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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

Select menu

As its name suggests, this menu contains everything to do with selections. Use its features to do the following:

  • Select>All – A very handy command—select an entire image or the content of a selection, prior to you pasting it somewhere (Ctrl/Cmd + A).
  • Select>Deselect - this effectively kills off the current selection (that is, turns it off—Ctrl/Cmd + D).
  • Select>Reselect - used to bring the previous selection back into the image (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + D).
  • Select>Inverse - use this to flip your selection into a negative state. An excellent technique if your subject is hard to select but the background is not (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + I).
  • Select>Feather - this is an integral part of the selection process—to feather the edge means the sharp selection line is made softer.
  • Select>Refine Edge - no selection is ever 100% perfect, so use this mini-utility to modify that selection edge...