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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)

Layer opacity

As the name might suggest, you can use the Opacity feature to change the density, or opacity, of an individual layer. One way to blend one layer into another is to change the top layer to a lower opacity. Another reason to use a lowered opacity value is to see what's underneath that layer if, say, you needed to reposition that top layer precisely on top of an object in the layer underneath it. Once repositioned, you can reset that layer's opacity back to 100% and carry on with the edit.

In this example, I have reduced the MAGAZINE text layer to 50% - generally, if you are going to create this kind of special effect, it pays to have the elements involved in separate layers; otherwise—in this example—Classic Car would also fade, thus negating the intended effect.