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  1. Adobe Premiere Elements User Guide
  2. Introduction to Adobe Premiere Elements
    1. What's new in Premiere Elements
    2. System requirements | Adobe Premiere Elements
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Guided mode
    5. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    6. GPU accelerated rendering
  3. Workspace and workflow
    1. Get to know the Home screen
    2. View and share auto-created collages, slideshows, and more
    3. Workspace basics
    4. Source Monitor and Program Monitor
    5. Preferences
    6. Tools
    7. Keyboard shortcuts
    8. Audio View
    9. Undoing changes
    10. Customizing shortcuts
    11. Working with scratch disks
  4. Working with projects
    1. Creating a project
    2. Adjust project settings and presets
    3. Save and back up projects
    4. Previewing movies
    5. Creating video collage
    6. Creating Highlight Reel
    7. Create a video story
    8. Creating Instant Movies
    9. Viewing clip properties
    10. Viewing a project's files
    11. Archiving projects
    12. GPU accelerated rendering
  5. Importing and adding media
    1. Add media
    2. Guidelines for adding files
    3. Set duration for imported still images
    4. 5.1 audio import
    5. Working with offline files
    6. Sharing files between Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Photoshop Elements
    7. Creating specialty clips
    8. Work with aspect ratios and field options
  6. Arranging clips
    1. Arrange clips in the Expert view timeline
    2. Group, link, and disable clips
    3. Arranging clips in the Quick view timeline
    4. Working with clip and timeline markers
    5. Sequence settings
  7. Editing clips
    1. Reduce noise
    2. Select object
    3. Candid Moments
    4. Color Match
    5. Smart Trim
    6. Change clip speed and duration
    7. Split clips
    8. Freeze and hold frames
    9. Adjusting Brightness, Contrast, and Color - Guided Edit
    10. Stabilize video footage with Shake Stabilizer
    11. Replace footage
    12. Working with source clips
    13. Trimming Unwanted Frames - Guided Edit
    14. Trim clips
    15. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    16. Artistic effects
  8. Color Correction and Grading
    1. Color Correction and Grading (LUTs)
    2. Color Correction Panel
    3. Color Correction Settings
  9. Applying transitions
    1. Applying transitions to clips
    2. Transition basics
    3. Adjusting transitions
    4. Adding Transitions between video clips - Guided Edit
    5. Create special transitions
    6. Create a Luma Fade Transition effect - Guided Edit
  10. Special effects basics
    1. Effects reference
    2. Applying and removing effects
    3. Create a black and white video with a color pop - Guided Edit
    4. Time remapping - Guided edit
    5. Effects basics
    6. Working with effect presets
    7. Finding and organizing effects
    8. Editing frames with Auto Smart Tone
    9. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    10. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    11. Best practices to create a time-lapse video
  11. Applying special effects
    1. Use pan and zoom to create video-like effect
    2. Transparency and superimposing
    3. Reposition, scale, or rotate clips with the Motion effect
    4. Apply an Effects Mask to your video
    5. Adjust temperature and tint
    6. Create a Glass Pane effect - Guided Edit
    7. Create a picture-in-picture overlay
    8. Applying effects using Adjustment layers
    9. Adding Title to your movie
    10. Removing haze
    11. Creating a Picture in Picture - Guided Edit
    12. Create a Vignetting effect
    13. Add a Split Tone Effect
    14. Add FilmLooks effects
    15. Add an HSL Tuner effect
    16. Fill Frame - Guided edit
    17. Create a time-lapse - Guided edit
    18. Animated Sky - Guided edit
    19. Select object
    20. Animated Mattes - Guided Edit
    21. Double exposure- Guided Edit
  12. Special audio effects
    1. Mix audio and adjust volume with Adobe Premiere Elements
    2. Audio effects
    3. Adding sound effects to a video
    4. Adding music to video clips
    5. Create narrations
    6. Using soundtracks
    7. Music Remix
    8. Adding Narration to your movie - Guided Edit
    9. Adding Scores to your movie - Guided edit
  13. Movie titles
    1. Creating titles
    2. Adding shapes and images to titles
    3. Adding color and shadows to titles
    4. Apply Gradients
    5. Create Titles and MOGRTs
    6. Add responsive design
    7. Editing and formatting text
    8. Align and transform objects
    9. Motion Titles
    10. Appearance of text and shapes
    11. Exporting and importing titles
    12. Arranging objects in titles
    13. Designing titles for TV
    14. Applying styles to text and graphics
    15. Adding a video in the title
  14. Disc menus
    1. Creating disc menus
    2. Working with menu markers
    3. Types of discs and menu options
    4. Previewing menus
  15. Sharing and exporting your movies
    1. Export and share your videos
    2. Export settings
    3. Sharing for PC playback
    4. Compression and data-rate basics
    5. Common settings for sharing

Apply color to title objects

Using the Color Properties dialog box, you can specify the color of each object or group of objects you create in the Monitor panel. The Color Properties dialog box includes controls for setting the color and type of an object’s stroke, fill, and shadow. The Gradient menu includes options for how a fill or stroke color is applied. Depending on the gradient type you select, additional color stops may appear so that you can pick different colors for the different parts of the gradient.

