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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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Photomerge Faces

Ever taken a snap of friends only to discover, after they have all gone home, that one of them is looking in the wrong direction, has their eyes closed, or just looks a bit grumpy?

This is a common photo-taking error that many experience. Before Photoshop Elements came along, the only remedy was to get your friends back together to reshoot, or to spend time selecting, copying, and pasting figures from one picture to another. This was a time-consuming and complex process, so no one bothered.

By leveraging the power of the Photomerge AI technology, Elements has three fantastic features: Photomerge Faces, Photomerge Compose, and Photomerge Group Shot, all designed to fix compositional errors, however heinous they might appear. The Faces tool enables you to remove a face from one image and transfer it to another, all without the need for making complex selections—in much the same way that Scene Cleaner works when copying and pasting one part of the shot...