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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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Color keys

Organizer—its five view spaces

Media: This is the central window in which you see all of your photos, music, video, and graphics files stored in the catalog. Use it as a base—but further sort and categorize your images by placing them into albums.

People: If you decide to analyze your image database, Elements can file your photos based on the people it identifies in each image. It's a clever feature that seems to work well.

Places: An internet-reliant viewing mode that's geared toward photographers with GPS-enabled cameras. Images appear on a Google world map according to the coordinates sourced from the file's metadata. This is a nice feature for anyone embarking on a road trip, or perhaps researching travel. This feature is not supported by versions older than Elements 2020.

Events: Use Events to group your images based on the date. This is handy if you need quick access to files that were shot at specific times. If they are travel snaps...