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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)

The selection tools

A selection is a feature that's used in Elements to apply an effect to only part of an image rather than, if no selection were made, to the entire picture. A typical example might be to select a pale sky to make it darker without affecting the rest of the image.

Photoshop Elements comes with a range of excellent selection tools, each designed to make the complicated and often tedious process of selecting objects a little easier.

Easy object removal

Interestingly, the program has two great new AI-driven selection features designed to make the selection process as painless as possible. These are Object Removal and Subject Selection. Let's have a look at these two new features first.

  1. Open the image in question.
  2. Choose the feature (Guided Edit | Basics | Object Removal).
  3. Choose one of the selection tools to match the type or accuracy of selection needed—in this example, I used the Selection Brush, which...