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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)

Online – web and blogging

Online display is typically set to 72 dots per inch (dpi), which is a standard resolution for viewing images online. Since this is a fixed resolution, the more pixels there are in the file, the larger, physically, it will be displayed. However, most websites (and blogs) have a finite size for displaying images, which is impacted by the design intent, the speed of the internet connection, and storage space, but, ultimately, by the company offering the service. I use Google Blogger, which is free. It offers several image display sizes, topping out at only 640 pixels wide for the largest image view.

So, if the resolution (number of pixels) in your file exceeds the number that's needed to display an image at a fixed size and resolution, it's essentially pixels wasted, and might slow the display on screen significantly (and potentially switch your audience off). If you use a commercial site, such as Google Blogger, the file size is automatically...