COMPUTER REVIEWER FOR 2ND QUARTER

Content:
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4

CHAPTER 3

Divide Scanned Photos Command

- You’ll have individual images in no time.

To perform a quick 90-degree rotation on any

photo:
Rotating Images

1. Quick Fix: Click either of the rotation buttons at the

bottom of the preview area.
2. Full Edit: Go to image--🡪 rotate--🡪 90 degrees left
or right.
3. Project Bin: Right-click a thumbnail and choose to
rotate 90 degrees left or right.
4. Raw Converter- Click the left or right arrow at the
top of the Preview window.
5. Organizer- Choose Edit-🡪 Rotate 90 degrees left
or right

First Group of Commands (5 options):

 ● 90-Degree Left or Right – these commands
produce the same rotation as the rotate buttons
explained earlier.
● 180-Degrees – this turns your photo upside down
and backward.
● Custom – selecting this command brings up a
dialog box where, if you are mathematically
inclined, you can type in the precise number of
degrees you want to rotate the photo.
● Flip Horizontal – flipping a photo horizontally
means that if your subject was gazing soulfully off
to the left, gazing soulfully off to the right.
● Flip vertical – this command turns your photo
upside down without changing the left/right
orientation like Rotate 180 Degrees.

Options Bar
- It gives you some control over how to handle the
edges of your newly straightened photo. It
contains:

1. Grow or Shrink Canvas to Fit

- Elements add extra spaces around the edge of
your photo to make sure that every bit of original
edges is still there.

2. Crop to Remove Background

 - Elements chop off the ragged edges to give a nice
rectangular image

3. Crop to Original size

- Elements make sure your photo’s dimensions stay
exactly the
- same even if that means including some blank
space along the perimeter.

Free Rotate Layer

- Use the rotate commands to straighten your photos
or turn them at angles for use in scrapbook pages
or album layouts you create
- Use it if you want to position your photo at an
angle.
- This command is an old-school Elements method.
- This is the best Rotate Command, which lets you
grab your photo and spin it to your heart’s desire.

Straighten Tool
- It is the best for photos where you are holding the
camera crooked.
- 4” x 6” is a standard size for printing. 4” x 6” or 8” x
10” is the standard size for paper.
- An image’s width-to-height ratio is also known as
aspect ratio.
 1. Open the photo, and then activate the straighten
tool
2. Make any changes to the tool’s options bar
settings tool before you use it
3. Drag to draw a line in your photo to show
elements where horizontal should be applied.
4.Elements respond automatically straightening
your photos

Cropping Pictures
- You can use the crop tool in either the Full edit or
quick fix window. The crop tool includes a helpful
list of preset sizes to make your job easier.

1. Activate the tool- Crop icon in the tool panel or

press C. (recompose tool)
2. Drag
3. Resize your selection

Aspect Ratio Menu

- It includes several standard photo sizes like 4” x 6”
and 8” x 10”.

Use Photo Ratio

- This option lets you crop your image by using the
same width/height proportions as in the original.
Cropping with Marquee Tool
- In contrast, it lets you make lots of other changes
to your selected area, like adjusting color, which
you may want to do before you crop.

1. Activate the Marquee Tool- Click the little square in

the tool panel or press M.
2. Drag the selection marquee across the part of your
photo.
3. Crop your photo.

Adobe gives you three main menus to control how your

images display:

1. Window Menu
2. View Menu
3. Arrange Menu

Arrange Menu
- It is the gray square to the right of the Help menu
or to the right of the Elements’ logo, depending on
the size of the main Editor window.

Image Views
8 choices of how to display your images plus one
additional choice:

● Tile - your image windows or tabs appear edge to

edge so they fill the available desktop space
 ● Cascade - your image windows appear in
overlapping stacks (Most practical view)
● Float in Window - If you want to make a single
image’s tab into a window, click it to make it the
active tab, and then choose this option.
● Float All in windows - A bunch of tabs together
● Consolidate all to tabs - One-step command to
turn all the windows back into tabs
● New windows - A separate, duplicate window for
your active image
● Match Zoom - All your windows get the same
magnification level as the active window
● Match Location - You see the same part of each
image window
● Match Zoom and Location - Select this option to
see the same part of each of your tabs at the same
zoom level

5 options in the view menu

● New Window for - The same new window

command in the window menu
● Zoom In/Out - Alternative to use than the actual
zoom tools
● Fit on Screen - Makes your photo as large as it
can be while still keeping the whole photo visible
(Ctrl + 0)
 ● Actual Pixels - Most accurate look at the onscreen
size of the photo, Shows how big your image will
be in a web browser (Ctrl + 1)
● Print Size - A rough approximation of the size of
your image

