A Project in Photoshop Elements

1
A Project in Photoshop Elements

• Aim of the project is to
• Download 4 pictures (Presidents of the United
  States) from American Memory website
• Resize the images
• Put everything together in one file.

2
Download John Adams

• This picture of John Adams can be downloaded
  from American Memory website by going to search
  page
• You can narrow down the search by selecting
  photos prints
• Here is the link for this picture
• http//memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a50000/3a5
  3000/3a53200/3a53276r.jpg

3
Open John in Photoshop Elements

• Open this picture in Adobe Photoshop Elements by
  choosing Open in the File menu

4
Reduce Johns Size

• The image size will be large
• To reduce the length and width of the image,
  choose Image Size in the Image menu as shown

5
Reduce Johns Size

• This is the default size of the downloaded
  image.
• Its height can be reduced to 5 inches as shown
  in the next screen.

6
Reduce Johns Size

• When its height is changed to 5 inches, other
  fields changes automatically
• Hit ok

7
Save John

• This is the picture we will get after resizing
• Save the picture by choosing save from File
  menu

8
Download George Washington

• Download another picture
• Here is the link
• http//memory.loc.gov/ndlpcoop/ichicdn/n0556/n0556
  28.jpg

9
Crop George

• We need to take his picture alone. So we need
  to cut the picture alone.
• Select Rectangular Marquee Tool from the tool
  box as shown

10
Select George

• With that tool select the picture alone.
• The selected portion will appear within dotted
  lines

11
Crop the Image

• Choose Crop from Image menu as shown
• Save the image.

12
Comparison

• This is the original picture
• This is the image after cropping

13
Now Do Abraham and Thomas

• In a similar way picture of Abraham Lincoln and
  Thomas Jefferson are downloaded and they are
  resized
• Here are the links
• http//memory.loc.gov/pnp/det/4a20000/4a25000/4a25
  900/4a25929r.jpg
• http//memory.loc.gov/service/pnp/cph/3a10000/3a10
  000/3a10200/3a10227r.jpg
• Next we need to put all the 4 pictures in one
  image.

14
Create the Master File

• Create a new image file by choosing New from
  File menu
• This window will appear
• Choose the Preset Sizes to
• 1024 x 768

15
Drag and Drop

• Simply drag the images into the new file as
  shown
• Arrange the pictures as shown in the next slide

16
Final Image

• This is the Final picture having the four
  Presidents of the United States.
• Save this image file.