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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)

7 Additional Tools and Features

Elements continues to grow and expand with each new version released. While many of its new features are more often concerned with operating efficiency than with cool new tools and amazing features, there's usually plenty of new stuff to satisfy even long-term users such as myself.

One problem Adobe has is that there's already so much in this application that finding new stuff must be getting tougher and tougher for the designers. Photoshop Elements already has an amazing range of tools, both manual and automated, so finding applications for new ones is becoming something of a hard task—and I guess if Adobe really wanted to, it could pass on a few more features from its flagship Photoshop CC for Elements users to enjoy too. But of course, passing on too much would really negate any requirement to upgrade to Creative Cloud.

Personally I think Elements has more than enough tools to satisfy the dreams of every image editor, but...