Beginners Adobe Elements Tutorial
Now the fist thing you need to do for this and any othe photo edit is to open the photo image and save it with a different name, so that you don't lose the original content. One tip would be to always save your image to the desk top so you will always be able to find it at at later date.
In Elements you will want to open up the layers palette then use your mouse and drag the photo background layer to the copy icon, thereby creating a new copy of your photo on a different layer; click on "Target" and select this new layer and press SHIFT+CTRL+U to remove the color from the digital photo. Finally hit CTRL+L to bring up the "Levels" dialog.
I also like to hit "Auto" to see what my image looks like before I begin to play around with it. If you want to darken shadows you can adjust the Black slider more to the right; conversely, to brighten the highlights you can move the White slider to the left; when this is finished you can click OK.
With this layer still selected and in black and white I want you to choose the eraser tool with a soft round brush set at round 5-10% opacity and about 30 pixels breadth. Keeping in mind that you are trying for a soft, transparent look begin to edit the areas where you would like to see a bit more color. Always remember that you can use the Undo, or Ctrl+Z button at anytime if you accidentally erase something you wanted to keep.
Finally I want you to increase your brush size to enhance the areas where you would like more color and then you can either merge all of the layers or simply flatten and then save your beautifully hand-tinted digital photo.
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