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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)

B&W Color Pop

Guided Edit Mode is, in this version of Adobe Photoshop Elements, a powerhouse of useful features. This one, B&W Color Pop, has been around for several versions—come to think of it, even some cameras have this feature as in inbuilt camera "look."

This is definitely one of the simpler Guided Edits on offer—it's only got four features or tools that you need to negotiate—and that makes it easy, simple, and fast.

Step one: Open the image and decide on the color you want to highlight (top screenshot, in red). I chose the yellow top of the child as she's the main subject, but you can choose Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, or pick your own using the eye dropper if needed using the Select Custom Color button.

Step two: I liked the selection it made here (it was clean because there was no other yellow in the frame) so I didn't need to use the Fuzziness slider or the Refine Effect tool. I did whack...