You may be considering whether or not you should restore your old photographs; if you are the first thing you must figure out is which problem you want to fix first. At times it is obvious to see which problem should be fixed first; some of your photos might have tears or a bad case of red eye. However, some of your photos will undoubtedly have a variety of problems which must be corrected in the proper sequence so when you solve one problem you may be correcting an entirely different problem at the same time. Here are a few problems you might attack.

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I have found the best way to straighten images in Photoshop is to use the Measure Tool, which fortunately takes all the guess work out of the process. As you will see in a moment, as long as you have something in the photo that needs to be straight, Photoshop will do almost all of the work for us! The Measure Tool is hidden behind the Eyedropper Tool in the Tools palette and you’ll need to click and hold your mouse button down on the Eyedropper Tool for a second or two. A fly-out menu appears and shows you the other tools hiding behind it. Click on the Measure Tool to select it.

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You’ve taken masses of photos with your digital camera and they are stashed away on your hard drive of your Mac where nobody can see them. Does this sound familiar? Do your photos need organising and editing but you don’t know where to begin? This article aims to provide some recommendations to help you get started in digital photo editing with Adobe Photoshop Elements Mac Version 4.0.

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Step 1 - With the circular marquee tool, create a simple circle in any color. We will use red in this example.

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Removing the background of a photograph gives you great flexibility with your photograph. The nice thing about using your editing program is that while removing the background you can choose to do the entire background or merely parts of it to achieve your desired result.

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Adobe will be following a trend that has been seen across the internet by releasing a free online version of its popular Photoshop image-editing software. The online version will be a stripped-down edition of the program that has rapidly become an industry standard for graphics professionals.

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Digital photos can be viewed on computer screens or printed on paper. Most of the time you are most likely to print on standard paper sizes like 4X6 or 5X7. Every now and then however you might want to make enlargements of some photos that you specially care about. Print enlargements quality depends on your digital camera mega pixels figure, here is how.

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There are several good free digital photo editing software programs available for download that can fit the bill for most common photo editing needs. All you have to do is perform a search for “free photo editing software” and you should have plenty of results to choose from. But there are two programs for sale that seem to meet the needs of most average photographers whether novices or even serious hobbyists, and they are Adobe Photoshop Elements and Corel Paint Shop Pro 9. Both of these programs are very highly rated in most independent and consumer reviews as being very easy to learn and use, while also handling most any editing task that the average photographer could need.

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Before you apply any of these special effects, it can be useful to apply a masking on your photo to select which areas you want to change and which you want to keep unchanged. You can easily get a nice soft fade between the effect and no-effect areas. This is called masking and there’s many ways of doing it. The one method I almost always use now (it took years before I discovered it) is the ‘quick mask mode’. It is very easy to use and usually gives acceptable results.

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In the photography of yesterday, the image captured through the camera’s lens was pretty much the final result. To alter the image after taking the photo was a practice known to few and made available to less than that. This is not the case today thanks to digital imaging. Adobe Photoshop in particular has allowed a level of image editing that is basically ‘magic’. Photoshop allows the average user not only the ability to touch up a photo, but the potential to reinvent it. Let’s take a look at some of the most basic features of Photoshop that even those new to digital editing can do.

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