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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)

Photomerge Scene Cleaner

Elements began by offering Photomerge Panorama on its own, but within a few versions of Elements, it came up with a number of other useful applications for Photomerge, including the ability to remove random people and objects to "clean up" a busy scene with relative ease.

Busy or clean? The Scene Cleaner is an efficient, automated copy-and-paste feature designed to clean up heavily populated and cluttered scenes with the least amount of hassle. But it only works if you take multiple images of the same scene at the same time.

Step one is to open all the images shot on location and open Photomerge Scene Cleaner from the Guided menu. Scene Cleaner has its own separate panel showing one image on the left and an empty space on the right. Choose the best image from the thumbnails along the base of the screen and click-drag it to the left-hand window. This becomes your "base" image. In fact, as with all the features...