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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)

Using the Find menu

The Find menu is perhaps the most useful tool in the arsenal of search functions found in Elements. With this drop-down menu, you can search through the following categories:

  • Metadata (including camera and shooting details)
  • Media Type (such as photos, video, audio, projects, and items with audio captions
  • History (including Imported on, Emailed to, Printed on, Exported on, Shared Online, Used in Projects)
  • Caption
  • Filename, including the following:

    a) Version Set

    b) Stack

    c) Untagged items

  • Visual Search (including visually similar photos and videos, objects appearing in the photo, or duplicate photos)
  • Saved Searches

You can even search for an image using terms such as Items with Unknown Date or Time, Untagged Items, or even Items not in any Album:

Tip:

Although mentioned at the start of this book, it's worth reiterating the point—when Adobe states that you "import" assets into the Organizer...