Photoshop Elements: Tutorial for beginners and advanced users

Before we enter the wide world of Photoshop Elements basics, Gabor will introduce himself to you personally. He will also give you a brief overview of what you can expect in the next few hours of training!

Before you start working in Photoshop Elements, it is advisable to take a look at the basic settings first. Some sliders and additional options make it easier to work and find your way around the interface.

Elements offers a total of three different working modes, each of which offers a completely different user interface. Each of these modes has its own tools and control panels. In this video, Gabor explains which one is best suited to which user.

When you first open the interface, navigating the workspace will be incomprehensible at first, but with the help of two simple and plausible tools, the first step will be easy.

At first glance, the tools look very extensive, and they are. In this video, Gabor explains the breakdown of the individual tool groups and what their main functions are.

The main menu in Photoshop Elements is not only extremely extensive, but also causes great confusion when viewing the individual sections. But this shouldn't be a problem for you. Gabor gives you a rough overview here and shows you what you actually need to work with.

There are many ways to navigate in PS Elements, but with the great, user-friendly and easy-to-understand buttons in the task bar, navigating the themes is even easier.

PS Elements offers a wide range of functions that are very practical in combination with the layers. Additional and practical switching graphics extend the range of layers so much that you will have even more fun retouching.

In this video, Gabor shows you how to set up your workspace so that you can work effectively.

Opening a JPEG file is one of the biggest steps in PS Elements before you can even start editing. In this video, Gabor will show you how it all works and the various options for opening an image in PS Elements.

Simply saving to a single format is something that PS Elements definitely does not offer. Instead, you have the option of creating different image formats to suit your needs. On the one hand, motifs can be saved in a finished format and on the other hand in project data that you can continue working on at any time.

It's probably no big surprise that you can work with one design on one workspace. With a few simple steps, you will also be able to create several motifs on other workspaces, which you can view and edit at a glance.

The work surface in PS Elements is like a desk on which you have your sheet of paper, crayons, scissors, ruler etc.. However, you can determine the color of your desk/work surface yourself in this program.

Every motif and every file has its own digital window in PS Elements. In this video, Gabor shows you how you can use even more functions with the windows with a few advanced settings to be able to work in even more detail.

Getting an image into a Photoshop file will certainly not be a major problem. But the first hurdle will come when additional images are to be inserted into a file. Watch this video to find out how quick and easy this can be.

Not everyone always has pictures that were taken 100% horizontally or vertically. But these don't have to be deleted. In just a few steps, you can align the images with PS Elements. Even with a crop, you won't lose any pixels, but rather gain them.

Zooming in and out of a subject should be standard in an image editing program. But Elements offers a few more clever functions that make navigation even easier.

Before a raw file can be edited in PS Elements, it must first pass through the raw converter.

This topic can quickly cause confusion. That's why many users instinctively reach for a higher number. In this video, Gabor will explain to you whether this is right or wrong using simple examples.

Adjusting brightness information for more details in the image - Gabor shows you how to do it in this video.

Under-exposed motifs either end up in the trash after the shutter has been released or at the latest after viewing on the computer. But nowadays this is no longer absolutely necessary. Many images that are too dark can be turned back into usable subjects with just a few sliders.

Images that are much too bright do not have to be excluded when selecting images. Especially not if the too bright subject would have been an otherwise usable shot. In Camera Raw, you will be able to conjure up a usable image even from a subject that is too bright with the help of a few sliders.

Photographing in a raw file is highly praised in all photographer circles due to its great functions. However, photographing a raw file only makes sense if the functions of the developments are used correctly. In this video, Gabor gives you an overview of the most important functions so that you can get even more quality out of your raw images in the future.

Almost every camera manufacturer now has its own raw format. In this video, Gabor explains how you can save your raw file in the now standardized DNG raw format from Adobe.

Most people will certainly be familiar with the term layer, but many people find it difficult to work with a layer or even with additional layers. In this video, Gabor will use an example to show you that this topic is not a big problem.

PS Elements not only offers the best-known type of pixel layer, but also a few other great types of layers. In this video you will find out what these are and what these other types of layers make possible.

Individual layers can be named as you wish without any major problems. In this video, Gabor explains what other advantages labeling the layers will have for your workflow.

The term " editing mask " sounds very exciting at first, but at the same time it also sounds complicated. In this video, you will find out what great functions are hidden behind it to connect two layers.

Multiple layers do not always have to be listed individually in the layer palette. You can use a few different procedures to practically combine layers.

Copying a single layer is still a difficult task for many PS Elements users. In this video, however, you will see how easy it is. Gabor will also show you different ways of doing it, from which you can simply choose the one that suits you best.

Painting, or rather working with the brush in Elements, doesn't always have to be boring. The brush offers many great functions and can also be individually adapted to your needs.

The classic in the field of image editing is definitely the eraser. In this compact video, you will see how it works and what advantages it offers.

