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 screenshot includes the four gold photo corners, the textured photo plus the beer glass:
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.
- Those that are designed to add benefit to single images—graphics such as text boxes, copyright symbols, arrows, lines, speech bubbles, shapes, and more.
Look at the following screenshot:
Graphics in this application are all vectors, made up from a mathematical...
