tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83366580525396184222024-03-18T15:17:35.912+05:30Tips and tricks for Photoshop ElementsThis blog concentrates on different techniques which I use for editing and organizing my pictures in Adobe Photoshop Elements. I hope my two cents' will be worthy for some of you...Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-4071240851475680852013-09-01T00:59:00.002+05:302013-09-01T20:00:27.316+05:30Getting back your missing files using Reconnect feature in Elements Organizer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A lot of times, while cleaning up my PC, I do not have Elements Organizer open and I end up moving folders, renaming folders and files without realizing that these folders are imported to my Organizer catalog and since I am not moving them from Organizer itself, i might end up making my cataloged files go missing.<br />
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Though I very much prefer to do these folder renames, movements, file renames through Elements Organizer so that it knows the latest path of all my media and files never go missing but I have never been the best Organizer. But thanks to Elements' <b style="color: orange;">Reconnect </b>feature which looks for all my missing files in my catalog and auto reconnects them wherever they have been roaming on my system.It is a very useful concept as I have not seen any Photo Organizer providing this auto function.<br />
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So for newbies, let me explain the concept. <br />
I have some images which are in Elements catalog staying on my hard drive at say location <i>C:\My pictures\Santacruz trip .</i> Some day, I moved these files from my hard drive to \My Pictures\Family Pictures\Santacruz trip. However when I opened Elements Organizer catalog, I realized, the photos of this trip show "?" icon on thumbnail as they went missing because I moved them to some other location or may be just renamed the files. As soon as I do any operation on these pictures, Elements tries to auto reconnect them and find where are they now on my hard drive. Or you may just browse to the folder were you moved(if you know the location). On connecting one file of a folder, it reconnects all of that folder itself. One does not need to reconnect each file.<br />
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Or you can simply go to File>Reconnect >All missing Files. This is small yet very useful functionality which at times saves a lot of your time in organizing your media.<br />
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I hope you would find this tip useful in organizing your photos using Elements.<br />
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Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com172Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India28.5355161 77.39102649999995328.312282099999997 77.068302999999958 28.7587501 77.713749999999948tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-7816025853930126422013-09-01T00:39:00.001+05:302013-09-01T00:39:30.430+05:30Awesomeness of "Watch Folders" in Photoshop Elements Organizer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="color: orange;">Watch Folders </span></b>: This functionality is a little hidden in Elements Organizer (File>Watch Folders) and not many know about it usefulness. It is one quick way to get media into your Organizer catalog without bothering about manually importing into it.<br />
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To use it, just make the parent folder (of all your photo folders) as the watch folder and it auto imports the media into your Organizer catalog. As soon as any new picture is added to your watch folder in windows explore or to any child of your watch folder, it would be auto-imported to your Organizer catalog.<br />
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For example, mostly all my pictures are dumped to one of following three folders (shown in screenshot). So i have made all three as my watch folders. Hence I never need to import any media to my Organizer catalog.<br />
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Awesomeness is added if you say exchange photos or receive photos
through dropbox. You can add dropbox as your watch folder. Hence all
media comes to your Organizer catalog automatically.<br />
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I find this feature very useful as it saves a lot of my time. The dropbox idea was shared by one of the Elements user(Thanks Mellissa) and I really found it useful. So just thought to share this tip with everyone!<br />
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Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com26Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India28.5355161 77.39102649999995328.312282099999997 77.068302999999958 28.7587501 77.713749999999948tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-54635738637638381382013-09-01T00:02:00.001+05:302013-09-01T20:24:03.522+05:30How to add shadow to an object or a person on ground using Adobe Photoshop Elements?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here goes the tutorial for adding shadow to any human body or object such that the shadow is on the ground.<br />
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It's damn easy using Elements. So here goes the steps:<br />
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1. Choose your model. I chose my favorite one.<br />
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I could manage to extract the selection using refine edge tool in Elements as described in Refine Edge <a href="http://photoshopelementstips.blogspot.in/2012/11/how-to-refine-your-selections-using.html" target="_blank">tutorial</a>. I created a new layer out of this selection by right clicking and choosing- Layer via Copy.<br />
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2. Create another new blank layer using Control+Shift +N or through layers menu>New layer. Drag this layer below the selection layer we create in last step. Choose paint bucket tool from left tool panel, changing background color in color picker tool to white and then painting it over this new layer.<br />
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3. Created a copy of this layer by right clicking it in layer panel and
choosing "Duplicate layer". Same can also be done by dragging this layer
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4. Select this layer copy in layer palette and click on the thumbnail pressing COntrol key. This will select the model here.<br />
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Now select brush tool and keeping this new layer selected as shown, paint it over with black. Since the selection is ON, the brush won't paint outside the selection edges.<br />
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Here is what you see post that:<br />
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You can add a little blur to this shadow layer from Filter>Blur>Gaussian blur.<br />
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5. Now we are just two steps away from the final result. Go to Image>Transform> Free Transform or just press control+T, keeping top most layer we just painted as the one selected in Layers palette:<br />
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Keeping Control key pressed, move the edges of the transformation boundary such that the shadow part now goes towards the ground as shown. You can tweak the shadow in a way you want, imagining the source of light as per your needs. Click the green commit button when you see better placement. Make sure you now make the shadow layer as second by dragging it down otherwise your shadow will paint black over the body. So in order to make it behind the body, drag it below the selection layer.<br />
One most important thing is that you must coincide the feet of person with the feet in shadow here while transforming else they would be disjoint and not look realistic or seem like person flying in the air :)<br />
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6. The last step is to reduce the opacity of the shadow. This can be done from layers paleete by selecting this layer and reducing opacity to something around 60-70% or as per your need.<br />
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Here goes my final result:<br />
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I have been receiving suggestions from the readers of this blog about the content and some specific tutorial requests using Elements. Suggestions and feedback are welcome. I will try to respond as soon as I can.</div>
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<br />
There are several search mechanisms available in Organizer which lets you look for any particular images in your catalog from your huge catalogs which may be as huge as 80K.<br />
<br />
Following are the different ways to search media through your large catalogs.<br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<h3 style="color: orange; text-align: left;">
Advanced Search</h3>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="SP4114710" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This
is a new search mechanism introduced in Elements Organizer 11 to support quick
complex searches based on Tags, People, Places and Events. </span></div>
<div class="Default">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Here is the
advanced search widget which appears above the grid when it is invoked from
search bar dropdown or Find menu.</span></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PscqrEb24GI/UNMDsZD6VCI/AAAAAAAABmM/C6UcF1VmSLU/s1600/15.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PscqrEb24GI/UNMDsZD6VCI/AAAAAAAABmM/C6UcF1VmSLU/s400/15.png" width="400" /></a></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="Default">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To
understand the utility of these searches more, let us take an example of search
criteria which is as follows:</span></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="Default">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">My catalog
has 80K media and I wanted to create a greeting card<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for my cousin’s birthday and use a particular
photo of hers while she is wearing a “ hat”<tag> and is on “boat”<tag>;
the photo was taken during your trip to “Naukuchiataal” <name of a place>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>during “Art and Music Fest” event.</span></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="Default">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Advanced
search allowed me to tick me these 4-5 parameters and get down to this
particular image in seconds.</span></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K2ywoFSwrGM/UNLSROrAoQI/AAAAAAAABj0/0tHeG50u6wM/s1600/5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K2ywoFSwrGM/UNLSROrAoQI/AAAAAAAABj0/0tHeG50u6wM/s640/5.png" width="640" /></a></div>
<div class="Default">
<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
<div class="SP4114741" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Entry Points</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
<div class="SP4114710" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Advanced
search can be invoked from three places.</span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 30.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Click search icon adjacent to search box on the
top and selecting Advanced Search menu option.</span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 30.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Select Find > Using Advanced Search.</span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 30.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l5 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Clicking > icon that appears on mouse hover
on a tag in keyword tags pane.</span></div>
<div class="SP4114741" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Exit Points</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 30.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Clicking x button in Advanced Search widget
would exit the search.</span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 30.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo4; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Clicking the Back button on the sort by Bar.
