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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)

Colorize: AI-driven creativity

One feature that Adobe has been developing is its use of artificial intelligence (AI), something that is perfectly demonstrated in this cool feature: Colorize Photo. You'll find it under the Enhance menu in the Expert window.

Initially, I was drawn to this effect because I have actually spent many years hand-coloring black-and-white images for sale around the city I live in. It's great fun but involves a lot of printing, coloring in, erasing, ripping up prints, and starting again. The oils used added a permanence to the print, so they naturally lasted a long time - I'm sure you'll find a few hand-colored photos among your family albums. Before colour photography was an affordable thing, this was the only way to get a color print!

To use this feature, all that's needed is a black and white image (in this example, I started with a sepia picture) and choose one of the colorized "looks" from the pan...