Chapter 4: Easy Creative Projects

In this chapter, you'll find a wide range of interesting special effects, most of which can be applied to your images with speed and ease.

I have always liked Elements' slightly alternative approach to image editing because it includes a lot of project-based editing skills rather than concentrating just on the skills of image editing. However, over the years, this has changed—Elements now boasts some of the most sophisticated editing features that you'd normally expect from the top end of town, while still retaining awesome features, such as panorama stitching, calendar making, and automated photo slideshows.

This chapter highlights a number of semi-automatic features that anyone can use to produce truly great results—without having to climb that steep learning curve (the steep learning curve starts at Chapter 6, Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text).


What you will learn in this chapter...