Back button would appear on the sort by bar whenever any tag is selected in
Advance search widget.</span></div>
<div class="SP4114710" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Note:
Click Clear on Find bar would clear the search results and also all the
selected tags in Advanced Search widget. </span></div>
<div class="SP4114741" style="margin-bottom: 2.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: .25in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">More Info</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This is an AND search means that only the media
which matches all the selected criteria i.e. Tag, People, Place, Event would be
shown in the search results. </span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To exclude a tag from search results, right
click it and select Exclude.</span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There is a submenu on the top of the Advanced
search widget which have options to Deselect All the tags, Expand all the items
in the tree and also Collapse all the tree items.</span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">There is an icon <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-no-proof: yes;"></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="SP4114788" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l4 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -.25in;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TIoTbmYZebk/UNLSfwETv_I/AAAAAAAABj8/Chn_7d43e74/s1600/6.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TIoTbmYZebk/UNLSfwETv_I/AAAAAAAABj8/Chn_7d43e74/s1600/6.png" /></a><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TIoTbmYZebk/UNLSfwETv_I/AAAAAAAABj8/Chn_7d43e74/s1600/6.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>b<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">esides the cross x button to expand or
collapse the Advanced search widget.</span></div>
<h2>
</h2>
<h3 style="color: orange; text-align: left;">
Free text search</h3>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
On the top right of UI, there is a search box which looks
like this:</div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5KXRYZ9fITU/UNLS3bQWCvI/AAAAAAAABkE/n4pafxNkeew/s1600/7.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5KXRYZ9fITU/UNLS3bQWCvI/AAAAAAAABkE/n4pafxNkeew/s1600/7.png" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
You can
use this Search box to run a text-based search. Type a name or word, and
Elements Organizer 10 displays media files that match the text across
a wide range of criteria. </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
Matches can include the items: Author; Captions; Dates;
Filenames; Keyword tags; People; Places; Events; Notes; Album names; Album
groups; Camera information; Camera models; Formats etc.</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0in; mso-add-space: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
The text
search also supports the operators: “AND,” “OR,” or “NOT” if a space precedes
and follows them. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
There are some keywords that can be used to make searches more specific. For example I may want to search the images with tag name "hat" but may not want to look for images that has filename or caption containing the word "hat". In such cases, i can use these search keywords to enhance and make my searching quicker.</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
Following table details the search criteria that can be
used to run a text-based search:</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Search
Criteria</span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="background: #EEEEEE; padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Description</span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="background: #EEEEEE; padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Format</span></b></div>
</td>
<td style="background: #EEEEEE; padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Example</span></b></div>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Date</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified date.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Date:
dd/mm/yyyy</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Date:
mm/dd/yyyy</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Date:
yyyy</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span>Date:
this year</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Date:
last year</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Date:
today</div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 2.25pt; margin-left: 22.5pt; margin-right: 7.5pt; margin-top: 0in; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in; text-indent: -.25in;">
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span>Date:
last week</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Date:20/07/2012</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Tag</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified tag.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Tag:<tag name></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Tag: Boat</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
People</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified People.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
People:<People name></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
People: Bob</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Places</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified Place.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Place:<Places name></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Place: Sanjose</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Events</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified Event.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Event:<Event name></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Event: Aarna’s birthday</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Filename</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified filename.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Filename:<filename></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Filename:_MG_7409.jpg or
Filename:_MG_7409</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Caption</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified caption.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Caption:<caption></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Caption: Disneyland</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Make</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified make of a camera.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Make:<make of the camera></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Make: Canon</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Model</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified model of a camera.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Model:<model name></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Model: Canon EOS 5D</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Author</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified name of the author.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Author:<name of the author></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Author: James</div>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Notes</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Displays media elements that match the
specified notes.</div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Notes:<notes></div>
</td>
<td style="padding: 6.0pt 6.0pt .75pt 6.0pt;" valign="top">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 1.5pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
Notes: Trip to Disneyland</div>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
The Search
box also populates a list of existing tags based on the letter you type. For
example, to search for photos and videos that have been tagged with
"Disneyland", type the letter D in the Search box. The Search box
displays a list of tags beginning with the letter D. </div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; margin-bottom: 6.0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">
As you type in more text,
the list changes dynamically to display tags (or People/Places/Events) that
match the text being entered. If you click any item in the list, a search for
that tag is performed, and the results are displayed in
Elements Organizer 11. </div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">
</div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">
<br /></div>
<h3 style="color: orange; text-align: left;">
Visual Searches</h3>
<div class="MsoNormal">
These searches allow looking for visual similar images and
help to quickly get onto such images in large catalogs. There are 3 kinds of
workflows which are built on visual similarity:<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"> </span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lxyqkwBwxqg/UNLTDWC1SQI/AAAAAAAABkM/izgX3dIkxVs/s1600/8.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="348" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lxyqkwBwxqg/UNLTDWC1SQI/AAAAAAAABkM/izgX3dIkxVs/s400/8.png" width="400" /> </a></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Visual
Similarity Search</b>: It allows you to pick an image and look for all images
that are similar to the selected one with respect to color and shape parameters.
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<br />
To perform this search, one can
select an image in grid and select this option from search bar drop down as
shown above. After building indexes of the images once, you can quickly find
out visually similar images.<br />
<br />
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-POBabsYF2nk/UNLTYEXg-eI/AAAAAAAABkU/iMOR8LvYJwo/s1600/9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="379" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-POBabsYF2nk/UNLTYEXg-eI/AAAAAAAABkU/iMOR8LvYJwo/s640/9.png" width="640" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">
<span style="mso-no-proof: yes;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">
<br /></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Object
Search:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> This search allows you to
quickly find out all images of an object which you have searched for. It is
very useful feature if used for pets/buildings or other objects that have
specific color and shape characteristics. </span></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="Default">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">To perform Object search,
select an image followed by selection of the option <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Object search </i>from top search bar drop down.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k8Fcc1DQb2o/UNLTj55AagI/AAAAAAAABkc/t7jcBAmPdYw/s1600/10.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="388" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k8Fcc1DQb2o/UNLTj55AagI/AAAAAAAABkc/t7jcBAmPdYw/s640/10.png" width="640" /></a></div>
<div class="Default" style="text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<div class="Default">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "CKAAJ L+ Myriad Pro"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This workflow allows
you to select an object in Single image view (as shown below) and clicking
“Search” leads to the results that have that object in them somewhere.</span>
<div class="Default">
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refine your search results using Color-shape slider or using + placeholder icon
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image search</span></b><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allows you to stack or delete similar images.
