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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)

Basic drawing techniques

Now, let's learn a few drawing basics that anyone can achieve, starting by using a neat point-to-point drawing technique to create a perfect square or rectangle using any of the brush-based tools in Elements. In fact, this technique also works with all Elements retouching and drawing tools.

Step one: Turn on the Grid (Ctrl/Cmd + ').

Step two: Choose a drawing brush (such as the Pencil or Brush tool).

Step three: Mouse-click once on point A.

Step four: Hold Shift and mouse-click point B. The pencil line joins point A to B in 
a straight line.

Step five: Hold Shift and mouse-click point C. The pencil line joins point B to C in 
a straight line.

Step six: Hold Shift and mouse-click point D. The pencil line joins point C to D in 
a straight line.

Final step: Hold Shift and mouse-click point A. The pencil line joins point D back to 
point A.

(Note that this point-to-point drawing technique...