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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)

Adjust Color for Skin Tone

Getting the skin tones in a portrait 100% correct is always tricky. Factors such as memory (the photographer's), computer monitor calibration, and printer calibration can all play a role in not producing the best result. The Adjust Color for Skin Tone tool can help you produce the best color—and what's more, it's simple and fast to use.

Step one: Choose the Adjust Color for Skin Tone tool (Enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust Color for Skin Tone) and follow the on-panel instructions. It's simple to use.

Step two: Click on the skin tones, and if it corrects the color nicely, either click OK and save, or make further tweaks using the Tan, Blush, and Ambient Light sliders. Although your subject might look like they have a slightly tanned complexion, the skin tones in the image are a blend of different colored pixels—from yellow, to ochre, brown, grey, and even red (inset), with a specific but complex...