This feature is especially useful when you capture photos in the multi-burst
modes.</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>
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select the images in which you want to search duplicates in. So if there are
images that have good visual similarity or are shot in multi burst mode through
a camera, it suggests those images as duplicates and allows you to delete some
of them and stack the rest which you want to keep.</span><br />
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Follow the
steps given below to perform the duplicate image search:<br />
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grid.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> §<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Select Duplicate Image Search. The search
results are displayed; you can stack or delete images.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You can drag the unique
photos (not suggested as stack) from bottom to the stacks suggested above. Once
you have stacked any photos from a group, you can right click any photo in a
stack and set it as top of that stack as well.</span> <br />
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There are several options in Find menu which allows one to
quickly filter the media. These options are as shown in screenshot below:</div>
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As you can see that there are
varieties of options which are quick to understand through the names, there is
one which is for creating complex searches in large catalogs which is “By
Details (Metadata)…”</div>
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You can search by file details or metadata
available in your images. Searching by metadata is useful when you want to
search using multiple criteria at once. For example, if you want to find all
photos taken on 12/31/05 that include the “Butterfly” tag, you can search for
both “Capture date” and keyword tags in the Find By Details (Metadata) dialog
box.</div>
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Searchable metadata includes criteria such
as filename, file type, tags, albums, notes, author, and capture date, as well
as camera model, shutter speed, and F‑stop, among others.</div>
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Note: Searching for camera raw files
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Search for a variety of photo details at
once using the Find By Details (Metadata) dialog box.</div>
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Find > By Details (Metadata)....</div>
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the Find by Details (Metadata) dialog box, select a metadata type from the
first pop‑up menu.</div>
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the second pop‑up menu, select a range for the search, such as Starts With, Is
Greater Than, or Contains. This range tells Elements Organizer 11 how
to use the text that you enter in the third pop‑up menu. Not all criteria
include a second pop‑up menu.</div>
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the third pop‑up menu, type or choose the metadata name or value that you want
to find.</div>
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include other metadata values in your search, click the plus (+) sign to the
right of the third pop‑up menu and specify new values for the two or three pop‑up
menus that appear.</div>
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remove metadata from your search, click the minus (‑) sign to the right of the
third pop‑up menu for the metadata you want to remove.</div>
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Search.</div>
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modify the search, click Options > Modify Search Criteria in the find
bar and make changes as desired; then click OK.</div>
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* There is one new option in Find menu in
Elements 11 which is “Find>All Missing Files”. This option allows you to
quickly look for all missing files in catalog and reconnect or delete them
appropriately.</div>
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Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com30tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-54827491115545610092012-12-20T13:54:00.003+05:302012-12-20T13:54:13.418+05:30How to create icons from images making background transparent?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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To create icons from any of your images, making rest of the background as transparent, follow the steps below:<br />
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* Open the image in Photoshop Elements Editor. <br />
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* Select the Object using any of the selection tools suiting your needs. To understand how to make precise selections, you may visit the <a href="http://photoshopelementstips.blogspot.in/search/label/selection%20tools" target="_blank">posts</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Selected the bird using quick selection tool</td></tr>
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* Right click the selection and select <i style="color: orange;">Layer via Copy</i><br />
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* The layer panel now shows the selection in a separate layer.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QUlsK6zTA6Q/UNLJi0nRxmI/AAAAAAAABjE/CAiEIsSg6h0/s1600/3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Layer" border="0" height="340" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QUlsK6zTA6Q/UNLJi0nRxmI/AAAAAAAABjE/CAiEIsSg6h0/s400/3.png" title="" width="400" /></a></div>
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* Delete the background layer in layers panel using right click option. And here is I see the <i>Bird </i>with transparent background which I can save to be used as icon.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iq42Vy_1zcQ/UNLJlcbsATI/AAAAAAAABjM/ICpz_d5WC2o/s1600/4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-iq42Vy_1zcQ/UNLJlcbsATI/AAAAAAAABjM/ICpz_d5WC2o/s1600/4.JPG" title="Icon" /></a></div>
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Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-51555790435483660892012-12-19T20:22:00.002+05:302012-12-19T20:22:22.001+05:30Is there a way to compare two photos in Elements Organizer?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I often hear from some PSE users that they miss photo Comparison mode in Elements Organizer. However, a lot of us are not aware that the functionality is already there in Organizer. Yeah it's bit hidden though.<br />
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It's an important functionality when you want to compare two pictures, may be want to select one of them to keep. Also if images are shot in multi-burst modes and there are minute differences in those shost and you want to zoom them together and compare those minute details to select the best one.<br />
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Two ways to access this functionality:<br />
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<b>1st Way:</b></div>
Select two or more pictures, press <b style="color: red;">F12</b>. Oh! great there is a shortcut :-)<br />
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<b>2nd Way:</b></div>
Select multiple files, go to View>Full Screen> Click on the icon at the bottom bar. You may choose either of the options- to view images side by side or top-bottom.<br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GIbLg-_oT0Y/UNGqfbknBsI/AAAAAAAABhE/T1FLePGJAg4/s1600/compare+mode.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GIbLg-_oT0Y/UNGqfbknBsI/AAAAAAAABhE/T1FLePGJAg4/s640/compare+mode.png" width="640" /></a></div>
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You get to see the images in "Compare mode" so that you can compare any two pictures.<br />
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<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wICURAkn2X8/UNHSupo0qgI/AAAAAAAABhs/GTsQb-cgXL0/s1600/in+full+screen.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wICURAkn2X8/UNHSupo0qgI/AAAAAAAABhs/GTsQb-cgXL0/s640/in+full+screen.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Compare mode</td></tr>
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Also you can select the small lock icon in bottom toolbar which syncronizes pan/zoom of both the images together. That means if I zoom in any one of the pictures say y mouse scroll, both of them will zoom with same level so that minute details of the images can be compared as well.<br />
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Hope you find this information useful!<br />
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Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-46151552169009423432012-11-22T14:52:00.000+05:302012-11-22T14:52:11.412+05:30How to edit IPTC metadata of multiple photos using PSE 11 Organizer?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
PSE Editor provides a way to edit IPTC metadata of an image at a time. However, Organizer did not have a way to edit IPTC metadata till Elements 11 version. With PSE 11, Organizer provides a way to edit IPTC metadata of multiple photos at a time as well.<br />
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Here is how you can achieve that:<br />
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1. For a single image, select a file in Image grid in Organizer. Click on <i>Information </i>tab in right panel as shown, followed by expanding metadata panel as shown in the image below:<br />
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2. Click on the icon shown on right to view <i>Complete </i>metadata of the image selected.<br />
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This launches the following dialog showing IPTC metadata fields. Fill in the metadata and Click <i>Save</i>.<br />
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The saved metadata should now appear in metadata panel under IPTC header. To edit this metadata, go to the same dialog with the same steps as above and you can then append or overwrite the existing metadata.<br />
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To edit metadata of multiple files, you just need to select multiple files in the image grid and select "Add IPTC information: button in Information panel :<br />
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The dialog you see for multiple files is a bit different as it provides a radio button option for Author and Keywords fields to overwrite or append existing values as shown. You can use these options as desired.<br />
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Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com21Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India28.5355161 77.391026528.3123246 77.0751695 28.758707599999997 77.706883499999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-15010517012197754812012-11-22T13:25:00.002+05:302012-11-22T13:41:31.556+05:30How to select hair with precision?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Selecting hair, cactus or other selections that requires precisions could not be as great result giving as after using the new <i>Refine Edge</i> feature in PSE 11 Editor. This is a feature that Elements has inherited from Photoshop.<br />
