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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 Liquify filter

Fashion photographers, wedding photographers—anyone photographing people for a living – will love this filter. Liquify turns your digital file into a malleable, liquid pool of pixels that can be pushed around as if they were wet oil paints. Its original purpose was to change the physical attributes of models—thinning faces, fixing broken noses, and enlarging eyes. While the fantastic Adjust Facial Features tool (under the Enhance menu) does a terrific job, Liquify offers far greater control over the entire image, whether it's a face or full body.

Above: In this quick example, I thinned out this man's face using the Shift Pixels tool and made his eyes slightly larger using the Bloat tool. Nothing too dramatic, but enough to make his face appear slightly thinner.

Of course this filter can also be used by regular family photographers to wreak mayhem in family snaps. Here's what you can do with this...