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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)

Image Modes

It's a feature found in all photo editing applications but it rarely gets a mention. Most photographers only ever work in RGB mode—the color mode used by both the camera and the computer monitor. Professionals working in print (with Photoshop CC) will inevitably work in another mode: CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black). We don't have this in Elements.

Most photographers will only ever encounter RGB mode, but occasionally you might be sent a file, or download one, that doesn't edit properly, so it pays to check what mode it is set to. Choose Image>Mode>RGB Color to convert it to a full color file, or choose the 8-bit option, if needed (Elements cannot handle higher bit depth files). Other modes under the Image>Mode menu include Grayscale, Indexed Color, and Bitmap.

Grayscale mode: RGB files have three color channels, Grayscale has one: grey. When you convert from RGB to Grayscale, expect the resolution to drop by 60...