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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)

Window menu

In this drop-down menu, you'll find references to all of the panels inside Photoshop Elements. These include the following:

  • Window>Actions An Action is a pre-recorded editing process that can be played back on single or multiple files. Actions are recorded in Photoshop CC so not all Actions copied (from online resources) will work in Elements.
  • Window>Adjustments Useful and easy Quick Edit special effects and tonal fixes.
  • Window>Color Swatches Useful for setting, saving, and reusing text and painting colors.
  • Window>Effects Excellent bunch of preset effects—inspirational (F2).
  • Window>Favorites Drag often-used features here so that they can be found and used again quickly without having to hunt through all the menus.
  • Window>Filters – Too many to mention here—hundreds of filters and creative possibilities (F3).
  • Window>Graphics –...