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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)

Adding artistic effects

Elements 2020 is heading the way of the smartphone. By this, I mean that the visual effects are increasingly thumbnail-driven. You open a file, have a look at a range of special effects on offer, choose one, and apply it to your snap by clicking on the thumbnail. Nothing could be easier, and while doing this doesn't educate you on how the effect is really achieved, it makes the process of enhancing your work simple, fast, and approachable for the majority of camera users, who don't want to spend hours in front of a screen.

A look is essentially a style that defines how a set of pictures might appear as a group. For example, they could all be sepia-tinted to give them an aged look, or they could be converted into black and white to give them a slightly different arty or even a documentary look.

Elements 2020 has a surprisingly wide range of image presets. These are best described as automated software recipes where, at the click of a button, a...