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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)

Creating custom greeting cards

To make a custom greeting card, the process is almost identical to that of the calendar, except that you are making 1 page instead of 12:

  1. Select or arrange a few possible images into an Album.
  2. Select one, two, or three images from this album (depending on how many images you'd like to put into the card).
  3. Choose Greeting Card from the Create menu.
  4. From the tiny design menu that opens (on the left), choose a style and click OK. It's actually hard to see exactly what you are getting from this tiny menu, so it might be more a case of trial and error until you hit on a design that you can work with:
  5. Once this design has downloaded, I usually shuffle the images around if they have auto-loaded into the wrong part of the card. Do this by right-clicking the image itself and either choose Replace Photo or Delete and go find a replacement:
  6. Move the image holders to the best position. If you're printing these at home, you...