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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2022 - Fourth Edition

By : Robin Nichols
Book Image

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)

Controlling Brush behavior

Though Elements is mostly a photo editing program, many of its tools rely on the use of a brush—Dodge, Burn, Healing, Clone, and Smart are all examples of brush-based tools.

But retouching brush tools are not the only brushes available. Elements contains a wide range of "real" (digital) brushes used to paint, sketch, draw, and illustrate, either by brushing over an existing picture or by starting from scratch with a blank canvas.

And if that's not enough, Elements allows the user to change the characteristics of each brush—the shape, orientation, opacity, color, pressure, and appearance, all of which we'll look at here.

Which brush? On top of the expected hard and soft brush tips (the top two lines in the screenshot here), Elements provides a number of other brush characteristics, which includes Spacing—if you are drawing and the line looks a bit lumpy, this is possibly because the...