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April 2006 1) An Important Brush Article 2) Bubble Brushes 3) E-Mailing Photos With Photoshop Elements 4) Common Photoshop Errors 5) Disabling the Adobe Photo Downloader ----------------------------------------------------- An Important Brush Article ----------------------------------------------------- I've added another tutorial to the site section on Photoshop Brushes. It's quite a large article, but it's full-to-bursting with things most people miss concerning the Photoshop Elements brush tool. Sit down with a cuppa, and take a look here: http://www.easyelements.com/brush-tool.html Talking of brushes... ----------------------------------------------------- Bubble Brushes ----------------------------------------------------- In last month's newsletter I asked which brushes you most wanted to see on the site. The winner, (although it was very close!), was the topic of Bubbles, and the new brush set has been added to the site. This was probably the most challenging subject so far, but hopefully you'll find the end result useful. Be sure to check out the advice on using them found on the download page, you'll get a lot more out of them that way. Go grab both the brush set and advice here: http://www.easyelements.com/photoshop-bubble-brush-set.html One extra note: Several people have noted that they use Photoshop Elements 1 or 2, and cannot use the brush set files that I've produced so far. I'm going to attempt to do something about this over the next month, but if you have any comments or opinions on that topic, I'm very interested at the moment. Let me know via my contact page: http://www.easyelements.com/contact.html ----------------------------------------------------- E-Mailing Photos With Photoshop Elements ----------------------------------------------------- Someone E-Mailed me with this question this month: Hi Robert, One thing I'd really like to know is whether it's possible to send a picture via E-Mail without the blurb about Photoshop Elements at the bottom. It's certainly a good question, and one that I had to investigate quite thoroughly to resolve! Firstly, some background for those who haven't used this feature before. In the Photoshop Elements Organizer, if you click on the 'File' menu, and then the 'Attach to E-Mail' menu item, a new dialog will appear. You can also get there by clicking the 'Share' button, and then 'E-Mail', using the toolbar. In this new window, you can choose to attach pictures to an E-Mail, or insert them right into the body using Photo-Mail. You can also send the mail via Outlook or Outlook Express, or using the Adobe E-Mail Service, which sends the mail on your behalf. This isn't the right place to explain all the features, but by default the pictures are sent via Outlook Express using Photo-Mail, and whatever Stationary you define by clicking the 'Stationery & Layouts' button. When you click the button to send the E-Mail, an Outlook Express window opens with the E-Mail in it, ready to be sent. It's certainly true that when using Outlook Express, the E-Mail body can't be edited, so it's impossible to remove the tagline that Photoshop inserts at the bottom of the E-Mail. But can this be changed? In short ... no. Not really. Or rather, not normally. I've look high and low, read every bit of documentation I can find, scoured tutorial sites and instruction manuals alike. It's pretty much unanimous that there's no way to stop Elements inserting the line, and that it can't be changed in the E-Mail. I did find ONE way to avoid it however. It's far from perfect, but it works if you want it to. By clicking the 'Forward' button, in Outlook Express, a new E-Mail message is opened ready to be sent to new contacts, containing the E-Mail that Photoshop generated. This time you can edit the message, and by some careful deletion, you can remove the Photoshop Elements tagline. Then the message is ready to send to any recipients you like. Of course, this raises another question ... If using Photoshop Elements to E-Mail photos does not remove the hassle from the process, why use it at all? If you prefer, a picture can be inserted into the body of an E-Mail message simply by creating a new message in Outlook Express, and clicking Insert - Picture using the menu system. ----------------------------------------------------- Common Photoshop Errors ----------------------------------------------------- Another site section is on the way now, and I have several in mind. One distinct possibility however is a set of articles on common Photoshop Elements error messages. If you have any persistent errors that have been bugging you lately, let me know via my contact page, and hopefully I'll be able to help resolve the problem. http://www.easyelements.com/contact.html ----------------------------------------------------- Disabling the Adobe Photo Downloader ----------------------------------------------------- One last tip for this month's newsletter. This one concerns the Adobe Photo Downloader, present in Photoshop Elements version 3 and higher. Having already discussed the tendency of Photoshop Elements to add things you didn't really want, this seems like a pertinent article. The Adobe Photo Downloader opens every time you connect an external device to your computer, for example a digital camera via a USB lead. The problem is, it also opens every time you connect for example an MP3 player, or other types of USB Mass Storage device, even if they contain no pictures! To disable the Adobe Photo Downloader, click Edit - Preferences - Camera or Card Reader in the Photoshop Elements Organizer window. There, you must un-tick the check box that reads 'Use Adobe Photo Downloader to get photos from Camera or Card Reader'. That way the Photo Downloader will no longer pop-up when you connect devices. To read the entire article, and find out more about this topic, visit the article here: http://www.easyelements.com/disable-adobe-photo-downloader.html ----------------------------------------------------- That's it for this issue! I hope YOU found YOUR newsletter useful! Please do contact me with any requests for the May edition of Elements Express, as all these requests go into the making of my next newsletter. Any other comments or requests for this newsletter? Just let me know via my contact page here: http://www.easyelements.com/contact.html Until next time! Kind Regards, Robert Redwood. |
