• Correct color, exposure, and lighting
• Fix red-eye and other flaws
• Use image layers to alter the look of a photo
• Change the background
• Make albums, display photos online, or print your pictures
• Do almost everything you can do with Photoshop CS

Chances are, you bought Elements because you want to make your photos look better. Maybe you take a lot of pictures and you look forward to sharing them. And if that’s the case, you’re probably more interested in actually getting something done than in understanding the theory behind the software. That’s why you need Photoshop Elements 4 Just the Steps For Dummies!

Photoshop Elements 4 Just the Steps For Dummies is a lot like Elements itself — fast and easy. Task-based spreads let you find the task you want to perform, then show you step by step how to do it. You pick the task, find it fast, and get it done! For example:

• Organize and find images quickly and easily
• Acquire photos from your mobile phone
• Create an artistic effect by layering images
• Locate files by caption, media type, or filename
• Replace one color with another
• Remove color halos from your subjects
• Clean dust and scratches from your photos
• Create a catalog, collection, album, or slideshow
• Make a photo look like an impressionist painting or a pencil sketch
• Print photos on your own printer or order prints online

That’s just a fraction of the tasks you can quickly find and perform with the help of this handy, no-nonsense guide. Photoshop Elements 4 Just the Steps For Dummies is all about simple steps that lead to great results!

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Simple steps...

...for great results

Fill a Selection with the Paint Bucket Tool

• Select the Paint Bucket tool from the Tools palette.
• Specify your options on the Options bar. Tolerance specifies how similar in color a pixel must be before it is selected and filled. The lower the value, the more similar the color must be.
• Click the area you want to select and fill. If things go awry, choose Edit?Undo and try again. In the figure, we put our fill on a separate layer and set the Blend mode to Color so the tones of the apple show through the color.

The Paint Bucket tool makes a selection based on tolerance (similarly colored pixels) and fills that selection with a color and pattern. Reserve this tool for images with a limited number of colors.

Get ready to

• Organize and find images quickly
• Fix photos with just a few clicks of the mouse
• Print professional-looking photos
• Correct color, contrast, and clarity
• Create slideshows to share with family and friends
• Layer images for artistic effects