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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)

The Object Removal tool

Elements has this great new AI-driven selection feature, Object Removal, designed to make the retouching process as easy and as painless as possible.

Step one: Choose the feature (Guided Edit>Basics>Object Removal).

Step two: Choose one of the selection tools to match the type or accuracy of selection needed—in this example, I used Selection Brush, which lays a red mask over the painted area. You can modify the accuracy of this brush by choosing the Add or Subtract buttons. My "selection" was a bit over-generous but once Remove Object is pressed, the magic happens. In this example, the surfer in the background disappeared seamlessly in a matter of seconds.

Tip:

Although Guided Edit's Object Removal feature is a great feature, Adobe has developed another sophisticated AI-driven selection tool simply named Select Subject (Select>Subject).

As its name suggests, its job is to select the subject...