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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 - Second Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 - Second Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a raster graphics editor for entry-level photographers, image editors, and hobbyists. Updated and improved to cover the latest features of Photoshop Elements 2020, this second edition includes focused coverage of Adobe's new AI-powered features that are designed to make the editing process more efficient, creative and fun. This book takes you through the complexities of image editing in easy-to-follow, bite-sized chunks, helping you to quickly recognize the editing challenge at hand and use suitable tools and techniques to overcome it. You’ll start by learning how to import, organize, manage, edit, and use your pictures in a format that’s designed for creative photography projects. Throughout this Adobe Photoshop Elements book, you'll discover how to fix different photographic problems using an extensive repertoire of commonly applied solutions. Common processes such as applying artistic effects to creative projects, custom image makeovers, processing images for social media, and other file export methods will also be covered. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned about the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2020, and how it is designed not only for photographers who’d like to dip their toes into the editing world, but also for those wanting simple but effective ideas on how to expand their creativity while remaining time-efficient.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Using the Find menu

The Find menu is perhaps the most useful tool in the arsenal of search functions found in Elements. With this drop-down menu, you can search through the following categories:

  • Metadata (including camera and shooting details)
  • Media Type (such as photos, video, audio, projects, items with audio captions, and so on)
  • History (including Imported on, Emailed to, Printed on, Exported on, Shared Online, Used in Projects, and so on)
  • Caption
  • Filename, including the following:
  • Version Set
  • Stack
  • Untagged items
  • Visual Search (including visually similar photos and videos, objects appearing in the photo, or duplicate photos)
  • Saved Searches

You can even search for an image using terms such as Items with Unknown Date or Time, Untagged Items, or even Items not in any Album:

In the preceding screenshot, I searched for images that were visually similar to the one I originally picked. The result was immediate...