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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)

Correcting perspective with Transformations

When shooting in cities, most photographers take pictures of architecture, grand old buildings, historical monuments, and even architecturally relevant new stuff. Architecture is a great subject, but because most of us photograph from ground level (and therefore point the camera upward), our pictures often suffer from optical distortion. By packing more information into a small frame using a wide-angle lens, the optical system cannot help but distort some of the vertical and horizontal lines. Shooting horizontally, from an upper floor opposite a tall building, means that you're likely to suffer less optical distortion because there's less reason to tilt the camera up to get everything into the frame. The following image shows one way around the problem of extreme optical distortion:

In the days before software applications such as Photoshop Elements, photographers had to spend upward of $3,000 to buy a...