The basics

324 ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS
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PHOTO LAYOUTS
Full Edit
Organizer
12.07 Printing your Photo Layouts
Suitable for Elements – 5.0 | Diffi culty level – Basic | Related techniques – 12.01, 12.02, 12.03, 12.04
As part of the technology behind the new Photo Layout feature the folk at Adobe created a new
fi le format called the Photo Creation Format. The fi les saved in this format differ from traditional
Photoshop Elements fi les in that they can include multiple pages. The format has a fi le extension
of .PSE. If a layout document consists of only one page then you can choose to save the fi le in
either the Photoshop Elements format (.PSD) or the Photo Creations format, but once you have
multiple pages in the layout then you can only save the document in the PSE fi le type.
This new fi le type also brings with it different possibilities when it comes to output. You can
now choose to print any single page from the document, all pages from the layout, a contact
sheet, picture package, or label set of the pages or even order a Kodak Photo Book of the complete
project all from inside Photoshop Elements 5.0.
All printing options, except the on-line photo book ordering, are handled by either the Print
Preview (for single prints) or Print Photos (for multiple prints) dialogs. Print Preview is accessed
from inside the Full Edit space by selecting File > Print. The Print Photos dialog is displayed by
either selecting File > Print Multiple Photos from the Full Edit space or File > Print from the
Organizer (the Photo creation thumbnail must be selected fi rst). You can also proceed to the
Print Photos screen from the Print Preview dialog by clicking the Print Multiple Photos button.
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Printing PSE documents >>
Multi-page PSE, or Photo
Creation documents that are
open in the Full Edit
workspace, can be printed
either a page at a time via the
File > Print option or as a group
of prints with the File > Print
Multiple Photos.
The Photo Creation project can
also be printed directly from
the Organizer space without
the need to open the
document by electing the
project’s thumbnail and then
choosing the File Print option.