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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)

Chapter 7: Advanced Techniques: Retouching, Selections, and Text

With the experience of understanding layers now safely in your repertoire of skills, it's time to look a little closer at developing your retouching skills. Elements 2020 has a range of very high-end tools with which to perfect your work— whether it's portraiture, weddings, or landscapes.

One of the big issues with regular photo-editing tools such as Levels and Hue/Saturation is that their effects are global—everything in the image is affected proportionally. To limit the spread of these effects to a specific part of the frame, we look at making selections, using a wide range of tools designed for isolating parts of an image for detailed, non-global editing.

And if this is not enough, the last section in this chapter is designed to ease you (slightly) in the direction of the graphic designer as we look at creating illustrations using Elements' range of downloadable graphics, and using...