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Consider the picture below where I intend to select hair of this lady so that I can copy her to some other background. Open it in PSE 11 Editor.<br />
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1. Select Quick Selection toolto select the lady and her hair.<br />
<span style="color: orange;"><b>Tip: </b></span>Do not select the hair at or around narrow edges. So in such areas, selection would be on shrinked area than the actual hair spread as shown:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Selection should not be made near the narow edges of the hair, like as shown</td></tr>
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2. Now from task bar at bottom, click on the button <i>Refine Edge </i>or go to <i>Select </i>menu><i>Refine Edge</i>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The selection is jaggy and does not include the edges and here it shows over white background</td></tr>
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3. If selecting narrow strands of hair as in the picture, increase the radius under Edge detection. This value of radius depends on the hair to be selected. So a little experiments might be helpful. The value 50-70px may generally be good in case of such kind of hair selection. Though this value should not be too close to maximum as it may lead to some of the distortion in rest of the selected area by making some of the areas near the selection go transparent. This you would observe when we look at the layer mask generated in steps ahead.<br />
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4. Under Adjust Edge, you can play little with <span style="color: orange;"><i>Smoothing, Feathering, Contrast</i></span> and <span style="color: orange;"><i>Shifting edge</i></span> if required. I generally use Contrast and make it up by 5-10% for good results. But yes for sure, it depends on your image as well.<br />
One more point to be taken care is that the background color fringe appears near the edges. To avoid that, always select<span style="color: orange;"> <i>Decontaimate colors</i></span> an increase the amount to 100%. It really pays good results.<br />
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In case you feel that there were areas of hair strands that you wanted in selection but they have not come into your results, make use of the brush and eraser tool on left to paint over such edges where those hair strands were present but havenot come into your selection. However while doing this you would not know where is that area as you currently do not see the original layer and hence cannot figure out seeing above as you cannot see the area which has not come into selection. So to do so, again click on View dropdown and select R to <i>Reveal Layer </i>which will show you the original. Switch back to the white background mode by clicking W or select again from dropdown and paint to teh areas where you have missed something in selection.<br />
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5. To work further on refining the results, you may prefer to select "New Layer with Layer Mask" in "Output To" dropdown so that you can work with layer mask in next step to enhance the selection.<br />
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6. Click Ok. Here is what you get to see:<br />
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You would observe on looking closely that some of the areas near the boundary of the arms and hair shows transparency. We will fix that using layer mask.<br />
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<b>Alt+Click</b> on the black and white layer mask in Layers palette.<br />
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Here is what you see:<br />
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This clearly indicates that the details on outer area of arms and some of the hair are lost. That is, the area is not complete white where it should have been.<br />
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Let's select Brush tool from left. Change the Color Palette colro to White and paint those areas as white so that it looks like this: <br />
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Now <b>Alt+Click</b> on the image icon next to mask icon in layer palette to switch back to image mode again.<br />
So here is my final selected image:<br />
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And here is how it looks when a drag a new background to this image from <i>Graphics>Backgrounds</i> panel:<br />
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Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com61Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India28.5355161 77.391026528.3123246 77.0751695 28.758707599999997 77.706883499999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-81824959378441857632012-10-23T15:21:00.001+05:302012-10-23T16:30:30.445+05:30What's new in the new version of Adobe Photoshop Elements 11?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
There is alot new and exciting in the new version of Elements.<br />
I thought to brief the set of these new features before I get onto sharing more tutorials on them.<br />
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The new version of Elements Organizer offers alot of usability improvements along with new features and new UI. The top level things you would notice when you launch the new version may be:</div>
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1. Better UI and simplicity in workflows from previous versions. As most of us remember our pictures though the people in them, or the place where they were shot or the events associated them, the new Organizer is built on this concept and provides an easy way to organize the media by bringing in the different views that are: People, Places and Events and provides an immersive experience organizing your media.</div>
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Here is the quick preview of the new Elements Organizer 11 </div>
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2. The new version allows media to be placed on Google maps and hence allowing organization through the Places. It's the first time ever Elements has integrated the Google maps.</div>
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3. Import to and Export from Adobe Revel: Media from Organizer catalog can interact with the Adobe Revel. So one can access the media stored on various devices like iPad, MAC and other machines etc in your Organizer catalog. Similarly export the media to your Adobe revel account from the Organizer catalog.</div>
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4. Auto suggestion of Events based on media timestamp for quick organization.</div>
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5. Auto organization through Flat folders. Alot of us do not want to spend alot of time creating albums and we generally tend to associate our media with the physical location on the disk and hence are more comfortable with using folders. Previous versions of Organizer lacked an ability to show the list of that folders only that have media imported in the catalog. Hence using folder view in Organizer was cumbersome as it used the get the complete folder hierarchy even if not needed. This version gives a quick access to your managed folders(from where media has been imported) and the tree as well if required.</div>
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6. Faster response with larger catalogs as compared to previous versions. There has been improvement in performance of launch of application, folder view(trememndously), and a few other areas like tagging, albums, full screen view etc.</div>
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A lot of new exciting features to give a try that includes:</div>
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1. New enhanced and simpler UI. Here is a screen that captures the new UI of Editor:</div>
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2. New Guided Edits like high key and low key effects, Vignette effect.</div>
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Some examples with Before/After using these features:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before <i>High Key </i>applied</td></tr>
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3. Enhancements in "Refine Edge" feature allowing more precise and natural selections for cases like selecting hair etc. </div>
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4. Some new filters that include Comic filter. An example output of comic filter:</div>
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I have got a few requests to update this blog with some tips and troubleshooting for Organizer application as well. So here comes my first post for Organizer.I have a pretty big catalog* of photos and videos (around 20K media items) in my Organizer and I personally find this application pretty useful when I am looking for something in particular.<br />
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PSE Organizer is a bundled application which comes with both the products- Adobe Photoshop Elements and Adobe Premiere Elements. This application allows one to get your media from device like cameras/card reader/scanners/ external drives/internal drives, organize your media(photos and videos) by tags/albums/folders etc, review them in full screen or compare modes, do some quick edits, rebound some creations like Photo slideshow which can further be output as pdf or wmv, share your media with your family and friends.</div>
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PSE Organizer is a value addition when you have thousands of photos in your catalog. One fine morning you might just want to re-bond your old memories of 1980s. However, looking for any photos of any particular event on your numerous drives and folders may just upset you. Now how easy would that be with this application? It would be simple to search by event tags, people tags, date or place which you could remember about those photos infact any metadata like camera used, date etc. Organizer provides extensive search capabilities for photo metadata. Once you search through your photos and reach the ones which you wanted to see, in some simple clicks, you can share it on Flickr, Facebook or other sharing services with your family and friends. </div>
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<b>*catalog</b> is a term used in this application which refers to the database that stores all references of your imported media in the Organizer along with its association with albums, tags, star rating, captions and other metadata.So whenever you organize your media with any of these metaphors, the information gets stored in database.</div>
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1. Open the source image in Editor.<br />
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In first step, you can choose the number of pictures in the stack you would like to see. The options are 4, 8, 12.<br />
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Select the Move tool in full edit and use it for moving any picture stack to a different position and commit the operation.<br />
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Once commited, the result would appear as shown :<br />
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Let me know if you find this useful!</div>Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-77307496830604886742011-04-20T21:40:00.000+05:302011-04-20T21:40:06.159+05:30How to quickly make a perfect group shot from a couple of images?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
