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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)

Keyboard shortcuts

As with most editing, you can lose sight of the image-making process and become too immersed in the more complex editing functions. Keyboard shortcuts are there to help spread the load, reduce RSI, and generally speed up your workflow. I use the first three of the following list repeatedly. It's beneficial to memorize some of the tool access keys (single letters) to make it easier to jump from process to process. Some of these are shown in the following list:

  • Duplicate the (active) layer: Ctrl/Cmd + J
  • Use this to deselect or remove any active selection: Ctrl/Cmd + D
  • Use this to transform objects on the active layer: Ctrl/Cmd + T
  • Merge down: Ctrl/Cmd + E
  • Merge (all) visible layers: Shift + Ctrl/Cmd + E
  • Burn, Dodge, and Sponge tools: O
  • Selection brushes (Quick Selection, Selection Brush, Magic Wand, Refine Selection, and Auto Selection): A
  • Lasso tools (Freehand Lasso, Polygonal Lasso, and Magnetic Lasso): L
  • Clone Stamp...