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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)

Merging layers

Apart from the physical buttons and menus on the Layer panel, if you right-click the tiny icon to the right of the trash can, a pop-out menu offers the same features in the Layer menu at the top of the main screen, including the ability to integrate one (active) layer with the one underneath it, which is a process called Merge Down. (Note: Once saved as a Photoshop file, and closed, you'll not be able to access those layers again.)

Merge Visible is slightly different as it flattens all the visible layers into one layer. The more useful Flatten Image command merges all the layers into one layer. If you try to save a multi-layered Photoshop format file (.psd) as a JPEG file, watch the Layer panel as Elements automatically flattens the layers, saves it as a JPEG file, then unflattens everything as it returns to its former multi-layered .psd format state, leaving you with the original .psd file, plus a flattened .jpg file.