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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)

The Content-aware Move tool

A tool that might help fine-tune your compositional skills is the Content-aware Move tool. Essentially, this is a large-scale Healing Brush, but instead of clicking repeatedly over an image hoping that it can copy, paste, and blend pixels over a problem area, this tool works 
on a much larger area. Draw around the object you want to move, drag the entire object 
to a new position, and release it – Elements will do the rest.

Here, the rest means assessing the pixels around the target site and then blending them into the background canvas. Some examples work much better than others.

Elements provides some control over the Healing action (via a slider), plus Add or Subtract modes, for the initial selection process.

After it has performed, however, I find I have to fine-tune the results with Clone Stamp or Healing Brush to tidy up some of Elements' visual mistakes. That said, the Content-aware Move tool is not a bad feature...