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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)

Working with graphic elements

Photoshop Elements is not Adobe Illustrator, by any stretch of the imagination, but it 
does contain a reasonably good range of graphic elements that can be added to images 
to enhance their design.

This illustration was made from the range of (free) graphics available through Photoshop Elements—backgrounds, frames, symbols, and images. Everything has to be downloaded from the Adobe servers first, but this takes no time at all as most are fairly low in resolution.

These graphics fall into the following groups:

  • Graphics that can be added to existing semi-automated creative projects, such as Photo Book and Greeting Card, found under the Create menu. These include 
a vast array of downloadable content, ranging from backgrounds and picture frames to clip art objects and preset text styles.
  • Those that are designed to add benefit to single images—graphics such as text boxes, copyright...