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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)

Using brushes

Elements has several types of what I class as artist's brush tools. These are the Pencil tool, the Brush tool, the Impressionist Brush tool, and the Color Change tool.

The Pencil tool, all alone on its own peg on the Tool bar, is possibly the least used of all of Element's many tools because, as I mentioned previously, unless you are a skilled graphic artist experienced with a pen tablet, it's very hard to use:

Brush behavior

Though Elements is mostly a photo editing program, many of its tools rely on the use of a brush (and in my opinion, brush-based tools such as Dodge, Burn, and Sponge are some of the most creative in Elements).

But it doesn't end with these three excellent retouching brush tools. Elements contains a wide range of "real" (digital) brushes to paint, sketch, draw, and illustrate with, either by brushing on top of an existing image or starting from scratch with a blank canvas.

If that...