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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 - Fourth Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 - Fourth Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Managing thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results has now become a must-have skill for bloggers, influencers, all social media users, and photography enthusiasts. Photoshop Elements 2022 has all the right tools to help you manage your growing multimedia assets and significantly boost your creative output. This fourth edition is updated with Elements 2022's latest features, including Adobe's AI-powered tools that perfectly complement its entire creative workflow. Each chapter is designed to help you get the most from your image files in a simple, easy-to-follow way. You'll find out how to add significant visual improvements to your projects using brilliant AI-driven single-click edits or through more complex manual adjustments, all depending on your skill level and requirements. The book is packed with clear instructions to guide you effortlessly through the hundreds of processes, tools, and features in Photoshop Elements 2022. You'll cover everything from developing your organizational skills through to creating remarkable images using photos, text, graphics, downloadable content, animation, and a range of fantastic AI-driven features. By the end of this Photoshop Elements book, you'll have learned how to leverage the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2022 with confidence.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Panel Functions

  • Elements has many panels, each providing essential help with certain aspects of the editing process. Some refer to the Quick Edit mode only (such as Adjustments), while others only appear in the Expert mode (such as the Info panel).

    Here's an overview of what each panel offers:


    • Adjustments: This provides sliders to adjust the Exposure, Lighting (contrast), Color, Balance, and Sharpness settings.

    • Effects: Provides the user with a great range of looks—automated effects recipes that can be applied to an image with a single click; it now includes 40 new "artistic" looks.

    • Textures: Elements has a wide range of assets, such as surface textures, that, once clicked, are added to the file as an overlay. Good for backgrounds, web pages, and 
so on.

    • Frames: Used mostly for graphic artwork. Click on an asset thumbnail in the panel and it downloads it from www.adobe.com, before automatically resizing and applying itself to the...