It happens alot of times that while taking a group shot, there is atleast one person who is looking somewhere else. So we ask to pose for another shot. However now someone else from the group is not in perfect smile or moving his hands here or there.<br />
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1. Open the two group shots which are not so perfect and go to <strong><span style="color: orange;">File</span></strong>><span style="color: orange;"><strong>New</strong></span>> <span style="color: orange;"><strong>Photomerge Group Shot</strong></span> or <strong><span style="color: orange;">Guided</span></strong> Edit > <span style="color: orange;"><strong>Photomerge</strong></span>> <strong><span style="color: orange;">Group Shot</span></strong><br />
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</div>The above screen appears. Select the base image where most of the people appear perfect and drag it to the empty space on the right where as the source image at left.<br />
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</div>If you see the above pictures you would notice that in right image(our base image) , the person on the left has his arm raised. While in the left image, the person at the back has his arms raised. <br />
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So we want to have one picture out of these two were none of the guys have their arms raised.<br />
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As soon as you leave the mouse drag, you would see the results as shown :<br />
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But if you see closely, there is a problem in this result which is highlighted as shown below :<br />
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So the person highlighted in pink box is having another arm in the result image on right.<br />
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It is just one more step. Just select the eraser tool from right panel and rub over the arm area in the source i.e. left image and the extra arm disappears.<br />
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1. In the image above, for areas marked in red, I could use a bigger brush size without worrying much as the background behind the red mark is not very complex and is consistent, and I am not worried much as there are change in colors, no linear planes changing etc. So I can do this part quickly.<br />
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</div>2. The areas marked in yellow are bit complicated as they have carvings on the wall. So would be good to start dabbing the brush with small size from the area near to the yellow area boundary in a linear manner. So if you see the carvings on the wall, they are horizontally linear. So it would be good if I start from the left near the boundary of the yellow area towards right horizonally.<br />
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3. The areas marked in blue(In L shape) is the area which should be taken care alittle meticulously since it has the frame of the door which has straight lines which need to be content created. So for this I reduced the brush size so that it did not cover the breadth of the frame and started from left such that the brush area includes the area of the existing frame(white frame area). However, this decision making may vary from image to image which would come to you as you try this tool a few times. For non-complex images, it may just take seconds to fix that photo using content aware spot healing and you may not have to do any such decision making. But for complex images, you might need a little thinking to get the best results.<br />
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4. For the area in purple, I used clone tool as it was quicker for that scenario. Spot healing content aware brushcould also have been used.<br />
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Here is my final result :<br />
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1. Open an image in PSE Editor.<br />
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2. Go to <em>Guided Edits</em> and click on <strong><span style="color: orange;">Sat</span><span style="color: orange;">urated Slide Film Effect</span></strong> under <em>Photographic Effects</em>.<br />
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3. Click on <strong><span style="color: orange;">Apply</span></strong> button. It can be applied multiple times depending on the extent of the effect you are looking for.<br />
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</div></div>Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-39728609189865645182011-04-04T23:32:00.000+05:302011-04-04T23:32:14.413+05:30How to quickly add vignette to a photo using PSE 9?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">There are different ways in which you can add vignette to a photo. However when you are looking for the quickest(single step) and easiest way to do it, you may do the following.<br />
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Click on <strong><span style="color: orange;">Apply Vignette</span></strong> button <skipping the first <em>Cross Process Image</em> button.<br />
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If you want more vignette, you may press the same button twice or thrice as per your need.<br />
</div>Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-54415476948769432292011-03-01T11:32:00.000+05:302011-03-01T11:32:36.863+05:30Creating Depth of Field using Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Selecting the background and blurring it can just pop up your subject but does not give a sense of depth of field. <br />
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Following is the tutorial for bringing depth of field to your photos. It uses PSE 9 layer masks and gradient tool.<br />
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2. Press <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: orange;">Control+J</span></b> to create the copy of the background layer.<br />
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Thinifying nose takes just two minutes in PSE 9.<br />
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1. Select <strong><span style="color: orange;">Magnetic Lasso</span></strong> tool from left tool bar. Make a selection around the nose. Right click the selection and select Layer via Copy to create a new layer of the selection.<br />
2. Press <strong><span style="color: orange;">Control+T</span></strong> for performing transformation. Move the left and right sqare boundaries inwards to thinify the nose as required.<br />
4. Now select <span style="color: orange;"><strong>Spot Healing brush</strong></span> and brush away the distorted spots created around the nose in the last step.Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-39096877106016651632010-12-16T15:41:00.000+05:302010-12-16T15:41:59.939+05:30How to bring sheen to hair using Adobe Photoshop Elements?The hair in the image below looks dull and lacks shine. In 3 easy steps one can add shine to the hair using PSE 9.<br />
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</div> 1. Open the image to be edited in PSE 9 Editor. Create a duplicate copy of the background layer using <strong>Control+J </strong>or dragging the background layer to the new layer icon in the layers palette( 1st icon below the layers). <br />
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Select the background layer in the layers palette and click the new layer icon which is the first icon in the layers palette below the layers.<br />
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This is how the layers palette should now look like. There appears a blank layer between the background layer and the background copy.<br />
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</div>2. Now click the top background copy layer in the layers palette and press <strong>Control +G </strong>or select Layer><strong>Create clipping mask.</strong><br />
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</div>See the top layer gets indented in the layers palette indicating that a clipping mask got created.<br />
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Change the blending mode of the blank middle layer to <strong>Linear Dodge(add).</strong> You can do this simpley by selecting the middle layer in the layers palette and changing the blending mode from Normal to Linear Dodge(add) from the combo box in the layers palette.<br />
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3. Now select the brush tool from tools bar. Keep the default colors in the color swatch(black and white as default). <br />
Choose the brush size from top bar as 60px of soft mechanical brush type.<br />
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Change the <strong>Opacity</strong> of the brush to 20% from top bar. Remember if the hair color is not not dark as shown but some lighter color, reduce the opacity to half this value(around 10%).<br />
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Keeping middle layer selected, start brushing over the area of the hair you want shine to appear.<br />
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Here is how my initial and final images look :<strong> </strong><br />
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For example : for the image below I just dragged my mouse from point A to point B for selecting the whole apple instead of moving my mouse along the edges of the whole apple which we would require for other selection tools.<br />
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This is how my object was selected moving my mouse from point A to B (Please note I increased the brush size to 35 px from options bar after selecting the quick selection tool for making this selection) :<br />
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However in the above image, there is good contrast between the object to be selected and its background. So we did not need to train our quick selection tool. But for getting better results in minimum time when there is not much great color difference or contrast between our object and background, it is recommended that you train your quick selection tool.<br />
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So in an image like below, where there is not that great color contrast between yellow flower and its background, we would train our tool.<br />
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So if I move my quick selection tool from point A to B to select the yellow flower, here is what <br />
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However I did not need this extra highlighted(green) part in my selection(as shown below) which was selected when I moved my mouse from point A to point B. But since there is a low contrast between the orange and the yellow here, this area too got selected.<br />
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1. Select a very small part of the yellow flower as shown after selecting Quick selection tool.<br />
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2. Now I will press Alt key and keeping it pressed, I click and drag my mouse over the area I did not want in the selection. So I brush my mouse over the green highlighted region shown in the second last image.<br />
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I also notice that as soon as I click Alt key my mouse cursor changes from "+" to "-" as it tell what area not to select.<br />
