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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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1
Color keys

Quick Effects: Color Match

This is a (somewhat) confusing title for an addition to Quick Edit's Effects panels because it's not really a 'color matching' tool at all - but it does serve as fast and funky color blaster.

Take any image that you feel is somehow 'lacklustre' - maybe the color is a bit insipid and you want to give it a quick boost. Open it in the Quick Edit mode. Click the Effects Panel (bottom right-hand side of the main screen) then open the Color Match panel.

As with the effects on the previous two panels (Classic and Artistic), this special effect is simple - click one of the small color thumbnails - the software instantly samples that picture and applies a color to the one you are hoping to boost. Works every time, easy! Check out the color examples from this male portrait (below) on the opposite page:

This new feature has an extensive list of color samples, all of which produce an instant color change on whichever picture...