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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)

Image Modes

It's a feature found in all photo-editing applications but one that rarely gets a mention. Most photographers work in RGB mode—the color mode used by both the camera and the computer monitor. Professionals working in print (with Photoshop CC) will inevitably work 
in CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) mode. We don't have this in Elements.

Most photographers will only ever encounter RGB mode, but occasionally might encounter a file that doesn't edit properly, so it pays to check its mode status. Choose Image>Mode>RGB Color (menu on the left) to convert it to a full-color file, or choose the 8-bit conversion option, when needed (Elements cannot handle high-bit-depth files—they must be converted to 8-bit in order to work properly). Other modes under the Image>Mode menu include Grayscale, Indexed Color..., and Bitmap....

Grayscale: RGB files have three color channels, while grayscale has one: grey. When you...