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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)

Adjustment Layer Masking

Adjustment Layers are also all about masking - let's take a look at how this works:

Step one: Click the layer mask, the white rectangle thumbnail, once to select it. A light blue (highlight) line will appear around that white mask rectangle - it's now the active part of the Adjustment Layer. Note: If you try to 'paint' into the adjustment part of the layer, Elements will prompt: This layer must be flattened before proceeding. Flatten the layer? Choose Cancel, then click the white thumbnail to activate the mask.

Step two: Choose the Brush tool from the Tool Bar (press B or click the brush icon in the Draw section of the Tool Bar). Make sure that the brush tip that you've chosen is suitable for the process (that is, hard or soft brush, large or small).

To ensure that you get black paint (and not some other color), press D (for the default color setting), which is black in the background and white in the foreground. (Press the...