Elements Translation
Though there is a growing list of books available for Elements users, they are targeted at beginners. If you want to learn more advanced techniques, you may want to buy one or more Photoshop books.To help you translate what is written about Photoshop to be useful in Elements, here is a list of the location of commands that are in different locations in the two programs.
On the other hand, you could buy my CD-ROM, Advanced Elements which was written for Elements 2 users (and is as advanced as anything you'll find in the bookstore written for Photoshop.)
Elements Tutorials
Elements Basics
Reference: Elements Tools
Reference: Elements Palettes
Simulated Alpha Channels
Layer Masks
Photoshop
Edit > Transform
Elements
Image > Transform
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Photoshop
Edit > Transform > Rotate
and
Image > Rotate Canvas
Elements
Image > Rotate
and
Image > Rotate > Canvas
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Photoshop
Image > Image Size (dialog box)
and
Image > Canvas Size
Elements
Image > Resize > Image Size
and
Image > Resize > Canvas Size
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Photoshop
Image > Adjust > Auto-Levels, Auto-Contrast, Hue/Saturation,
Brightness/Contrast, Equalize, Gradient Map, Invert, Posterize, Threshold,
Variations (all in the Adjust menu)
Elements
Enhance > Auto Levels, Auto Contrast; Adjust Color > Hue/Saturation,
Color Variations; Adjust Brightness/Contrast > Levels, Brightness/Contrast.
(all in the Enhance menu)
and
Image > Adjustments > Equalize, Gradient Map, Invert, Posterize,
Threshold (all in the Adjustments menu)
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Photoshop
Image > Adjust > Desaturate
Elements
Enhance > Adjust Color > Remove Color
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Photoshop
Layer > Rasterize Layer
Elements
Layer > Simplify Layer
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[note that the ‘Adjust’ before some of the Elements commands
was added in version 2.]
I expect a major source of confusion is going to be the use of the word
Effects. As you know, in Elements, the Effects
Browser lets you apply a sequence of editing steps by clicking one
button.
In Photoshop, these are called Actions,
and the word Effects refers to things like drop shadows, bevel and emboss,
and glows.
Originally, these were called Layer Effects.
After Photoshop v. 5.0, Adobe introduced Styles which are saved combinations
of effects and generally uses the word styles in preference to the word
effects.
The word effects is now used to refer to
the individual ingredients of a style, or to generic effects. As soon
as you apply an effect with particular settings, it becomes a style.
So, bear in mind, that when you read about effects, or layer effects in any Photoshop publications or tutorials, they are referring to what you will find in your Layer Styles palette, and not in the Effects Browser.
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