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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements - Sixth Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements - Sixth Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Dive into the world of digital photo editing with this latest edition, crafted by a seasoned photographer and digital imaging expert, and harness the full potential of the latest Photoshop Elements 2024. With a unique blend of in-depth tutorials and practical applications, this book is an essential resource for photographers at all levels. Alongside introducing new features like Dark Mode, Match Color, and Photo Reels, as well as advanced techniques like layering and artistic effects, this book addresses common user feedback from previous editions, ensuring a refined and user-friendly experience. With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to leverage AI to stitch widescreen panoramas, remove people from backgrounds, defocus backgrounds, recompose images, and even create a range of calendars and greeting cards for your friends and family. You’ll take your prowess to the next level by learning how to correct optical distortion, reshape images, exploit layers, layer masking, and get to grips with sharpening techniques to create the perfect picture or imaginative fantasy illustration. The online realms of animation, video creation, and third-party plugins will also be covered. By the end of this book, you'll know how to leverage the incredible features of Photoshop Elements 2024 with complete confidence.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Using Brushes: Controlling Brush Settings

Though Elements is mostly a photo editing program, many of its tools rely on the use of a brush—Dodge, Burn, Healing, Clone, and Smart are all examples of brush-based tools.

These retouching brush tools are not the only brushes available. Elements contains a wide range of real (read 'digital') brushes used to paint, sketch, draw, and illustrate, either by brushing over an existing picture or by starting from scratch with a blank canvas.

Elements allows the user to change the characteristics of each brush—the shape, orientation, opacity, color, pressure, and appearance, which we'll look at here.

Above: With the assistance of a graphics tablet (inset), and a lot of skill, you can create a wide range of impressive illustrations using the creative tools in Photoshop Elements.

To modify your brush characteristics and behaviours, open the Brush Settings panel by clicking the...