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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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I want to make a really big photo print. How do I do this?

Unfortunately social media has had a negative effect on the photographic print world. Everyone, it seems, wants to upload to Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or Flickr. All sites that require very little real picture resolution - a couple of megabytes at most. However, to make a good, high quality, sharp-looking print you need all the pixels your camera has.

Are there enough pixels?

Any time you crop an image, it loses pixels and therefore reduces the maximum size it can be enlarged to while maintaining its original sharpness. Most digital cameras have a high resolution: 24Mp is common, some pro cameras go to 50Mp and beyond. What does this number mean? For a photo to be realistic (i.e. unpixellated and sharp like a silver halide print from film), it needs a minimum number of pixels. If there are not enough pixels for any chosen enlargement, the result will appear soft and fuzzy.

  • A 20Mp file can be enlarged...