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Minimize History states >> The Photoshop Elements Undo History palette is a great feature especially if you make mistakes as often as I do. Each successive edit is recorded as a step in the palette, enabling you to step back through the changes, gradually reversing your edits as you go. But such a great feature does come at a cost. Each step uses memory resources and, when you make complex changes to large fi les, you can imagine how much memory is used to store a collection of steps. Thankfully Adobe provides a setting in the Edit > Preferences > General dialog that can be used to alter the number of History States (or undo steps) stored by your system. By default it is set to 20, but if you fi nd that Elements is running slowly after making a few editing changes then try reducing the number. Less History States does mean less opportunity to reverse editing changes, but this action frees up memory resources and can bring new life back to a slow running machine. Multi-page documents >> When working with large PSE or multi-page projects you can increase the speed of working by creating the project and then immediately saving and closing the fi le. After reopening, the images in the Photo Bin are thumbnail versions of each page, but only page 1 is fully open in the Editor. Other pages will open when you click the thumbnail or navigate to them. In this way you can limit the number of open pages when working on large books. ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Reduce the number of open fi les >> It may seem like stating the obvious, but the more pictures you have open in Elements the more of the total resources of the machine is taken up, just maintaining each open fi le. When you add in the memory used to ensure undo or multiple History States for each fi le, it is not too hard to imagine that you will very quickly run out of RAM, forcing Photoshop Elements to use the much slower Scratch Disk space. To speed up the processing, make sure that you only open (and keep open) fi les that are essential for your current editing task. Scratch Disk versus Virtual Memory >> Both Photoshop and the Windows XP operating system use hard drive space as extra ‘fake’ RAM. Adobe recommends that Photoshop Scratch Disks be positioned on a different drive to the one used by Windows for its Virtual Memory system. On most set ups the Windows swap fi le is stored on the start up or C drive. To help with overall Photoshop and Windows performance, ensure that you don’t position the Scratch Disk on the same drive. To set the location of your scratch disk select Full Edit: Edit > Preferences > Plug-Ins & Scratch Disks and choose the drive to use from the drop-down menu. Remember, don’t select Startup or C drive unless you have no other choices. Alter the Image Cache setting >> Photoshop Elements uses a special image cache to help redraw highresolution images quickly. Instead of displaying all the information contained in these big fi les, Elements creates lower resolution versions of the photo that are then used to update the screen quickly. You can elect to store from 1 – 8 cached versions of the photo. A value of 1 disables the caching. Higher values store multiple versions of the fi le, which in turn produces faster screen redraws. The default setting is 4, but inputting higher numbers will help speed up the redraw process. When a high cache number is set, it will take longer to open fi les as Elements creates the low-resolution versions of the photo at this point. To alter the Image Cache setting select Full Edit: Edit > Preferences > Image Cache and enter a value from 1 to 8 in the Cache Levels text box. Run Photoshop by itself >> A simple measure to speed up Photoshop is to make sure that no other programs are running at the same time. Seemingly simple utilities such as iTunes, Outlook and Word all chew up memory and processor resources that could be used to drive Photoshop more effi ciently. The golden rule is that if the program is not essential for the editing task then close the software. 395 APPENDICES
396 ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 FOR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHERS Before After Plug-ins Since the fi rst version of Elements Adobe provided the opportunity for third-party developers to create small pieces of specialist software that could plug into the program. These extra features extend the capabilities of the program and some of them have become so popular that they fi nd themselves added into the program proper in the next release of the software. Most plug-ins register themselves as extra options in the Filter menu, where they can be accessed just like any other Elements feature. The Delta100 fi lter (1) from www. silveroxide.com is a great example of plug-in technology. Designed to reproduce the look of particular types of black and white fi lm stock, the installed fi lter can be selected from the Silver Oxide group (2) of products in the Filter menu. � � © www.ablestock.com 2005 Plug-in options: Flaming Pear – Super Blade Pro Effect: This plug-in provides the most sophisticated control over surface and texture, characteristics of text and objects available. OS: Mac, Windows Cost: US$30.00 Website: www.fl amingpear.com Alien Skin – Eye Candy Effect: Eye Candy 4000 is a collection of 23 different creative fi lters used for creating effects such as shadows, bevels, chrome, smoke, wood and even fur. OS: Mac, Windows Cost: US$169.00 Website: www.alienskin.com Harry’s – Filters Effect: A free collection of fi lters that can be used for creating up to 69 different imaging effects. Also contains the option to encrypt your photos. OS: Mac, Windows Cost: FREE Website: www.thepluginsite.com PhotoTune – 20/20 Color MD Effect: Using a side-by-side comparison approach this PhotoTune plug-in takes the guesswork out of correcting the colors in your photos. OS: Mac, Windows Cost: US$49.95 Website: www.phototune.com Extensis – Intellihance Pro Effect: Capable of comparing and applying up to 25 different enhancement options at one time, Intellihance Pro is the master of the quick fi x. OS: Mac, Windows Cost: US$199.00 Website: www.extensis.com Digital Film – Ozone Effect: Simulates the same tonal control available when using the fi lm-based Zone system (created by Ansel Adams) with your digital photographs. OS: Mac, Windows Cost: US$50.00 Website: www.digitalfi lmtools.com Photowiz – Color Washer Effect: The Color Washer plug-in is used for the correction and enhancement of colors in your pictures. Great for restoring faded colors in old photos. OS: Windows Cost: US$49.95 Website: www.thepluginsite.com AutoFX – Photo/Graphic Edges Effect: Photo/Graphic Edges provides 14 photographic effects that are used to create an astonishing array of edges and borders for your images. OS: Mac, Windows Cost: US$179.00 Website: www.autofx.com
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Advanced Photoshop Elements 5.0 For
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Contents Foreword vi Introduction v
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ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 5.0 FOR
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1The Next Level Book resources at:
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Elements is central >> Photoshop El
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The Full editor contains all the fa
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sources of pictures provided and fo
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changes and use the Auto Contrast f
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Take manual control of your tones >
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Image capture - input resolution AD
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Comparing bits ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP E
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Local changes are those that are mo
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‘How do I know if my scene has ei
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Fixing common shooting problems ADV
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Fixing common scanning problems ADV
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3.01 Enabling your Raw camera Suita
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The Settings menu ADVANCED PHOTOSHO
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Shadows ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS
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Alternative ACR button layout displ
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4Photo ADVANCED Book resources PHOT
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Another option is to view the photo
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Finding tagged photos or those cont
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Zoom, Move, Crop, Red Eye Removal,
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Manual editing ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP E
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Adjusting the magic >> The options
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Blending modes and opacity ADVANCED
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Step 1 >> Select Image > Mode > Gra
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Advanced dodging and burning-in ADV
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Dodging and burning-in >> Dodging a
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Texture burn-in >> (a) Original ima
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Step 1 >> Make a selection of the p
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Adding texture Step 1 >> Zoom in so
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Step 1 >> With the image open in Ph
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Step 1 >> Open the example image. N
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8.02 Softening freckles Suitable fo
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Spot Healing Brush In recognition o
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Healing Brush tool step-by-step: St
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OPTION 1: Converting Photomerge out
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Print Preview ADVANCED PHOTOSHOP EL
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