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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

Create shaped objects for titles

You can use the drawing tools in the Monitor panel to create a variety of shapes, such as rectangles, ellipses, and lines. After you draw a shape, you can apply a style to it, and change the fill and stroke attributes.

Shape tools

A. Rectangle B. Ellipse C. Rounded Rectangle D. Line 

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. In the Monitor panel, select a shape tool.
  3. Do any of the following:

    • Shift-drag to constrain the shape’s aspect ratio.

    • Alt-drag to draw from the center of the shape.

    • Shift+Alt-drag to constrain the aspect ratio and draw from the center.

    • Drag diagonally across the corner points to flip the shape diagonally as you draw.

    • Drag across, up, or down to flip the shape horizontally or vertically as you draw.

  4. To apply a style to it, click a style object in the Style section of the Adjust panel.

Add images to titles

When adding an image to a title, you can add it as a graphic element or place it in a box to become part of the text. Premiere Elements accepts both bitmapped images and vector‑based artwork. Vector-based art is rasterized to a bitmapped version in the Monitor panel. By default, an inserted image appears at its original size. Once inserted into a title, you can modify the image’s properties (such as scale) as you would other objects.

note: Unlike text and graphic objects, images you add to titles aren’t embedded as part of the title. Instead, the image references the source image file in the same way that items listed in the Project Assets panel refer to source audio and video files.

Place an image into a title

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. In the Monitor panel, do one of the following:

    • Right-click/ctrl-click in the Monitor panel and choose Image > Add Image.

    • Choose Text > Image > Add Image.

    Premiere Elements imports the image at the size at which it was created.

  3. Drag the image to the desired location in the Monitor panel. If necessary, you can adjust the size, opacity, rotation, and scale.
    Note:

    Images acquired with a digital still camera tend to be much larger than a video project’s screen size. To resize an image without distorting it, Shift‑drag the image’s corner handle or use the Text > Transform > Scale command.

Place an image in a text box

When you place an image in a text box, the image flows with the text as though it were a text character. It can have the same attributes as other characters, such as strokes.

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. In the Adjust panel, click either the Horizontal Type Tool or the Vertical Type Tool.
  3. In the Monitor panel, click to create a text box where you want to insert the image.
  4. Do one of the following:

    • Right-click/ctrl-click the Monitor panel and choose Image > Insert Image Into Text.

    • Choose Text > Image > Insert Image Into Text.

  5. Select an image and click Open.

Restore an image to its original size or aspect ratio

  1. If necessary, double-click the title in the Expert view timeline to open it in the Monitor panel.
  2. Select the image and do any of the following:

    • Choose Text > Image > Restore Image Size.

    • Choose Text > Image > Restore Image Aspect Ratio.

    Note:

    If you want to use an image or moving video as a background only, superimpose the title on a clip of the image or video.

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