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Once I am done with that I leave the Alt key back and again move my mouse from point A to B as I did earlier and here is how I get my desired selection :<br />
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So here I have trained my quick selection tool not to select what areas of contrast. So if I had the similar background around the whole flower, then I would just drag my mouse once along the boundaries of the flower to tell my tool about the low contrast areas which I do not want to select.<br />
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I hope you find this tutorial helpful!Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-22880564782616075022010-11-03T23:15:00.000+05:302010-11-03T23:22:30.959+05:30Lasso selection tools in PSEPhotoshop Elements offers a plenty of ways to select any object and thus allow placing it over some other image or doing selective editing. However for a newbie, the different selection tools remain a mystery. It is initially difficult to understand when to use which tool. Through this tutorial, I will try to capture the use of the first set of selection tools which is the lasso group consisting of Lasso tool, Magnetic lasso tool and polygonal lasso tool. My subsequent tutorial will cover other selection tools as well.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Lasso tool </span></span></b><br />
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Lasso tool is a free form selection tool which allows you to select any irregular shape by just mouse click and move the mouse over the edges of the object. The selection precision through this tool depends on how steady your hand movements are, along with the mouse sensitivity. So if your hand selection is steady and precise, you would get good results. Shortcut key for this tool is <b>L.</b><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8xI1VGiPtP8/TNEdwAAm-TI/AAAAAAAAA4E/Mp3VMkN_Umg/s1600/tool+box.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8xI1VGiPtP8/TNEdwAAm-TI/AAAAAAAAA4E/Mp3VMkN_Umg/s320/tool+box.JPG" width="45" /></a>This tool is present as highlighted in the toolbar image shown in the image on right.<br />
As you start making the selection you would notice that it is hard to follow the thread edge of the lasso tool icon. So you can turn on your Caps lock key to make this icon appear as a normal cross hair icon which has a defined center.<br />
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So once you open the image in Editor, you just need to click on this tool icon and get started with your selection. Once you click and move the mouse the selection boundary will start getting drawn. As soon as you release the mouse, the selection area get closed by a straight line between you initial and final points.<br />
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So as seen in the image on left. I started my selection from point <b>A</b> across the curve side of the apple. I released the mouse at point <b>B</b>. As soon as I released the mouse, a straight line closed the selection to have an area selected as shown in the image.<br />
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For making better and smooth selections, here are the additional options in the top options bar which are provided with this tool :<br />
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The <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">Yellow </span></b>highlighted part of the image has four icons :<br />
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1. <b>New selection</b> : This is selected by default. This is for making new selection. If a selection<br />
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2. <b>Add to selection</b> : If there is some selected area already and you want to add new area to the selection, click on this icon and start the new selection.<br />
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3. <b>Subtract from selection</b> : If your selection area has some parts which are un-required and were mistakingly selection, you can choose this option and start selecting the area you want to subtract from the existing selection.<br />
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4. <b>Intersection of the selections</b> : If you have an area selected already and you want to have a new selection which has some parts of existing selection with some new area as well, just select this option after you have an existing selection and start selecting the new area.<br />
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The <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Orange </span></b>highlighted tools in the image above are for smoothing and refining your selection. If none of these options are used, the selection will have jagged edges. This tools are common to other selection tools as well.<br />
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1. <b>Feather </b>: This option has a text field in which you can specify the amount in pixels. The value range is from 0-250 px. The large the value, smoother the selection. This edge smoothing method causes the edges of selection to be blurred causing the smoothing of the edges. Hence this method is accompanied with loss of image details across the edges. If the blur is too high, loss of data will also be high.<br />
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The effect of feathering is inversely proportional to the resolution of image in DPI. So a higher DPI image will have lesser effect of feather as compared to same feather applied on lower DPI image. Actually the formula is simple. Since a higher DPI image has more pixels per inch hence a 2 px feather will not be that much visible. But in an image where pixel density is low, 2 px feather will be visible very clearly.<br />
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Please note that this feather value must be given in advance before making the selection else this option would not be honored. To give feather to an existing selection, you can select the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Refine edge</span></b> button which we shall discuss shortly.<br />
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2. <b>Anti aliasing</b> : Unlike Feather option, this edge smoothing option is lossless and subtle. If this check box is checked before making a selection, the jagged selection edges will e smoothened as you go along with your selection. Instead of blurring edges as in case of feathering, it instead adds some gray pixel around the jagged selection boundary making it smooth and giving the squared pixel a curvy effect. So this is highly useful option which one should check with any of the selection tools.<br />
This option is used for distortion less smoothing of edges.<br />
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3. <b>Refine Edges</b> : This is the next option in the options bar. As you click the button, you are shown with the following dialog. These options are used to refine the edges once you have already made the selection. The button remains disabled before any selection is present.<br />
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The options highlighted in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime;"><b>green </b></span>box are the sliders to refine the edges of the selection. The options in <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow;">yellow </span></b>box are for viewing the smoothing effect of the selection in the selected background or mask. The options in <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: purple;"><b>purple </b></span>are for Zooming in, preview and move the image to view a specific area of the image.<br />
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You can select any of the icons in the yellow box to view your selection in different backgrounds or if you want to view it as a mask. You can either select lack, red or white background or view the selection as a mask. These options enable you look closely to judge how much refinements are still required.<br />
I have chosen "On Black" which is third icon in the yellow box.<br />
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As from the above image, I can make out that my selection boundaries are very jagged, so i need to refine them. So I use the following options to achieve that :<br />
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1. The <b>Smooth </b>slider smoothen the edges without rounding the corners. I use it quite often as I do not visualize much destruction with this option. For this image I gave the value around 5.<br />
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2. <b>Feather </b>slider is same as the feather text box discussed earlier i.e. it adds the blur to refine the edges. The difference is that using this slider you can add feathering after you have made your selection unlike the option discussed above.<br />
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I added a feather of 0.8 for this selection.<br />
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3. <b>Contract/Expand</b> slider shrinks or expands your selection boundaries in parallel to your selection edges. You can use the slider to expand or shrink your selection until your selection boundary meets the edges of the object.<br />
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For this image, I contacted it by a value of -11.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Magnetic Lasso tool</span></span></b><br />
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It is an intelligent lasso tool(free form selection) with edge detecting capability. So it reads the color brightness change information along the edges and then the tool keeps sticking to the edges automatically as you move the mouse.<br />
As you click over any edge of the object and start moving the mouse across the edge, it automatically detects your edges and follow the edges precisely as you move the mouse making the selection quicker.<br />
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It keeps adding anchoring points to the selection across as you move the mouse. In case if any inappropriate anchor point gets introduced in you selection, you can undo each anchor point by pressing Backspace key. Esc key will completely remove the selection.<br />
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To switch between different Lasso tools, you can press<b> Shift+L.</b> Same tip for this tool as well. You should turn on Caps lock key while making selection as it brings the cross hair icon for the selection instead of the thread part of the tool icon which is difficult to follow while making selection.<br />
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For a closed selection one should double click in the end where start and end points meet. With a single click, one can start the selection and move across the edges so that the selection line is drawn automatically with this tool and anchor points are also drawn. One can also introduce more anchor points to give more sharper selection by single clicking in between while moving mouse.<br />
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As shown in the image above, the points on the selection curve are the anchor points which define the selection.<br />
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Here are the options for magnetic lasso tool in the options bar :<br />
