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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.
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Transformations: Warping shapes for a 3D Shadow

This is a feature of the Transform tool that I have used for years, but it has only been available in Photoshop, until now. Finally, this feature has been added to the list of Transform commands that we just looked at over the last few pages (that is, Image>Transform>Scale/Rotate/Skew/Distort/Perspective, and now Warp modes). Let's take a look at how powerful this new Elements feature really is:

Step one: I copied and pasted the subject image into a blank document then resized the layer so it was smaller than the base document (Image>Transform>Scale). I then duplicated Layer 1 to produce two identical layers (above).

Step two: To make the drop shadow layer, I selected Layer 1, then used the Output Levels slider part of the Levels tool (Ctrl/Cmd + L), moving the pin from the far right to the far left. The image goes black (at right).

Step three: With the Move tool, I dragged the...