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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)

Chapter 4: Image Makeover

One of the most important aspects of good picture editing is also very simple: you need to have a plan. And to have a plan, you need to have an idea or a vision of how you want your picture to look after it has been edited. Having a logical plan, therefore, is almost as important as knowing how to execute that plan in order to create great results. Not surprisingly, this requires some forward thinking and a reasonable knowledge of the tools at your disposal.

At a basic level, this plan might simply be to see your picture appear brighter and more colorful than the underwhelming drab-looking RAW file that you see in Photoshop Elements's Camera RAW window.

Because of its relative simplicity, this kind of plan is relatively easy to accomplish quickly and effectively using any of the amazing Photoshop Elements' global tone-changing tools or instant-effect presets that we looked at in Chapter 3, The Basics of Image Editing.

In this chapter, we...