The Color Properties dialog box

A. Color picker B. Color spectrum C. Gradient stop controls 

You can save a combination of color properties as a style. Styles appear as thumbnails in the Style tab of the Adjust panel. You can easily click them to apply them to objects. Using styles helps you maintain consistency across multiple titles in a project.

Set the fill

You can use the Color Properties dialog box to set an object’s fill. An object’s fill property defines the area within the contours of the object. The property defines the space inside a graphic object or within the outline of each character of a text object.

Note:

The Fill box in the Color Properties dialog box is enabled only if you‘ve applied a preset style from the Style tab in the Adjust panel to the object. These styles contain fills and strokes, which you can edit.

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. Select an object that contains a fill. (If necessary, click a style in the Style tab of the Adjust panel to apply it to the object.)
    Note:

    All preset styles in Title Styles contain a fill except the one in the upper-left corner of the panel.

  3. In the Text tab of the Adjust panel, click the Color Properties button.
  4. In the Color Properties dialog box, select the Fill box.
  5. From the Gradient menu, select a gradient type for your fill.
    Note:

    If you select Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, or 4‑Color Gradient, color stop controls appear. You can click each stop and select a separate color for each.

  6. Do any of the following to set the color:

    • To make the fill transparent, click the No Color box.

    • To set the color to 100% white, click the white box.

    • To set the color to 100% black, click the black box.

    • To set the hue, click the color you want in the rectangular color spectrum, and then specify the exact color by clicking in the color picker above the spectrum.

    • To set the color numerically, set the R, G, and B values by dragging the value or clicking and entering a number.

Set the stroke

You use the Color Properties dialog box to set an object’s stroke, or outline if you’ve applied a style containing a stroke.

Note:

The Stroke box in the Color Properties dialog box is enabled only if you‘ve applied a preset style from the Style tab in the Adjust panel to the object.

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. Select an object that contains a stroke. (If necessary, click a style in the Adjust panel.)
    Note:

    All preset styles in Styles contain a stroke except the one in the upper-left corner of the panel.

  3. In the Adjust panel, click the Color Properties button or right-click/ctrl-click the object and choose Color Properties.
  4. Select the Stroke box.
  5. From the Stroke menu, select the stroke you want to use. (Not all strokes have multiple Stroke options.)
  6. For Stroke Weight, specify the stroke’s thickness, in pixels.
  7. From the Gradient menu, select a gradient type for your fill.
    Note:

    If you select Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient, or 4‑Color Gradient, color stop controls appear. You can click each stop and select a separate color for each.

  8. Do any of the following to set the color:

    • To make the stroke transparent, click the No Color box.

    • To set the color to 100% white, click the white box.

    • To set the color to 100% black, click the black box.

    • To set the hue, click the color you want in the rectangular color spectrum, and then specify the exact color by clicking in the color picker box above the spectrum.

    • To set the color numerically, set the R, G, and B values by dragging the value or clicking and entering a number.

Gradient types

To access gradient types, select a title object in the Monitor window, and then click the Color Properties button in the Adjust panel.

Solid

Creates a fill of uniform color.

Linear Gradient, Radial Gradient

Linear Gradient creates a linear, two‑color gradient fill. Radial Gradient creates a circular, two‑color gradient fill.

The beginning and ending gradient colors are displayed, respectively, in the left and right boxes, or color stops. Select a color stop prior to choosing its color. Drag the color stops to adjust the transition smoothness between the colors.

The Angle option (available for Linear Gradient only) specifies the angle of the gradient. The Reverse option reverses the color spots. The Repeat option (available for Radical Gradient only), specifies the number of times to repeat the gradient pattern.

4-Color Gradient

Creates a gradient fill composed of four colors, with a color emanating from each of the object’s corners.

Four color stops specify the color that emanates from each corner of the object. Select a color stop prior to choosing its color.

Bevel

Adds a beveled edge to the background. The object and bevel colors are displayed, respectively, in left and right color boxes. Select the box you want to adjust prior to setting its color. The Balance option specifies the percentage of the bevel that the shadow color occupies.

Eliminate

Creates a transparent fill that casts no shadow. If the object has a stroke, the stroke may be visible.

Ghost

Creates a transparent fill that casts a shadow. Specify shadow options in the Color Properties dialog box.

Tip: Eliminate and Ghost work best with objects that have shadows and strokes.

Create drop shadows

You can add a drop shadow to any object you create in the Monitor panel. A drop shadow can make an object appear three‑dimensional and help make it stand out from the background image. For example, adding a drop shadow to text can make it more legible when superimposed on a complex background image.

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. Select an object, and then click the Color Properties button in the Adjust panel.
  3. In the Color Properties dialog box, select Drop Shadow.
  4. Set any of the following:

    Angle

    Specifies the angle of the shadow in relation to the object.

    Distance

    Specifies the number of pixels that the shadow is offset from the object.

    Softness

    Specifies how blurry or sharp the shadow appears.

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