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Adobe® Photoshop® Elements lessons for Educators
Created by educators for educators, these step-by-step, project-based lessons present some great ways to use Photoshop Elements in the classroom.

This set of fun lessons involves projects geared toward holidays and special occasions, but the lessons in each project can be adapted to a variety of digital imaging projects. Bring the magic of easy-to-use Photoshop Elements into the classroom — and have some fun.

All Occasion Gift Box
Learn how to position selections and use shapes, filters, and layer styles in Photoshop Elements to create decorative images.
(PDF: 465k)

Any Occasion Self-Mailing Card
Rotate images and get practice on many tools in the Photoshop Elements toolbox.
(PDF: 455k)

April Fool’s Day Spinner
Use the Photoshop Elements toolbox and layers capabilities to create a visual illusion.
(PDF: 423k)

Beautiful America Photo Gallery
Learn basic image correction and Photoshop Elements custom shapes and layer styles for framing pictures.
(PDF: 613k)

Black History Month Poster
Create a page layout that can work either as a printed poster or as a web page.
(PDF: 487k)

Chinese New Year Foldout Book
Discover the Photoshop Elements type and layout capabilities.
(PDF: 563k)

Election Day Reminder Card
Make a flyer using custom text, templates, and designs with various Photoshop Elements tools.
(PDF: 442k)

Fourth of July Fireworks Panorama
Create textures with the Photoshop Elements impressionist brush tool, and combine images to build a panorama.
(PDF: 501k)

Groundhog Day Flip Book
Practice using Photoshop Elements layers and a master file that create perfectly aligned animation cells to make an image "move."
(PDF: 446k)

Halloween Mobile
Discover how you can expand an image area to duplicate and rotate an image, and learn to use the paint tools.
(PDF: 332k)

May Day Basket
Copy from one image to another and learn how to make templates and designs.
(PDF: 323k)

Mother’s Day or Father’s Day Card
Use tools, shapes, and layers for text, image alignment, and printing.
(PDF: 688k)

Presidents’ Day Comic Book
Apply digital color to original line drawings and lay out pages in Photoshop Elements.
(PDF: 613k)

Springtime Window Decoration
Learn to use custom shapes, gradients, and filters in Photoshop Elements as you create a "stained glass" window.
(PDF: 633k)

St. Patrick’s Day Card
Learn how to use painting techniques to create the appearance of 3D.
(PDF: 514k)

Thanksgiving Paper Doll
Learn how the Photomerge function can turn a series of images into a string of paper dolls.
(PDF: 517k)

United Nations Day Album
Use Photoshop Elements image retouching functions, selection tools, shapes, and layers to assemble a book. A sample template is included in the tutorial folder.
PDF: 398k)

Valentine’s Day 3D Pop-up Card
Make a creative, die-cut card in Photoshop Elements using shapes as a template.
(PDF: 958k)

Winter Holiday Calendar
Learn to use Photoshop Elements layers to align two sets of images, and to print independent layers without creating separate documents.
(PDF: 1.3M)

Women’s History Month Fan
Use separate image elements on a single master file, and learn how to rotate image elements and resize the image area.
(PDF: 426k)
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