Additional functions have been added to the eraser in recent years. These functions will not only make it easier for you to crop or erase, but can also save you a lot of time in the future.

The copy stamp has also become an absolute classic in the Photoshop group and has fully found its raison d'être. But in this video you will learn how to copy pixels from A to B and how far you can push them to the limits.

A motif usually consists of countless pixels, which also have a wide variety of colors. If you want to pick out a specific color from your image to find out which RGB color values make up the image, use the color picker.

This tool has now become an indispensable tool for retouching. This includes image retouching that needs to be done very quickly, as well as retouching that needs to be intensive.

These two tools are usually combined when it comes to brightening and darkening individual areas in an image. Once you know how the two tools work, how to use them and what setting options they offer, you are sure to have a lot of fun using them.

Your instincts and experience will tell you where to crop your pictures to determine the perfect image section. But in this video, Gabor will explain how you can use this tool to retain image proportions or even create new standard formats.

These two tools in combination offer you the option of sharpening or even blurring areas as desired and selectively in just a few steps. In this video, you will also learn how to use these two ingenious functions in an even wider range in order to work non-destructively.

This brush not only offers a result for your pictures, but rather a gigantic palette of templates that will make editing so easy that you can achieve many picture results in just a few simple steps.

It is now impossible to imagine Photoshop without these tools. Working with the selection tools is now almost standard in Photoshop when it comes to making square or even oval selections in order to edit them.

Once you start making image selections with a brush, you will almost certainly not want to use any other tool. With just a few clicks, you can select areas in your images that you can then deform, color, lighten or darken to suit your taste.

One of the best, most convenient and cleanest tools in PS Elements is the Quick Selection tool when it comes to selecting specific areas in an image for clipping or further editing. Definitely an absolute must for anyone who is going to use this great program.

Almost everyone has heard the term masks in Photoshop. One or the other may have already dealt with it once and given up on this topic, as the handling may seem a little complicated. But in this video by Gabor, you will learn how simple, uncomplicated and advantageous the use of masks can be.

Every adjustment layer now automatically comes with a mask. In this video, you will see and hear what this does and how to use the combination of adjustment layer and mask.

Masks alone are a great way to quickly mask areas in or out. But masks offer even more options that can make working in PS Elements much easier.

Adjustment layers allow you to quickly change the image. In this video, you will learn three different ways to create a more graphic and abstract image style.

To add color to an image, you don't necessarily have to work with a colored brush. You can use colored adjustment layers to bring in a uniform color for creative purposes.

You don't necessarily have to work with a colored brush to add color gradients to a picture. You can use color gradients to create colors and color transitions to suit your taste.

These adjustment layers allow you to precisely and selectively adjust the depths, mid-tones and highlights specifically for your subject.

The topic of shapes is no longer limited to layout programs. With Photoshop Elements, you have many vector shapes that you can use for your own personal design. Not only do you have ready-made shapes, but you can also adjust them in such detail that they are more likely to meet your requirements.

If you are a design enthusiast, then you will certainly know how difficult it can sometimes be to align graphics, text and elements. But with the many automated alignment aids, you will not only be able to layout more accurately, but also faster than before.

The ruler and the guides are two indispensable tools when it comes to laying something out in PS Elements. Whether for print data, greeting cards, business cards or posters - the guides will help you to work not only more accurately, but also more cleanly.

The filter gallery is ideal for people who also want to let off steam creatively in Elements. The filters in this selection are nothing but playful, creative and unusual. Not only can you apply a filter effect to your subject at the touch of a button, but you also get a very generous selection of individual effects that can be customized in detail.

This filter is brilliant when it comes to subsequently adjusting shapes in PS Elements. When liquefying, not only body shapes can be reworked with an additional polish, but everything that is dear to you.

This filter is ideal for softening an entire motif with just a few sliders. This filter is particularly practical when it comes to adding a creative or realistic blur to the image.

Apart from the fact that this filter can not only give your subject a very realistic over-illumination of the sun - you can even determine the direction of the light and the intensity as you wish. The additional flares created when using these filters create an absolutely real flare spot.

The subject of filling methods is a very wide-ranging topic and also very demanding in terms of content. The main function of a blending mode is to merge motifs. In this video, Gabor will give you an overview of the individual mode groups.

The Soft Light blend mode is one of the most popular blend modes when it comes to offsetting a texture with a mid-tone in just a few steps. Studio backgrounds photographed in gray can be subsequently replaced with a texture in PS Elements.

In this video, Gabor will work with you on a street scene. Topics from individual chapters are revisited. Here: various tools, layers and adjustment layers.

In this film, Gabor will retouch a portrait. Raw development will play a major role in this. The techniques used will refer to topics from the entire training for repetition and consolidation.

At the end of the video training, Gabor will say goodbye in person and give a few tips on how you can get along better with Elements in the future.