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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 custom Facebook page

Users of past versions of this excellent software will know that, from time to time, features sometimes get removed or updated in Elements. This can be annoying if it's a feature you particularly liked:

Elements' Facebook page auto design and layout tool is just one of those features that has migrated from its own spot on the Create menu into the Photo Collage section. Here, you'll find a bunch of collage templates, including four for Facebook and four for Instagram; it's not a huge selection, but they are very efficient in their delivery:

  1. Choose a few images for the page design (for example, four shots).
  2. Navigate to the Create menu and choose Photo Collage:
  3. Choose a design from the panel on the right-hand side of the screen and double-click on it. It might take a few moments to download. Sit back and watch as the software loads the images into the preset windows and resizes everything to fit...