Adobe Photoshop Elements is similar to the full version in a lot of ways, but a bit easier to learn. If you are just learning Photoshop you may want to experiment with some of the easier features to learn at first. Here is how you can add text to a photograph using Adobe Photoshop Elements.

Open the program and open your photograph within the program by going to "File," and then "Open." Locate your image where it is saved, and then click "OK."

Look in your tool box for the tool that is represented by the letter “T”. Click on it. This is your text tool. Mouse over to your image and click on it where you want the text to be. Note, you can move the text later if it is not in the right spot.

Select the font and size of your text from the horizontal tool bar across the top of the program window. You will see options with pull-down menus for font, size, centering, etc.

Look for the color square at the bottom of the tool box. Click directly on it to select a color of the text.

Type directly on the image whatever you want it to say. Save your image.

Go back to the tool box and click on the selection tool, which looks like an arrow. With the arrow selected you can click on the text and move it around the image until it is where you want it to be. Save your image again.

Here's a really cool video on HDR imaging in Photoshop Elements 6.

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a photo-editing software program offering multiple tools to fix flaws in digital or scanned photos. These tips apply to Photoshop Elements 3.0. There are two workspaces for editing your photos: "Standard Edit" and "Quick Fix." Quick Fix offers many of the basic photo fixing tools in Photoshop Elements and lets you make lighting and color adjustments with just one click.

Select the photo that you want to retouch in the "Photo Browser." Click on the camera icon and choose the photo's location from the drop-down menu. Click the "Edit" button and choose "Go To Quick Fix." With your photo open in "The Editor," click the "Quick Fix" button.

 Use the Quick Fix tools to zoom, move or crop your photo or to fix red eyes. These tools work the same way in Quick Fix and Standard Edit. The Zoom tool sets the magnification of the preview image. The Hand tool moves the image around in the preview window if the entire image isn't visible.

Use the Crop tool to remove unwanted parts of an image. Drag with the tool across the image to select the part you want to keep, and then press "Enter" to delete the unwanted sections. The Red Eye tool removes the red eye reflection in flash photos of people and the green or white eye in pets. Drag the tool around an eye you want to fix.

Use "Smart Fix" to adjust lighting and color. Smart Fix corrects overall color balance and improves shadow and highlight detail. The slider allows you to vary the amount of adjustment. To apply this command, click the "Auto" button.

Make adjustments in "Levels" by adjusting the overall contrast of an image; in "Contrast" you can adjust the overall contrast of an image without affecting its color; in "Color," adjust the contrast, color and neutralizing midtones. Click the "Auto" button to apply these commands.

Try "Lighten Shadows." Drag the slider to lighten the darkest areas of your photo without affecting the highlights. Use "Darken Highlights" by dragging the slider to darken the lightest areas of your photo without affecting the shadows, and use "Midtone Contrast" to adjust the contrast in the middle tonal values.

Experiment with other Quick Fix options such as "Saturation," which makes colors more vivid or muted; "Hue," which shifts all colors in an image; "Temperature," which makes colors warmer by adding red or cooler by adding blue; "Tint," which adds more green or magenta; and "Auto Sharpen," which sharpens your photo. Sharpening is the last "fix" you should use on your photo.

Step1: Open photo in Adobe Photoshop Elements

Step2: Use the Zoom tool (circled in red at the left) to fill the screen with the teeth you will be working on.

Step3: Polygonal Lasso tool settings We will use the Polygonal Lasso tool, set the settings to match the picture at left

Step4: Selecting with the Lasso tool use the Lasso tool to select teeth. (The lasso tool works by starting at one point and doing quick click → release → drag → click → release → drag and clicks all the way around the object you want to select.)

Step5: Layer in the Menu at the top Click on "Layer" → "New Adjustment Layer" → "Hue/Saturation"

Step6: New Layer box New Layer box will pop up, just press "OK"

Step7: Hue Saturation Menu on Yellows Hue Saturation Menu will pop up on the right. On the Hue Saturation Menu change to yellow and use the sliders to adjust the color of the teeth. Click "OK"

Step8: White Teeth! You now have perfectly white teeth!

Photoshop is widely considered the best image-editing software in the world today by a long way, and it is not difficult to see why. Photoshop offers incredibly advanced effects which would previously have taken days or weeks to accomplish, and reduces them to the level of a few settings and a few clicks.

Although it is expensive, today it is considered an essential program for anyone working with graphics, whether it’s in print, on the web, or even in television and movies. This has led to a huge number of cheaper competitors (who have been largely ignored), as well as rampant piracy of Photoshop itself. To counter this, a cheaper, simpler version of Photoshop called Photoshop Elements is now available, which is especially good for beginners.

How did Photoshop get into this dominant position? Well, development started in 1987, with the first release in 1990. Since then, Adobe has been improving the software continuously, constantly taking advantage of advances in hardware power. Even now, to get the best performance out of Photoshop, you should buy as much RAM as you can afford.

It is not just Adobe’s efforts that have got Photoshop where it is today, however. The program’s plugin architecture has allowed there to be are all sorts of plugins available for more advanced work, including some plugins that actually cost more and do more than the program itself. In this way, Photoshop is often used much like Windows, as a platform – and it would be a huge effort to get these plugins to run on any other software, making competitors effectively useless to anyone who relies on a plugin.

Today, you can get Photoshop for Windows and Mac OS (both OS 9 and OS X). If you want to use it on Linux, however, you will have to use Crossover Office, Codeweavers’ program that allows some Windows software to run on Linux, but it will be quite slow

Cheak this really cool Adobe Photoshop Elements video tutorial out it's showing you how to use the Sponge Tool.

How to crop and rotate a photograph for a pleaseing composition in minutes when your using Adobe Photoshop Elements

As everyone knows backing up is one of the most important things you should be doing, but not many people do it. I’ll get straight to the point here, when your working with Adobe Elements you should be backing everything up, either with an external hard Drive, or a flash memory stick or to disc. You must also remember that it’s only a matter of time before your PC crashes.

So today I’m going to run you through the very quick process of backing your images to disc with Adobe Elements.

First I would recommend that you back up to DVD rather than a CD. Your first step is to select Organizer’s File Menu in the top right hand corenr and then choose Back Up Catalog to CD, DVD or Hard Drive.

You’ll than be given a dialog box, you are given some more options here, you can either do a full back up (you should do this option if it’s your first time) or you can choose Incremental Backup (you only choose this after your first backup because this option only backs up your new changes from your last backup). So if it’s your first time make sure you choose “Full Back Up”.

The last step is very simple and straight forward. All you have to do now is click Next and your destination settings screen will appear, here you are telling Elements to backup your stuff. Now it’s up to you if you choose to backup to CD, DVD or external hard drive. Like I said before we are going to be doing this with a blank DVD, so you just need to insert your DVD and choose that drive from the list. Make sure you give your DVD a name and then click the Done Button and that’s it.

This is a really cool video which shows you how to use selection toool within Adobe Elements 5 / 6. The video runs for around 8 minutes but it's well worth watching.

Here's a really cool and very quick tutorial showing you have to use Hue/Saturation in Elements 6