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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)

Makeover example four

In this example, we are going to see how easy it is to smooth over a person's skin tones, basically making them look 100% better using nothing more than a feature new to Elements 2020 called Smooth Skin.

Here's how easy it is to get a great look in only a few seconds:

  1. Open the image.
  2. Find the Smooth Skin feature under the Expert Edit | Enhance menu.
  3. Add the desired amount of smoothness to the portrait.
  4. Use the Before and After slider to judge how much smoothness to apply to the picture, then click OK and your portrait is done (see the following screenshots for image comparisons).

Because this tool employs Adobe's artificial intelligence algorithms, something that's way above my pay grade, I can only sit and watch this amazing feature produce impressive results. Exactly how it works remains a mystery to me, although it's clear that the feature first analyzes the picture to check whether there's a face...