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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 - Second Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2020 - Second Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a raster graphics editor for entry-level photographers, image editors, and hobbyists. Updated and improved to cover the latest features of Photoshop Elements 2020, this second edition includes focused coverage of Adobe's new AI-powered features that are designed to make the editing process more efficient, creative and fun. This book takes you through the complexities of image editing in easy-to-follow, bite-sized chunks, helping you to quickly recognize the editing challenge at hand and use suitable tools and techniques to overcome it. You’ll start by learning how to import, organize, manage, edit, and use your pictures in a format that’s designed for creative photography projects. Throughout this Adobe Photoshop Elements book, you'll discover how to fix different photographic problems using an extensive repertoire of commonly applied solutions. Common processes such as applying artistic effects to creative projects, custom image makeovers, processing images for social media, and other file export methods will also be covered. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned about the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2020, and how it is designed not only for photographers who’d like to dip their toes into the editing world, but also for those wanting simple but effective ideas on how to expand their creativity while remaining time-efficient.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Finding lost or disconnected files

Elements keeps all your original files, plus all your edited material, displayed in the Organizer – but only if you ask it to by checking the Include in the Elements Organizer box in the File | Save As window. That's the theory, but as we all know, in real life, things rarely go 100% to plan. Pictures can be corrupted, get lost, or just go missing. The following are a few strategies to initiate if you can't find images you thought were already part of Elements' Organizer:

Check the Organizer: If your image was originally imported into the Organizer, but has disappeared for whatever reason, you will still be able to see its thumbnail icon in the main Organizer window – even if it's just a question mark. Despite the fact that the original image might be missing, Elements remembers what the file's name was and immediately searches for it.

On any typical day, you might see a missing...