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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)

Recompose tool

Another composition helper is the Recompose tool. Personally, I think its results can be very hit and miss, almost as if Adobe has bitten off more than it can chew on.

We all have snaps in our libraries where we might wish the composition to be slightly different – people a bit closer to each other, landscapes a bit wider, or formats changed to a square shape, for example. The Recompose tool sets out to provide the solutions to these problems. Follow these steps to learn how to use it:

  1. First, open the image in question.
  2. Note that you have two types of brush available: green and red. The green paintbrush is for preserving the shape of objects, while the red paintbrush indicates that the selected pixels can be deleted:
  3. I like the empty openness of this scene, but want to try to stretch it further to give the image more of a panorama look:
  4. I need to add more to the right-hand side of the file using the Canvas Size feature. I wasn't 100...