Moving Overlays in Photoshop Elements – Instructions

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Overview of How to Create Moving Overlays in Photoshop Elements:             Moving overlays in Photoshop Elements 2022 and later let you add an animated overlay, graphic, or frame to a photo. You can then export the animated photo as an MP4 or animated GIF. To create moving overlays in Photoshop Elements, open the photo to
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Moving Photos in Photoshop Elements – Instructions

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Overview of How to Create Moving Photos in Photoshop Elements:             Moving photos in Photoshop Elements let you take a photo and add a simple pan, zoom, or rotate effect to create a moving photo you can export as an animated GIF. To create moving photos in Photoshop Elements, open the photo to turn into
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The Selection Brush Tool in Photoshop Elements – Instructions

A picture of a user making a selection with the Selection Brush Tool in Photoshop Elements.
Overview of How to Use the Selection Brush Tool in Photoshop Elements:             The Selection Brush Tool in Photoshop Elements gives a more natural feel of painting on a canvas when making a selection. With this tool, you can either paint the pixels you want to select or the pixels you don’t want to select.
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The Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop Elements – Instructions

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Overview of How to Use the Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop Elements:             The Quick Selection Tool in Photoshop Elements makes pixel selections based on adjacent pixel color and texture similarity when you click and drag in an image. This can make creating precise selections with this tool difficult, depending on the edges within the
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The Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop Elements – Instructions

A picture of a user making a selection with the Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop Elements.
Overview of How to Use the Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop Elements:             The Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop Elements lets you select a consistently colored area or region in an image without manually tracing its outline by hand. To use the Magic Wand Tool in Photoshop Elements, click the “Magic Wand Tool” button in
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The Magnetic Lasso Tool in Photoshop Elements – Instructions

A picture of a user making a selection with the Magnetic Lasso Tool in Photoshop Elements.
Overview of How to Use the Magnetic Lasso Tool in Photoshop Elements:             The Magnetic Lasso Tool in Photoshop Elements is a great selection tool that lets the selection’s border “snap” to the pixilated edges of an element you trace in an image. This tool helps you select objects with complex, irregular edges set against
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The Polygonal Lasso Tool in Photoshop Elements – Instructions

A picture of a user making a selection with the Polygonal Lasso Tool in Photoshop Elements.
Overview of How to Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool in Photoshop Elements:             The Polygonal Lasso Tool in Photoshop Elements lets you draw straight-edged selections to make irregular polygonal selection shapes. To use the Polygonal Lasso Tool in Photoshop Elements, click the “Lasso Tools” button in the Toolbox. In the Tool Options Bar, be sure
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Layer Colors in Photoshop Elements – Instructions

A picture of a user applying layer colors in Photoshop Elements to a new layer.
Overview of Layer Colors in Photoshop Elements:             You use layer colors in Photoshop Elements to assign color tags to layers to better organize them. For example, you could color all adjustment layers using the “Red” color, so you can then easily spot adjustment layers in the Layers panel. This lets you organize layers using
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