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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)

Adobe vectors

Photoshop Elements comes packed with vector clip art that you can use in your various projects. Actually, these assets are not in Elements when it's first downloaded, but every time you click an item in the Graphics panel, it will automatically download from Adobe. Since these are vector graphics, their size is tiny, so they take no time at all to download. Vectors are made from a mathematical formula and not pixels. Images are made up of individual pixels, which is why they take up a lot more space.

As an example, I am going to show you how make a custom greeting card using vector clip art. Let's get started:

  1. To make your own custom greeting card, create a new document (File | New | Blank Document). Before you actually start the design process, I recommend that you search for envelopes that match your cards. It's very annoying if you go ahead and design a card and then find that no one makes envelopes to match the size of the card (yes, it&apos...