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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)

Select menu

As its name suggests, this menu contains everything to do with Selections. Use its features to do the following:

  • Select>Select All – A very handy command - select an entire image or the content of a selection - prior to you pasting it somewhere (Ctrl/Cmd + A).
  • Select>Deselect - this effectively kills off the current selection (that is, turns it off - Ctrl/Cmd + D).
  • Select>Reselect - used to bring the previous selection back into the image (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + D).
  • Select>Inverse - use this to flip your selection into a negative state. An excellent technique if your subject is hard to select but the background is not (Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + I).
  • Select>Feather - this is an integral part of the selection process - to Feather the edge means the sharp selection line is made softer.
  • Select>Refine Edge - no selection is ever 100% perfect, so use this mini-utility to modify that selection edge.
  • Select>Subject...