Photoshop Elements 2 Lasso     Used for making selectionsFound at #2 in the Toolbar diagram at left ...

Photoshop Elements 2 Marquee Tools     Used for selecting rectangular and elliptical areasFound at #1 in the Toolbar diagram at left ...

Photoshop Elements 2 Toolbar         1) Rectangular marquee   1a) Elliptical marquee2) Lasso   2a) Polygonal lasso   2b) Magnetic lasso3) Selection Brush4) Custom Shape   4a) Rectangle   4b) Rounded Rectangle   4c) Ellipse   4d) Polygon   4e) Line   4f) Shape Selection5) Paint bucket6) Brush7) Eraser   7a) Background Eraser   7b) Magic Eraser8) Blur9) Sponge10) Dodge11) Clone stamp   11a) Pattern stamp12) Hand13) Foreground color14)...

     If you are going to be using Elements for anything more than quick edits of snapshots, you're going to need (and love) the clone stamp tool. This tool used...

The first Pre-Beginner tutorial walked you through a very simple image edit sequence and skimmed over other important features. This lesson will expand a bit on how to make selections,...

Now that you've survived a basic picture edit, I'll circle back and cover some of the useful, but slightly more complicated features of Elements.Get the File Browser open again. If...

If you barely know how to turn on your computer, are nervous and unhappy the entire time you're using it, break out in a cold sweat every time you get...

When you move something with the move tool, it always snaps back to where it was before.Change your color picker from Apple to Adobe. Go to Preferences > General...

There are a lot of little things in Elements and Photoshop that can really ruin your day. Here's a list of the most common ones. Click on the topic to...

1. Make a new image (File > New or Ctrl+N) with 770px in width and 400px in height: 2. Create a new layout (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N)....

1. Create a new image (File > New or Ctrl+N): 2. Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N). 3. Press D on your keyboard to reset...

1. Make a new image (File > New or Ctrl+N) with 500px in width and 400px in height: 2. Create a new layer (Layer > New > Layer or Shift+Ctrl+N)...