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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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Tool Blend Modes

Most of us using the tools in Photoshop Elements take them 'as is'. What I mean by that is the tool operates much as you'd expect it to: the Brush Tool 'paints' a color into the image, the Clone Brush Tool copies and pastes pixels from one spot to another, and so on. What many might not appreciate is that most of these tools also work in a range of Blend Modes. Blend Modes, as we have seen in the section on Layer Blend Modes change the way pixels on one layer react when placed on top of another pixel layer. Place two opaque images one on top of the other and you lose sight of the base image as the top one covers the one underneath. But if we change the transparency of the top image, we begin to see what's underneath. Simplistically, that's how Layer Blend Modes work and it's the same for the tools. Let's take a look at how this can be used to your creative advantage:

Step One: In this instance...