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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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Posting online: Facebook

According to Facebook guidelines, high-resolution images can be as large as 2,048 pixels (wide). This dimension will produce the best visual result—even if Facebook's automatic compression algorithms, which are added to every upload, are heavier than most people might be comfortable with. Unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about the compression level. If the images don't look as good as you hoped, try re-editing them and upload them again—this only takes a few minutes. Facebook is the world's largest repository of images; so, with something like 300 million images uploaded every day, I'm surprised that its compression algorithms aren't more aggressive.

One typical method of reducing the resolution of an image that is destined for posting on a personal website or social media would be to use the Image Size tool (Image>Resize>Image Size). This is fine for one or two images, but tedious if you...