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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)

Advanced panorama techniques

For a greater level of control over your panorama-making process, I suggest the following camera and software processing tricks:

  • Shoot in Manual Metering mode. Take a test shot in the approximate middle of the proposed scene and use that as your base exposure.
  • Shoot with the Auto Focus turned Off. Manually focus on the scene and leave it off for the entire sequence.
  • Use a leveled tripod.
  • Some professionals even create a custom White Balance setting for the panorama because, in some situations, the light, and therefore the color, might change between section one and section five.
  • If you think that you have forgotten to include one bit of the scene, it's fine to reshoot an area that you think you might have missed. The sequence isn't important. I have actually mixed verticals with angled and horizontal images in one panorama and it still finds the edges and stitches them together perfectly.
  • If the Automatic function doesn...