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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)

Panoramas the easy way

Because panorama stitching is not an automated process, you have to do a bit of preparation work to set up a panorama. Here's what I suggest:

  1. With the camera set to Program mode, point the camera at the scene you want to make into a widescreen panorama and take a test snap. Use the Exposure Compensation feature on the camera to make the image lighter/darker if needed.
  2. If you are happy with the look of the exposure, delete that test and take a snap of your left foot.
  3. In your mind, divide the scene very roughly into five vertical sections and start snapping (use more sections if necessary).
  4. Start at the left-hand side and take a shot, shift the viewfinder to the right, overlapping the frame by up to 20%, and take a second shot, then repeat this process until you have covered the entire width of the scene.
  5. Finally, take another picture, this time of your right foot. This should help you when it comes to finding those panorama sections...