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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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My background looks too clear (sharp)

Use Elements to simulate the look of a shallow depth of focus by selecting and blurring the background details. There are several ways to achieve this:

  • Guided Edit Mode > Special Edits > Replace Background. A simple tool, enabling you to select the main subject, then replace whatever else is in the frame with a flat color, a texture, or one of your own photos. This makes a complex operation seem easy; providing you choose simple images, the results are stunning—import one of your own out-of-focus shots or, as this process adds the new background on a separate layer, blur it afterwards in the Advanced Edit mode!
  • Guided > Fun Edits > Speed Pan. This feature protects your subject while blurring the background to exaggerate the look of fast-moving subjects.
  • Guided > Fun Edits > Zoom Burst Effect. Protects the subject while adding a zooming effect to the background...