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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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Additional Tools and Features

Elements continues to grow and expand with every version released. While many of its newer features are more often concerned with operating efficiency many are also developed from the company's foray into artificial intelligence (AI). Some features might be automatic like the amazing Moving Photos feature, while others appear to have assimilated multiple complex operations into one easy to follow interface - like the fantastic 'Perfect' series (Perfect Portrait, Perfect Landscape and Perfect Pet!), Move and Scale Object and Quote Graphic.

What you'll find in this chapter is a list of great features - features that you might have never used if all you do with Elements is a bit of simple editing. As mentioned, most of these tools encompass some really complex actions - like selections, sharpening, chromatic aberration removal, smoothing, blending, re-composing, warping and even facial reconstruction (in the case of the Open Closed...