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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)

Creative edit workflow

Once you have gained confidence in being able to control the color, brightness, clarity, and sharpness of your image output, it's time to consider something a little more creative.

Once the tones in the file are looking the way you want them to, it's also time to consider the onerous task of cleaning up the subject using one of Photoshop Elements' amazing retouching tools. This might be a simple operation of perfecting skin tones by covering up tiny blemishes, scratches, or color inconsistencies using the Spot Healing Brush or it might be something a little more ambitious where objects in the foreground or background need removing or at least covering up to prevent them from dominating the subject.

Before you get too involved in this kind of advanced retouching, it's important to ask yourself if, by removing a certain object, the composition will change noticeably. If this is the case, you may want to camouflage that object by simply...