By David Peters

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.

With Adobe Elements you will be basically manipulating the pixels as pixels are the smallest components of an image. With Elements you will get access to tools that will allow you to change the shades of individual pixels and even delete pixels to remove undesired parts on an image. With Elements you will be able to remove undesired backgrounds such as shadows and all this is done by just changing the color of the pixels within the shadow image. There are many ways of removing undesired backgrounds one of them being the deleting of pixels and another being changing the color of the pixels such that it blends in with other components of the image.

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 popular tool is the burn tool which is used to manipulate the color of the pixels in order to change the appearance by giving your image better color tones. So, if your image has been over exposed such that the image 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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