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<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The options highlighted in yellow box are same as described above for Lasso tool which are there to mark a new selection, add to an existing selection, subtract from an existing selection or get the intersection area of two selections.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The options marked in Orange box are there to control the smoothing of the selection and to decide how fast and accurate we can make our selection to be. The options <b>Feather </b>and <b>Anti-aliasing</b> are same as we described in Lasso tool. </div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>Width </b>defines the radius of the cross hair cursor. The bigger the radius, the faster is the selection. However if the object to be selected and the background have lower contrast, it is advisable to keep the radius small for magnetic lasso tool to detect the edges efficiently. The value of this radius ranges from 0-256 px.</div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
</div><b>Contrast </b>value in the Orange highlighted box decides how much sensitive our selection brush is with the contrast between our object and the background. So for low contrast between the object and the background, we should keep the percentage value of Contrast field to be low which would tell out tool to intelligently understand this input and work precisely for detecting edges. However if contrast is high, we should keep this value high to tell our tool to work faster as it does not have to make any deep calculations for detecting edges.<br />
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The text field <b>Frequency</b> defines the density of the anchor points. So for a sharper and precise selection, more anchor points can be drawn. The range of this option is 0-100. So if I specify the value as 100, here is how my selection would appear :<br />
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<div>The value of Frequency should not be very high as it starts giving very jagged selection. Default value is 57 which works almost appropriately.<br />
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The tool in the green highlighted box is to control the pen pressure on the tablet (I have not used this option as I do not have a tablet).<br />
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Once you have started the selection using this tool, you may not be able to go to the options bar and change the values as required since it would disturb the selection. So one has to use the shortcuts to dynamically change the options in the options bar. (,) comma and (.) period are used to increase and decrease contrasts.<br />
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Magnetic lasso tool works very well most of the time when there are good contrasts between the object and the backgrounds. In case of contrast as well, it works well if the above parameters are set accordingly for low contrast like low width and low contrast value. However in cases when there are selections like selecting hair or fur or any specific colored objects etc where other tools work better which we would cover in other tutorials.<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Polygonal Lasso Tool</span></span></b><br />
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This tool can also be found in the Lasso tool flyout menu below Magnetic Lasso tool. Once can select Shift+L to switch between this tool and other Lasso tool.<br />
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It is also for free form selection of any object or area when straight line edges are required. You can start your selection with single click which gives a start point, second click draws the straight line selection line which in turn connects to the third click with the other selection line.<br />
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To give an example of where I used it in one of the demos is when I had to clone the hay bundle as shown in the polygonal selection to its left.<br />
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I created a duplicate layer of the image(Control+J), then selected the grass bundle with the polygonal lasso tool as shown and then using the <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Move </span></b>tool from the toolbar and move it to the area whre I need the clone.<br />
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As you can see from the image above, I have been able to clone the area as required.<br />
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Once you have made the selection using any of the selection tools, what else can you do with the selection?<br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">As you can see from the image above, I have been able to clone the area as required.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">- One can select "Layer via Copy" and create a separate layer of the object selected and edit that layer as required. One can hence independently edit this object layer as required. Like converting to black and white or enhancing colors of the objects etc.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">- One can right click and "Select inverse" to select the areas apart from current selection and create a "Layer via Copy" from right click to create a separate layer of the background and edit the background as required. Like blurring the background or painting the background with a gradient etc.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">- Create a copy of the background image. Select the area using any tool and use move tool to move this area to somewhere else in this image or some other opened image in Editor.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">- Transform the selection via right click options and place it at necessary location in the same or the different image.</div><div><br />
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1. Open the portrait to be edited in PSE Editor.<br />
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2. Now create a new blank layer clicking on the new layer icon in the Layers palette.<br />
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4. Now select <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Brush</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"> </span>tool selecting a soft brush, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>opacity </b></span>of brush set to somewhere around 15% -25%.<br />
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5. Now keeping <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Alt </span></b>key pressed, click on an area near the sweat area on the skin which does not have sweat. For this image I clicked somewhere on the left of the lips on the lower cheek which does not have sweat highlights. It selects that skin color in the color swatch if you notice.<br />
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6. Now start dabbing with the brush on the areas of the seat highlights. Keep dabbing until you get all the highlights disappear.<br />
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Here are my initial and final images :<br />
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Once you learn the technique, it doesn't take more than 2 minutes to have this done.<br />
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This tutorial was on request from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #00681c; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;">Morgan Drzewicki</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: nowrap;">.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; color: #00681c; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; white-space: nowrap;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: nowrap;">Thanks Morgan.</span>Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-8747518380344736772010-10-26T21:57:00.000+05:302010-10-26T21:57:00.849+05:30How to create stitching or embroidery text effect using PSE?1. Open a blank document in PSE. Now select pattern stamp tool and increase the radius of the brush such that it covers the whole document.<br />
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2. From the <strong><span style="color: orange;">Pattern Picker</span></strong> in top bar, select the pattern <strong><span style="color: orange;">Denim</span></strong> and stamp it over the document so that the whole document now is painted with Denim texture.<br />
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After Stamping, it looks like this :<br />
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3. Now select <strong><span style="color: orange;">Text</span></strong> tool from left toolbar and write some text as shown. Choose the color you like. I chose <span style="color: orange;"><strong>Stencil Std</strong></span> font style from font picker combo box in top bar and pink color from the color picker.<br />
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</div>4. Now we will create <strong><span style="color: orange;">Stitch</span></strong> brush. For this open a new file from File>New>Blank with default background selected. Now choose <strong><span style="color: orange;">brush</span></strong> tool from tool bar with black color selected. Make the radius of brush around 9px with hard brush type selected in the top bar options.<br />
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Now put a dot and press shift to create a small slant straight line. Similarly create another such that you have drawn V-shape as shown. Once you are done, go to Edit> <strong><span style="color: orange;">Define Brush</span></strong><br />
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It asks to name the brush. Name the brush as <span style="color: orange;"><strong>Stitch</strong></span><span style="color: black;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: black;">5.</span> </span><span style="color: black;">Once you are done, select the previous file we were editing from the project bin. Select the brush tool and the brush style as Stitch from the Brush combo box in the top bar. Create a new blank layer from layer menu and name the layer as "Stich".</span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Now on the edges of the text, start stamping the brush as shown. Please note we are stamping only along the horizontol lines as shown.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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6. For vertical lines rotate the file by 90 degrees from <strong><span style="color: orange;">Image>Rotate</span></strong> menu and complete the bruh stamping along the vertical lines which now appear as horizontal plane after rotate.<br />
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Once done rotate the image back. <br />
