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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)

Understanding picture resolution

Resolution, and in particular, photo resolution, is a feature that confuses many beginners. This shouldn't really be an issue because the resolution of a camera is a fixed quantity and will only change when you choose a different image size in the camera menu, or if you crop the file on a computer. But to be pedantic, resolution is not only to do with the number of pixels in the camera, or in a file, although this is important. Resolution is also connected to the quality of the glass elements in a lens, the camera's image stabilization technology (indirectly), and the camera technique employed by the photographer. The biggest point of confusion comes with the way the number of pixels per inch (ppi) can vary widely from camera to camera. Note that, in the printing world, dots per inch (dpi) is the same as ppi, which in turn is the same as lines per inch (lpi).

Because so much work is displayed onscreen these days, it is hard to accurately...