Chapter 12. Adding Special Effects to Your Photos

Photoshop Elements 8 has a wide variety of tools for adding special effects to your photos, ranging from cool text to highly stylized filters that can be applied to all or only part of an image. Because it's impossible to cover all of the possibilities here, my goal is to introduce the main concepts and open the door to creative exploration. After you finish this chapter, be sure to go back and experiment with some of the tools you learn about. Knowing how to use them will add an extra dimension to your photography, enabling you to take your photos in previously unimagined directions.