Click the Layer Style palette tab to bring it to the front. If you can't find the palette, choose Window Show Layer Styles. If the palette is in the palette...

Layer MasksElements 2 users, you can't use the shortcut key method that worked in Elements 1, but you can easily add a layer mask by pressing and holding the...

Photoshop Elements 2 Layers Palette   Used for creating and controlling layersDefault location is open, and grouped with layer styles...

The tool options that appear on the Option bar when you select a tool can be saved in a preset and stored in the Tool Presets palette for easy access....

Disabling Plug-ins Each time you launch Photoshop, it loads plug-ins and presets into memory. The problem is that you may or may not need many of the plug-ins during the...

Artistic FilteringUse the History palette to undo the Poster Edges filter and the Blend Mode change. Then, with the background copy layer selected in the Layers palette, choose Filter >...

Photoshop Elements 2 Zoom Tool   Used to change the image's magnificationFound at #26 in the Toolbar diagram at left ...

Clear the last style, by clicking on the Default Style button, and try the Molten Gold style followed by the Brushed Metal style. Again, you have to apply them in...

Layer Masks Here we are, then. All set with our mask on the layer where we need it. A lot of trouble, but you'll see, when you work with...

  Photoshop Elements 2 Layer Styles   Adds special effects a selected layerDefault location is open, and grouped with Layers ...

Learning Effects Before we apply another effect, click on the first state in the History palette before the Asphalt effect, and then choose Clear History from the History palette...

Setting Preferences Photoshop ships with factory settings, known more popularly as Preferences, sometimes shortened to Prefs, that you have the option of accepting or rejecting and, in their place, specifying...