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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 - Fifth Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 - Fifth Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Produce impressive, high-quality pictures to influence your audience, grow your brand, and market your products and services. With its impressive range of sophisticated creative capabilities, Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023 is all you need to create photos you’ll love to share. Elements 2023 extends its AI capabilities by simplifying complex editing processes. Learn to stitch widescreen panoramas, remove people from backgrounds, de-focus backgrounds, re-compose images, and even create a range of calendars and greeting cards for your friends and family. The fifth edition of this widely acclaimed series will help you master photo-editing from scratch. Start by learning basic edits such as auto tone correction, image resizing and cropping, then master contrast, color, sharpness, and clarity. Take your prowess to the next level by learning how to correct optical distortion, re-shape images, exploit layers, layer masking, and sharpening techniques—create the perfect picture or imaginative fantasy illustration. You’ll also learn the online realms of animation, video creation, and third-party plug-ins. By the end of this book, you'll learn how to leverage the incredible features of Photoshop Elements 2023 with complete confidence. Note: All the images featured in the book can be easily downloaded via a direct link or from the GitHub repository link specified in the Preface.
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Saving Files

It's important to note that, when saving JPEG, TIFF, PSD, or PNG files, if you choose the Save option (File>Save), some older applications might write the new file on top of the old one, effectively deleting the original and saving the (hopefully) improved new version instead. Not so with Elements as it always asks whether it's OK to overwrite the previous version of this file—a face-saving feature in some cases.

If you open a file, do nothing to it, then choose File>Save, nothing happens because there's been no change so there's nothing to save. However, if you make any kind of alteration to the file, then choose File>Save, you'll see the Save As panel appear. This allows you to do the following:

  • Save your progress.
  • Change the file format if needed.
  • Include that saved file back in the Organizer.
  • Save it as a copy (as in NewPortrait copy.jpg).
  • Save it into a Version Set (see overleaf...