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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.
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Instant photo-fixing in the Organizer

The Instant Fix feature found in Elements' Organizer is a good way to produce quick and highly visual effects without the need to transfer the file from the Organizer to the Quick, Guided, or Advanced modes.

Here's how:

  1. Find an image in Organizer that you'd like to edit.
  2. Select it (click once).
  3. Click the Instant Fix button at the bottom of the page.
  4. Use one or more of the tool or process icons that appear on the right-hand side of the screen.

The tools available are Crop, Red Eye, Effects, Smart Fix, Light, Color, and Clarity. You'll find that not all of them are instant. The Crop tool, for example, requires you to choose a crop ratio first, then position it over the appropriate part of the image, then resize it, if needed, before clicking the green check mark to execute the process. But I'm being pedantic.

Once you are happy with the result, click the Save button at the base...