


None of them supports the same degree of fine-tuning as you get in Photoshop but all allow you to make the most frequently-required corrections with reasonable ease. It provides the basic suite of editing sliders, which includes Smart Fix plus adjustments for Lighting, Colour, Balance and Sharpness. The Quick Edit workspace is largely unchanged since Elements 7. This makes layer masking a very sophisticated editing tool - and a valuable addition to Photoshop Elements. They can also be useful for things like boosting colour saturation or contrast on selected areas in images.Īnother application is for copying parts of one image and pasting them into another and you can create several different layers to produce composite images in this way. One common application of layer masks is changing the colour or tone of a selected area of an image.įor example, you can select an area and use a layer mask to recover a coloured subject when the rest of the image has been converted into monochrome, as shown in the illustration below. You can use the paint brush to add or subtract from the masked region without losing the layer pixels.

This tool is used to create resolution-dependent bitmap images that are edited with the painting or selection tools. Consequently, you may be stuck with a curved result that is difficult to correct with the available tools although you may be able to come close with some panoramas if you rotate and crop the image then use the straightening tool. The application will struggle if there are clouds in the sky and will probably produce unsatisfactory results. You can combine up to 10 images with this tool and, at the end the software will ask you if you want to fill in the missing areas using the content-aware function. This opens a function that is essentially the same as the Photomerge function in Photoshop, allowing you to set blending, vignette removal and geometric distortion correction. When you use it on larger areas the results are usually hit-and-miss and somewhat unpredictable, as shown in the example below. This tool can be used to remove poles and wires from scenic shots or taking out tourists from a crowded scene.Īs in Photoshop, this tool is best used on small areas. About this product Product Information Adobe Photoshop has been used by digital artists worldwide, but its price can be prohibitive for non-professional users, and that is where Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 comes into the picture. See Pictures Free Shipping with Tracking. Packaging has Imperfections from Storage. Brand new: Lowest price The lowest-priced brand-new, unused, unopened, undamaged item in its original packaging where packaging is applicable.īuy It Now. Easy to install easy to use in my MacBook retina, recommended.
