Adobe Elements 10 Tutorials - The Way To Create Projects

By David Peters

Elements makes it simple to create attractive, professional looking projects to display your photographs. Choose from the preset themes and layouts or create your own designs from scratch-as you put together a variety of creations from greeting cards and Photo Books to animated slide shows an internet-based albums.

Use your own pictures in personalized DVD or CD jackets and labels, collages, calendars, and digital flip books. Combine photos, text, animation as well as music and narration, to produce fantastic multimedia creations.

Whether you are creating your own coffee table book, sharing your photos online, or creating customized gifts for family and friends, Elements will aid unleash your creativeness. You can customize yourself with the Create mode by stepping you through some basic strategies and sample projects:

* Using artwork from the Content library * Making a customized greeting card * Working with layers, layer designs, and effects * Telling a story with a stylish Photo Book * Fitting text to a project

Adobe Elements offers a huge library of design themes, layout templates, and clip graphics which make it easy to produce eye-catching projects using your personal photographs. Show loved ones how much you care with elegant customized greeting cards; preserve and share your valuable memories in a sophisticated Photo Book or mix photographs and souvenirs to tell an evocative story in an artistic Photo Collage.

Therefore let's finish of today's Elements lesson, and start to create our 1st project. Before you start working on this lesson, ensure that you have installed the program on your PC from the application CD.

1. Start Elements and click on Organize in the Welcome Screen. If the Backup/Synchronization dialog box appears, click Remind Me Later.

2. Check the name of the active catalog in the lower left corner of the Organizer window. If your CIB Catalog is already loaded, you can skip step to step three. If another catalog is currently loaded, select File - Catalog, select your CIB Catalog in the Catalogs list, and then click Open.

3. Select File - Get Photos & Video - From Files And Folders. In the Get Photos And Videos From Files And Folders dialog box, find and select your folder. Disable the option Get Photos From Sub-folders and all of the automatic processing options; then, click on Get Media.

4. In the Import Attached Keyword Tags dialog box, choose your keyword, and then click OK. Click OK to close other alert dialog box.

How do you begin a new project like a greeting card or Photo Book?

To make a project, select a project option on the Create tab in the Panel Bin by clicking one of the project buttons or selecting from the More Options menu. The Create tab presents page previews and navigation controls, and offers access to layout templates, backgrounds, frames, pictures and effects.

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