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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)

High Pass sharpening

Another useful way of applying sharpness to an image is to combine a fairly obscure filter, High Pass, with a layer Blend Mode. The High Pass filter applies a mid-gray mask over the image, which highlights differences in edge contrast—much like the masking feature we saw in the Unsharp Mask tool. The gray areas are exempt from sharpening while the lighter edges that you see in the gray field get sharper. If you really want your images to pop, try this using the Hard Light blend mode, although Soft Light and Overlay also work.

Step one: To achieve this technique, first duplicate the layer (Layer>Duplicate) and choose the High Pass filter from the Filter>Other menu.

Below: This is what the High Pass filter looks like at a value of 10 pixels. Weird. In essence, the popping effect we are about to see is added to the parts of the image that are not mid-gray—essentially, the highlighted edges of the subject only.

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