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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)

Adjusting dates for different time zones

One thing that's going to mess up an image search is if the date is set incorrectly on your camera. If you fail to set the correct date, the results of the Elements search will be inaccurate, as it will be searching for a different date.

If the date on your camera is set correctly, you must also be aware of time travel! What I mean by this is traveling across a different time zone, which will also throw your searches into a state of confusion. Simply traveling north or south is not the issue, but moving from east to west can confuse any search parameter:

As shown in the preceding screenshot, the date of an image can be changed in Photoshop Elements by editing the metadata.

Here's how it works:

  1. Select the images with dates you want to change in the Organizer.
  2. Right-click the images, and from the pop-out menu, choose Adjust Date and Time of Selected Items….
  3. In the Adjust Date and...