaced
after creation)
Automatically fi ll
the design with
the selected
photos from the
Organizer
Automatically
add any captions
saved with the
photos from the
Organizer
Get Photo
Layout help
Book resources at: www.adv-elements.com
Access more layouts/
themes from the
Adobe website
Size, Layout and
Theme preview
Create Photo
Layout
The Photo Layout feature >> The new Photo Layout
dialog groups together the options that govern the
way that your multi-page photo layout document is
created. The documents produced with this process
are editable later inside the Full Edit workspace
where extra images, text, graphics, effects and pages
can be added to or removed from the design.