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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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Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about the different parts that make up the Photoshop Elements image-editing application. We have also taken a peek at some of the great new features found in this 2024 version. This innovative software package not only offers a comprehensive suite of truly professional editing tools, but its Organizer, running as a separate application to the main edit modules, can be used to catalog all our media assets and display them in one place: as stills, music, clips, and even HD videos. We have also discovered that you can even start editing your work in the Organizer, fixing the color and contrast at the click of a mouse, as well as adding your work to a range of very neat step-by-step fun projects via its very handy Create Menu. Even so, its basic function is to help you get your stuff into some kind of order.

Once done, depending on the level of editing required, and your experience, it's relatively simple to jump from the Organizer into...