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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)

Merging layers

Apart from the physical buttons and menus on the Layer panel, if you right-click the tiny icon to the right of the trash can, a pop-out menu offers the same features in the Layers menu at the top of the main screen, including the ability to integrate one (active) layer with the one underneath it, which is a process called Merge Down. (Note: Once saved as a Photoshop file, and closed, you'll not be able to access those layers again.)

Merge Visible is slightly different as it flattens all the visible layers into one layer. The more useful Flatten Image command merges all the layers into one layer. If you try to save a multi-layered Photoshop format file (.psd) as a JPEG file, watch the Layers panel as Elements automatically flattens the layers, saves it as a JPEG file, then unflattens everything as it returns to its former multi-layered .psd format state, leaving you with the original .psd file, plus a flattened .jpg file.