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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)

Panel Functions

Elements has many panels, each providing essential help with certain aspects of the editing process. Some refer to the Quick edit mode only (such as Adjustments), while others only appear in the Expert mode (such as the Info panel).

Here's an overview of what each panel offers:

  • Adjustments: This provides sliders to adjust the Exposure, Lighting (contrast), Color, Balance, and Sharpness settings.
  • Effects: Provides the user with a great range of looks—automated effects recipes that can be applied to an image with a single click.
  • Textures: Elements has a wide range of assets, such as surface textures, that, once clicked, are added to the file as an overlay. Good for backgrounds, web pages, and so on.
  • Frames: Used mostly for graphic artwork. Click on an asset thumbnail in the panel and it downloads it from www.adobe.com, before automatically resizing and applying itself to the image. Clever stuff!
  • Filter: The small thumbnails...