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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)

Adjust Color Curves

It might come as a shock to some readers but Photoshop Elements is actually based on Photoshop CC. Of course, most of the features are unique to Photoshop Elements but they have their origins in Elements' higher-end cousin Photoshop: Levels, Hue/Saturation, Shadow/Highlights, Brightness and Contrast, Image Size, Canvas Size—these are all identical to those in Photoshop.

And indeed, if you use a software plugin such as Photoshop Elements+, you can actually open up and exploit legacy Photoshop features that are still present in Elements. One tool that's sort of part Photoshop and part Elements is called Adjust Color Curves (Enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust Color Curves).

The Curves tool in Photoshop is a useful feature and while Adjust Color Curves could be called the poor cousin, it's still a good feature with which to adjust the contrast in an image.

Photoshop CC is designed for those who know exactly what they want...