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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)

Making a jigsaw panorama

One of the problems you will encounter when stitching a panorama is that if it's too wide, it's nearly impossible to print. Although it might be 48 inches wide, it might only be eight inches high, especially if all of your sections were shot horizontally. One fun and creative answer to this is to zoom in slightly and shoot multiple decks so that, even after cropping, the image isn't compromised. The following is a photo I shot in Fes, Morocco:

Don't think that you have to shoot on the level all of the time. This is a jigsaw panorama, a random shoot of 37 sections, shot in three decks, from left to right. I really like the fact that although Elements does an amazing job of lining up all of the images near-perfectly, it's not put off by having images at an angle, horizontally, vertically, zoomed in, or in wide-angle settings. It handles such a challenge with ease (although this took 20 minutes to put together...