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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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1
Color keys

Color Replacement Tool

You could have a lot of fun with this feature—applying the color change effect to similar-colored pixels so that Elements covers the area with a color wash. How much it changes is mostly influenced by the Tolerance slider.

Main image: I repainted the tops of the three women in just a few minutes with the Color Replacement tool. I thought that this was a pretty good result.

So, for example, if I want to replace blue with red, provided that all the blue pixels are the same value, the tool works well—but we all know that life in the digital editing realm is never like this, so that's why there's the Tolerance slider. This makes Elements a bit more or less sensitive when it's applying a color change. Increase the tolerance and it will apply the change to lighter and darker shades of blue. You have different brush styles to choose from: four different Blend Modes (I find Color works best), and the inevitable...