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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)

Adding text with the Type Tool

Photoshop Elements includes a word-processing functionality, enabling text to be added directly to images and graphics. In fact, some of the more automated functions on offer are supplied complete with blank text boxes, ready for you to click and add your words of wisdom, so it's easy to do.

Step one: Choosing the Myriad Pro Regular font, I chose the Horizontal Type tool (as it is officially called), clicked once into the image, then typed in Stand up (hit Enter), comedian: (hit Enter), and then typed Vince Connolly to get this triple-deck text layout. The text is left-justified, and the type layer is automatically placed at the top of the layer stack (inset panel).

Font size tip:

When you start using the type tool, you might notice that the text you've chosen appears very small, or far too large. This might be because last time Elements was used, you chose a small or very large point size in the Options panel. But more...