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
Smart Tags Overview
There's one other thing that I'm gonna show you which is also, I believe this is also a new feature. I've never seen it before, which is pretty amazing. It's actually called smart keywords. So if you're looking at all of this and you're thinking ah that's really handy but I do not wanna spend even 10 seconds creating a keyword. There's something called smart keywords and I'm gonna go back to the whole catalog here. And to access your smart keywords you're gonna come to the 'search' up here in the top right-hand corner. And when I click on that little 'search' icon I get this magical workspace with all these different filters, really, on the left side. So, we have smart tags up here we've got the people tags, places, and dates and your folders and some of this is redundant like keywords, right, so we already know we have these keywords we've already placed those. Albums we haven't done yet, or events, but we'll get there. We can filter our images by their star ratings or, we can filter ...
by different media types. But right now I just want to show you the smart tags option. Because this is, I think this is really unbelievable. So smart tags, look at this. We've created some of those keywords, but look what's here. I did not create these. I did not tag these images. I did not label them with all of these keywords. Elements did that for me, and it did a pretty exhaustive. Look how many keywords, alright I don't even know how many that is. That is a ton of keywords and it did this by actually analyzing the images upon import. So when I first imported this, when we did this yesterday in class we did that initial import and we didn't talk about it yet but, behind the scenes, Elements was analyzing the content of all of our photos and running it through object recognition. And then it applied keywords. And, they're not perfect, not at all. But they're pretty incredible. So let's just take a look I was browsing through this earlier and I was really impressed at what it was able to figure out. So for example, winter, right so I'm gonna click on this keyword that Elements added, not me, winter. And when I click on it, and I click over here so I can see ... it really, I mean, these are the images that it labeled with winter. Now I wouldn't choose necessarily to do that, but it actually got it right. So here I think it chose this because it knew we were wearing something on our heads like a hat. Turns out it was really just headbands, this is from a half-marathon we did so it wasn't winter but I can see why Elements thought that it was. This was winter. This was a very cold day and we all have hats and scarves and we're bundled up. This is a picture of my son in that crochet hat that I made with the scarf. And Elements recognized that. These are some little treat bags, they are just crochet things. I think maybe Elements thought that these were hats or something so that's probably why it applies the tag here. And then these images of course have snow, so that's what made it do that. I mean it's just amazing. To clear this and go back then to the tags over here I'm gonna just click the 'x' to get rid of that smart keyword tab. So let's go back and take a look at some more smart tags. I mean I just think that this is amazing, for example, it found all the images, I think, I don't know if it really got all of them. But, if I click the animal tab, and then I'll move over out of the way here. It tagged all of these different ... It even knew that this mermaid, was a (chuckles) a mermaid, I mean I just think that's amazing. It recognized the dog, the penguin, the teddy bear, which technically I guess, is an animal even if it's a stuffed one. I just think that that is some really advanced stuff. These are Hershey's Kisses, or supposed to be like little crochet kisses I don't think I'd count that as an animal. But I can see why maybe Elements thought that. So it did a really incredibly robust job even if it wasn't entirely accurate. So I think that this is a fun little exercise even just when you import your images. If you pop over into this smart tags window I think you'll just be shocked what it pulls up. I mean some of these ... Like here this castle image it labeled it as castle. But it also added château. (chuckles) I just think that, that's a trip. So you never know what it's gonna add but that's a really cool place if you're the kind of person that's like I will never add keywords cause I just I will just never do that. You, I guess, really don't have to because Elements now does that for you. So that is a pretty cool thing called smart tags. So to get back to the rest of our catalog we would just go ahead and click this grid button again. That gets us out of search, so again we got there by clicking this little 'search' icon which brought us into that panel where we can find our smart tags. The smart tags don't show up here. These are the tags that we manually either created or that are just here by default, but they're not applied to anything. And, at first I thought well that's annoying if you're gonna have these smart tags, you know, why not just make them accessible here so I don't have to go digging in the search menu? But then once you see how, first of all, plentiful they are, I mean, the keywords that they come up with I don't think manually if I sat down to keyword those images I would even think to include all of those. So it really is quite extensive, it's very impressive. But it does make some mistakes, it misunderstands some things, in a very intelligent way but it still is a mislabel. And I think it would just be kind of annoying to see all of that stuff crowded in and mixed in with keywords that were deliberately created. So, in reflection then, I think it's actually a good place that they kind of have it tucked. So you can go find it if you want it but it's not, you know, crowding your screen space over here unnecessarily. So that's a bit about keywords. I think the thing to keep in mind with keywords is to just be consistent. They're only gonna be as useful as you are consistent in your application of them. So if you consistently keyword things, then you'll consistently be able to find those photos. If you start out being excited about it and then sort of taper off and don't really follow through on all of that then it won't be quite as useful but, that might mean you need to just adjust your system. Maybe you're trying to keyword too many things, you know, I mean like it labeled the one picture of the castle it labeled it as a château and that's fun but I don't, I'm probably never gonna search my own image collection to find a château. So, I wouldn't label it that. But you can, you know, just invest as much time as is gonna be useful that's gonna give you a return on that time.
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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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