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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)

The View menu

Before you start any design project, it's important to have layout and line-up tools at your disposal. That's mostly the job of the View menu. The menu repeats some of the keyboard shortcuts we've already mentioned elsewhere in this book, notably the Zoom in and Zoom out functions (Ctrl/Cmd + + and Ctrl/Cmd + -, respectively). These are two of the most important keyboard shortcuts because, as an image editor, you need to constantly go in close to retouch, then zoom out to see the global effect, then go in close again, then zoom out again, on a regular basis. Alternatively, you can use Ctrl/Cmd + 0 (zero) to fit the image to the main screen—another handy shortcut.

Zooming to Print Size will show you how large an image will print. If you have adjusted the file resolution so that it matches the output requirement (in the Image Size panel), this should provide accurate feedback on the finished display size.

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