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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)

Image menu

In this menu, you'll find all of the functions that apply directly to the image.

  • Image>Rotate - An extensive menu used to manipulate the orientation of the file: Rotate 90 deg left/right, 180 deg, Custom, Flip Horizontally, and Flip Vertically. Also use to rotate individual layers - 90 degrees left/right, 180 deg, free rotate plus Flip Layer Horizontally/Vertically. It also has two other commands: Straighten and Crop Image, plus Straighten. I find both functions alarmingly inaccurate - but it really depends on how the subject in the frame is aligned.
  • Image>Transform - A superbly important part of image editing. Ctrl/Cmd + T allows you to change the size, proportion, or perspective of any object on a layer—this is a valuable function that you'll use a lot.
  • Image>Crop - If you make a selection, then choose this item; it crops everything not selected off the file.
  • Image>Recompose - This is a menu shortcut to the...