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If you only want to edit photos, Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 is probably your best bet. It is much cheaper than Photoshop and has almost as many features, if not a few more to do with photos, albums, printing, collages etc.

I bought a magazine the other day called ” Photoshop Elements Essentials” and it had a 30 day trial of Photoshop Elements 6. Included were a number of tutorials which you may also be able to get at Lynda.com

I just checked this and you cannot access the free tutorials. But you can get them from Learning Photoshop Elements.

Today, I tried the Extractor tool. I’d been trying this on Photoshop without much luck.

Choose a photo which would look even better if only one feature was highlighted onto a white background instead of the background you currently have, like sport shot.

This is a shot from an Australian Open Tennis championship which I took.

Now to extract just an image of Sam,

1. Select Image> Magic Extractor
2. It took a while to do this and I didn’t get a perfect result, but you use the Foreground Brush to select Sam and the Background Brush to select the background. Cover as much of both areas as you can. Then go to Preview. Photoshop Elements will extract the image for you.
3. If you are not happy with the results you can use the Point Eraser Tool.
Result

Personally I am a bit of a purist when it comes to photos, but recently I’ve had photos rejected from the sites I upload to and I’ve realized that everyone is photoshopping their photos now.

Here is a tutorial on highlighting a section of the photo and making the rest decolourized. This may work for say a fruit tree, where you want to highlight the strong colour of the fruit, but not the tree.

I started with a sample picture from Photoshop 7. As you will see there is no particular reason to alter this image, but I am using it as a demonstration.

I am wanting to highlight one of the balloons and leave the rest desaturated.

1. Open Photoshop and open the image you want to work with

2. Duplicate your photo and work on the copy

3. Select the magnetic lasso tool.

4. Set it like this: Feather, 0; width, 10 pixels; Edge Contrast, 10%; Frequency, 57. Tick anti-alias. You should already be in New selection mode.

5. Go to Edit>Preferences>Display & Cursors and in the Other Cursors select Precise and OK.

6. Zoom in if need be.

7. Left-click on the part of the photo you wish to highlight for the coloured part. Trace around the edge carefully and left click again exactly where you began. You will see little dots all around the item.

8. Go to Select> Inverse. Now you will see everything selected except the item.

9. Go to Image> Adjust>Desaturate.

10. Deselect and save.

Here is the finished product.

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I’m no expert on this but I did read the advice on the word press forums. Firstly they suggest you should back up all of your blog. Now if your server has a back up feature that would be great. But my server used to have a back up service and now no longer does, so I downloaded all my files via FTP to my hard disk. Takes ages.

There is a back up plugin available from word press.

I then uploaded the latest word press version 2.3.3 and followed the install instructions only to find that there were errors and there was nothing on my page. I forgot to upload a  theme, although there is always a default theme in word press.

So I went on a few forums and found out about this .htaccess file which you can’t access on FTP but you can on your server’s file manager. I didn’t delete this file the second time round, even though by then I had backed up my posts manually by copying and pasting.

I tried again. I deleted all my files, except .htaccess from my server’s file manager and it took a second rather than hours. I uploaded the new version of word press and although there were errors (I don’t know why) it worked. I uploaded the new compatible theme and all the posts were still there. No need to copy and paste every post.

But there was much to do. All the plugins disappeared. I uploaded those I wanted and some worked and some didn’t. My new theme has tags and I had to go back and add those in. Some images were still there but others weren’t and my ability to upload pictures had disappeared, so I tried uploading to wp-content/uploads. Still no success. I found out one has to make writable ‘wp-content’ and ‘uploads’ and then it worked. So I had to go back and upload my images.

My widgets were still there. Don’t ask my why.

My You tube video embeds had distorted the format again so I had to re-insert them. To do this I followed my own instructions

All the categories were still there too.

Now someone tells me that in a few days version 2.5 will be released from word press. This time though it will be much easier so I thought I’d share my experience.

The other thing to be mindful of is that although themes usually work on upgrades of word press, some plugins won’t. There is a bit of a lag between the developers of plugins and word press.

Any php file you have altered in the past will have to be redone, so I had to add my Feedflare code and my navigation code again.

If you had a better experience that can make it all a lot easier, it would be terrific to hear from you. Although my blog is working, I still do not understand why or what I should have done.