Adjusting Your Images Using Photoshop Elements

Digital cameras can take some amazing photos; unfortunately this is not the case with EVERY photo. If you desire to make your ordinary photos extraordinary Photoshop Elements has all the tools necessary to make this happen.

To make your photos the best they can be you first want to become familiar with Photoshop Elements and understand what tools you can use to enhance your photos.

Leveling Your Image by Cropping: No photographer, whether amateur or professional, gets their images perfect the first time around. As a matter of fact, from what I have learned, 95% of the people who use either Photoshop or Photoshop Elements do so in order to correct the images they have taken. After taking your photos you undoubtedly will find that there could have been things done to enhance the photo or things you would want to change if you could redo the shot. Whether it was zooming, cropping or rotating the photo, you undoubtedly might have done it better if you had a second chance.

Standard digital cameras have a ratio of 4:3 (4 units wide by 3 units high) which means the typical print size is 6×4, which is a ratio of 3:2 (3 units wide by 2 units high). To increase or decrease this you can use the aspect ratio dialog box.

You may want to crop your photo if there are items which distract from your subject. To crop your image you want to open the aspect ratio dialog box by clicking on your image then the crop tool. At the top of the aspect ratio dialog box there is a width and a height box and you can use either inches or centimeters. To use inches simply type in “in” and for centimeters just type in “cm”.

Because Photoshop Elements automatically re-samples your image when you open it I usually never enter anything in the resolution box.