Friday, December 15, 2006

How to Make Printed Creation Content for Photoshop Elements 5

Photoshop Elements 5 includes pre-designed layouts for a number of creation types and a new Artwork and Effect palette where users can select from a variety of content to add to their projects. This content consists backgrounds, frames, themes, and clip art graphics. Users of Photoshop Elements 5 can add new artwork, effects, and layouts to the program. But first, someone has to create the content for them! This begs the question: How does one create original content for Photoshop Elements 5?
Fortunately, Wayne Jiang, Adobe's content designer for Photoshop Elements 5, has created a detailed, 17-page document on how to create and test content for Photoshop Elements 5.

About the Document:

This document describes the steps to create and test content for printed creation in Photoshop Elements 5.0. This includes creating layouts, themes, frames, backgrounds, and graphics. The target users for this document are graphic designers who want to create content for Photoshop Element 5.0.

Recommendations & Requirements:

The designer who wants to create Printed Creation Content for Photoshop Elements 5.0 must have a working knowledge of:

* Photoshop CS2 and its new features, especially smart objects (which is used to create frames, layouts, and themes)
* Adobe Illustrator CS2
* Photoshop Elements 5.0 Editor, especially the printed creation and content browser which is used to test all the content (Photoshop Elements 5.0 is only available for Windows).