Dear all, welcome to this new tutorial! Let's see how to use Adobe
Photoshop Elements 2022, an outstanding image-editing software for
beginners and amateurs!
Photoshop Elements is a Photo Editor that is part of the Adobe Elements
bundle, a collection of software editors provided by Adobe under a
perpetual license, without any subscription plan. This bundle includes
Adobe Organizer - to manage organize your photo collections - and
Premiere Elements, the main Video Editor to correct and adjust your footages.
All these editors are available for both Windows and MacOS.
To learn more about Adobe Premiere Elements 2022, do not lose our dedicated
tutorial in this playlist!
When you open Photoshop Elements, its Home Screen page opens, showing
useful tutorials, tips and suggestions to start and edit your photos. It
also includes a Search bar on top to look for any specific topic or feature.
On the right you can open any previous photo in progress or any other Adobe
Elements product you have from the bundle. Click on Photo Editor to open
Adobe Photoshop Elements.
At this point you just have to import your photos. You can either drag and
drop these into the interface or go to Open in the top left corner to
browse for these. All your photos will be collected within the Photo Bin
panel at the bottom.
Let's start working with the Quick workspace, the simplest one to correct
single photos straight-away. Its preview on the center shows the photo
selected from the Photo Bin panel. You can zoom in and out with your mouse
wheel while holding down the ALT (or the Option) key and pan around with
the Space bar key.
Around the preview you have several tools and panels you can use to edit
the picture. Use the Rotate buttons at the bottom to rotate by 90 degrees;
the Organizer button to open the current photo on Adobe Organizer and the
Home Screen button to come back to the Home Screen page just seen.
The toolbar on the left collects all you need to adjust and correct your
image. Click on any tool to enable it and adjust its properties from the
Tool Options panel at the bottom.
Enable the Straighten tool to align the photo by clicking and dragging on
it. This also crops and zooms the photo automatically to fit the
original size.
To crop the photo enable the Crop Tool and click and drag to define the
region to be saved within a rectangular grid. Then click and drag it to
move it and use its nodes to resize it, holding down the Shift key to save
its aspect ratio. Drag outside the grid to rotate it instead.
At the bottom use Cancel or Commit to either undo or apply the current grid.
When dealing with portraits enable the Eye Tool to remove red eyes by
clicking and dragging over these. Make sure to include each eye completely,
adjusting options at the bottom.
In addition use Whiten Teeth to brush on teeth and make them brighter.
With the Healing Brush tools you can perform advanced corrections to remove
imperfections or entire parts from the image. Enable Spot Healing Brush to
click and remove small imperfections within your brush size.
Whereas use Healing Brush to enhance the photo by copying and brushing
pixels taken from a reference point, represented by a cross that moves with
your mouse cursor. Fix the reference by holding down the ALT (or the Option)
key and clicking on the interested part and then brush freely, setting options
at the bottom.
Remember that you can undo or redo previous actions made with the Undo and
the Redo buttons.
With the Type Tools you can drop amazing text over your photos. Enable the
Horizontal or the Vertical Type tool to click and drag on the preview and
type any text spreading horizontally or vertically. If you do not see the text
completely, enlarge the box enough by dragging its nodes.
You can select any text and customize its properties at the bottom, such as
format, style, size and color. Click on Commit to apply all.
Enable the Text on Shape tool to drop text around any shape. Choose the
right shape and click and drag to drop it. Then click on its perimeter and
type in, resizing text if this is too big.
Whereas use the Text on Custom Path tool to draw any freehand shape that
you can apply in order to type text laying on it.
To manage all these pieces of text you can enable the Move tool and click
and drag any to move, use the nodes to scale and drag from outside to
rotate. Double-click within any box to type in again.
The Quick workspace shows advanced panels on the right when you click on
the buttons in the bottom right corner. With the Adjustments panel you can
apply corrections and enhancement on colors and details by dragging on the
sliders or hovering and picking any ready template. Remember to undo with
either CTRL (or CMD) and Z or the Revert button.
With Smart Fix you can adjust brightness and contrast with a few clicks.
Open Exposure and Lighting to balance exposure and brightness levels of the
image lowlights (Shadows), midlights (Midtones) and Highlights.
With Color adjust the color intensity with Saturation, the range with Hue
and the color appearance with Vibrance. Whereas use Balance to apply
amazing color filters with Temperature and Tint, opening Sharpen to reduce
the photo blurriness.
You can see the result of your modifications by changing the View in the
top left corner. Before represents your original image and it is compared
with the modified one under After.
By default all these adjustments are applied on the whole photo. You can
use several selection tools to define limited regions within dashed
contours, in order to apply the adjustments within these, leaving the rest
of the photo intact.
Enable the Quick Selection tool and click and brush to select all the
regions that share the same color gradient. Whereas use the Selection Brush
tool to brush and select regions precisely, without any extension.
With the Type Mask tools you can click and drag and type any text in order
to create a selected region with the same text shape. Also in this case you
can choose between an horizontal or a vertical text orientation.
All these selections sum up together to realize a unique region. While
using any selection tool hold down the ALT (or the Option) key to refine
this area by removing any part from it. Press the Escape key to delete all seletions instead.
Besides the adjustments you can also apply Effects, Textures and Frames,
with the difference that these do not interact with selected regions. Check
these out!
On top you can switch to the Guided workspace to apply advanced corrections
and effects by following guided steps explained on the right, within the
same Quick workspace. Other effects can be found within the Enhance tab.
You can always undo with CTRL (or CMD) and Z.
Open the Expert workspace to go advanced! This collects all the tools seen
on the Quick workspace including others derived from Adobe Photoshop, such
as the Blur and the Sharpen tools to adjust blurriness and clarity; the
Smudge tool to drag pixels; the Sponge tool to adjust color saturation by
brushing on the image and the Dodge and the Burn tools to adjust the
brightness level.
You also get the Brush and the Pencil tool to draw freehand with a defined
color and brush size and style.
The Expert workspace also allows to have multiple objects and photos in the
same place, thanks to its layers structure you can show with the Layers
panel on the right. For example you can open any image, select it all with
any selection tool and use CTRL (or CMD) and C to copy it. Then switch to
another image tab and use CTRL (or CMD) and V to paste it, creating a new
layer over it.
As seen for the pieces of text you can enable the Move tool to move, scale
and rotate each layer. From the Layers panel you can also hide or show each
of them on the preview.
In the same way you can select any portion of the current image and cut it
with CTRL (or CMD) and X and then paste it with V, making an independent
layer. Any checkerboard area represents full transparency, without any
color or pixel on it.
For more information about the Expert workspace make sure to catch our
dedicated video tutorial!
Now let's see how to save the current image shown on the preview. Go to
File, Save As... and render your image as either a JPG or a PNG file. Make
sure to choose PNG to save any transparency present on the image.
You can also go to Create or Share to export your image outside to burn
DVDs, make collections or share it online.
Thank you very much for watching this video! Make sure to check out our
playlist guide to learn more about Adobe Elements 2022!