Lessons
Class Introduction
02:57 2Understand How Elements Works
05:53 3Importing Images
11:31 4Workspace Basics: Organizer
14:47 5Workspace Basics: Editor
16:12 6Tonal Adjustments in Quick Fix
09:59 7Color Adjustments in Quick Fix
07:58 8Apply Black & White Filters
04:01Sharpen an Image
03:33 10Fix Red Eye & Pet Eye
03:05 11Straighten an Image in Quick Fix
03:01 12Explanation of Photoshop Elements
08:23 13Basic Cropping in Quick Fix
14:13 14Guided Edit Overview
02:46 15Guided Edit: Tilt Shift
04:07 16Ways to Save Files
14:37 17Layers & Simple Selections
20:47 18Combine Images with Layers
15:34 19How to Use Layer Styles
15:11 20Make Selections with Layers
11:05 21Make Selection with Lasso
10:43 22Compositing with Multiple Images
17:11 23Refine Edge Selection on Image
19:52 24Use Refine Edge on Images
12:40 25Create Gradient in Image
02:35 26Gradient Map Differences
42:38 27Options for Saving
11:40 28Brushes Overview
15:12 29Creatively Use Brushes
07:19 30How to Change Brush Settings
07:17 31Use Shape Tool with Brushes
08:22 32Work with Multiple Shape Layers
08:53 33Finish Image with Custom Shape Tool
03:21 34How to Load Brushes into Elements
04:59 35Add Layer Style to Image
04:46 36Clip Image to Shape & Use as Template
05:49 37Retouching Overview
04:11 38How to Use Content-Aware Fill
05:47 39How to Use Content-Aware Move Tool
09:38 40Spot Healing Brush on Blemishes
08:53 41Remove Frown Lines with Retouching
05:51 42How to Remove Tattoos
20:32 43Remove a Gap in Teeth
03:52 44How to Whiten Teeth
07:17 45Adjust Facial Features
03:29 46Working with Type Overview
23:17 47Match Type for Image
12:11 48How to Manipulate Type Layers
08:02 49Create Postcard with Type
16:08 50Add Type on a Path
16:59 51Organizing Images in Elements
16:03 52Add Keywords to Images
19:49 53Smart Tags Overview
07:51 54Using Albums in Elements
24:52 55Places Workspace Overview
06:20 56Use Event Tags on Images
04:56 57Timeline for Image Organization
02:45 58Recommended Workflow
07:26Lesson Info
How to Change Brush Settings
I'm gonna show you how you can take even what would maybe be considered a boring brush, not that any of them are ever boring, but let's just take like a round brush. Okay, that's not fancy. It doesn't have any special attributes yet. So I'm gonna double click just this round, plain 13 pixel brush. I'll make it a little bit larger. Let's hide those leaves just because they're distracting. So if I just paint I get just a normal, there we go, a normal stroke. That's great, but we can do something more exciting than that. So I'm gonna come into the brush settings down here and this is where things get really fun. So we have settings where you can control the fade of the brush, the hue jitter, the scatter, the spacing, hardness and roundness. So what does all of that mean? Well, fading is just like it sounds like, how the brush fades in and fades out. This is also gonna be working best if you are using a tablet where you can take advantage of pressure sensitivity. So actually, I can show yo...
