I'll probably have more to say about these other tools in future articles, but I really can't see any reason not to include them here anyway so use them in good health. In addition to Curves, I also made actions to run a few other things Adobe left out of Elements including using the Channel Mixer to get excellent black and white conversions of color images, adding a Layer Mask to a layer, and using Selective Color adjustments.
And I'd like to share them with you here for free. So, I made a few, starting, naturally enough, with Curves. If you poke around in how the Styles and Effects bin works, adding your own isn't that difficult.
It turns out that, in at least some cases, if you write an Action in Photoshop CS, you can convince Elements to run it without too much coaxing. Unfortunately, Elements does not provide direct support for Actions, but all the great image effects in the Styles and Effects palette bin are actually nothing more than Actions.
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One of the fastest ways to add functionality to the full version of Photoshop is through the use of Actions to automate a series of steps. Authors such as Richard Lynch have seriously explored the possibilities in prior versions of Elements so I decided to see just what I could make Elements 3.0 do. The more I played with it, the more convinced I became that many of the features Adobe wanted you to believe they had left out were in fact only buried and inaccessible from the regular user interface. After rebates, it wasn't expensive and I wanted to see just how close to the "real thing" it actually was. I use Photoshop CS normally, but picked up a copy of Elements 3.0 when it was released, in part out of curiosity.
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If you are running the newer Elements version 4 or 5 and would like to add Curves, you will need the free SmartCurve plug-in instead. The Earthbound Light Solution works great in Photoshop Elements versions 1 though 3 on both Windows and Mac OS.
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