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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)

Brush and Pencil tools

To get the best from this application, you really need to be adept at drawing with the mouse or a graphics tablet. These devices are perfect for artists and designers because they substitute a pen for the mouse—the same size and shape as a real pen (see the section on graphics tablets in this chapter).

Elements has three types of brush tool—the Brush Tool, the Impressionist Brush Tool, 
and the Color Replacement Tool:

  • The Brush Tool looks and works like an electronic version of a paint brush: choose a color from Color Picker, pick a brush tip from the 300+ on offer, set the size and opacity, and draw. Instead of using Normal, you can paint in a different Blend Mode, depending on how you'd like the brush pixels to blend into the layer pixels. With skill and the right brief, artists can create impressive-looking artworks.
  • Impressionist Brush is fun because it (sort of) clones your image and turns it into large, fuzzy brush...