u this one right here that I've got on my desktop. This is a Wacom tablet and this is my pen. So I use this like a mouse. I can't lift it too high, so I guess, I don't know, I hope you guys can see. I'm not sure if that's coming through, but it's taped down here. There, I can swing it to the side maybe. There we go, so this is like a mouse. It's sort of like a mouse pad. It's about the size of a mouse pad and then instead of holding a mouse on it, I have this really cool pen. So this allows me to just draw much more naturally than I would with a mouse. What's really cool about it is its pressure sensitive, so the harder I press, depending on how you have your settings, the harder I press the bigger the brush can get. Or the more the paint can come out or sometimes you can also tilt the angle of your brush just by how you hold the pen. So it's kind of a fun thing. These come in all different flavors and variety and I think there's a link to the one that I have in the resource guide. So if you buy the class it'll be there, you can click to it. Mine's old though, so the link is not to my exact one, it's to the current model like the one I have. But they're great. They're not required, obviously, but they can just be kind of fun to take advantage of some of these special settings. But you don't have to have it to take advantage of special settings. You can do all of what I'm gonna show you with a mouse or even just with your track pad on a laptop. So don't feel discouraged, but in case you had questions I just wanted to show you what that was all about. So let's go back to these brush settings and that was fade that I sort of got on that little tangent with. Let's talk about hue jitter. This one is super fun for certain projects. So hue jitter means that whatever color you've got here in your foreground swatch, you are telling Photoshop that you're gonna allow it to basically roam from that color. So Photoshop uses the word jitter. I'm gonna say roam just because I think that makes sense. So if I drag this over here to the right I'm telling Photoshop, "Yeah, I'm starting with orange, "but you can roam away from orange pretty far." 84% maybe, let's say even 100% and we won't have control over that. It's gonna jitter between the orange and, in this case, yellow. So it's foreground and background. So we'll just see where that ends up going. We also have the scatter option. So just like we saw those maple leaves that were sort of blown all over the place. If your scatter is set to zero you don't get any scatter. So all of your ink, your paint, will just be along the path that you draw, but if you increase this then things will start to spread. You can see in the preview down here, if I bring I back down to zero it just looks like a normal brush stroke, but as I increase the scatter amount, you see that the dots that make up the brush stroke are now set free and the ink can run away from the line that you draw. The more that you increase the scatter, the more those can run around and scatter all over the place. So I'm gonna keep it like maybe in the middle for now, for this example. Spacing has to do with how spread out the dots that make up your line, how spread out they are. So if you want it really spread out you can make this really high, but then you won't have much or any control over where things are landing, but maybe that's part of the fun. So let's try it. I really don't know what this is gonna look like. I'll just put it there. I am gonna keep the brush hard though just because I don't want fuzzy dots. So basically we're gonna be painting polka dots in this example. So I'm gonna leave hardness and roundness just where they are at 100% and we'll go ahead and close those settings. Let's see what's gonna happen. How cute is that? They look like candy. (laughing) Oh, I'm good. They look like candy. So I'm painting with that brush so what started out as just a round, little nothing terribly special brush, we were able to go in through the brush settings and change some tweaks to the hue jitter and we changed the scatter and we changed the spacing and now this otherwise ordinary brush is suddenly this magical, I don't know what you would call that. Like Skittles. (laughing) It's like a Skittles candy brush now. So that can be useful for all kinds of really cool effects and things. You could create your own textured background, for example, by just painting it all in with fun stuff like this. I should also point out that in this collection of brushes, those are just the default brushes that we've scrolled through and you can see that there are so many just default brushes, but if we come in here, there is a whole collection of other kinds of brushes. So we're gonna play with some of these and create a new illustration and I'll show you some fun things we can do with this. So let's go ahead and hide all of these things that I've made including that awesome grass layer. That's my favorite. In fact, I'm also gonna delete all these just to get them out of the way. So I'm gonna hold the shift key down, select all those layers and then hit the trash can and that'll just clear them out of there.
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Ratings and Reviews
Patricia
Just watching this class live. It's my first class with Khara; she is a wonderful teacher, moving at a steady speed but always being careful to let us know what she's doing in the moment. I would classify myself as intermediate in terms of PSE but I've learned lots of little things that will make further use even easier and more fun. I really appreciated her descriptions of the difference between PS and PSE and her encouragement in using Photoshop Elements and all that it can do.
Lilygram
I have only been able to watch portions of this class but every single part that I have watched has been technically clear and inspiring to me. Based on this experience and the thorough, 58 item list of lessons, I will surely be buying this class soon! Thank you Khara and Creativelive for making a class on this topic and making it be super!!
Ven S
Great course. You can tell she knows the programme inside out.
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