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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 - Third Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021 - Third Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Managing thousands of images while producing perfectly edited results is now a must-have skill for online bloggers, influencers, vloggers, social media users, and photography enthusiasts. Photoshop Elements helps you to manage this easily and boost your creative output. This third edition is updated with Elements 2021’s latest features and focuses on Adobe's AI-powered features along with the entire creative workflow. Each chapter is designed to help you get the most out of your image files in an easy way. You’ll learn how to add significant visual improvements to your work using no more than a few one-click edits with AI-driven features and manual adjustments. The book is filled with useful instructions to guide you seamlessly through the often complex processes, tools, and features in Photoshop Elements. Finally, you’ll cover everything from developing your organizational skills through to creating remarkable special effects, complex text, image combinations, and eye-popping visual techniques using both AI-driven features as well as manually operated tools. By the end of this Photoshop Elements book, you'll have learned how to leverage the impressive tools available in Photoshop Elements 2021, and use them to greatly improve your photo editing and image retouching skills.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

The five faces of Adobe Photoshop Elements 2021

Here's a brief overview of the five main parts of Photoshop Elements that you'll encounter when working on your images. Generally, you might use just one or two of these windows—for example, the Organizer and the Expert Edit mode. But of course, you can freely chop and change between the editor and the Organizer, depending on your requirements and skills.

This is the Home Screen, the first panel you will see in Elements. Use it to gain inspiration from the range of auto creations, as a source of instruction (from the web links) or simply as a gateway to the other parts of Elements: Organizer and the Quick, Guided, and Expert Edit modes.

This is the Organizer. Use this part of Elements to import and view all your pictures, Photoshop Elements projects, video, and music clips. Use Organizer to sort your growing image collection into Albums, add Keywords, Tags, captions, and more. Or just...