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7. Now select the Stitch Layer and go to Enhance><strong><span style="color: orange;">Adjust Sharpness</span></strong>. Increase the amount and radius as necessary. <br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Click Ok.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">8. Now keeping the Stitch layer selected, Go to Enhance>Adjust color><strong><span style="color: orange;">Replace Color</span></strong>. Select the color of the stitching or embroidery if you dont like the black stitching. I changed it to off white from black.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">9. Once done, keeping the same above layer selected, go to Layer><span style="color: orange;"><strong>Layer Style</strong></span>. Add <strong><span style="color: orange;">Bevel</span></strong> to it(approx 9px in size).</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">10. Click Ok. Here is how your embroidered/stitched style look like :</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Hope you find this tutorial helpful !</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-17764383099159068252010-10-05T17:50:00.000+05:302010-10-05T17:51:45.619+05:30How to create a portrait hard rock style using PSE 9?<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div> 1. Open the portrait you want to edit in PSE 9 Editor.<br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">2. Create a copy of the background layer by pressing <strong><span style="color: orange;">Control+J</span></strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">3. Now select the copy of the background layer and go to Enhance><span style="color: orange;"><strong>Convert to Black and White</strong></span>.The following dialog will pop up. You may choose any preset available in the dialog or making changes using the sliders. Click Ok</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">4. Now Select this background copy and rename the layer as Overlay. Keeping this layer selected, change the blending mode of this layer to <span style="color: orange;"><strong>Overlay</strong></span> from the combo box.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div>5. Create a copy of this layer Overlay by pressing <strong><span style="color: orange;">Control+J</span></strong> or by simply dragging it over the new layer icon in the layers palette. Change the blending mode of this new layer to <span style="color: orange;"><strong>Hard mix</strong></span><span style="color: black;">. </span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">6. Now select <span style="color: orange;"><strong>Burn</strong></span> tool from toolsbar and brush it over the highlights in the resultant image. You may try the combo box options with the blur tool on top toolbar - Highlights, mid tones, shadows.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Here are my initial and final images :</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8xI1VGiPtP8/TKsWegIQD4I/AAAAAAAAA1s/CHLf3VmA6eg/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8xI1VGiPtP8/TKsWegIQD4I/AAAAAAAAA1s/CHLf3VmA6eg/s320/1.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8xI1VGiPtP8/TKsWPw0Vp2I/AAAAAAAAA1o/ZezkfsEUuQw/s1600/edited.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8xI1VGiPtP8/TKsWPw0Vp2I/AAAAAAAAA1o/ZezkfsEUuQw/s320/edited.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-20097970799814593712010-09-27T16:23:00.000+05:302010-09-27T16:24:08.360+05:30How to create subtle reflections using PSE 9?It's so easy and cool to create reflections using PSE 9. It is one of the new guided edit features which is easy to follow with the instructions laid through the workflow. I am also following the steps described in the workflow to demonstrate the creation of a reflection :<br />
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1. Open any image in PSE 9 Editor that you want to create reflections of. I picked this image as when i clicked this one, I felt there was a lake missing the the silhouette.<br />
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2. Click on Guided Edit tab>Fun Edits> <i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Reflections</span></b></i>.<br />
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3. Click on the first button : <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b><i>Add Reflection</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Here is the output you see after that :</span></span><br />
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4. Click on the <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Eye dropper</span></i></b> tool and select one of the colors to be filled as background for the reflection. For this image I chose the mustard color as you can see from the color swatch by clicking on one of the areas with this color on the image. And as I click <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><i>Fill background</i></span></b>, I see an output as follows :<br />
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5. In the next step, you get an option to select either Floor, Glass or Water reflection. I chose <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Water Reflection</span></i></b> for this particular image.<br />
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It will prompt for adding <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b><i>Ocean Ripple</i></b></span> filter, followed by <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Motion blur</span></i></b> to give some realistic effect.<br />
I tried in 768 % of amount for Ocean ripple effect and 7 as distance in Motion blur.<br />
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</div>6. Adjust the <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Reflection intensity</span></i></b> as per your needs. I increased it from 80 to 90.<br />
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7. Click on <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><i>Add Distortion</i></span></b>. I clicked it twice to make my reflection shorter that the actual image.<br />
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Rest of the area after shortening of reflection gets filled by your foreground color in the color swatch(the background you selected for reflection earlier)<br />
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8. Now crop this extra area in the next step using the next button <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b><i>Crop</i></b></span>.<br />
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9. Once cropped you can add gradient to give more realistic look to your image. here is my final output.<br />
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If you are not satisfied with the gradient applied with this button, you may go to full edit and select the top most layer, edit the gradient itself choosing gradient tool and selecting Edit button from top bar.<br />
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One more example of the reflection created using this feature :<br />
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</div>Vaishali Ahujahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18195139361974150189noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8336658052539618422.post-41276352165278017032010-09-25T22:11:00.000+05:302010-09-27T11:50:28.647+05:30How to use PSE 9 for getting glare free portrait of a spectacled person?<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">A very common problem while taking portraits of a spectacled person is the glare in the lens that results in hiding the eyes. The best way is to take two pictures of the same person one with spectacles and one without spectacles and then correcting the glare in PSE 9 as shown below.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div>So here was the portraits that were shot, one with spectacles and one without spectacles. </div><div><br />
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</div><div>We will be using layers masks of PSE 9 to correct the glare. The same can though be achieved using PSE 8 magnetic lasso tool as well. However I prefer layer masks in PSE 9 as they give me flexibility of using opacity and transparency of the pen and eraser tools to give more realistic results.</div><div><br />
</div><div>1. Open both the images in PSE 9.</div><div><br />
</div><div>2. Select the image without spectacles in workspace and using <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>rectangular marquee</b></span> select the area around the eyes as shown below. </div><div><br />
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</div><div>Right click the selection made and select <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Layer via Copy</b></span> . A new layer gets created in the Layer palette as shown:</div><div><br />
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</div><div>3. Once done, select <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Move </b></span>tool from tool bar and drag it over the other image(with spectacles) in the project bin. The dragged layer now gets created in the spectacle image as well as shown.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>4. Now we would reposition this portion of the layer above background layer such that the forehead lines and the nose line overlap over each other. Doing this I realized that one image had the head tilted while the other had the head straight up. So we will first transform it using <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Control+T</span></b> and would rotate it a bit so that both the layers can be inlined properly.</div><div><br />
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</div><div>In the above image I have rotated the upper layer a bit so that the nose line of the person match.</div><div><br />
</div><div>5. Now we would create a copy of the background layer by selecting it and dragging it over the new layer icon in the layer palette or just press <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>Control+J</b></span> selecting the background layer.</div><div><br />
</div><div>Once done, move the background copy layer on the top by dragging it above the layer on the top. Now the layer with eyes we dragged from other image goes below the spectacles and we see following in the layers palette and the editing workspace :</div><div><br />
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</div><div>6. Select the background copy layer and go to <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">Layer> Layer Mask>Reveal All</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">. </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">This will create a white mask next to the background copy layer as shown in the Layer palette.</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
</span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Select the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;"><b>brush </b></span>tool from tools bar and make the foreground color as black in the color swatch. </span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Now reduce the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">opacity </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">of the brush from the top bar to somewhere around 50%. Brush over the area of the eyes inside the spectacles. </span></b><br />
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If any extra areas are brushed, that can be reverted using the eraser tool or by just making the foreground color white and rubbing it over the extra areas painted.<br />
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If we do not reduce the opacity while brushing then the mask is totally removed over the areas inside spectacles which looks as if there are no glasses in the spectacles. So in order to give realistic look of the lenses, the eyes are brushed with reduced opacity and keeping unbrushed areas near the edges to leave some glare there.<br />
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Here is my final output :<br />
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Here are the initial and edited images :<br />
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