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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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Retouching: the Object Removal tool

Elements has this great AI-driven selection feature, Object Removal, designed to make the retouching process as easy and as painless as possible.

Step one: Choose the feature (Guided Edit>Basics>Object Removal).

Step two: Choose one of the selection tools to match the type or accuracy of selection needed—in this example, I used Selection Brush, which lays a red mask over the painted area. You can modify the accuracy of this brush by choosing the Add or Subtract buttons. My "selection" was a bit over-generous, but once Remove Object is pressed, the magic happens. In this example, the surfer in the background disappeared seamlessly in a matter of seconds.

Tip:

Although Guided Edit's Object Removal feature is a great feature, Adobe has developed another sophisticated AI-driven selection tool simply named Select Subject (Select>Subject).

As its name suggests, its job is to select the...