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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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Create a TikTok-ready Photo Reel

A Photo Reel is essentially a short video or video slideshow designed to display your best work in a concise and sharp format. It's something that's easy to produce, instantly looks hot, and can be uploaded to social media in a flash.

To this end, you'll discover that this new 2024 feature, although it certainly hits that contemporary 'spot', is somewhat light in features. That said, it has a wide range of format possibilities - accommodating most horizontal, square and vertical layouts for: Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Twitter (X) and Threads, but that's about all.

Photo Reel will only work with two or more images and, looking along the base of its main window, you'll note it permits a bit of time tinkering. Image display duration can be set between 0.5 of a second and five seconds for each slide. A nice feature in its pop-up counter is the ability to make one time change and...