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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 Refine Selection Brush tool

The Refine Selection Brush is not technically a selection tool; rather, it's a feature designed to refine an existing selection. In this context, it sort of replaces the process of adding/removing from an existing selection by holding the Shift or the Alt/Option key while moving the cursor over the image.

The Refine Selection Brush throws up the red mask overlay, in exactly the same manner as the Selection Brush, but under its View menu, you can also set this tool to display the selection on a black or a white background. If you don't like the red overlay color, click on the color swatches button underneath the Opacity slider to change it to a color that suits your mood slightly better.

Where the Refine Selection Brush out-features the older-style Shift or Alt/Opt keyboard shortcuts (to add to or take from an existing selection) is that its options not only include the ability to add to or subtract from the selection, but...