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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 - Third Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 - Third Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Managing thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results is now a must-have skill for online bloggers, influencers, vloggers, social media users, and photography enthusiasts. Photoshop Elements helps you to manage this easily and boost your creative output. This third edition is updated with Elements 2021’s latest features and focuses on Adobe's AI-powered features along with the entire creative workflow. Each chapter is designed to help you get the most out of your image files in an easy way. You’ll learn how to add significant visual improvements to your work using no more than a few one-click edits with AI-driven features and manual adjustments. The book is filled with useful instructions to guide you seamlessly through the often complex processes, tools, and features in Photoshop Elements. Finally, you’ll cover everything from developing your organizational skills through to creating remarkable special effects, complex text, image combinations, and eye-popping visual techniques using both AI-driven features as well as manually operated tools. By the end of this Photoshop Elements book, you'll have learned how to leverage the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2021, and use them to greatly improve your photo editing and image retouching skills.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

The Create and Share menus

When digital photography became mainstream 20 years ago, there were precious few things you could do with your images other than looking at them on low-resolution screens—digital printing was in its infancy, as were reliable computers, the internet, and editing software. It took programs such as Photoshop Elements to introduce us to the concept of doing something more than just looking at images on a screen. It began with a few creative projects and is now driving a huge range of activities, ranging from book printing to slideshows, scrapbooking, and custom stationery.

Effective automation: Creative projects are an excellent way to execute relatively complex actions with ease. In the screenshot here, all I did to complete this layout was find eight different photos, open them, then choose Photo Collage from the Create menu. The application automatically arranged the files according to the layout chosen in the right-hand panel and it...