Adobe Elements For Beginners Retouching And Correcting Images

As all digital photographers know digital cameras can take some amazing photos, but sometimes your photos just fall short of being perfect. Elements has all the tools necessary to make your photo perfect.

Okay, let's get started and let's get to grips with most of the everyday tools you'll be using.

Levelling Your Image By Cropping; Even professional photographers don't get all their photos correct the first time. In fact I would say that over 95% of the use of Photoshop or Elements is to correct their images, so you're not alone with this. Once you have your photos in a folder you'll notice that some of your photos might have looked better if you'd have shot it differently. Either it might have been better zooming in more, or you need to crop your photo, or even rotating your photo.

What you'll also find is that most digital cameras have a ratio of 4:3 which means; (4 units wide by 3 units high) the standard print size is 6x4, which is a ratio of 3:2 (3 units wide by 2 units high). You can alter your image or photo in the aspect ratio dialogue.

If you need to crop your image or photo to a specific size you can. Just open up the aspect ratio dialogue and to do this you need to click on image > crop. If you look at the top you'll see a width and a height box and you can work these in inches or centimetres. For inches just type in "in" and for centimetres just type in "cm".

Personally I never enter anything in the resolution box, the reason being Elements automatically re-samples your image or photo. As you can see in the image above I have cropped and sized my image to fit aspect ratio of 2.5 x 2 in.
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