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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)

10 ways to open a photo for editing

You can choose one or more ways to get an image from the Organizer into any of the three editing modes to start creating magic:

  • Right-click any thumbnail in Organizer and choose Edit with Photoshop Elements Editor.
  • Select a thumbnail in Organizer, then select the Photo Editor option from the Editor button popup at the base of the page (inset, on the right).
  • Click/select a thumbnail in Organizer, then drag it directly into the edit window (into Quick and Expert modes).
  • Click the Open tab (top left-hand side in Expert), then navigate to the image files. Double-click the filename/icon.
  • Choose File>Open recently edited file in the Quick, Guided, and Expert edit modes.
  • Drag an image (icon) from a Windows/Mac Finder window into the Quick or Expert edit window.
  • Use the File>Open menu command.
  • Use the Ctrl/Cmd + O keyboard shortcut.
  • Click/select a thumbnail in Organizer, then press Ctrl/Cmd + I (opens in Expert...