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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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How a plug-in works:

Once the plug-in has installed correctly, restart Elements and test it. Open a suitable photo (this image was snapped in the nocturnal house at a local wildlife park—it was so dark I had to boost the ISO way past my normal comfort zone to ISO12,800, so the noise in the image is very pronounced!

Step 1: Open the image, then, from the Filter drop-down menu, click the name of the appropriate plug-in to start it. In this example I'm using the Denoise plug-in from Topaz Labs.

Step 2: Once the plug-in is started you lose sight of Elements and work within the plug-in software itself. Denoise has a range of presets: RAW, Standard, Clear, and Severe Noise, all of which can be further modified if needed. Some plug-ins have hundreds of possible processing combinations, making it tricky to decide on which is best. In this case you can usually save your own favourite combination as a preset to use later.

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