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If you are looking for an easy to learn photo editing software program you can’t go wrong with Adobe Elements. It is simply one of the most user friendly photo editing programs on the market today and allows you to edit your digital photos quickly and easily. Regardless if you are looking to do either a full photo fix or a quick job you can do it all with this great program.

When manipulating your photos you are essentially playing with the pixels that your photo is made up of. Pixels are the smallest components or your image and when put together create what you are looking at. Tools included inside Elements allow you to alter various shades of individual pixels and even remove any unwanted pixels if you desire to remove different aspects. For example, if want to backgrounds, including shadows, all you need to do is change the color of the pixels within the shadow image. You can choose to remove the pixels complete or you can change the color so that it blends in with other parts of the photo.

You can also use tools including the smudge, blur and sharpening tools to manipulate the pixels. Here you are able to fix problems of over-exposure or under-exposure and adjust the pixels so they blend in with surrounding pixels. The sharpen tool will allow you fix blurred images, in essence increasing the number of pixels which will enable the photo to become clearer.

Another great tool is the burn tool which allows you to play with the color of the pixels. You may want to do this in order to change the appearance by giving your image better color tones. Typically this is used if your photo has been over exposed, i.e. if the photo has parts that are too light, you can use the burn tool to even out the tones. On the flip side, if your image is too dark you can use the dodge tool which will reduce the tone of the pixels in the targeted area to a lighter one.

It is important to know that while it appears that you are manipulating the photo as a whole what you are doing is editing each individual pixel that your the photo is made up of. Depending on how many mega-pixels your camera shoots at you may have hundreds of thousands of pixels in your image. By editing the individual pixels you are creating a unique photo out of an ordinary one. The nice thing is that using Adobe Elements you can edit your photos like the pro’s do without needing all the complicated training that other programs require. So go ahead, play with pixels the Elements way.

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