Zoom Tool
- Makes it easy to zoom your view in and out

Zoom Tool Options bar settings:

● Zoom percent - Enter a number here and the view

immediately jumps to that percentage (Maximum =
3,200% and Minimum = 1%)
● Resize windows to fit - The window to your
desired size
● Zoom all windows - View all the windows
simultaneously when you zoom in one window
● Actual pixels - this button (which is labeled “1:1”)
has the same effect as choosing Actual Pixels from
the View menu
● Fit screen - this button does the same thing as
the View menu’s “Fit on Screen” command.
● Fill screen - this makes your photo fill the whole
viewing area, even if it doesn’t all fit on screen at
once.
● Print size - Another duplicate of a view menu
command
Navigator Panel
- It is really useful for working on big photos or when
you want to have a slider handy for micromanaging
the zoom level

Resizing Photos
- It brings you up against a pretty tough concept in
digital imaging: resolution, which measures, in
pixels, the amount of detail your image can show.
- The general rule in printing is that the more pixels
your photo has, the better.
- Your printer is a virtuoso that plays your pixels like
an accordion.
- Canon cameras come into Elements at 180 ppi, but
200 ppi is usually considered about the lowest
density for an acceptable print.

Hand Tool
- Help you change which part of your image appears
on screen
- It is the little hand in the Tools panel or press H to
activate it

Resampling
- An image-editing term for changing the number of
pixels in an image
CHAPTER 4

Quick fix
- This window gathers easy-to-use tools that help
adjust the brightness and color of your photos and
make them look sharper

The Quick fix toolbox

● Ultrafast Auto Smart Fix – a quick fix tool for the
truly impatient.
● Toolbox - Holds an easy-to-navigate subset of the
full edit windows larger tool collection
● Zoom Tool – it lets you telescope in and out on
your image.
● Hand Tool – helps move your photo around in the
image window.
● Quick Selection Tool - Apply quick fix commands
to select portions of your image
● Crop Tool - Cutting off the areas you don’t want
● Red Eye Tool - Darken those red flash reflections
in people’s eyes
● Touch up tools - The icons make it clear which is
which
● Panel Bin – it is where you make the majority of
your adjustments
Quick Fix Window
- It gathers easy-to-use tools that help adjust the
brightness and color of your photos and make
them look sharper.

Red eye tool

● Darken Amount - If the result is too light, increase
the percentage in this box
● Pupil Size - Increase or decrease the number here
to tell Elements how much area to consider part of
a pupil

Smart fix
- The secret weapon in which automatically adjusts
a picture’s lighting, color, and contrast, all with one
click

(Auto) Levels
- It changes both brightness and color at the same
time

(Auto) Contrast
- It adjusts the relative darkness and lightness of
your image without changing the color

Shadows and Highlights

- The three sliders:
 ● Lighten shadows - Nudge the slider to the right,
and you’ll see details emerge from murky black
shadows
● Darken highlights - Use this slider to dim the
brightness of overexposed areas
● Midtone contrast - This slider helps you bring a
more realistic look back to your photo
● Color panel - Play around with colours in your
image

Auto Color
- Shifts your color in strange ways
- It lets you simultaneously adjust color and
brightness, but it looks at different information in
your photos to decide what to do with them.

To adjust your colors:

● Saturation - Controls the intensity of your image’s
color
● Hue - Changes the shade of a color

Balancing Panel
● Temperature - Adjusts colors from cool (bluish) to
warm (orangeish), toning down and fine-tuning the
color balance
● Tint - Adjusts the green/magenta balance of your
photo
Sharpening
- Gives the effect of better focus by improving the
edge contrast of objects in your photo

Touch-Ups
● Red eye removal tool
● Whiten Teeth - Make teeth look brighter
● Make Dull Skies Blue - Useful for creating more
dramatic skies
● Black and White - High contrast, when you want
only parts of color

● All Three Tools – work pretty much the same way:

1. Open a photo and make your other corrections
first;
2. Click the icon for the tool you want to use;
3. Draw a line over the area you want to change
(ignored);
4. If Elements, included too much or too little,
tweak (Brush Tool) the size of the selected area;
and
5. Once you’re happy with the area covered by the
change, you’re done.

Adjust color for skin tone

- Most useful for making small final adjustments to
photos already edited
- What this command actually does is to adjust your
whole image
- Based on the skin tone of someone in the photo.
This is available in both the Quick Fix and Full Edit
windows.

1. Call up the “Adjust Color Skin Tone” dialog box;

2. Show Elements an area of skin to sample for
calculating the color adjustments;
3. Tweak the results; and
4. When you like what you see, click OK.