For the next part of this lesson, I used the photograph of a rose, shown below. You may use this if you like, though any image will do.     If you...

Redeye Removal With the selection active, click on the New Adjustment Layer button at the bottom of the Layers palette (the black and white circle), and choose Hue/Saturation...

Photoshop Elements 2 Sharpen Tool   Used for applying sharpening with a brushFound at #22 in the Toolbar diagram at left ...

     Elements has a fairly limited number of styles in its Layer Styles palette, but by combining them in different ways, you can make them go a lot farther.     I'm going...

Simulated Alpha ChannelsBefore attempting to paint close to the flower's edges, zoom way in so you can see exactly what you're doing. You can either click on the image...

Photoshop Elements 2 How To Palette   Instruction for commonly performed tasksDefault location is in the palette well ...

Learning Effects      Before you start, look at your History palette, and make a mental note of what the last state showing is named. We will be coming back to...

     Since I was happy with the Levels adjustment I had, and the clone corrections looked good, I wanted to merge these layers together to make subsequent steps less complicated....

Redeye Removal      Use the paintbrush tool to paint with black on your image around the edge of where the redeye used to be (when you go into mask...

Photoshop Elements 2 Smudge Tool     Used for smudging pixelsFound at #23 in the Toolbar diagram at left ...

The Channels palette acts as a sort of container for the pixels in a layer. Each time you activate a layer; the channels associated with the layer automatically come into...

Simulated Alpha ChannelsWith the mask corrected, and the flower layer's visibility turned back on, the image looked as shown below. The last step is to grab the completed alpha...