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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)

Creating high-impact black and white images

Black and white images are favored by a lot of photographers—they evoke feelings of antiquity, style, and artiness in many different scenarios.

The trouble is, if you ask a bunch of photographers how to convert a file into black and white, they'll come up with multiple different ways of doing it—some good, some great, some too complex.

Elements makes this process a little easier with a specific Convert to Black and White tool. Here's how it works:

  1. Open an image.
  2. Choose the Convert to Black and White tool (Alt/Opt + Ctrl/Cmd + B or Enhance | Convert to Black and White).
  3. The Convert window opens and the image in the main edit space automatically converts into one of the black and white recipes on offer. With the introduction of higher-resolution monitors, the fixed-shape preview before and after windows are less relevant than the main image behind them.
  4. Choose from one of the recipes on offer...