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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)

Perfect Landscape

This is a neat new feature to Photoshop Elements—and to be honest I dismissed it immediately because I thought, "OK, this is just going to be a fancy sky-brightening feature with, maybe, a diffuse filter effect." It really pays to check all Elements' features in greater depth because, increasingly, you'll find some are now hosting sleek AI-driven features. This feature is no exception. You'll find Perfect Landscape in the Guided Edit edit menu, under Special Edits. What does it do? This is a sky replacement tool, which is impressive on its own, so I'm little curious as to why it has landed up being called Perfect Landscape. For me, "Sky Replacement" might have been a better name. Here's how it works:

Step one: Open a landscape.

Step two: The first job involves a little housekeeping: cropping for better composition, and then leveling the horizon, if needed. Simple tasks...