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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)

Convert to Black and White

The medium of back and white is favored by a lot of photographers – it evokes feelings of antiquity, style, and artiness in many different scenarios. The trouble is, if you ask a bunch of photographers how to convert a file into black and white, they'll come up with multiple different ways of doing it – some good, some great, some complex.

Elements makes the conversion process a little easier with it's own Convert to Black and White tool. Here's how it works:

Step one: Choose the Convert to Black and White tool (Alt/Opt + Ctrl/Cmd + B or Enhance>Convert to Black and White).

Step two: The Convert window opens and the image in the main edit space automatically converts into one of the black-and-white recipes on offer. With the introduction of higher resolution monitors, the fixed-shape preview before and after windows are less relevant than the main image behind it.

Step three: Choose from one of the...