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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)

Lomo Camera Effect

I saw my first Lomo camera in a GUM store in Warsaw, shortly after the Berlin Wall had come down in 1990. It was, in fact, the only camera on sale in that huge store and it piqued my interest. Lomo cameras were made in the Lomo factory in St. Petersberg (along with a lot of other specialized optics - for telescopes, cine cameras, microscopes, and more). Its 35 mm Lomo LC-A film camera was adopted by a group of enthusiast photographers who used to take pictures almost randomly - from all manner of angles, locations, and subjects. Lomography, as it is called, often spawned huge exhibitions of images mass-printed and displayed almost like wallpaper. The Lomography movement started in Vienna in the '90s and continues today, although not with quite the mass appeal of the last century. Elements' Lomo Camera Effect produces a soft, heavily vignetted effect similar to that produced by the LC-A, the Diana toy camera, and many more unsophisticated types...