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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 5: Easy Creative Projects

In this chapter, you'll find a wide range of interesting special effects, most of which can be applied to your images with speed and ease.

I have always liked Elements' slightly alternative approach to image editing, specifically because it includes a lot of project-based editing skills rather than concentrating just on the pure skills of image editing. However, over the years, this has changed—Elements now boasts some of the most sophisticated editing features that you'd normally expect from the top end of town—while still retaining awesome features such as panorama stitching, calendar making, and scene cleaning.

This chapter highlights the sort of features anyone can use to produce great results without having to climb that steep learning curve—that's coming in Chapter 6, Advanced Techniques: Layers and Masking!

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Finding inspiration on the...