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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)

Perfecting skin tone color

Portrait photographers should love the Adjust Color for Skin Tone tool because it's simple and fast to use. Let's learn how to use it following the steps given here:

  1. Open the image.
  2. Choose the Adjust Color for Skin Tones tool (Enhance | Adjust Color | Adjust Color for Skin Tone) and follow the on-panel instructions. Basically, just click on the face and if it corrects the color nicely, either click OK and save, or make further tweaks using the Tan, Blush, and Ambient Light sliders. Remember that although your subject might look like they have a slightly tanned complexion, the skin tones themselves are made to look as they do by blending pixels of different colors from yellow to ochre, brown, grey, and even red pixels, in various amounts, and with a specific but complex distribution.
  3. So, one random click might hit on the wrong-colored pixel and give an instantly disappointing result. Persevere! As with most aspects of image editing...