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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)

Gradient tool

Another greatly underrated tool in Elements is the Gradient tool. The photographers among you that have used a graduated resin filter over the front of the lens from manufacturers such as Cokin, Lee Filters, and B&W will know what I am talking about.

You place the filter over the lens and position the darker part over the sky, with the clearer section at the base over the landscape. This effectively reduces the sky's exposure, thereby balancing the often large exposure disparity that leaves us with an overexposed upper half and an underexposed lower half of the frame. Graduated filters come in 
different colors (such as orange to enhance sunsets or sunrises).

This tool in Elements comes with 16 default gradients and eight gradient subcategories, giving you a choice of 83 in total. I have only ever 
used two or three.

Step one: Here's a nice shot, complete with two figures silhouetted by a bright sunset. Click...