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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)

Moving Photos

In Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021, you'll find a few neat developments—many are connected with Adobe's continued development of artificial intelligence or AI. This is there to make the often-complex retouching processes appear easier to control—and in the case of the Object Removal, Adjust Facial Features, Open Closed Eyes, and the Move and Scale Object features, it works pretty well. Here's another one that I shall try to illustrate here, even though the end product is a video. Moving Photos has bridged the gap between stills and moving pictures by producing this cool GIF maker.

Find a picture with a strong subject, open it in the Moving Photos feature (Enhance>Moving Photos), double-click the type of animation from the menu (inset, on the left), and sit back for Adobe to do its magic. And magic it is.

We have all seen the effect used in advertising campaigns and in some horror film genres in the eighties—where...