6 Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text

With the experience of understanding Layers now safely in your repertoire of skills, it's time to look a little closer at developing your retouching skills. Elements has a range of very high-end tools with which to perfect your work—whether it's portraiture, weddings, or landscapes.

One of the big issues with regular tone editing tools such as Levels and Hue/Saturation is that their effects are global—everything in the image is affected proportionally. To limit the spread of these effects to a specific part of the frame, we look at making selections, using a wide range of tools that come with Elements that are designed for all types of selection scenarios.

And if this is not enough, the last section in this chapter is designed to ease you slightly in the direction of the graphic designer as we look at creating illustrations using Elements' range of downloadable graphics, and using text in...