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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 Photomerge Scene Cleaner

Elements started out offering the Panorama stitching utility on its own, but within a few versions, the engineers over at Adobe came up with a number of other very useful applications for Photomerge, including the ability to remove people and moving objects from a scene with absolute ease.

How can you do this? We have all visited places in our travels that are very beautiful but, when we get there, it seems there's barely any standing room because, of course, everyone else wants to visit that same place too:

Busy or clean? The Scene Cleaner is an efficient automated copy and paste feature that's designed to produce less populated shots with the least amount of hassle.

Like the process of shooting panorama sections to stitch later, the trick with the Scene Cleaner is to remember to shoot the raw material while you are still on location. However, unlike panorama sections, the idea here is to position yourself quietly...