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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)

Organizer – Import (button)

The big button in the top-left corner of the Organizer window is pretty much where it all starts. Use this to import images into the Photoshop Elements database (called the Catalog). Choose from Import from Files and Folders, Camera or Card Reader, Scanner, or Bulk. (You can also import files using the File | Get Photos and Videos drop-down menu.)

Organizer – the five view spaces

Media: This is the window in which you see all of your photos, sound tracks, music and video files, and graphics stored in the catalog. Use it to further sort images by dragging them into Albums.

People: If you decide to analyze your image database, Elements can file your images based on the people it identifies in each image. This is a very clever feature that seems to work well.

Places: This is an internet-reliant viewing mode that's geared toward photographers whose cameras are GPS enabled. Images...