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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)

Retouching: Spot Healing Brush and Clone Stamp Tools

In this section, we'll look at how to correct the tones, imperfections, and look of a simple beauty shot, step-by-step.

During this process, you'll learn how to use both the Spot Healing Brush tool and the powerful Clone Stamp tool, one of the original and, in my opinion, best retouching tools in Elements. (The Clone Stamp tool was inherited from Adobe Photoshop in the years before Photoshop even contemplated being part of Creative Cloud).

In effect, the Clone Stamp tool is little more than a copy-and-paste tool. It works in a similar way to a word processing application, where you might copy and paste a paragraph of text from one part of a document to another, except that it copies image pixels rather than text.

The key point to remember when using the Clone Stamp (and Spot Healing Brush) is that you first need to identify a clear Source area. This is an area where the "good" pixels are copied from...