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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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How can I add a person from another picture?

This is where we get a bit ambitious. If you are OK with basic retouching (using the Healing Brush Tool and the Clone Stamp Tools), you'll find copying from one image to a second reasonably easy. Best results come from choosing what I call 'simple' images, ones that don't have complex detailed backgrounds—this makes selecting one subject to paste into another image much easier. Also make sure that the two photos are the same orientation (i.e. vertical/horizontal) and the same, or similar resolution (i.e. two 24Mb files). If you use wildly different resolution files, what you paste into the second photo will be too big or too small. To fix this, use Elements' excellent Resize feature to bring the smaller resolution picture to the same size as the larger one (Image>Resize>Image Size, then make sure that the Resample checkbox is ticked before resizing).

Open both files, and from the...