Lessons
Class Introduction
02:57 2Understand How Elements Works
05:53 3Importing Images
11:31 4Workspace Basics: Organizer
14:47 5Workspace Basics: Editor
16:12 6Tonal Adjustments in Quick Fix
09:59 7Color Adjustments in Quick Fix
07:58 8Apply Black & White Filters
04:01Sharpen an Image
03:33 10Fix Red Eye & Pet Eye
03:05 11Straighten an Image in Quick Fix
03:01 12Explanation of Photoshop Elements
08:23 13Basic Cropping in Quick Fix
14:13 14Guided Edit Overview
02:46 15Guided Edit: Tilt Shift
04:07 16Ways to Save Files
14:37 17Layers & Simple Selections
20:47 18Combine Images with Layers
15:34 19How to Use Layer Styles
15:11 20Make Selections with Layers
11:05 21Make Selection with Lasso
10:43 22Compositing with Multiple Images
17:11 23Refine Edge Selection on Image
19:52 24Use Refine Edge on Images
12:40 25Create Gradient in Image
02:35 26Gradient Map Differences
42:38 27Options for Saving
11:40 28Brushes Overview
15:12 29Creatively Use Brushes
07:19 30How to Change Brush Settings
07:17 31Use Shape Tool with Brushes
08:22 32Work with Multiple Shape Layers
08:53 33Finish Image with Custom Shape Tool
03:21 34How to Load Brushes into Elements
04:59 35Add Layer Style to Image
04:46 36Clip Image to Shape & Use as Template
05:49 37Retouching Overview
04:11 38How to Use Content-Aware Fill
05:47 39How to Use Content-Aware Move Tool
09:38 40Spot Healing Brush on Blemishes
08:53 41Remove Frown Lines with Retouching
05:51 42How to Remove Tattoos
20:32 43Remove a Gap in Teeth
03:52 44How to Whiten Teeth
07:17 45Adjust Facial Features
03:29 46Working with Type Overview
23:17 47Match Type for Image
12:11 48How to Manipulate Type Layers
08:02 49Create Postcard with Type
16:08 50Add Type on a Path
16:59 51Organizing Images in Elements
16:03 52Add Keywords to Images
19:49 53Smart Tags Overview
07:51 54Using Albums in Elements
24:52 55Places Workspace Overview
06:20 56Use Event Tags on Images
04:56 57Timeline for Image Organization
02:45 58Recommended Workflow
07:26Lesson Info
Remove a Gap in Teeth
We're gonna fix the gap in her teeth, just because it's a learning opportunity, not because there's anything wrong with having a gap. Madonna has a gap in her teeth, right? Geena Davis, maybe, too. My son has a little gap. So nothing wrong with the gap, but we're just going to do this because I wanna show you how you can do this, because it's a technique you can use for other things as well. So we've got this layer up here which was fixing the skin lines. This time I'm gonna go make a selection around each tooth. So I'll use the Quick Selection brush that we've been using for many things, and I'm just gonna click and select just this. And I think it's not gonna work because I'm on a blank layer. So let's target that background layer, where the tooth is, and click to select it. Now it went a little too far, remember we can fix that by holding down ALT or Options, selecting that, and I'm gonna copy this into it's own layer now. So if you remember from yesterday, we can copy the contents ...
of a selection into it's very own layer by pressing Command or Control + J. And I like to say because we're jacking it up (laughs). So here we've jacked up a copy. Now we don't really see it because it's so tiny here in the Layer panel preview, but we know it's there. We also don't see it here because it's directly on top of itself. So let's rename this. Left Tooth, I guess? It's her right tooth, but it's our left, so we'll call that Left Tooth, and I'll go back to the background layer and click to select this tooth. And I'll do the same keyboard shortcut, Command or Control + J, and this is the right tooth. Alright here. Okay. So here's what we can do, this is so easy that it's almost surprising. It's almost like, what! All we're gonna do is transform the teeth to be slightly wider and close up this gap. That's it. So I'm gonna press Command or Control + T on this right tooth layer, zoom in so we can see better. And then I'm really just gonna take this handle and drag halfway across like that. And commit it. We'll switch over to the left tooth layer, Command or Control + T, bring up Transform, and again, drag this way, so we're just reducing the gap right there, and commit. And I think that's good, we could really finesse this as much as we want, or maybe we could do Command or Control + T, we could right click, and we could choose Distort if I really wanted to pull this all the way over. If you bring up Free Transform and then you right click in there, you get some other options for transforming. In this case, Distort would allow me to grab just this corner and I could distort the tooth to really change the shape of it, but perfectly close that gap, I suppose, if I wanted to. And then when I accept the transformation, we see that it is indeed gone. So that actually looks, I think, pretty real. If I needed to, if the tooth somehow changed the lip line up here, and was overlaying the lip, I could just add a layer mask and paint with black to paint that back away. So in this case I don't think we need that, but it would be available if we wanted to.
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Ratings and Reviews
Patricia
Just watching this class live. It's my first class with Khara; she is a wonderful teacher, moving at a steady speed but always being careful to let us know what she's doing in the moment. I would classify myself as intermediate in terms of PSE but I've learned lots of little things that will make further use even easier and more fun. I really appreciated her descriptions of the difference between PS and PSE and her encouragement in using Photoshop Elements and all that it can do.
Lilygram
I have only been able to watch portions of this class but every single part that I have watched has been technically clear and inspiring to me. Based on this experience and the thorough, 58 item list of lessons, I will surely be buying this class soon! Thank you Khara and Creativelive for making a class on this topic and making it be super!!
Ven S
Great course. You can tell she knows the programme inside out.