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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)

Overview: editing RAW files

RAW files produce the best photo-editing results because they contain about four times the image data of an 8-bit JPEG file. But this extra size can be annoying as it uses up more hard drive space, files can't be emailed, and, initially, they look rather drab compared to a JPEG file. That said, some quick editing in Elements' native Camera RAW utility will usually produce an image that looks a lot better than most JPEGs.

One aspect of RAW files that might confuse beginners is that they can only be opened/processed using the Camera RAW utility, which is quite separate from the Quick/Guided/Expert edit modes. It's a bit like having a specialist application within the parent application, Photoshop Elements Photo Editor. If you double-click any RAW file icon, it has to open in the Camera RAW window within Elements rather than opening inside the Quick, Guided, or Expert workspaces (double-clicking any JPEG, TIFF, PNG, or PSD file will open it...