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Photoshop Elements 6 can help you to apply new stylized colors to an image. First, open a color image you want to work with. Then go to the menu and select "Enhance," then "Adjust Color" and click "Remove Color." This produces a rather washed-out grayscale image. To improve this a bit, click on the "Adjustment Layer" icon and select "Levels." In the dialog that opens, drag the right slider to the left until it reaches the large curve. The image should look better.
Now click on the "New Layer" icon. Select a color from the color swatches, select the brush tool, and paint over some elements of the picture, such as hair or leaves. Now change the "Blending Mode" to "Color." This make the painted layer look transparent. Then lower the "Opacity" of the layer to 50% or so. Continue in this way to color in the entire image. - If you have a photograph of a young woman that you will be using in a promotional poster, ad or brochure, you might decide that you would like her lips to look a bit more lustrous and shiny. This is easily accomplished using Photoshop Elements. First click on the "New Layer" icon, select the layer and name it "Lips." Now select the "Pen" tool and create a path outline around the lips in the image. Then right-click on the outline and select "Make a Selection." Use the "Paint Bucket" too, to fill the selection with black. Select the "Blending Mode" and change it from "Normal" to "Softlight." Then drop the "Opacity" of the layer to about 80%. The result is lips that really stand out in the image.
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Photoshop Elements can help you add a tattoo to an image of yourself or someone else. First you need to get an image of a tattoo you can use. The image needs to be of the design against a one-color background, and the tattoo itself cannot share the color in the background. Open both the image you want to apply the tattoo on and the image of the tattoo itself. Select the "Magic Wand" tool, make sure that in the options "Contiguous" is off, click on the background color and delete it. Now drag the tattoo image onto the other image.
Select the "Move" tool and turn on "Show Transform Controls." Go to the outside of one of corners of the bounding box and rotate the tattoo to the position you want in relation to the person in the image. You can also grab the corner and adjust the scale up or down. Click "Enter" to apply the change. Now, to make it look more like it's actually on the arm, go over to the "Layers" panel and change the "Blending Mode" to "Multiply." Then drop the "Opacity" of the layer to about 70%. Lastly, select "Filter", then "Blur" and click "Gaussian Blur." Enter a very low number, turning the preview on and off to judge it. When you have a number that looks good, click "OK."
