Working with graphic elements
Photoshop Elements is not Adobe Illustrator, by any stretch of the imagination, but it does contain a reasonably good range of graphic elements that can be added to images to enhance their design. The following illustration shows some of these:
These graphics fall into the following groups:
- Graphics that can be added to existing semi-automated creative projects, such as the Photo Book and Greeting Card, found under the Create menu. These include a vast array of downloadable content, ranging from backgrounds and picture frames, to clip art objects and preset text styles.
- There are those that are designed to add benefit to single images—graphics such as text boxes, copyright logos, arrows, lines, speech bubbles, shapes, and more.
Look at the following image:
Graphics in this application are all vectors, which means that they are made up from a mathematical formula rather than pixels. This is a good feature because it means they are infinitely scalable, compared...
