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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)

File Formats

JPEG format options:

Baseline is the most used compression option. Baseline Optimized produces a slightly smaller saved file using a different compression algorithm. Progressive is used specifically on larger web images. Rather than waiting a long time for the image to load, Progressive slowly displays the image, building it up with a number of scans (set through the menu). This was designed a long time ago when the fastest modems available were 28.8 kb/s.

PSD (Photoshop) format:

No specific options for this excellent file format. Photoshop files are perfect if you are working with extras - masks, selections, multi-layered edits, text, and more. It's larger than a JPEG but smaller than a TIFF file.

TIFF format options:

Similar to the Progressive option in the JPEG panel, many of the options in this panel are redundant because the internet is lightning fast and storage drives are incredibly affordable. I generally use the None option for...